Deepertruth: The Gary Cooper story

One of the most noted actors of all time, certainly one of my favorites who stared in so many great movies. He won an Academy Award for his role in Sergeant York (1941), and High Noon (1952) and nominated three other times as best actor. In 1961 Gary Cooper was awarded an Honorary Award for Lifetime Achievement. Gary Cooper was highly acclaimed in his role playing the life of Lou Gehrig in the movie, The Pride of the Yankees (1942). Like John Wayne, Gary Cooper's conversion was towards the end of his life.

Great was Gary Cooper's lifetime achievement in the present life, but with his conversion to the Catholic Faith, Gary Cooper now obtained the greatest legacy, eternal Salvation in the Kingdom of Heaven. Cary Cooper was marked for playing heroes in the movies, now he saddles up with the greatest heroes of all time, the Saints in Heaven. I remember as a kid playing out some of these heroes from some of these movies, but now people can follow his example taking hold of the Lord's Church. Gary Cooper at one time might have been in the top 100 male stars of all time, maybe in the top ten, but now he is part of those who reigns with the Great Cloud of Witnesses in Heaven.

Despite being born in Montana, he was educated in England before the Second World War. He did go back to Montana, but he was not keen to cold weather, he was known to have said he, "would rather starve where it was warm, than to starve and freeze too." So he ended up going west to California. Like many who went west looking for gold, he began finding odd jobs as a movie extra.