10 Best Gary Cooper Movies That Aren’t Westerns, Ranked

Gary Cooper starred in a lot of Westerns, yet the two-time Oscar-winning actor’s best movies also include a number of classics from other genres. Gary Cooper played many great hero characters in film, but he’s probably best known for his role as the brave and noble Marshal Wil Kane in the 1952 Western High Noon. Decades earlier, he rose to fame in silent Westerns before cementing his status as a Hollywood star in his sound film debut, The Virginian. He’s considered among the greatest Western actors, and unsurprisingly, of his more than 100 movie roles throughout his career, a little more than a third were in that genre.