Merian C. Cooper

Merian C. Cooper
Merian C. Cooper Merian Caldwell Cooper usando uniforme da Força Aérea Polonesa
Nascimento	24 de outubro de 1893 Jacksonville
Morte	21 de abril de 1973 (79 anos) San Diego
Cidadania	Estados Unidos
Progenitores	John C. Cooper
Cônjuge	Dorothy Jordan
Filho(a)(s)	Maciej Słomczyński
Irmão(ã)(s)	John Cobb Cooper
Alma mater	Academia Naval dos Estados Unidos Instituto de Tecnologia da Geórgia
Ocupação	roteirista, produtor cinematográfico, diretor de cinema, ator, piloto militar, oficial, piloto, jornalista, ator de cinema, diretor de fotografia, produtor
Distinções	Cruz de Valor Honorary Scout Cruz de prata da Virtuti Militari estrela na calçada da fama de Hollywood Oscar Honorário (for his many innovations and contributions to the art of motion pictures, Oscar 1953, 1953)
Causa da morte	câncer
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Merian Caldwell Cooper (Jacksonville, 24 de outubro de 1893 - San Diego, 21 de abril de 1973) foi um cineasta e produtor de cinema norte-americano.

Filmografia

Produtor

Best of Cinerama (1963)
Seven Wonders of the World (1956)
The Searchers (1956)
The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
This Is Cinerama (1952)
The Quiet Man (1952)
Rio Grande (1950)
Wagon Master (1950)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
3 Godfathers (1948)
Fort Apache (1948)
The Fugitive (1947)
Dr. Cyclops (1940)
The Toy Wife (1938)
Dancing Pirate (1936)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
She (1935)
Kentucky Kernels (1934)
Finishing School (1934)
Sing and Like It (1934)
This Man Is Mine (1934)
Success at Any Price (1934)
Spitfire (1934)
Keep 'Em Rolling (1934)
The Lost Patrol (1934)
Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934)
Two Alone (1934)
Long Lost Father (1934)
The Meanest Gal in Town (1934)
Flying Down to Rio (1933)
The Son of Kong (1933)
If I Were Free (1933)
The Right to Romance (1933)
Little Women (1933)
Chance at Heaven (1933)
After Tonight (1933)
Ace of Aces (1933)
Headline Shooter (1933)
Aggie Appleby Maker of Men (1933)
Flaming Gold (1933)
Midshipman Jack (1933)
Rafter Romance (1933)
One Man's Journey (1933)
Blind Adventure (1933)
Morning Glory (1933)
No Marriage Ties (1933)
Before Dawn (1933)
Double Harness (1933)
Flying Devils (1933)
Bed of Roses (1933)
Melody Cruise (1933)
Professional Sweetheart (1933)
Cross Fire (1933)
Diplomaniacs (1933)
The Silver Cord (1933)
King Kong (1933)
Lucky Devils (1933)
The Monkey's Paw (1933)
The Phantom of Crestwood (1932)
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927)
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925)

Diretor

This Is Cinerama (1952)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) (uncredited)
King Kong (1933)
The Four Feathers (1929)
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927)
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925)

Principais prêmios e indicações

Indicado ao Oscar de melhor filme em 1953 por The Quiet Man (1952)
Ganhou um Oscar Honorário em 1953 por sua contribuição ao cinema
Ganhou o Medal of Honor no Photoplay Awards em 1933 pelo filme Little Women (1933)
Possui uma estrela na Calçada da Fama

Ligações externas

«Merian C. Cooper no IMDB» (em inglês)

v d e Óscar Honorário
1929 – 1939	Warner Bros. / Charlie Chaplin (1929) Walt Disney (1932) Shirley Temple (1935) D. W. Griffith (1936) The March of Time / W. Howard Greene / Harold Rosson (1937) Mack Sennett / Edgar Bergen / The Museum of Modern Art Film Library / W. Howard Greene (1938) Harry M. Warner / Deanna Durbin / Mickey Rooney / Allen Davey / Oliver T. Marsh / J. Arthur Ball / Walt Disney / Gordon Jennings / Jan Domela / Dev Jennings / Irmin Roberts / Art Smith / Farciot Edouart / Loyal Griggs / Loren L. Ryder / Harry Mills / Louis H. Mesenkop / Walter Oberst (1939)
1940 – 1949	Ralph Block / Ralph Morgan / Motion Picture Relief Fund / Conrad Nagel / Douglas Fairbanks / Judy Garland / William Cameron Menzies / Technicolor (1940) Bob Hope / Nathan Levinson (1941) Rey Scott / Leopold Stokowski / British Ministry of Information / Walt Disney / William Garity / John N. A. Hawkins / RCA Manufacturing Co., Inc. (1942) Charles Boyer / Noël Coward / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1943) George Pal (1944) Margaret O'Brien / Bob Hope (1945) Walter Wanger / Peggy Ann Garner / Daniel J. Bloomberg / Republic Studio / Republic Studio Sound Department / Lewis Allan / The House I Live In / Mervyn LeRoy / Albert Maltz / RKO Radio / Earl Robinson / Frank Ross / Frank Sinatra (1946) Laurence Olivier / Harold Russell / Ernst Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr. (1947) James Baskett / Bill and Coo / Thomas Armat / William Nicholas Selig / Albert E. Smith / George K. Spoor / Sciuscià (1948) Ivan Jandl / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor / Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent (1949)
1950 – 1959	Bobby Driscoll / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille / Jean Hersholt / Ladri di biciclette (1950) George Murphy / Louis B. Mayer / Le mura di Malapaga (1951) Gene Kelly / Rashômon (1952) George Alfred Mitchell / Joseph M. Schenck / Merian C. Cooper / Harold Lloyd / Bob Hope / Jeux interdits (1953) Pete Smith / 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. / Joseph I. Breen / Bell and Howell Company (1954) Bausch & Lomb Optical Company / Kemp R. Niver / Greta Garbo / Danny Kaye / Jon Whiteley / Vincent Winter / Jigokumon (1955) Miyamoto Musashi (1956) Eddie Cantor (1957) Charles Brackett / B. B. Kahane / Gilbert M. Anderson / The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (1958) Maurice Chevalier (1959)
1960 – 1969	Lee De Forest / Buster Keaton (1960) Gary Cooper / Stan Laurel / Hayley Mills (1961) William L. Hendricks / Fred L. Metzler / Jerome Robbins (1962) William J. Tuttle (1965) Bob Hope (1966) Y. Frank Freeman / Yakima Canutt (1967) Arthur Freed (1968) John Chambers / Onna White (1969)
1970 – 1979	Cary Grant (1970) Orson Welles / Lillian Gish (1971) Charlie Chaplin (1972) Charles S. Boren / Edward G. Robinson (1973) Groucho Marx / Henri Langlois (1974) Howard Hawks / Jean Renoir (1975) Mary Pickford (1976) Margaret Booth (1978) Walter Lantz / The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film / Laurence Olivier / King Vidor (1979)
1980 – 1989	Alec Guinness / Hal Elias (1980) Henry Fonda (1981) Barbara Stanwyck (1982) Mickey Rooney (1983) Hal Roach (1984) National Endowment for the Arts / James Stewart (1985) Paul Newman / Alex North (1986) Ralph Bellamy (1987) National Film Board of Canada / Eastman Kodak Company (1989)
1990 – 1999	Akira Kurosawa (1990) Sophia Loren / Myrna Loy (1991) Satyajit Ray (1992) Federico Fellini (1993) Deborah Kerr (1994) Michelangelo Antonioni (1995) Kirk Douglas / Chuck Jones (1996) Michael Kidd (1997) Stanley Donen (1998) Elia Kazan (1999)
2000 – 2008	Andrzej Wajda (2000) Ernest Lehman / Jack Cardiff (2001) Sidney Poitier / Robert Redford (2002) Peter O'Toole (2003) Blake Edwards (2004) Sidney Lumet (2005) Robert Altman (2006) Ennio Morricone (2007) Robert F. Boyle (2008) Lauren Bacall / Roger Corman / Gordon Willis (2009)
2010 – 2019	Kevin Brownlow / Jean-Luc Godard / Eli Wallach (2010) James Earl Jones / Dick Smith (2011) D. A. Pennebaker / Hal Needham / George Stevens Jr. (2012) Angela Lansbury / Steve Martin / Piero Tosi (2013) Jean-Claude Carrière / Hayao Miyazaki / Maureen O'Hara (2014) Spike Lee / Gena Rowlands (2015) Jackie Chan / Lynn Stalmaster / Anne V. Coates / Frederick Wiseman (2016) Agnès Varda / Donald Sutherland / Owen Roizman / Charles Burnett (2017) Marvin Levy / Lalo Schifrin / Cicely Tyson (2018) David Lynch / Wes Studi / Lina Wertmüller (2019)
2020 – presente	Sem premiação devido à pandemia de COVID-19 (2020) Samuel L. Jackson / Elaine May / Liv Ullmann (2021) Euzhan Palcy / Diane Warren / Peter Weir (2022) Angela Bassett / Mel Brooks / Carol Littleton (2023) Quincy Jones / Juliet Taylor (2024)