Sorry if I came off attacking your man. Didn't mean no disrespect. I'm just saying that certain roles seemed to fit the actor - and I know that a lot of roles were just assignments way back then. But Gary Cooper just looks conflicted when he walks on screen. I think High Noon was a great movie, but it would not have been even remotely as popular if, say, we had John Wayne in the lead role, or Clint Eastwood, or Clark Gable, or Cary Grant. The personna of Gary Cooper just kind of fleshed out the role.
I feel the same about Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca" and "The African Queen" (most all his movies, come to think about it). And Peter O'Toole in "Man of La Mancha" is just perfect. He is equal parts dead serious and comic goofball. When he charged the windmill you just knew he saw a windmill. And when he saw a virtuous lady Dulcinea in the form of the tramp Aldonza he made us see her too. Ever since I saw that movie every time I see O'Toole I think Cervantes.
Anyway, Sinsull, please, no hard feelings against your fav actor.