![]() ![]() After this, you're going to be in every picture I make.' I didn't believe him." : 60 Hopper subsequently appeared in two of Wellman's films, Track of the Cat (1954) and Good-bye, My Lady (1956). "I was so lousy, so nervous, I didn't even know where the camera was. "When it appeared Wellman was serious, I asked him if he knew whose son I was. Before filming began, Hopper challenged Wellman because he suspected his mother had arranged the offer. In 1953, director William Wellman persuaded Hopper to resume his movie career with his 1954 film, The High and the Mighty, opposite Jan Sterling. "I didn't even think about acting much until a friend, director Bill Wellman, asked me to do a part in The High and the Mighty," Hopper recalled. He combined car sales and acting when opportunities came up during the advent of television. įor eight years after the war, Hopper became involved in business and sold cars in Hollywood. He received a Bronze Star and several other medals during operations in the Pacific. Hopper served with the United States Navy during World War II, as a volunteer with the Office of Strategic Services and as a member of the newly created Underwater Demolition Team. : 57 "When I worked at Warner Bros.," Hopper said, "I was so scared I stuttered all the time." Military service and postwar career Hopper became an actor because his mother expected it of him. X (1939) a college football player in Over the Goal (1939) and reporters in Knute Rockne, All American (1940), The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). Īfter that, he had roles that included playing a sergeant in the John Ford Western, Stagecoach (1939) an intern in The Return of Dr. He also enjoyed significant roles alongside Ann Sheridan in The Footloose Heiress (1937) and Mystery House (1938). In 1937, he portrayed the leading man in two films, Public Wedding with Jane Wyman and Over the Goal with June Travis. In 1936, he played a small role as a soldier in the Columbia Pictures film The King Steps Out starring Grace Moore and Franchot Tone. Early in his film career, Hopper appeared in numerous movies, uncredited and also under the name DeWolf Hopper. In March 1936, Hopper - then working under the name Wolfe Hopper - won a contract at Paramount Pictures. : 58 He appeared on Broadway in the short-lived comedy Order Please (1934) and as a member of the ensemble in Katharine Cornell's production of Romeo and Juliet (1934–35). ![]() He worked in summer stock in Ogunquit, Maine. He made his first stage appearance at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, in She Loves Me Not. Hopper began his acting career as a teenager. Guest star Bette Davis with Hopper in Perry Mason (1963) Career 1930s–1940s Hedda Hopper became one of America's notorious gossip columnists, and a major proponent of the Hollywood blacklist, with nearly 30 million readers in newspapers in the U.S. His mother divorced his father in 1922 and moved to Hollywood with their son. Hopper made his film debut as a baby in his father's 1916 silent movie Sunshine Dad. Hopper, from his father's second marriage in the 1880s. He was the only child of actor, singer, comedian, and theatrical producer DeWolf Hopper and his fifth wife, actress Hedda Hopper (born Elda Furry). William DeWolf Hopper Jr., was born January 26, 1915, in New York City. He became best known for his work as private detective Paul Drake in the CBS television series Perry Mason. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, he left acting, but in the mid-1950s, he was persuaded by director William Wellman to resume his film career. The only child of actor DeWolf Hopper and actress and Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper, he appeared in predominantly minor roles in more than 80 feature films in the 1930s and 1940s. (January 26, 1915 – March 6, 1970) was an American stage, film, and television actor. ![]()
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