William Hopper Filmography

William Hopper, born DeWolf Hopper, Jr. was an American actor. Hopper was born in New York City, the only child of singer and comic stage actor DeWolf Hopper and actress and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper . His debut motion picture appearance was as a baby in his father's 1916 silent movie, Sunshine Dad. His mother divorced his father in 1922, and moved to Hollywood with Hopper. He is best remembered for playing Paul Drake in television's Perry Mason and for his role as the father of the Natalie Wood character in Rebel Without a Cause. He enlisted in the Navy in 1942, served as a frogman,... and won a Bronze Star for bravery and heroic action during operations in the Pacific. He was discharged when the war ended in 1945, and worked as a car salesman in Hollywood for eight years. Hopper began his acting career as a teenager, working in summer stock in Ogunquit, Maine. He went from there to Broadway, where he appeared in two plays in 1934, Order Please and Romeo and Juliet. Early in his film career, Hopper appeared uncredited in numerous movies or under the name DeWolf Hopper.
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