- Geboren am
- Verstorben6. März 1970 · Palm Springs, Kalifornien, USA (Lungenentzündung nach einem Schlaganfall)
- GeburtsnameWilliam DeWolf Hopper Jr.
- Spitzname
- Bill
- Größe1,91 m
- William Hopper wurde am 26 Januar 1915 in New York City, New York, USA geboren. Er war Schauspieler, bekannt für Perry Mason (1957), Die Bestie aus dem Weltenraum (1957) und Böse Saat (1956). Er war mit Jane Gilbert und Jeanette Juanita Ward verheiratet. Er starb am 6 März 1970 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
- EhepartnerJane Gilbert(20. Januar 1940 - 1965) (geschieden, 1 Kind)Jeanette Juanita Ward(? - March 6, 1970) (er verstorben)
- Eltern
- Prior to being a Navy frogman doing underwater demolition in the Pacific during WW II his hair was dark blonde. The stress of the danger turned it permanently white.
- Suffered a stroke on 14 February 1970.
- Pushed into acting by his mother, Hopper began in summer stock and on the New York stage. He was signed as a small-part contract player at Paramount, 1935-37. Subsequently received leads at Warner Brothers in second features. Career faltered due to his lack of ambition and ambiguity towards the acting profession in general, and he returned again to bit parts. Stressful wartime military service in the Navy led to a drinking problem. After being demobilized, worked for nine years as a car salesman. Resumed acting in 1954, eventually finding his niche as investigator Paul Drake, right hand man to Raymond Burr's 'Perry Mason', the role for which he is chiefly remembered.
- Son of the actress-turned-gossip-columnist Hedda Hopper and DeWolf Hopper Sr.
- Had a continuously difficult relationship with his famous mother, Hedda.
- I didn't dislike movie people, but they were nothing special to me. I'd been around them all my life. My mother's [Hedda Hopper] the kind who could say "Howdeedo" to the king of England and feel perfectly at home. But I couldn't.
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