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William Hopper

American actor (1916–1970)

For other people named William Hopper, see William Hopper (disambiguation).

William DeWolf Hopper Jr. (January 26, 1915 – March 6, 1970) was an American stage, film, and television actor. The only child of actor DeWolf Hopper and actress and Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper, he appeared in more than 80 feature films in the 1930s and 1940s. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, he left acting, but was persuaded by director William Wellman in the 1950s to resume his film career. He’s perhaps best known for his portrayal of private detective Paul Drake in the CBS television series Perry Mason.^[1]

Early life

William DeWolf Hopper Jr., was born January 26, 1915, in New York City.^[2] He was the only child of actor, singer, comedian, and theatrical producer DeWolf Hopper and his fifth wife, actress Hedda Hopper (born Elda Furry). He had a half-brother, John A. Hopper, from his father's second marriage in the 1880s.^[3]

Hopper made his film debut as a baby in his father's

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RAYMOND BURR, Canadian actor, died (b. 1917) OK....we're going to rename September 12 "Closet Day", what with Chevalier, Perkins and Burr you have three of the biggest closet cases in Hollywood and film (I mean, of course, there are others.)

But Raymond is Closet Case…writ large. An Emmy-nominated actpr as well as being a vintner, Burr is perhaps best known for his roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside, Burr's official biography stated that he had been previously married, but both his wives and one child had died.

In 1942, while working in London, he met Annette Sutherland, an aspiring actress from Scotland and that year they married. Despite protests from her husband, Sutherland insisted on fulfilling her contract and traveled to Spain with the tour company while Burr returned to America. Shortly before her death, Burr received a letter that Sutherland was working in Spain and would return to England and then America; Sutherland then boarded a flight from Lisbon to London and it has been widely reported that Sutherland then perished on BOAC Flight 77-A, the

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It's been an interesting last week or so if you've been trying to keep up with real people, fictional people, and real people who turned out to be quite different from who they pretended to be. It brought a whole new meaning to the saying, "You can't tell the players without a scorecard." And while most people were no longer surprised that Lance Armstrong was not the man he wanted us to believe he was, there was fairly universal shock over the story of Manti Te'o and his fake dead girlfriend.

As that story picked up steam during the week, taking one bizarre turn after another, it was easy to assume that this was probably going to be one of the strangest news stories of the year. The tale of a star football player and a fake dead girlfriend (doesn't that phrase just trip off the tongue?) boggled the imagination. Was Te'o involved in the deception? Was he the most naive football player in the universe? What, we demanded, was the rest of the story?

And it was somewhere in the middle of all this that my wife turned to me. "It kind of reminds you of Raymond Burr, doesn't it?