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William DeWolf Hopper (March 30, 1858 – September 23, 1935) was an American actor, singer, comedian, and theatrical producer. A star of vaudeville and musical theater, he became best known for performing the popular baseball poem "Casey at the Bat".
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.
YearTitleRoleNotes1916BabyCredited as William DeWolf Hopper Jr.1936SoldierOffscreen credit [4]1936PhotographerOffscreen credit as DeWolf Hopper [4]1936Ship's OfficerUncredited [29]DeWolf Hopper Sr.. Actor: Don Quixote. Best-known for performing the most popular baseball poem, "Casey at the Bat." Filmed as one of the first talkies, 5 years before The Jazz Singer (1927), Casey at the Bat (1922), was included in Ken Burns' Baseball (1994).
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Sep 22, 2008 · One of those actors was DeWolf Hopper, a well-known performer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who was given the role of William Penn in the production and also appeared in several scenes depicting ancient Rome.
Feb 27, 2016 · DeWolf Hopper, an accomplished thespian, read the melodramatic verse in packed theaters. Some members of the audience recited along with him. Others wept. “Casey’s” charms have endured. He is...
- Bill Littlefield
Broadway. The Monster (Feb 10, 1933 - Mar 1933) Starring: DeWolf Hopper [Dr. Gustave Ziska] Play Drama Revival. Radio City Music Hall Inaugural Program (Dec 27, 1932 - Dec 27, 1932) Performer: DeWolf Hopper. Special Original. White Lilacs (Sep 10, 1928 - Jan 12, 1929) Performer: DeWolf Hopper [Dubusson] Musical Operetta Romance Original.
…stage performances of comic actor DeWolf Hopper, who recited the poem more than 10,000 times in hundreds of American cities and towns. “Casey at the Bat” became baseball’s most popular piece of literature, celebrated in opera, paintings, sculpture, and film and imitated, extended, and even parodied by writers ranging from…
