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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]Determined to make the evening different and memorable, Hopper began to seek out something special to perform. His friend Gunter believed he had just the thing and gave him the clipping of “Casey at the Bat.”. Memorizing the poem quickly, Hopper delivered it for the first time on stage that night while in the middle of the second act.
DeWolf Hopper recites the poem, "Casey at the Bat" by E.L. Thayer.
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Sep 22, 2008 · DeWolf Hopper was a popular musical theater actor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He also became famous for reciting the baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer over 10,000 times.
Other articles where DeWolf Hopper is discussed: baseball: Baseball and the arts: …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 ...
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William DeWolf Hopper was born in New York City to John Hopper, a wealthy Quaker lawyer, and Rosalie DeWolf, granddaughter of U. S. Senator James DeWolf, scion of a notable Colonial family. Young Hopper was expected to follow his father into the legal profession, but he was of an entirely different bent.
