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E. Mason Hopper

Held for Murder

Born: 12/06/1885 Enosburg, VT

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Biography: Like so many other American silent film directors, E. Mason Hopper came to movies with vast accumulated experience in any number of jobs. He'd been a vaudevillian, a stock actor/director, a food manufacturer, a baseball player and a student at the University of Maryland by the time he began directing one-reelers at Chicago's Essanay studios in 1911. Few of his feature films have been spotlighted in reference books; his success rested upon productivity and longevity. In the '20s, Hopper tackled everything from historical spectacle (Janice Meredith [1924]) to bedroom farce (Getting Gertie's Garter [1927]). Hopper's talkie assignments were principally of the B-quickie variety, but he finished on a high note with the above-average independent programmer Curtain at Eight (1934). After several years in retirement, E. Mason Hopper resurfaced in the late '40s and early '50s as a bit actor in such films as Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

DVDs that E. Mason Hopper appeared in...

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11/26/2002 - Sunset Boulevard [Special Collector's Edition]

DVDs that E. Mason Hopper worked on "behind the scenes"...

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02/24/2009 - Curtain at Eight - Director
02/26/2008 - Hong Kong Nights - Director
07/31/2007 - One Year Later - Director
07/26/2005 - Held for Murder - Director