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E. Mason Hopper
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Director Born: December 6, 1885 in Enosburg, VT Death: December 3, 1967 in California 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... Full Biography
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