Search results
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". Life and career.
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.
DeWolf Hopper recites the poem, "Casey at the Bat" by E.L. Thayer. ...more.
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.
U.S. actor and comedian De Wolf Hopper was born William De Wolf Hopper in New York City. He is best remembered for his recitations of Ernest Thayer’s poem “Casey at the Bat” and for starring in Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operas, including The Mikado , Patience , and H.M.S. Pinafore .
William DeWolf Hopper recites Ernest Lawrence Thayer's famous poem "Casey at the Bat" - acoustically recorded June 16, 1909 in New York City and released on Victor batwing record...
…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…
