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E. Mason Hopper is a Actor and Director American born on 6 december 1885 at Enosburgh (USA)

E. Mason Hopper

E. Mason Hopper
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Nationality USA
Birth 6 december 1885 at Enosburgh (USA)
Death 3 january 1967 (at 81 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

E. Mason Hopper (December 6, 1885 – January 3, 1967) was an American film director of the silent era. He directed 76 films between 1911 and 1935.

Biography

E. Mason Hopper est le réalisateur de soixante-seize films américains entre 1911 et 1935, majoritairement muets (notamment des courts métrages, surtout en début de carrière, dont trois également comme scénariste). À noter que dix d'entre eux, en 1917-1918, sont produits par Triangle Pictures.

Deux de ses réalisations les mieux connues sont Le Père Goriot (1926, avec Lionel Barrymore et Mary Brian), adaptation muette du roman éponyme d'Honoré de Balzac, et Their Own Desire (1929, film parlant avec Norma Shearer et Robert Montgomery).

Parmi les acteurs et actrices ayant tourné sous sa direction (outre ceux pré-cités), mentionnons Gloria Swanson (Wife or Country en 1918), Richard Dix (ex. : Dangerous Curve Ahead en 1921), Helen Ferguson (Hungry Hearts en 1922), Marion Davies (Janice Meredith en 1924), Bebe Daniels (The Crowded Hour en 1925), Marie Prevost (ex. : Getting Gertie's Garter en 1927), Franklin Pangborn (ex. : A Blonde for a Night en 1928), Roland Young (Wise Girls en 1929), Gilbert Roland (No Living Witness en 1932), ou encore C. Aubrey Smith (Curtain at Eight en 1933), entre autres.

Après son retrait de la réalisation en 1935, on le retrouve toutefois comme assistant-réalisateur (non crédité) de deux films en 1936 et 1938, et enfin comme acteur (petits rôles non crédités), dans deux films de 1943, puis deux autres de 1950 (le dernier étant Boulevard du crépuscule de Billy Wilder, où il interprète un docteur).

Best films

Their Own Desire (1929)
(Director)

Usually with

Alma Rubens
Alma Rubens
(4 films)
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
(3 films)
Ann Doran
Ann Doran
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of E. Mason Hopper (28 films)

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Actor

Sunset Boulevard, 1h50
Directed by Billy Wilder, Charles C. Coleman, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Noir, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about television, Mise en scène d'un scénariste, Films about psychiatry
Actors William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Fred Clark
Roles Doctor (uncredited)
Rating83% 4.199394.199394.199394.199394.19939
At a Sunset Boulevard mansion, the body of Joe Gillis floats in the swimming pool. In a flashback, Joe relates the events leading to his death.
Riding High, 1h52
Directed by Frank Capra, George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Musical films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Horse sports in film, Sport hippique
Actors Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray, Charles Bickford, William Demarest, Frances Gifford, James Gleason
Roles Spectateur
Rating61% 3.09753.09753.09753.09753.0975
Yale grad Dan Brooks is expected to marry wealthy boss J.L. Higgins' daughter Margaret and join the family box-making business. He is far more interested in racing a horse he owns, Broadway Bill.
Slightly Dangerous, 1h34
Directed by Wesley Ruggles
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Lana Turner, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, May Whitty, Eugene Pallette, Alan Mowbray
Roles Man in newspaper office (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.343243.343243.343243.343243.34324

Director

Curtain at Eight
Directed by E. Mason Hopper
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors C. Aubrey Smith, Dorothy Mackaill, Paul Cavanagh, Sam Hardy, Marion Shilling, Russell Hopton
Rating57% 2.8625252.8625252.8625252.8625252.862525
Wylie Thornton is the star of "Isle of Romance" at the Edwin Booth Theater. He is two-timing his wife, Alma Thornton, as well as Lola Cresmer, her sister Anice Cresmer, and Doris Manning, three actresses in the play. Thornton has been nice to Geraldine, the chimpanzee, and she has a crush on the handsome man. Geraldine has figured out how to open and close her wheeled cage, numbered "7", which is in the Property Room of the theater. Mack, the property master, does not like that, or her, and mistreats the "monk". In the Property Room, Geraldine gets her hands on a .32 caliber unrifled revolver and in handling the gun, accidentally fires it.
One Year Later, 1h9
Directed by E. Mason Hopper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Mary Brian, Russell Hopton, George Irving, Don Dillaway, DeWitt Jennings, Edward Keane
Rating65% 3.2674953.2674953.2674953.2674953.267495
First, a pair of blissful honeymooners traveling by train. Then, a year later, the same coach is carrying the man to his place of execution. Although it seems hopeless, there are two wild cards on board: the man's wife and a terminally ill reporter.
Their Own Desire, 1h5
Directed by E. Mason Hopper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Romance
Actors Norma Shearer, Belle Bennett, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery, Mary Doran, Cecil Cunningham
Rating57% 2.896652.896652.896652.896652.89665
A young woman is upset by the knowledge that her father is divorcing her mother in order to marry another woman. Her own feelings change, however, when she falls in love with a young man who turns out to be the son of her father's new love.
Paris at Midnight, 1h
Directed by E. Mason Hopper
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jetta Goudal, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Brian, Edmund Burns, Brandon Hurst, Émile Chautard
Rating55% 2.7891552.7891552.7891552.7891552.789155
Dans une pension bourgeoise où s'est réfugié Jean-Joachim Goriot après avoir richement doté ses filles, un mystérieux personnage, Jacques Collin, semble cacher de lourds secrets. Il essaye de se rapprocher tout d'abord d'un des jeunes pensionnaires, Eugène de Rastignac, sans obtenir le résultat escompté. Pendant ce temps, des mouchards ont averti la police : ils font peser des soupçons sur Jacques Collin qui sera arrêté. Et tandis que les filles du père Goriot assistent au bal le plus élégant de l'année, le vieil homme se meurt.
Janice Meredith, 2h33
Directed by E. Mason Hopper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Marion Davies, Holbrook Blinn, Macklyn Arbuckle, Harrison Ford, Tyrone Power Sr., Joseph Kilgour
Rating55% 2.754212.754212.754212.754212.75421
Le film retrace les actions de Janice Meredith qui a aidé George Washington et Paul Revere pendant la guerre d'indépendance des États-Unis.
Daddy
Daddy (1923)
, 1h
Directed by E. Mason Hopper
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jackie Coogan, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Josie Sedgwick, Cesare Gravina, Bert Woodruff, Anna Townsend
Rating62% 3.1461353.1461353.1461353.1461353.146135
Jackie, le fils d'un pauvre professeur de violon, est séparé de son père à la suite du divorce de ses parents, et ne le retrouve que quand il est devenu un célèbre instrumentiste.
Brothers Under the Skin, 1h
Directed by E. Mason Hopper
Origin USA
Actors Patrick H. O'Malley Jr., Helene Chadwick, Mae Busch, Norman Kerry, Claire Windsor, William Haines

As described in a review in a film publication, Newton Craddock (O'Malley), a shipping clerk who makes $30 per week, loves his wife Millie (Chadwick) even though she is running him into debt through her extravagance. Thomas Kirtland (Kerry) has the same problem with his wife Dorothy (Windsor) even though he makes $30,000 per year. After a fight with his wife, Newton decides to kill himself but is stopped by some wharf workers. Newton is given $5 to deliver a package to the Kirtlands' apartment and, after finding the door open, lets himself in. He sees some of Dorothy's expensive gowns hanging there and exchanges them for the cheap gowns that he had purchased as a peace offering to his wife. He also helps himself to some liquor and sits down, only to find that the Kirtlands have returned home. Dorothy is suspicious of her husband and during an exchange of strong words notes the gowns. Newton then comes forward to explain what happened. Thomas refuses to be submissive any longer and dictates the new policy of the household. Newton returns to his home with the same strategy and finds his wife eager to bend to his will. Happiness then reigns in both households.