Jerry Hopper, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jerry Hopper

American film director

Date of Birth: 29-Jul-1907

Place of Birth: Guthrie, Oklahoma, United States

Date of Death: 17-Dec-1988

Profession: film director, film editor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Jerry Hopper (July 29, 1907 – December 17, 1988) was an American film and television director, active from the mid-1940s through the early 1970s. He was an editor at Paramount Pictures before moving to the directors' chair for several installments of their Musical Parade series (1946–48).
Hopper went on to direct feature films, such as, The Atomic City (1952), Pony Express (1953), Secret of the Incas (1954), and The Private War of Major Benson (1955), the latter three with actor Charlton Heston.
In 1958 he directed Brandon De Wilde and Lee Marvin in The Missouri Traveler. He then moved primarily into episodic television, having appeared in Colt .45, Bachelor Father, Wagon Train, Gunsmoke, The Addams Family, Burke's Law, Perry Mason, The Fugitive, Gilligan's Island, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, among many others. He died of heart disease on December 17, 1988 at the age of 81.