Jerry Hopper

Who was Jerry Hopper?

Jerry Hopper 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. Hopper went on to direct feature films, such as, The Atomic City, Secret of the Incas, and The Private War of Major Benson, the later two 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.