(Continuing Character) in a Dramatic Series at the 11th Primetime Emmy Awards for his performance as Paul Drake. Personal life In 1940, Hopper married actress Jane Gilbert. They had worked together on the 1939 film Invisible Stripes. The couple had one daughter, Joan, born in 1947. Hopper and Gilbert divorced in 1959, and later that same year, Hopper married Jeanette Juanita Ward (d. 2008). They remained together until his death. Death Hopper, a chain smoker who often indulged onscreen in Perry Mason, entered Desert Hospital in Palm Springs, California, on February 14, 1970, after suffering a stroke. He died of a heart attack three weeks later, on March 6, at age 55. He was buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California. Select theatre credits 1934: Order Please, Playhouse Theatre, New York City (as Victor Neilson) 1934–35: Romeo and Juliet, Martin Beck Theatre, New York City (Ensemble) Filmography Film Television Notes References External links William Hopper at Aveleyman 1915 births 1970 deaths 20th-century American male actors American male child actors American male film actors American male silent film actors American male stage actors American male television actors Burials at Rose Hills Memorial Park Deaths from pneumonia in California Male actors from New York City People of the Office of Strategic Services United States Navy personnel of World War II United States Navy sailors