Will Lee
William Lee (born William Lubovsky; August 6, 1908 – December 7, 1982) was an American actor who appeared in numerous television and film roles, but was best known for playing Mr. Hooper, the original store proprietor of the eponymous Hooper's Store. He was one of the four original human characters on Sesame Street, from the show's debut in November 1969 until his death on December 7, 1982, at the age of 74. Description above from the Wikipedia article Will Lee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Jim Henson Idea Man
as Mr. Hooper (archive footage)Featuring unprecedented access to Jim Henson's personal archives, filmmaker Ron Howard brings us...
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Saboteur
as Rogers (uncredited)Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of...
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They Live by Night
as JewelerAn escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back...
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Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
as Self (archive footage)Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most influential children's show...
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Backfire
as Cab Driver (uncredited)When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army...
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Ball of Fire
as “Benny — the Creep”A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia....
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Playing for Time
as ShmuelWhen a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other...
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Babes on Broadway
as Shorty, Drugstore Waiter / Cook (uncredited)Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them...
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Little Fugitive
as PhotographerAfter a prank makes Joey Norton believe he killed his older brother, he runs away from home and...
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Daniel
as The JudgeThe fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as...
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Casbah
as BeggerPepe Le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself...
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Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
as Mr. HooperBig Bird worries when Oscar tells him that if Santa Claus can't fit down the chimney on...
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Shakedown
as Cabbie (uncredited)Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the...
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Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
as Mr. Hooper (uncredited) (archive footage)A look back at 40 years of Seasame Street.
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A Sesame Street Christmas Carol
as Mr. HooperOscar the Grouch is visited by three ghosts in an attempt to teach him the true meaning of...
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Whistling in the Dark
as Herman the DruggistThe operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is...
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A Special Sesame Street Christmas
as Mr. HooperLeslie Uggams hosts this take on A Christmas Carol, where she and fellow guest stars, Anne...
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Melody Lane
as Mr. RussoIn this musical, four entertaining farmboys from Iowa head for the Big Apple to find fame and...
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Nourish the Beast
as Old ManBaba Goya is a loudmouth mother who goes through husbands and orphans like the Turkish coffee...
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Hit and Run
as Joseph KahnStill grieving his young wife's death in a hit-and-run accident, Manhattan cab-driver David...
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An Affair of the Skin
as WaiterA neurotic woman, her unhappy husband and three other New Yorkers share a complicated relationship.
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A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
as Mr. HooperSesame Street celebrated its 10th anniversary in the spring of 1979 with a half-hour PBS special...
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Great Performances
as KonThe best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...
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