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William "Will" Lee (August 6, 1908 – December 7, 1982) was an American actor and comedian 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 in 1982. [1]

83 relations: A Song Is Born, A Special Sesame Street Christmas, Actor's Workshop, American Theatre Wing, An Affair of the Skin, As the World Turns, Atari, Australia, Babes on Broadway, Backfire (1950 film), Ball of Fire, Big Bird, Boston University, Broadway theatre, Brooklyn, Brute Force (1947 film), Carnival!, Caroll Spinney, Casbah (film), Christmas by medium, Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, Communism, Daniel (film), Daytime Emmy Award, Dick Tracy, East Side/West Side, Evening at Pops, Federal Theatre Project, For the People (1965 TV series), Force of Evil, Golden Boy (play), Great Performances, History of Sesame Street, Hooper's Store, Horn-rimmed glasses, House Un-American Activities Committee, Incident at Vichy, James Earl Jones, Jews, Joan Ganz Cooney, John Garfield, Johnny Johnson (musical), Lenox Hill Hospital, List of human Sesame Street characters, Little Fugitive, Loretta Long, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Manhattan, Manila, Maurice Samuel, ..., McCarthyism, Mr. Hooper, Myocardial infarction, New York (state), New York City, Norman Mailer, Ocean Spray (cooperative), Off-Broadway, Once Upon a Mattress, Pac-Man, Pinball, Playing for Time (film), Saboteur (film), Santos Ortega, Sesame Street, Sesame Workshop, Shakedown (1950 film), Television advertisement, Television special, Thanksgiving (United States), The Deer Park, The Life of Riley, The Lone Wolf and His Lady, The New School, The New York Times, The Philco Television Playhouse, The Shrike (play), The Time of Your Life, They Live by Night, Time (magazine), Whistling in the Dark (1941 film), World War II, YouTube. Expand index (33 more) »

A Song Is Born

A Song Is Born (also known as That's Life) is a 1948 Technicolor musical film remake of the 1941 movie Ball of Fire with Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck, starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo.

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A Special Sesame Street Christmas

A Special Sesame Street Christmas is a 1978 CBS Christmas special, made the same year as the better-known Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.

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Actor's Workshop

The Actor's Workshop was a theatre company founded in San Francisco in 1952.

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American Theatre Wing

The American Theatre Wing, "the Wing" for short, is a New York City-based organization "dedicated to supporting excellence and education in theatre," according to its mission statement.

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An Affair of the Skin

An Affair of the Skin is a 1963 film written and directed by Ben Maddow.

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As the World Turns

As the World Turns (often referred to as ATWT) is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS for 54 years from April 2, 1956, to September 17, 2010.

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Atari

Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972, currently by Atari Interactive, a subsidiary of the French publisher Atari, SA.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Babes on Broadway

Babes on Broadway is a 1941 American musical film starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland and directed by Busby Berkeley, with Vincente Minnelli directing Garland's big solo numbers.

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Backfire (1950 film)

Backfire is a 1950 American film noir crime film directed by Vincent Sherman starring Edmond O'Brien, Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, Viveca Lindfors, and Dane Clark.

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Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire is a 1941 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck.

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Big Bird

Big Bird is the main protagonist of the children's television show Sesame Street.

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Boston University

Boston University (commonly referred to as BU) is a private, non-profit, research university in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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Brute Force (1947 film)

Brute Force is a 1947 American crime film noir directed by Jules Dassin, from a screenplay by Richard Brooks with cinematography by William H. Daniels.

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Carnival!

Carnival! is a musical, originally produced by David Merrick on Broadway in 1961, with the book by Michael Stewart and music and lyrics by Bob Merrill.

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Caroll Spinney

Caroll Edwin Spinney (born December 26, 1933) is an American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street since 1969.

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Casbah (film)

Casbah is a 1948 American film noir crime musical film directed by John Berry starring Yvonne DeCarlo, Tony Martin, Peter Lorre and Märta Torén.

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Christmas by medium

Christmas themes have long been an inspiration to artists and writers.

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Christmas Eve on Sesame Street

Christmas Eve on Sesame Street is a Sesame Street Christmas special first broadcast on PBS on Sunday, December 3, 1978.

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Communism

In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.

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Daniel (film)

Daniel is a 1983 British-American drama film which was adapted by E. L. Doctorow from his 1971 novel The Book of Daniel.

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Daytime Emmy Award

The Daytime Emmy Award is an American accolade bestowed by the New York–based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming.

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Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy is an American comic strip featuring Dick Tracy (originally Plainclothes Tracy), a tough and intelligent police detective created by Chester Gould.

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East Side/West Side

East Side/West Side is an American drama series starring George C. Scott, Elizabeth Wilson, Cicely Tyson, and later on, Linden Chiles.

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Evening at Pops

Evening at Pops was an American concert television series produced by WGBH-TV.

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Federal Theatre Project

The Federal Theatre Project (FTP; 1935–39) was a New Deal program to fund theatre and other live artistic performances and entertainment programs in the United States during the Great Depression.

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For the People (1965 TV series)

For the People is an American legal drama that aired from January 31 until May 9, 1965.

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Force of Evil

Force of Evil is a 1948 American crime film noir directed by Abraham Polonsky who had already achieved a name for himself as a scriptwriter, most notably for the gritty boxing film Body and Soul (1947).

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Golden Boy (play)

Golden Boy is a drama by Clifford Odets.

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Great Performances

Great Performances, a television series devoted to the performing arts, has been telecast on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) public television since 1972.

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History of Sesame Street

The preschool educational television program Sesame Street was first aired on public broadcasting television stations November 10, 1969, and will reach its 48th season in late 2017.

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Hooper's Store

Hooper's Store is a fictional business and meeting-place on the television show Sesame Street.

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Horn-rimmed glasses

Horn-rimmed glasses are a type of eyeglasses.

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House Un-American Activities Committee

The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC, or House Committee on Un-American Activities, or HCUA) was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives.

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Incident at Vichy

Incident at Vichy is a 1964 play by American dramatist Arthur Miller about a group of men detained in Vichy France; and held to wait unknowingly, for what turns out to be their "racial" inspection by German military officers and Vichy French police during World War II.

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James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American actor.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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Joan Ganz Cooney

Joan Ganz Cooney (born Joan Ganz; November 30, 1929) is an American television producer.

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John Garfield

John Garfield (born Jacob Julius Garfinkle, March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor who played brooding, rebellious, working-class characters.

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Johnny Johnson (musical)

Johnny Johnson is a musical with a book and lyrics by Paul Green and music by Kurt Weill.

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Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox Hill Hospital is one of Northwell Health's hospitals.

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List of human Sesame Street characters

Since the premiere of the children's television program Sesame Street on July 21, 1969, it has included what writer Malcolm Gladwell has called "the essence of Sesame Street—the artful blend of fluffy monsters and earnest adults".

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Little Fugitive

Little Fugitive (1953) is an American film written and directed by Raymond Abrashkin (as "Ray Ashley"), Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin, that tells the story of a child alone in Coney Island.

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Loretta Long

Loretta Mae Long (née Moore) (born October 4, 1938, in Paw Paw, Michigan) is an African American actress, voice artist, singer, media personality, and educator.

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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, the world's largest parade, is presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Manila

Manila (Maynilà, or), officially the City of Manila (Lungsod ng Maynilà), is the capital of the Philippines and the most densely populated city proper in the world.

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Maurice Samuel

Maurice Samuel (February 8, 1895 – May 4, 1972) was a Romanian-born British and American novelist, translator and lecturer.

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McCarthyism

McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.

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Mr. Hooper

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Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Norman Mailer

Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist.

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Ocean Spray (cooperative)

Ocean Spray is an agricultural cooperative of growers of cranberries and grapefruit headquartered in Lakeville/Middleborough, Massachusetts.

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Off-Broadway

An Off-Broadway theatre is any professional venue in Manhattan in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive.

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Once Upon a Mattress

Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer, and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer.

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Pac-Man

, stylized as PAC-MAN, is an arcade game developed by Namco and first released in Japan as Puck Man in May 1980.

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Pinball

Pinball is a type of arcade game, in which points are scored by a player manipulating one or more steel balls on a play field inside a glass-covered cabinet called a pinball table (or "pinball machine").

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Playing for Time (film)

Playing for Time is a 1980 CBS television film, written by Arthur Miller and Fania Fénelon, based on Fénelon's autobiography, The Musicians of Auschwitz.

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Saboteur (film)

Saboteur is a 1942 American film noir spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock with a screenplay written by Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison and Dorothy Parker.

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Santos Ortega

Santos Edward Ortega (June 30, 1899 – April 10, 1976) was an American actor and comedian.

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Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.

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Sesame Workshop

Sesame Workshop (SW), formerly Children's Television Workshop (CTW), is an American non-profit organization which has been responsible for the production of several educational children's programs—including its first and best-known, Sesame Street—that have been televised internationally.

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Shakedown (1950 film)

Shakedown is a 1950 crime film noir directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Howard Duff, Brian Donlevy, Peggy Dow, Lawrence Tierney, Bruce Bennett and Anne Vernon.

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Television advertisement

A television advertisement (also called a television commercial, commercial or ad in American English, and known in British English as a TV advert or simply an advert) is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization.

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Television special

A television special (often TV special, or rarely "television spectacular") is a stand-alone television show which temporarily interrupts episodic programming normally scheduled for a given time slot.

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Thanksgiving (United States)

Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a public holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States.

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The Deer Park

The Deer Park is a Hollywood novel written by Norman Mailer and published in 1955 by G.P. Putnam's Sons after it was rejected by Mailer's publisher, Rinehart & Company, for obscenity.

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The Life of Riley

The Life of Riley was an American radio situation comedy series of the 1940s that was adapted into a 1949 feature film, a long-running 1950s television series, and a 1958 comic book.

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The Lone Wolf and His Lady

The Lone Wolf and His Lady (1949) is the 15th and final Lone Wolf film produced by Columbia Pictures, directed by John Hoffman and written by Edward Dein and Michael Stuart Boylan.

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The New School

The New School is a private non-profit research university centered in Manhattan, New York City, USA, located mostly in Greenwich Village.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Philco Television Playhouse

The Philco Television Playhouse is an American television anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955.

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The Shrike (play)

The Shrike is a play written by American dramatist Joseph Kramm.

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The Time of Your Life

The Time of Your Life is a 1939 five-act play by American playwright William Saroyan.

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They Live by Night

They Live by Night is a 1948 American film noir, based on Edward Anderson's Depression era novel Thieves Like Us.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Whistling in the Dark (1941 film)

Whistling in the Dark is the first of three comedy films starring Red Skelton as Wally "the Fox" Benton, who writes and acts in radio murder mysteries.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Lee

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