Cast & creator
Will Lee
Best known for Great Performances, Saboteur, They Live by Night
William Lee (born William Lubovsky; August 6, 1908) 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Will Lee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
24
film credits
1
television credits
25
1941–2021 · acting roles
7.0
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (25)
Showing 25 of 25 credits
Great Performances
Kon
1971
Saboteur
Rogers (uncredited)
1942
They Live by Night
Jeweler
1949
Ball of Fire
“Benny — the Creep”
1941
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
Mr. Hooper (archive footage) (uncredited)
2004
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Self (archive footage)
2021
M
Man In Mob (uncredited)
1951
Playing for Time
Shmuel
1980
Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
Mr. Hooper (uncredited) (archive footage)
2010
Backfire
Cab Driver (uncredited)
1950
A Sesame Street Christmas Carol
Mr. Hooper (archive footage)
2006
Babes on Broadway
Shorty, Drugstore Waiter / Cook (uncredited)
1941
Daniel
The Judge
1983
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
Mr. Hooper
1978
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
Mr. Hooper
1978
Hit and Run
Joseph Kahn
1982
Casbah
Begger
1948
Whistling in the Dark
Herman the Druggist
1941
This Way to Sesame Street
Mr. Hooper
1969
Little Fugitive
Photographer
1953
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
Mr. Hooper
1979
Nourish the Beast
Old Man
1974
An Affair of the Skin
Waiter
1963
Shakedown
Cabbie (uncredited)
1950
Melody Lane
Mr. Russo
1941