American playwright, many of whose plays were filmed. The leading light of early twentieth-century light comedy and farce and one of the most commercially successful playwrights of his era, Hopwood, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, graduated from the University of Michigan, which would later be the beneficiary of much of his substantial estate. He ...
In 1920, he had four hit shows running on Broadway simultaneously.
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The University of Michigan's Hopwood Program, which awards the prestigious "Hopwood Prize" for creative writing, is named after him. Notable Hopwood Prize winners include playwright Arthur Miller, Frank O'Hara, director-screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan and transgressive short-story writer Mary Gaitskill. Hopwood was a Michigan alumnus who left a bequest in his will establishing the awards. The Hopwood Program at Michigan now administers the Arthur Miller Award of the U-M Club of New York Scholarship and the Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing, among other award/scholarship programs.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Willi das Prachtstück
2004
TV Movie
Den grønne heisen
1981
play
Der Mustergatte
1980
TV Movie play "Fair and Warmer"
Der Spinnenmörder
1978
TV Movie novel
Laughter from the Whitehall
1963
TV Series 1 episode
Den grønne elevator
1961
play "Fair and Warner"
Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
1960
TV Series play - 1 episode
Model Husband
1959
play "Fair and Warmer"
The Bat
1959
play
Broadway Television Theatre
TV Series novel - 1 episode, 1953 play - 1 episode, 1952