{{short description|American actor}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2014}} {{infobox person | name = Arthur Hoops | image = Arthur Hoops MPW 1916.jpg | birth_name = | birth_date = 1870 | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, US | death_date = September 16, 1916 (aged 45 - 46) | death_place = Long Island City New York, New York, United States | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1900–1916 | spouse = | children = }} '''Arthur Hoops''' (1870<ref>''Who Was Who on Screen'' by Evelyn Mack Truitt, p.348, 3rd Edit. c.1983</ref> – September 17, 1916) was an American stage and screen actor.
==Biography== Born in Chicago in 1870, on the stage Hoops was primarily associated with actor James K. Hackett. From 1900 on Hoops supported or costarred with Hackett in three Ruritanian themed plays ''Rupert of Hentzau'', ''The Pride of Jennico'' and most famously ''The Prisoner of Zenda''. Hoops also appeared in ''Alice of Old Vincennes'' in 1901 with Virginia Harned. Both he and Hackett were well over 6'4" and made worthy adversaries in the famous duelling scene from ''Zenda''. It was the most famous duelling scene in the American theatre at the turn of the 20th century.<ref>''Pictorial History of the American Theatre 1860-1985'' by Daniel Blum, c. 1985</ref>
Hoops moved on to silent film in 1914. As his screen career progressed Hoops appeared in several films with Mary Pickford, one film with Marguerite Clark and finished his career in over half a dozen films at Metro Studios starring early screen vamp Olga Petrova. Hoops died in Los Angeles at 46 following a heart attack.<ref>''Pictorial History of the Silent Screen'' by Daniel Blum, c.1953</ref><ref>''Silent Film Necrology'' by Eugene Michael Vazzana, p.249, 3rd edit., c.2001</ref>
==Selected filmography== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- |rowspan=5|1914 | ''The Better Man'' | Reverend Lionel Barmore | |- | ''The Lost Paradise'' | Ralph Standish | |- | ''Such a Little Queen'' | Prince Eugene | |- | ''The Straight Road'' | Douglas Aines | |- | ''Aristocracy'' | Prince Emil von Haldenwald | |- |Rowspan=6|1915 | ''Mistress Nell'' | Duke of Buckingham | |- | ''Gretna Green'' | Sir William Chetwynde | |- |''Should A Mother Tell?'' | Baron Gauntier | |- |''The Song of Hate'' | Baron Scarpia | |- | ''Esmerelda'' | Count de Montessin | |- | ''The Danger Signal'' | Danny Canavan | |- |Rowspan=5|1916 | ''The Lure of Heart's Desire'' | Thomas Martin | |- | ''Playing With Fire'' | Geoffrey Vane | |- | ''The Scarlet Woman'' | Clinton Hastings | |- | ''The Eternal Question'' | Grand Duke of Serdian | |- | ''Extravagance'' | Howard Dundore | |- |Rowspan=2|1917 | ''Bridges Burned'' | O'Farrell | |- | ''The Secret of Eve'' | Arthur Brandon | |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Arthur Hoops}} *{{IMDb name|0393818}} *{{IBDB name}} *[http://www.kinotv.com/page/bio.php?namecode=46544 Arthur Hoops Kinotv.com]
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