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After World War II, the family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where the young Hopper attended Saturday art classes at the Kansas City Art Institute.

At the age of 13, Hopper and his family moved to San Diego, where his mother worked as a lifeguard instructor and his father was a post office manager ( Hopper has acknowledged, though, that his father was in the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, in China with Mao Zedong ).

Hopper was voted most likely to succeed at Helix High School, where he was active in the drama club, speech and choir.

It was there that he developed an interest in acting, studying at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego,