Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer, and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors Studio.
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Full Name: Dennis Lee Hopper
Description: Actor, USA
Known For: Mainly known for his role in EASY RIDER in 1969
Location: United States of America
Date Born: 17th May 1936
Location Born: Dodge City, Kansas, United States of America
Date Died: 29th May 2010
Location Died: Venice, California, United States of America
Cause Of Death: Prostate cancer
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Dennis Hopper
An American actor, filmmaker and artist.
As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors’ Studio.
He made his first television appearance in 1954, and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956).
During the next 10 years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films.
He directed and starred in Easy Rider (1969), winning an award at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer.
“With its portrait of counterculture heroes raising their middle fingers to the uptight middle-class hypocrisies, Easy Rider became the cinematic symbol of the 1960s, a celluloid anthem to freedom, macho bravado and anti-establishment rebellion.”
He was unable to build on his success for several years, until a featured role in Apocalypse Now (1979) brought him attention.
Hopper was also a prolific and acclaimed photographer, a profession he began in the 1960s.
Ostracized by the Hollywood film studios due to his reputation for being a “difficult” actor, Hopper eventually turned to photography in the 1960s with a camera bought for him by his first wife, Brooke Hayward.
During this period he created the cover art for the Ike & Tina Turner single River Deep – Mountain High (released in 1966).
According to Rolling Stone magazine, he was “one of Hollywood’s most notorious drug addicts,” for 20 years. He spent much of the 1970s and early 1980s living as “an outcast” in a small town he purchased after the success of Easy Rider.
He married Singer turned actress Michelle Phillips of The Mamas and Papas fame that lasted
eight days.
On September 30, 2009, news media reported that Hopper had been rushed to a New York hospital for an unspecified condition. Hopper, 73, was reportedly brought into an unidentified Manhattan hospital by an ambulance on September 28 wearing an oxygen mask and “with numerous tubes visible.”
On October 2, he was discharged, after receiving treatment for dehydration.
On October 29, Hopper’s manager reported that Hopper had been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer.
On March 18, 2010, it was announced that Hopper would be honored with the 2,403rd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Hopper died at his home in the coastal Los Angeles district of Venice on the morning of May 29, 2010 at the age of 74, due to complications from prostate cancer.
Films include:
2008 – Hell Ride
2008 – Elegy
2008 – Sleepwalking
2008 – An American Carol
2008 – Swing Vote
2005 – Land of the Dead
2003 – Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003 – The Night we called it a Day
2002 – Leo
2001 – One Giant Leap
1999 – EDtv
1999 – Jesus’ Son
1997 – The Blackout
1996 – Space Truckers
1996 – Witch Hunt
1996 – Basquiat
1995 – Carried Away
1995 – Waterworld
1994 – Chasers
1994 – Speed
1993 – True Romance
1993 – Super Mario Bros.
1992 – Boiling Point
1992 – Red Rock West
1991 – The Indian Runner
1991 – Paris Trout
1990 – Flashback
1990 – Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
1989 – Chattahoochee
1989 – Catchfire
1988 – Blood Red
1987 – O.C. & Stiggs
1987 – Black Widow
1986 – Hoosiers
1986 – Straight to Hell
1986 – Blue Velvet
1986 – The American Way
1986 – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
1986 – River’s Edge
1983 – Rumble Fish
1983 – The Osterman Weekend
1980 – Out of the Blue
1979 – Apocalypse Now
1979 – Apocalypse Now Redux
1976 – Tracks
1976 – Mad Dog Morgan
1973 – Kid Blue
1971 – The Last Movie
1969 – True Grit
1969 – Easy Rider
1968 – Hang ’em High
1968 – Head
1967 – The Glory Stompers
1967 – The Trip
1967 – Cool Hand Luke
1961 – Night Tide
1958 – From Hell to Texas
1956 – Giant
1955 – Rebel Without a Cause
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