Dennis Hopper
- Acting
- May 17, 1936 · Dodge City, Kansas, USA
- May 29, 2010
Biography
Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was 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." Film critic Matthew Hays notes that "no other persona better signifies the lost idealism of the 1960s than that of Dennis Hopper." He was unable to build on his success for several years, until a featured role in Apocalypse Now (1979) brought him attention. He subsequently appeared in Rumble Fish (1983) and The Osterman Weekend (1983), and received critical recognition for his work in Blue Velvet and Hoosiers, with the latter film garnering him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He directed Colors (1988) and played the villain in Speed (1994). Hopper's later work included a leading role in the television series Crash. Hopper's last performance was filmed just before his death: The Last Film Festival, slated for a 2011 release. Hopper was also a prolific and acclaimed photographer, a profession he began in the 1960s. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known for
Filmography
- This Is Buzz · Self
- Films to Die For · (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Spirit of Golf · Self
- Mickey Rourke: Just Like a Man
- Morceaux de Cannes · Self
- Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen · Self
- Hopper/Welles · Self
- Wim Wenders, Desperado · Self
- Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth · Self
- The Other Side of the Wind · Dennis Hopper
- They'll Love Me When I'm Dead · Self
- Along for the Ride · Self
- Blue Velvet Revisited · Self
- The Last Film Festival · Nick Twain - Producer
- Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider · Self
- Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar · Self
- Fighting Against the Wind: Making 'the American Dreamer' · Self
- Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles · Self
- Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films · Lt. Lefty Enright (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Llyn Foulkes One Man Band · Self
- Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter · Self
- Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’ · Self
- Scene Missing · Self
- Corman's World · Various Roles (archive footage)
- Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage · Frank Booth
- Der Weg des Ruhms - Hollywoods Walk of Fame · Self
- On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America · Self
- Stardust · Self
- Alpha and Omega · Tony (Voice), In Memory Of
- Beautiful Darling · Self
- B movie · Self
- 13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests · Self
- Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder · Self
- No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos · Self
- Palermo Shooting · Frank
- Crash · Ben Cendars
- The Brothers Warner · Self
- An American Carol · Judge Clarence Henderson
- Not Quite Hollywood · Self
- Elegy · George O'Hearn
- Hell Ride · Eddie Zero
- Swing Vote · Donald Greenleaf
- Russian Suicide Chair · Self, Director
- Chelsea on the Rocks · Self
- Sleepwalking · Mr. Reedy
- Tim Leary: The Art of Dying · Self
- The Cool School · Self
- Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth · Self
- Bananaz · Self / Narrator (Voice)
- The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose · Self
- Brando: An Icon Is Born · Self
- Brando · Self
- Brando: The Documentary · Self
- The Graham Norton Show · Self
- Memory · Max Lichtenstein
- The Sixth Element: The Ross Clarke-Jones Story · Narrator
- Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film · Self
- The Real James Dean · Self
- 50 Films to See Before You Die · Self
- Wanderlust · Self
- The Art of Football from A to Z · Self
- Sketches of Frank Gehry · Self
- Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi · Narrator (Voice)
- Gorillaz: Demon Days Live in Harlem at Apollo Theater · Self
- Gorillaz: Demon Days Live at the Manchester Opera House · Narrator (Voice)
- 10th & Wolf · Matty Matello
- Hoboken Hollow · Sheriff Greer
- E-Ring · Eli McNulty
- On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish' · Self
- House of 9 · Father Duffy
- Land of the Dead · Kaufman
- The Crow: Wicked Prayer · El Niño
- Champion · Self
- Inside Deep Throat · Narrator (Voice)
- Americano · Riccardo
- Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents · Self
- Out of Season · Harry Barlow
- Tell Them Who You Are · Self
- Entourage · Dennis Hopper
- The Last Ride · Ronnie Purnell