Dennis Hopper

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

Photojournalist

Apocalypse Now

Goon

Rebel Without a Cause

Father

Rumble Fish

Clifford Worley

True Romance

Babalugats

Cool Hand Luke

Bruno Bischofberger

Basquiat

Peter Crowford

Tycus

Billy

Easy Rider

Donald Greenleaf

Swing Vote

Howard Payne

Speed

Frank Booth

Blue Velvet

Jordan "Jordy" Benedict III

Giant

Frank Hector

Straight Shooter

John Canyon

Space Truckers

Lyle from Dallas

Red Rock West

Self

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Prophet

Hang 'em High

Robert Nile

The Piano Player

Frankie

The Last Days of Frankie the Fly

Tom Ripley

Der amerikanische Freund

Feck

River's Edge

Shooter

Hoosiers

Alex Swan

Ticker

Henry 'Hank' Pekurny

EDtv

Rudolph 'Red' Diamond

Boiling Point

Kaufman

Land of the Dead

Billy Clanton

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Benny Chains

Knockaround Guys

Horace

Leo

Self

Champion

Max

The Trip

Miller

Slagskämpen

Doggie

Chasers

George O'Hearn

Elegy

Det. Ed DeLongpre

Spreading Ground

Frank

Palermo Shooting

Narrator (voice)

Inside Deep Throat

Self

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Richard Tremayne

The Osterman Weekend

Caesar

The Indian Runner

Bill

Jesus' Son

Mickey

The Blackout

Tony (voice)

Alpha and Omega

Warden

Unspeakable

Sponson

O.C. and Stiggs

Harry Barlow

Out of Season

Matty Matello

10th & Wolf

King Koopa

Super Mario Bros.

Deacon

Waterworld

Milo

Catchfire

Eddie Zero

Hell Ride

Huey Walker

Flashback

Paul Grant

Queen of Blood

I.G. Farben

Straight to Hell

Riccardo

Americano

Krebs

The Keeper

Frank Slater

Meet the Deedles

Himself

Brando: An Icon Is Born

H. Phillip Lovecraft

Witch Hunt

Mr. Reedy

Sleepwalking

Joseph Svenden

Carried Away

Ronnie Purnell

The Last Ride

Max Lichtenstein

Memory

Daniel Morgan

Mad Dog Morgan

Napoleon Bonaparte

The Story of Mankind

Frank Sinatra

The Night We Called It a Day

Self

I Don't Know Jack

Self

50 Films to See Before You Die

Sheriff Greer

Hoboken Hollow

Charles Atlas

Top of the World

Dave Hastings

The Sons of Katie Elder

Self

Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)

Lieutenant 'Lefty' Enright

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Henry Clark

Choke

Johnny Drake

Night Tide

Self

The Pursuit of Happiness

Narrator (voice)

Gorillaz: Demon Days Live at the Manchester Opera House

The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys

"Moon"

True Grit

Don

Out of the Blue

Hatfield Carnes

The Young Land

Himself

Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents

Flash Jensen

The Pick-up Artist

Self

The Art of Football from A to Z

Self

Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

Bob Roberts

My Science Project

Kansas

The Last Movie

Fritz

Swiss Family Robinson

Austin Blair

The Heart of Justice

Ben Dumers

Black Widow

Self

Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas

Father Duffy

House of 9

Cracker / Stranger

Human Highway

Vincent Swan

The Prophet's Game

Paris Trout

Paris Trout

Narrator (voice)

Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi

Dr. Waxling

Search and Destroy

Giani Ponti

Luck of the Draw

Cal

King of the Mountain

Carl Madson

Sunset Heat

Harry 'Nails' Niles

Nails

Art, Acting, and the Suicide Chair: Dennis Hopper

Tom Boyd

From Hell to Texas

Generale Tariq

Samson and Delilah

Walker Benson

Chattahoochee

William "Cowby" Tomkins

Key Witness

Self

A Tribute To Johnny Cash

Video Director

Running Out of Luck

Joe (uncredited)

I Died a Thousand Times

Barry Seal

Doublecrossed

Chino

The Glory Stompers

1st Sgt. Jack Falen

Tracks

Self

Chelsea on the Rocks

Self

No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos

Self

Mysteries of Love

Himself

The American Dreamer

Self

Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work

Rev. Tom Hartley

Reborn

Bickford Waner

Kid Blue

Captain

The American Way

Sheriff Ben Gilchrist

Road Ends

Self

To Shoot a Mad Dog

Spirit of Golf

William Bradford Berrigan

Blood Red

Himself

Llyn Foulkes One Man Band

Self

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder

Himself

Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter

JD

Held for Ransom

Rick Chambers

Lured Innocence

Self - Host

The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money

Self

The James Dean Story

Himself

Emmanuelle: A Hard Look

Chicken

Las flores del vicio

Marvin Gladstone

Eye of the Storm

Himself

The Revenge of the Dead Indians

Medford

L'Ordre et la sécurité du monde

Cleveland Carter

Bad City Blues

Kenneth Barlow

White Star

Self (uncredited)

Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper

Self (uncredited)

Head

Frank Booth (archive footage)

to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour

Lewis Garou

Michael Angel

Dennis Hopper

The Other Side of the Wind

Himself

Wanderlust

Self (uncredited)

Stardust

Judge Clarence Henderson

An American Carol

Self

Schneeweißrosenrot

Goff

Panic in the City

Self / Goon (archive footage)

Rediscovering a Rebel

Self (archive footage)

Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’

Self

Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth

Self

Sketches of Frank Gehry

Himself

Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act

Self

The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose

Self

Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

Self

Out of the Blue and Into the Black

Narrator

Black Leather Jacket

Lieutenant Ron Bliss

Stark

Self

Cannes Man

Himself

Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir

Self

No Frank in Lumberton

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife

Self (uncredited)

James Dean and Me

Self

Scene Missing

Self

Brando

Dennis Hooper

On the tracks of a filmmaker

Self

Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring

Snoopy (Voice)

Blue Peanuts

Self

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch

Tarzan (Double)

Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of

Nick Twain - Producer

The Last Film Festival

Peter Vollmer

He's Alive

Mel

Couleur chair

Self

Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life

Light Years

Self

Blue Velvet Revisited

Self

Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth

William S. Burroughs

The Source

Himself

Russian Suicide Chair

Self

Tim Leary: The Art of Dying

Self

Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain

Self

Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage

El Niño

The Crow: Wicked Prayer

Self (archive footage)

Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider

MP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited)

Sayonara

Self (archive footage)

Beautiful Darling

Roland / Salvatore

The Venice Project

Self

When Hippies Ruled The World

Dennis Hopper

Welcome to Hollywood

Self (archive footage)

Along for the Ride

Screen Test #3

Narrator

The Sixth Element: The Ross Clarke-Jones Story

Self

13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests

Self

James Dean: The First American Teenager

A Spy

Les apprentis sorciers

Self

New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

Captain Elsworth

L.A.P.D.: To Protect And To Serve

Self

Return to 'Giant'

Self - Actor

The Brothers Warner

Dennis Hopper

Crush Proof

Self

Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders

Self (archive footage)

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

Self

Tell Them Who You Are

Himself

Some Kind of Genius

Self

Forever Hollywood

Self (archive footage)

Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar

Self

Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture

Himself

Screen Test [ST155]: Dennis Hopper

Self

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

Self

Not Quite Hollywood

Self

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

Self

The Ten Commandments of Creativity

Self

The A-Z of Separating People from their Money

Himself

B-Movie: a short film about Banksy

Self

The Cool School

Self

Marlon Brando: The Wild One

Frank Booth

Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections

Self

The Real James Dean

Various Roles (archive footage)

Corman's World

Self

Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O

Narrator (voice)

Bananaz

Self

Hopper/Welles

Himself - Actor

Nye scener fra Amerika

Casey

A Hero of Our Time

Self

Disneyland '59

Smith

Flatland

Self (archive footage)

Wim Wenders, Desperado

(voice)

Santabear's High Flying Adventure

Self (archive footage)

Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'

Self

Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

Self

1 Giant Leap

Lieutenant Ron Bliss

Stark: Mirror Image

Self

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

Narrator (voice)

U2: A Year in Pop

Self

A Decade Under the Influence

Dad/King Normans

The Groovenians

Self

Jazz Seen

Self (archive footage)

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes

Mr. B

The Good Life

Steve Redman

High Air

Himself

Born to Be Wild

Self (uncredited)

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

Gorillaz: Demon Days Live in Harlem at Apollo Theater

Dennis Hopper

HOPPER: In His Own Words

Self

Fighting Against the Wind: Making 'the American Dreamer'

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

247

Gender

Male

Birthday

1936-05-17

Place of Birth

Dodge City, Kansas, USA

Also Known As

Dennis Lee Hopper