Dennis Hopper
Acting
- Born:
- 1936-05-17
- Died:
- 2010-05-29
- Place of birth:
- Dodge City, Kansas, USA
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
Films to Die For
Spirit of Golf
Mickey Rourke: Just Like a Man
Morceaux de Cannes
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
Hopper/Welles
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
The Other Side of the Wind
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Along for the Ride
Blue Velvet Revisited
The Last Film Festival
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar
Fighting Against the Wind: Making 'the American Dreamer'
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Llyn Foulkes One Man Band
Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
Scene Missing
Corman's World
Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
Der Weg des Ruhms - Hollywoods Walk of Fame
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
Stardust
Alpha and Omega
Beautiful Darling
B movie
13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
Palermo Shooting
Crash
The Brothers Warner
An American Carol
Not Quite Hollywood
Elegy
Hell Ride
Swing Vote
Russian Suicide Chair
Chelsea on the Rocks
Sleepwalking
Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
The Cool School
Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth
Bananaz
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
Brando: An Icon Is Born
Brando
Brando: The Documentary
The Graham Norton Show
Memory
The Sixth Element: The Ross Clarke-Jones Story
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
The Real James Dean
50 Films to See Before You Die
Wanderlust
The Art of Football from A to Z
Sketches of Frank Gehry
Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi
Gorillaz: Demon Days Live in Harlem at Apollo Theater
Gorillaz: Demon Days Live at the Manchester Opera House
10th & Wolf
Hoboken Hollow
E-Ring
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
House of 9
Land of the Dead
The Crow: Wicked Prayer
Champion
Inside Deep Throat
Americano
Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
Out of Season
Tell Them Who You Are
Entourage
The Last Ride
The Keeper
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
10 Things Every Guy Should Experience
Unspeakable
Las Vegas
The Night We Called It a Day
A Decade Under the Influence
New Scenes from America
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Groovenians
The Groovenians
The Piano Player
1 Giant Leap
V Graham Norton
When Hippies Ruled The World
I Don't Know Jack
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
Flatland
Leo
Firestarter: Rekindled
Mysteries of Love
Flatland
Knockaround Guys
24
L.A.P.D.: To Protect And To Serve
Jazz Seen
Choke
Ticker
Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
Emmanuelle: A Hard Look
Held for Ransom
Welcome to Hollywood
Jesus' Son
The Prophet's Game
Jason and the Argonauts
Luck of the Draw
Spreading Ground
Michael Angel
The Ten Commandments of Creativity
Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage
The Pursuit of Happiness
The Venice Project
Tycus
A Tribute to Johnny Cash
Straight Shooter
EDtv
Bad City Blues
The Source
Forever Hollywood
Lured Innocence
Meet the Deedles
Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain
Road Ends
Willie Nelson: Down Home
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
The Blackout
Scene by Scene
Top of the World
U2: A Year in Pop
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
King of the Hill
Samson and Delilah
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
The Last Days of Frankie the Fly
Space Truckers
Return to 'Giant'
E! True Hollywood Story
Basquiat
The Daily Show
Cannes Man
Carried Away
Rediscovering a Rebel
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Born to Be Wild
Waterworld
Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir
Search and Destroy
James Dean and Me
Witch Hunt
Inside the Actors Studio
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Speed
The Making of 'Speed'
Chasers
Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
True Romance
Super Mario Bros.
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
Red Rock West
Boiling Point
The Revenge of the Dead Indians
The Heart of Justice
Nails
Sunset Heat
HBO First Look
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Fishing with John
SnowwhiteRosered
Eye of the Storm
The Indian Runner
Picture This
Doublecrossed
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
Paris Trout
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
Chattahoochee
Catchfire
Flashback
Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring
Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife
Blood Red
Black Leather Jacket
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
No Frank in Lumberton
On the tracks of a filmmaker
Art, Acting, & the Suicide Chair: A Conversation with Dennis Hopper
Santabear's High Flying Adventure
The American Way
Seitenblicke
The Pick-up Artist
O.C. and Stiggs
Straight to Hell
Biography
Black Widow
Running Out of Luck
Out of the Blue and Into the Black
Hoosiers
River's Edge
Blue Velvet
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2
Stark: Mirror Image
Some Kind of Genius
My Science Project
Stark
A Hero of Our Time
The Inside Man
White Star
The Osterman Weekend
Rumble Fish
Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
Human Highway
Reborn
Out of the Blue
King of the Mountain
Wild Times
Apocalypse Now
Flesh Color
Last In, First Out
The Sorceror's Apprentice
The American Friend
Tracks
Mad Dog Morgan
To Shoot a Mad Dog
The Sky is Falling
Saturday Night Live
James Dean: The First American Teenager
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Kid Blue
Crush Proof
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
The Last Movie
The American Dreamer
Easy Rider
True Grit
The Johnny Cash Show
Head
Panic in the City
Hang 'em High
The Glory Stompers
Cool Hand Luke
The Guns of Will Sonnett
The Trip
Screen Test #3
Queen of Blood
Light Years
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Convoy
The Big Valley
The Legend of Jesse James
The Sons of Katie Elder
The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys
Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of
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Screen Test [ST155]: Dennis Hopper
Espionage
Petticoat Junction
The Greatest Show on Earth
Arrest and Trial
The Lieutenant
He's Alive
The Dakotas
Combat!
The Hold-Out
The Mike Douglas Show
The Investigators
87th Precinct
The Defenders
Night Tide
Key Witness
Surfside 6
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
The Twilight Zone
Bonanza
Disneyland '59
The Young Land
Swiss Family Robinson
Naked City
The Rifleman
From Hell to Texas
Sayonara
The Story of Mankind
Wagon Train
Sugarfoot
The James Dean Story
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Giant
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Conflict
High Air
I Died a Thousand Times
Matinee Theater
Rebel Without a Cause
Screen Director's Playhouse
Highway Patrol
Cheyenne
Kings Row
Gunsmoke
The Millionaire
Medic
Public Defender
Letter to Loretta
General Electric Theater
Lux Video Theatre
Studio One
Golden Globe Awards
The Good Life