Known For
Acting
Born
May 17, 1936
Died
May 29, 2010
Place of Birth
Dodge City, Kansas, USA
Credits
322 titles
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
Filmography
This Is Buzz
Self (archive footage)
Films to Die For
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Spirit of Golf
Self (archive footage)
Mickey Rourke: Just Like a Man
Morceaux de Cannes
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
Self
Hopper/Welles
Self
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self (archive footage)
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
Self
The Other Side of the Wind
Dennis Hopper
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Self (archive footage)
Along for the Ride
Self (archive footage)
Blue Velvet Revisited
Self
The Last Film Festival
Nick Twain - Producer
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
Self (archive footage)
Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar
Self (archive footage)
Fighting Against the Wind: Making 'the American Dreamer'
Self
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Lt. Lefty Enright (archive footage) (uncredited)
Llyn Foulkes One Man Band
Himself
Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
Himself
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
Self (archive footage)
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 (archive footage)
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
Self
Stardust
Self (uncredited)
Alpha and Omega
Tony (voice)
Beautiful Darling
Self (archive footage)
B movie
Himself
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
Himself
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