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Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper

Birthday: 1936-05-17 | Place of Birth: Dodge City, Kansas, USA

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

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2020
Hopper/Welles

as    Self

2016
Blue Velvet Revisited

as    Self

2016
Along for the Ride

as    Self (archive footage)

2013
Llyn Foulkes One Man Band

as    Himself

2012
Scene Missing

as    Self

2010
Alpha and Omega

as    Tony (voice)

2009
2008
Crash

as    Ben Cendars

2008
Swing Vote

as    Donald Greenleaf

2008
Hell Ride

as    Eddie Zero

2008
Elegy

as    George O'Hearn

2008
Chelsea on the Rocks

as    Himself

2008
An American Carol

as    Judge Clarence Henderson

2008
Sleepwalking

as    Mr. Reedy

2008
Bananaz

as    Narrator (voice)

2008
The Cool School

as    Self

2006
Wanderlust

as    Himself

2006
10th & Wolf

as    Matty Matello

2006
Memory

as    Max Lichtenstein

2006
2005
E-Ring

as    Eli McNulty

2005
Land of the Dead

as    Kaufman