Dennis Hopper
Gender: Male
Born: 17th May 1936
Died: 29th May 2010
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: E-Ring, Crash, 24, Jason and the Argonauts, Fishing with John, Firestarter 2: Rekindled
Movies: Americano, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet, Catchfire, Chattahoochee, Easy Rider, Hoosiers, King of The Mountain, Knockaround Guys, Land of the Dead, Red Rock West, Speed, The American Friend, The Last Movie, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2, Waterworld, Basquiat, The Indian Runner, Held for Ransom, House of 9, Flesh Color, The Night We Called It a Day, The Venice Project, Queen of Blood, The Other Side of the Wind, The Osterman Weekend, Night Tide, Black Widow, EdTV, Straight Shooter, Space Truckers, Human Highway, Carried Away, Firestarter 2: Rekindled, Tracks, The Trip, Apocalypse Now Redux, True Romance, Out of the Blue, Mad Dog Morgan, Elegy, Swing Vote, Flashback, My Science Project, Rumble Fish, Meet the Deedles, The Pick-up Artist, Boiling Point, Sleepwalking, 10th & Wolf, Ticker, Welcome to Hollywood, Memory, Dead On: The Life and Cinema of George A. Romero, Search and Destroy, Hell Ride, Straight to Hell, The Last Ride, Hoboken Hollow, Out Of Season, The Last Days of Frankie the Fly, Unspeakable, The Inside Man, Spreading Ground, Luck of the Draw, L.A.P.D.: To Protect and Serve, The Apostate, Lured Innocence, An American Carol, The Palermo Shooting, Chasers, The Good Life, River's Edge, Super Mario Bros., Jesus' Son, Alpha and Omega, O.C. and Stiggs, Kid Blue, Blood Red, The Keeper, Psych-Out, Bananaz, Top of the World, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Sons of Katie Elder, The Crow: Wicked Prayer, Jason and the Argonauts, Cool Hand Luke, Cannes Man, Witch Hunt, Concorde Affaire '79, Glick Doesn't Do Red Carpet: Jiminy Glick at the Independent Spirit Awards, The Piano Player, Samson and Delilah, Choke, Eye of the Storm, The Blackout, Giant, The American Way, The Young Land
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
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