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Personal Info

Birth date

1936-05-17 (89 Years)

Day of death

2010-05-29

Gender

Male

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Dodge City, Kansas, USA

Also known as

Dennis Lee Hopper
Alan Smithee
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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.

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Filmography

Acting

TBAFighting Against the Wind: Making 'the American Dreamer' as Self

TBAHOPPER: In His Own Words as Dennis Hopper

TBAThe Good Life as Mr. B

TBAHe's Alive as Peter Vollmer

TBAArt, Acting, and the Suicide Chair: Dennis Hopper as Unknown

2023to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour as Frank Booth (archive footage)

2023Spirit of Golf as Self

2020Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen (4 Episodes) as Self

2020Hopper/Welles as Self

2020Wim Wenders, Desperado as Self (archive footage)

2020Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth as Self

2018The Other Side of the Wind as Dennis Hopper

2018They'll Love Me When I'm Dead as Self (archive footage)

2016Along for the Ride as Self (archive footage)

2016Blue Velvet Revisited as Self

2016The Last Film Festival as Nick Twain - Producer

2016Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider as Self (archive footage)

2016Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar as Self (archive footage)

2014Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2013Llyn Foulkes One Man Band as Himself

2013Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter as Himself

2012Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’ as Self (archive footage)

2012Scene Missing as Self

2011Corman's World as Various Roles (archive footage)

2011Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage as Frank Booth

2011On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America (1 Episode) as self

2010Stardust as Self (uncredited)

2010Alpha and Omega as Tony (voice)

2010Beautiful Darling as Self (archive footage)

2009B movie as Himself

200913 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests as Self

2009Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder as Self

2009No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos as Self

2008Palermo Shooting as Frank

2008Crash (26 Episodes) as Ben Cendars

2008The Brothers Warner as Self - Actor

2008An American Carol as Judge Clarence Henderson

2008Not Quite Hollywood as Self

2008Elegy as George O'Hearn

2008Hell Ride as Eddie Zero

2008Swing Vote as Donald Greenleaf

2008Russian Suicide Chair as Himself

2008Chelsea on the Rocks as Self

2008Sleepwalking as Mr. Reedy

2008Tim Leary: The Art of Dying as Self

2008The Cool School as Self

2008Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth as Self

2008Bananaz as Narrator (voice)

2007The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose as Self

2007Brando: An Icon Is Born as Himself

2007Brando as Self

2007Brando: The Documentary (2 Episodes) as Self

2007The Graham Norton Show (1 Episode) as Self

2006Memory as Max Lichtenstein

2006The Sixth Element: The Ross Clarke-Jones Story as Narrator

2006Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film as Self

2006The Real James Dean as Self

200650 Films to See Before You Die as Self

2006Wanderlust as Himself

2006The Art of Football from A to Z as Self

2006Sketches of Frank Gehry as Self

2006Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi as Narrator (voice)

2006Gorillaz: Demon Days Live in Harlem at Apollo Theater as Unknown

2006Gorillaz: Demon Days Live at the Manchester Opera House as Narrator (voice)

200610th & Wolf as Matty Matello

2006Hoboken Hollow as Sheriff Greer

2005E-Ring (22 Episodes) as Eli McNulty

2005House of 9 as Father Duffy

2005Land of the Dead as Kaufman

2005The Crow: Wicked Prayer as El Niño

2005Champion as Self

2005Inside Deep Throat as Narrator (voice)

2005Americano as Riccardo

2005Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents as Himself

2004Out of Season as Harry Barlow

2004Tell Them Who You Are as Self

2004Entourage (1 Episode) as Unknown

2004The Last Ride as Ronnie Purnell

2004The Keeper as Krebs

2004Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments as Self

200410 Things Every Guy Should Experience (1 Episode) as Self

2004Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend' as Self (archive footage)

2003Unspeakable as Warden

2003Las Vegas (1 Episode) as Unknown

2003The Night We Called It a Day as Frank Sinatra

2003A Decade Under the Influence as Self

2003New Scenes from America as Himself - Actor

2003Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood as Self

2003Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die) as Self

2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2 Episodes) as Unknown

2002The Groovenians as Dad/King Normans

2002The Groovenians (1 Episode) as Dad / King Normans (voice)

2002The Piano Player as Robert Nile

20021 Giant Leap as Self

2002V Graham Norton (1 Episode) as Self

2002When Hippies Ruled The World as Self

2002I Don't Know Jack as Self

2002Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film as Self (uncredited)

2002Flatland (22 Episodes) as Smith

2002Leo as Horace

2002Firestarter: Rekindled (2 Episodes) as James Richardson

2002Mysteries of Love as Self

2002Flatland as Smith

2001Knockaround Guys as Benny Chains

200124 (5 Episodes) as Victor Drazen

2001L.A.P.D.: To Protect And To Serve as Captain Elsworth

2001Jazz Seen as Self

2001Choke as Henry Clark

2001Ticker as Alex Swan

2001Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture as Self

2001Emmanuelle: A Hard Look as Himself

2000Held for Ransom as JD

2000Welcome to Hollywood as Dennis Hopper

2000Jesus' Son as Bill

2000The Prophet's Game as Vincent Swan

2000Jason and the Argonauts (2 Episodes) as Pelias

2000Luck of the Draw as Giani Ponti

2000Spreading Ground as Det. Ed DeLongpre

2000The Apostate as Lewis Garou

2000The Ten Commandments of Creativity as Self

1999Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage as Self

1999The Pursuit of Happiness as Self

1999The Venice Project as Roland / Salvatore

1999Tycus as Peter Crowford

1999A Tribute To Johnny Cash as Self

1999Straight Shooter as Frank Hector

1999EDtv as Henry 'Hank' Pekurny

1999Bad City Blues as Cleveland Carter

1999The Source as William S. Burroughs

1999Forever Hollywood as Self

1998The A-Z of Separating People from their Money as Self

1998Meet the Deedles as Frank Slater

1997Lured Innocence as Rick Chambers

1997Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain as Self

1997Road Ends as Sheriff Ben Gilchrist

1997Who Is Henry Jaglom? as Self

1997The Blackout as Mickey

1997Cannes Man as Self

1997Scene by Scene (1 Episode) as Self

1997Top of the World as Charles Atlas

1997U2: A Year in Pop as Narrator (voice)

1997Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life as Self

1997King of the Hill (1 Episode) as Dennis Hopper (voice)

1996Samson and Delilah as Generale Tariq

1996Samson and Delilah (2 Episodes) as Generale Tariq

1996The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money as Self - Host

1996The Last Days of Frankie the Fly as Frankie

1996Space Truckers as John Canyon

1996Return to 'Giant' as Self

1996E! True Hollywood Story (2 Episodes) as Unknown

1996Basquiat as Bruno Bischofberger

1996The Daily Show (1 Episode) as Self

1996Carried Away as Joseph Svenden

1996Rediscovering a Rebel as Self / Goon (archive footage)

1995Die Harald Schmidt Show (1 Episode) as Self

1995Born to Be Wild as Himself

1995Waterworld as Deacon

1995Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir as Himself

1995Search and Destroy as Dr. Waxling

1995James Dean and Me as Self (uncredited)

1994Witch Hunt as H. Phillip Lovecraft

1994Inside the Actors Studio (1 Episode) as Self

1994Marlon Brando: The Wild One as Self

1994Speed as Howard Payne

1994Chasers as Doggie

1993Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work as Self

1993True Romance as Clifford Worley

1993Super Mario Bros. as King Koopa

1993Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O as Self

1993Red Rock West as Lyle from Dallas

1993Boiling Point as Rudolph 'Red' Diamond

1993The Revenge of the Dead Indians as Himself

1992The Heart of Justice as Austin Blair

1992Nails as Harry 'Nails' Niles

1992Sunset Heat as Carl Madson

1992HBO First Look (1 Episode) as Unknown

1991Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse as Self

1991Fishing with John (2 Episodes) as Self

1991SnowwhiteRosered as Self

1991Eye of the Storm as Marvin Gladstone

1991The Indian Runner as Caesar

1991Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas as Self

1991Doublecrossed as Barry Seal

1991Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper as Self (uncredited)

1991Paris Trout as Paris Trout

1990Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch as Self

1990Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol as Self

1990Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1990Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders as Self

1990Chattahoochee as Walker Benson

1990Catchfire as Milo

1990Flashback as Huey Walker

1989Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring as Self

1989Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1989Blood Red as William Bradford Berrigan

1989Black Leather Jacket as Narrator

1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1 Episode) as Unknown

1988No Frank in Lumberton as Self

1988On the tracks of a filmmaker as Dennis Hooper

1987Santabear's High Flying Adventure as (voice)

1987The American Way as Captain

1987Blue Peanuts as Snoopy (Voice)

1987Seitenblicke (1 Episode) as self

1987The Pick-up Artist as Flash Jensen

1987O.C. and Stiggs as Sponson

1987Straight to Hell as I.G. Farben

1987Black Widow as Ben Dumers

1987Running Out of Luck as Video Director

1987Out of the Blue and Into the Black as Self

1986Hoosiers as Shooter

1986River's Edge as Feck

1986Blue Velvet as Frank Booth

1986The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 as Lieutenant 'Lefty' Enright

1986Stark: Mirror Image as Lieutenant Ron Bliss

1986Some Kind of Genius as Himself

1985My Science Project as Bob Roberts

1985Stark as Lieutenant Ron Bliss

1985A Hero of Our Time as Casey

1984The Inside Man as Miller

1983White Star as Kenneth Barlow

1983The Osterman Weekend as Richard Tremayne

1983Rumble Fish as Father

1983Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act as Himself

1982Human Highway as Cracker / Stranger

1981Reborn as Rev. Tom Hartley

1981Out of the Blue as Don

1981King of the Mountain as Cal

1980Wild Times (2 Episodes) as Doc Holliday

1979Apocalypse Now as Photojournalist

1978Flesh Color as Mel

1978Last In, First Out as Medford

1977The Sorceror's Apprentice as A Spy

1977The American Friend as Tom Ripley

1976Tracks as 1st Sgt. Jack Falen

1976Mad Dog Morgan as Daniel Morgan

1976To Shoot a Mad Dog as Self

1975Bloodbath as Chicken

1975Saturday Night Live (2 Episodes) as Self - Host

1975James Dean: The First American Teenager as Self

1975Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1 Episode) as Self

1973Kid Blue as Bickford Waner

1972Crush Proof as Dennis Hopper

1972Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here as Self

1971The Last Movie as Kansas

1971The American Dreamer as Himself

1969Easy Rider as Billy

1969True Grit as "Moon"

1969The Johnny Cash Show (1 Episode) as Self

1968Head as Self (uncredited)

1968Panic in the City as Goff

1968Hang 'em High as Prophet

1967The Glory Stompers as Chino

1967Cool Hand Luke as Babalugats

1967The Guns of Will Sonnett (1 Episode) as Unknown

1967The Trip as Max

1966Screen Test #3 as Unknown

1966Queen of Blood as Paul Grant

1966Light Years as Unknown

1965Andy Warhol Screen Tests as Self

1965The Big Valley (1 Episode) as Jimmy Sweetwater

1965The Legend of Jesse James (1 Episode) as Jud Salt

1965The Sons of Katie Elder as Dave Hastings

1964The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys as Unknown

1964Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of as Tarzan (Double)

1964Screen Test [ST155]: Dennis Hopper as Himself

1963Petticoat Junction (1 Episode) as Alan Landman

1963The Greatest Show on Earth (1 Episode) as Unknown

1963Arrest and Trial (1 Episode) as Unknown

1963The Lieutenant (1 Episode) as Cpl. Peter Devlin

1963The Dakotas (1 Episode) as Unknown

1962Combat! (1 Episode) as Zack Fielder

1961The Mike Douglas Show (1 Episode) as Self

1961The Investigators (1 Episode) as Adrian

196187th Precinct (1 Episode) as Andrew Mason

1961The Defenders (1, 1 Episode) as Alfred Carter Jr., Jason Thomas

1961Night Tide as Johnny Drake

1960Key Witness as William "Cowby" Tomkins

1960Surfside 6 (1 Episode) as Unknown

1960The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1 Episode) as Gerald Collins

1959The Twilight Zone (1 Episode) as Peter Vollmer

1959Bonanza (1 Episode) as Dev Farnum

1959Disneyland '59 as Self

1959The Young Land as Hatfield Carnes

1958Swiss Family Robinson as Fritz

1958Naked City (1 Episode) as Vinnie Winford

1958The Rifleman (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Vernon Tippert

1958From Hell to Texas as Tom Boyd

1957Sayonara as MP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited)

1957The Story of Mankind as Napoleon Bonaparte

1957Wagon Train (1 Episode) as Emmett Lawton

1957Sugarfoot (1 Episode) as Billy the Kid

1957The James Dean Story as Self

1957Gunfight at the O.K. Corral as Billy Clanton

1956Giant as Jordan "Jordy" Benedict III

1956New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant' as Self

1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1, 1 Episode) as Vernon 'Vern' Tippert, Denny Sunrise

1956Conflict (1 Episode) as Unknown

1956High Air as Steve Redman

1955I Died a Thousand Times as Joe (uncredited)

1955Matinee Theater (1 Episode) as Unknown

1955Rebel Without a Cause as Goon

1955Screen Director's Playhouse (1 Episode) as Steve Redman

1955Highway Patrol (1 Episode) as Unknown

1955Cheyenne (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Utah Kid

1955Kings Row (1 Episode) as Unknown

1955Gunsmoke (1 Episode) as Billy Kimbo

1955The Millionaire (1 Episode) as Adam Spencer

1954Medic (1 Episode) as Robert

1953Letter to Loretta (1 Episode) as Ross Morton

1953General Electric Theater (1 Episode) as Fred Judson

1948Studio One (1, 1 Episode) as David Williams, Harry Wales

1944Golden Globe Awards (1, 1 Episode) as Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee / Presenter

Directing

2008Russian Suicide Chair ... Director

2008Pashmy Dream ... Director

2000Homeless ... Director

1994Chasers ... Director

1990The Hot Spot ... Director

1990Catchfire ... Director

1988Colors ... Director

1981Out of the Blue ... Director

1971The Last Movie ... Director

1969Easy Rider ... Director

1967The Glory Stompers ... Co-Director

1967The Trip ... Second Unit Director

Writing

2008Pashmy Dream ... Writer

1981Out of the Blue ... Writer

1971The Last Movie ... Story

1971The American Dreamer ... Writer

1969Easy Rider ... Screenplay

Editing

1971The Last Movie ... Editor