Dennis Hopper

Actor

Born May 17, 1936 in 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

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

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)

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

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

Bananaz

Self / Narrator (voice)

The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose

Self

Brando: An Icon Is Born

Himself

Brando

Self

Brando: The Documentary

Self

The Graham Norton Show

Self

Memory

Max Lichtenstein

The Sixth Element: The Ross Clarke-Jones Story

Narrator

Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

Self

The Real James Dean

Self

50 Films to See Before You Die

Self

Wanderlust

Himself

The Art of Football from A to Z

Self

Sketches of Frank Gehry

Self

Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi

Narrator (voice)

Gorillaz: Demon Days Live in Harlem at Apollo Theater

Self

Gorillaz: Demon Days Live at the Manchester Opera House

Narrator (voice)

10th & Wolf

Matty Matello

Hoboken Hollow

Sheriff Greer

E-Ring

Eli McNulty

On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'

Self (archive footage)

House of 9

Father Duffy

Land of the Dead

Kaufman

The Crow: Wicked Prayer

El Niño

Champion

Self

Inside Deep Throat

Narrator (voice)

Americano

Riccardo

Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents

Himself

Out of Season

Harry Barlow

Tell Them Who You Are

Self

Entourage

Dennis Hopper

The Last Ride

Ronnie Purnell

The Keeper

Krebs

Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

Self

Unspeakable

Warden

Las Vegas

Jon Castille

The Night We Called It a Day

Frank Sinatra

A Decade Under the Influence

Self

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

Self

Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)

Self

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Self - Guest

The Groovenians

Dad/King Normans

The Groovenians

Dad / King Normans (voice)

The Piano Player

Robert Nile

1 Giant Leap

Self

V Graham Norton

Self

When Hippies Ruled The World

Self

I Don't Know Jack

Self

Flatland

Smith

Leo

Horace

Firestarter: Rekindled

James Richardson

Mysteries of Love

Self

Flatland

Smith

Knockaround Guys

Benny Chains

Victor Drazen

L.A.P.D.: To Protect And To Serve

Captain Elsworth

Jazz Seen

Self

Choke

Henry Clark

Ticker

Alex Swan

Emmanuelle: A Hard Look

Himself

Held for Ransom

Welcome to Hollywood

Dennis Hopper

Jesus' Son

Bill

The Prophet's Game

Vincent Swan

Jason and the Argonauts

Pelias

Luck of the Draw

Giani Ponti

Spreading Ground

Det. Ed DeLongpre

Michael Angel

Lewis Garou

The Ten Commandments of Creativity

Self

Homeless

Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage

Self

The Pursuit of Happiness

Self

The Venice Project

Roland / Salvatore

Tycus

Peter Crowford

A Tribute to Johnny Cash

Self

Straight Shooter

Frank Hector

EDtv

Henry 'Hank' Pekurny

Bad City Blues

Cleveland Carter

The Source

William S. Burroughs

Forever Hollywood

Self

Lured Innocence

Rick Chambers

The A-Z of Separating People from their Money

Self

Meet the Deedles

Frank Slater

Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain

Self

Road Ends

Sheriff Ben Gilchrist

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

Self

The Blackout

Mickey

Scene by Scene

Self

Top of the World

Charles Atlas

U2: A Year in Pop

Narrator (voice)

King of the Hill

Dennis Hopper (voice)

Samson and Delilah

General Tariq

The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money

Self - Host

The Last Days of Frankie the Fly

Frankie

Space Truckers

John Canyon

Return to 'Giant'

Self

E! True Hollywood Story

Basquiat

Bruno Bischofberger

The Daily Show

Self

Cannes Man

Self

Carried Away

Joseph Svenden

Rediscovering a Rebel

Self / Goon (archive footage)

Die Harald Schmidt Show

Self

Born to Be Wild

Himself

Waterworld

Deacon

Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir

Himself

Search and Destroy

Dr. Waxling

James Dean and Me

Self (uncredited)

Witch Hunt

H. Phillip Lovecraft

Inside the Actors Studio

Self

Marlon Brando: The Wild One

Self

Speed

Howard Payne

Chasers

Doggie

Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work

Self

True Romance

Clifford Worley

Super Mario Bros.

King Koopa

Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O

Self

Red Rock West

Lyle from Dallas

Boiling Point

Rudolph 'Red' Diamond

The Revenge of the Dead Indians

Himself

The Heart of Justice

Austin Blair

Nails

Harry 'Nails' Niles

Sunset Heat

Carl Madson

HBO First Look

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Self

Fishing with John

Self

SnowwhiteRosered

Self

Eye of the Storm

Marvin Gladstone

The Indian Runner

Caesar

Picture This

Self

Doublecrossed

Barry Seal

Paris Trout

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Self

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch

Self

The Hot Spot

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Self

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders

Self

Chattahoochee

Walker Benson

Catchfire

Milo

Flashback

Huey Walker

Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring

Self

Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Blood Red

William Bradford Berrigan

Black Leather Jacket

Narrator

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Colors

No Frank in Lumberton

Self

On the tracks of a filmmaker

Dennis Hooper

Art, Acting, & the Suicide Chair: A Conversation with Dennis Hopper

The American Way

Captain

The Pick-up Artist

Flash Jensen

O.C. and Stiggs

Sponson

Straight to Hell

I.G. Farben

Biography

Self

Black Widow

Ben Dumers

Running Out of Luck

Video Director

Out of the Blue and Into the Black

Self

Hoosiers

Wilbur "Shooter" Flatch

River's Edge

Feck

Blue Velvet

Frank Booth

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Lieutenant 'Lefty' Enright

Stark: Mirror Image

Lieutenant Ron Bliss

Some Kind of Genius

Himself

My Science Project

Bob Roberts

Stark

Lieutenant Ron Bliss

A Hero of Our Time

Casey

The Inside Man

Miller

White Star

Kenneth Barlow

The Osterman Weekend

Richard Tremayne

Rumble Fish

Father

Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act

Himself

Human Highway

Cracker / Stranger

Reborn

Rev. Tom Hartley

Out of the Blue

Don

King of the Mountain

Cal

Wild Times

Doc Holliday

Apocalypse Now

Photojournalist

Flesh Color

Mel

Last In, First Out

Medford

The American Friend

Tom Ripley

Tracks

1st Sgt. Jack Falen

Mad Dog Morgan

Daniel Morgan

To Shoot a Mad Dog

Self

The Sky is Falling

Chicken

Saturday Night Live

Self - Host

James Dean: The First American Teenager

Self

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Self

Kid Blue

Bickford Waner

Crush Proof

Dennis Hopper

Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

Self

The Last Movie

Kansas

The American Dreamer

Himself

Easy Rider

Billy

True Grit

"Moon"

The Johnny Cash Show

Self

Head

Self (uncredited)

Panic in the City

Goff

Hang 'em High

Prophet

The Glory Stompers

Chino

Cool Hand Luke

Babalugats

The Guns of Will Sonnett

The Trip

Max

Screen Test #3

Self (uncredited)

Queen of Blood

Paul Grant

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

Self

The Big Valley

Jimmy Sweetwater

The Legend of Jesse James

Jud Salt

The Sons of Katie Elder

Dave Hastings

The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys

Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of

Tarzan (Double)

Screen Test [ST155]: Dennis Hopper

Himself

Espionage

Ferno

Petticoat Junction

Alan Landman

Arrest and Trial

The Lieutenant

Cpl. Peter Devlin

The Dakotas

Combat!

Zack Fielder

The Hold-Out

Fred Judson

The Mike Douglas Show

Self

The Investigators

Adrian

87th Precinct

Andrew Mason

The Defenders

Alfred Carter Jr.

Night Tide

Johnny Drake

Key Witness

William "Cowby" Tomkins

Surfside 6

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

Gerald Collins

The Twilight Zone

Peter Vollmer

Bonanza

Dev Farnum

Disneyland '59

Self

The Young Land

Hatfield Carnes

Naked City

Vinnie Winford

The Rifleman

Vernon Tippert

From Hell to Texas

Tom Boyd

Sayonara

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

The Story of Mankind

Napoleon Bonaparte

Wagon Train

Emmett Lawton

Sugarfoot

Billy the Kid

The James Dean Story

Self

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Billy Clanton

Giant

Jordan "Jordy" Benedict III

New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

Self

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Vernon 'Vern' Tippert

I Died a Thousand Times

Joe (uncredited)

Matinee Theater

Rebel Without a Cause

Goon

Screen Director's Playhouse

Steve Redman

Highway Patrol

Cheyenne

Gunsmoke

Billy Kimbo

The Millionaire

Adam Spencer

Medic

Robert

Letter to Loretta

Ross Morton

General Electric Theater

Fred Judson

Studio One

David Williams

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Presenter