Dennis Hopper

Biography

With an amazing cinematic career of more than five decades, Dennis Hopper was a multi-talented and unconventional actor/director, regarded by many as one of the true "enfants terribles" of Hollywood.

Hopper was born on May 17, 1936 in Dodge City, Kansas, to Marjorie Mae.

As well as his acting/directing talents, Hopper was a skilled photographer and painter, having had his works displayed in galleries in both the United States and overseas.

He was additionally a dedicated and knowledgeable collector of modern art and has one of the most extensive collections in the United States.

Dennis Hopper died of prostate cancer on May 29, 2010, less than two weeks after his 74th birthday.

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Country: United States
Gender: Male
Education: Helix High School·Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute·Kansas City Art Institute·Actors Studio
Place of birth: Dodge City· Kansas
Birth date: 17 May 1936
Member of: Republican Party
Nationality: American

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor
MTV Movie Award for Best Villain
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor
Donostia Award
Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎

His 1970 marriage to Michelle Phillips lasted just a few days, during his wild and woolly, drug-fueled period. She also appears briefly in The Last Movie , Hoppers almost-disastrously appropriately entitled solo directorial effort, following Easy Rider .
His house in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, is a radical architectural statement.
(October 1997) Ranked #87 in Empire magazines "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
(14 March 1997) Reported that Rip Torn has won a $475,000 defamation suit against Hopper. Lawsuit came about after remarks made by Hopper on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on 31 May 1994.
Dennis Hopper married Victoria Duffy in Boston, at the Old South Church.
Lamenting to an audience Q & A in Sydney that he had "never had any great roles", Hopper nominated Splendor in the Grass as the one he most wished hed been given.
Belongs to the Top 100 collectors of modern art.
Had his photography exhibited at Fort Worth, Denver, Wichita, Cochran, and Spileto art museums, as well as the Parco Gallery and in the cities of Tokyo, Osaka and Kumatomo, Japan.
As a youngster in Kansas City, he took classes taught by legendary painter Thomas Hart Benton, who told him: "One day youll learn to get tight, and paint loose.".
After his run-in with director Henry Hathaway , was blackballed from major Hollywood feature film roles from 1958 until 1965, during which time he was busy working on television.

[1997]: Like all artists I want to cheat death a little and contribute,something to the next generation.
And Natalie says "O. K.
Honestly, I only used to do cocaine so I could sober up and drink more.
When you play with guns, accidents happen.
It was so over budget.
Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one. .

Movies

The Last Film Festival
2015
There are 4,000 film festivals around the world.
Made for Each Other
2015
The Japanese iron from which the Samurai sword, the katana, was made, is today used to make Japanese automobiles.
Fighting Against the Wind: Making 'The American Dreamer'
2015
HOPPER: In His Own Words
2012
From Emmy® Award nominee and acclaimed filmmaker Cass Warner Sperling comes the fascinating inside story of one of Hollywood's most compelling and enigmatic personalities.
Alpha and Omega
2010
Alpha and Omega is a 2010 3D Canadian-American computer-animated adventure/comedy-drama film produced by Crest Animation Productions.
In the Lines of My Hand
2010
In The Lines of My Hand is a conversation piece with 19 world renowned artists.
Stardust
2010
Stardust is the second part of the trilogy where Provost films everyday life with a hidden high resolution camera and edits the images into a fiction film using cinematographic codes and narrative tools from the Hollywood film language.
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009
The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters.
That's Our Mad Dog: Dennis Hopper Interviewed by Phillipe Mora
2009
Elegy
2008
David Kepesh is growing old.
Brando: An Icon Is Born
2008
Generation 68
2008
At the end of the Sixties a cultural revolution took place, culminating in Europe with the student riots of 1968.
One Man in the Band
2008
One-man bands.
Shooting Palermo
2008
House of Harrington
2008
Curtis Harrington began making films as a teenager in the 1940s, beginning with his take on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" on 8mm.
Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
2008
LSD Guru Tim Leary teaches us all to die by dying himself in what he calls his "custom death".
Jiminy Glick: Independent Spirit Awards
2008
The Brothers Warner
2007
Intimate portraits of brothers Albert Warner, Harry M.
Must I Write?
2007
Memory
2006
A medical reseracher teams with a retired doctor to root around in the genetically stored memories of a serial killer..
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
2006
After 40 years of unpredictable live shows, drug addictions & breakdowns, psychedelic folk rock legends, The Holy Modal Rounders survived one of the strangest careers in music.
Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi
2006
The rise, fall, and rebirth of Christian Hosoi, the young man who helped skateboarding re-emerge as a major cultural influence in the 1980s..
Essential Gorillaz
2006
Three part exclusive interview interspersed with live footage from gigs in Manchester, England, and New York at the Apollo theater..
The Rise of Two Legends
2006
After briefly discussing William Shakespeare, four filmmakers talk about the work of Marlon Brando, who played Marc Antony in a 1953 film version of "Julius Caesar".
Real James Dean
2006
The Sixth Element: The Ross Clarke-Jones Story
2006
Overview The Sixth Element By any standard, the life story of Ross Clarke-Jones qualifies as riveting.
House of 9
2005
Nine strangers - a priest; a dancer; a designer; an aspirant rapper; a former tennis pro; a woman on probation; an unsuccessful composer and his wife; and a detective - are randomly abducted, drugged and locked in a house by a wealthy maniac.
Inside Deep Throat
2005
In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel, "Deep Throat," starring Linda Lovelace.
Land of the Dead
2005
Now that zombies have taken over the world, the living have built a walled-in city to keep the dead out.
Going Through Splat: The Life and Work of Stewart Stern
2005
A documentary on Hollywood screenwriter Stewart Stern, who walked away from the industry in his prime..
Champion
2005
Danny Trejo, you know the man.
Hoosier History: The Truth Behind the Legend
2005
Land of the Dead: A Day with the Living Dead
2005
John Leguizamo gives viewers a hilarious tour of the Land of the Dead set..
The Golden Years of Advertising: The Roaring 90's of Separating People from Their Money
2005
The Keeper
2004
In Redwood County, the dancer Gina is attacked and her boyfriend is killed by a maniac in a motel.
Out of Season
2004
It is out of season and the temporary employee Pierre of an amusement park seaside has all his savings stolen by the crook Simeon Guant, a friend of his girlfriend Kelly Phillips.
Legacy
2004
The Last Ride
2004
After thirty years in prison, ex-con Ronnie (Dennis Hopper) recruits his grandson to exact revenge on Darryl (Fred Ward), the cop who put him behind bars.
2004 Taurus World Stunt Awards
2004
The Night We Called It a Day
2003
The Night We Called It a Day (2003) is an Australian film directed by Paul Goldman starring Dennis Hopper as Frank Sinatra and Melanie Griffith as Barbara Marx, and featuring Portia de Rossi, Joel Edgerton, Rose Byrne, and David Hemmings.
Suspense
2003
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
Based upon Peter Biskind's book of the same name, this BBC-produced documentary traces the rise of a generation of Hollywood filmmakers who briefly changed the face of movies with a more personal approach that pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable on-screen.
To Shoot a Mad-Dog
2003
A documentary about the making of the Australian feature Mad Dog Morgan (1976)..
2003 ABC World Stunt Awards
2003
The Piano Player
2002
Alex Laney, a professional killer, is hired to be the bodyguard of Robert Nile in the City of Cape, in South Africa.
Firestarter 2: Rekindled
2002
Charlie McGee is a young woman with the unwanted and often uncontrollable gift of pyrokinesis, lighting fires by mere thought.
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
2002
The inevitable fat cigar between his fingers, the American actor, director and fine artist Dennis Hopper (1936) self-mockingly looks back on his chequered life and career, at the request of Dutch director, photographer and fine artist Thom Hoffman.
The Groovenians
2002
Venice: Lost and Found
2002
When Hippies Ruled the World
2002
When Hippies Ruled The World takes a trip back to the end of the psychedelic Sixties - the dreams, trips, movies, and music - to a time that love was all that was needed.
True Romance: Behind the Scenes
2002
An interactive, expandable piece that includes a variety of additional content.
Ticker
2001
Ticker is a 2001 action film directed by Albert Pyun, starring Tom Sizemore, Jaime Pressly, Dennis Hopper, Steven Seagal, Ice-T, Kevin Gage, and Nas..
L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve
2001
Two cops, a rookie and his partner, a veteran, are increasingly troubled by wild and illegal behavior of some of their colleagues.
Lured Innocence
2000
Elsie Townsend is a country towns-girl who wants to leave far away and get rich.
The Apostate
2000
A man of the cloth finds his faith challenged both by the death of one of his closest relatives and the aftermath of the crime in this thriller.
The Prophet's Game
2000
The Prophet has arrived in the ultimate playing ground...
Luck of the Draw
2000
Jack Sweeny is a young man just trying to get a job.
Held for Ransom
2000
In rural Florida, white trash JD, his wife Rita and their mate John murder a bus driver so they can kidnap five high-school students and demand $250,000 ransom per head.
The Spreading Ground
2000
Veteran Detective Ed Delopre (Dennis Hopper) and partner Mike McGivern (Fredric Forrest) have their hands full when they hit the pavement in search of a dangerous killer with five dead bodies already on his record.

TV

Crash
2008
A spin-off of the Oscar-winning film about racial tensions in Los Angeles..
E-Ring
2005
Major Jim Tisnewski, until recently an active special forces commando, takes up a Pentagon job as assistant of US Army colonel Eli McNulty.
Autobiography
2005
Flatland
2002
In the future of 2010, three young Americans, Quentin, JT and Amy are visiting Shanghai, when they get shanghaied by mysterious Mr.
Tracks
1997

Books

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Dennis Hopper
In dreams.
Dennis Hopper - Polaroids
Dennis Hopper
Hopper's color polaroids of la's gang graffitiafter losing himself in taos, new mexico, for 15 years, dennis hopper (1936-2010) returned to los angeles in the mid-'80s.
Polaroids
Dennis Hopper
This limited edition of 25 copies includes a numbered 8 x 10-inch giclee print of -untitled (diamonds)- (1987), which has been certified authentic by the hopper art trust..
Drug Store
Dennis Hopper
Drugstore camera feels like a stumbled-upon treasure, a disposable camera you forgot about and only just remembered to develop.
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper
The legendary dennis hopper (1936-2010) had many identities.
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper
The legendary dennis hopper (1936-2010) had many identities.
Bucharest Nights
Dennis Hopper
1712 North Crescent Heights : photographs 1962-1968
Dennis Hopper
Los angeles, the 1960s.
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper
Dennis hopper's artistry has always extended to all facets of his life--from the films he as written, directed, and starred in, to his patronage of the arts and the avant-garde company he has kept, to his own photography and his painting.
Dennis Hopper (a keen eye)
Dennis Hopper
Dennis hopper's artistry has always extended to all facets of his life--from the films he as written, directed, and starred in, to his patronage of the arts and the avant-garde company he has kept, to his own photography and his painting.
Grand Street 49
Dennis Hopper
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Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper
A reluctant icon captures a decade of cultural transformation during the 1960s, dennis hopper carried a camera everywhere—on film sets and locations, at parties, in diners, bars and galleries, driving on freeways and walking on political marches.
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper
A reluctant icon captures a decade of cultural transformation during the 1960s, dennis hopper carried a camera everywhere—on film sets and locations, at parties, in diners, bars and galleries, driving on freeways and walking on political marches.
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper
The many worlds of dennis hopperthis edition is limited to 1,500 numbered copies, each signed by the photographer.
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper
The many worlds of dennis hopperthis edition is limited to 1,500 numbered copies, each signed by the photographer.
Out of the 60's
Dennis Hopper
Out of the sixties
Dennis Hopper
Out of the sixties
Dennis Hopper

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