Dennis Hopper

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

Cast

Photojournalist

Rebel Without a Cause

Clifford Worley

Bruno Bischofberger

Donald Greenleaf

Straight Shooter

Jordan "Jordy" Benedict III

Lyle from Dallas

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

The Piano Player

The Last Days of Frankie the Fly

The American Friend

Henry 'Hank' Pekurny

Rudolph 'Red' Diamond

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Land of the Dead

Knockaround Guys

Spreading Ground

Det. Ed DeLongpre

Palermo Shooting

Inside Deep Throat

Narrator (voice)

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

The Osterman Weekend

Richard Tremayne

The Indian Runner

Alpha and Omega

O.C. and Stiggs

Super Mario Bros.

Straight to Hell

Meet the Deedles

Brando: An Icon Is Born

H. Phillip Lovecraft

Max Lichtenstein

The Story of Mankind

Napoleon Bonaparte

The Night We Called It a Day

I Don't Know Jack

50 Films to See Before You Die

Top of the World

Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)

The Sons of Katie Elder

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Lieutenant 'Lefty' Enright

The Pursuit of Happiness

Gorillaz: Demon Days Live at the Manchester Opera House

Narrator (voice)

The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys

Out of the Blue

Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents

Hatfield Carnes

The Pick-up Artist

The Art of Football from A to Z

Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

My Science Project

Swiss Family Robinson

The Heart of Justice

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

Cracker / Stranger

The Prophet's Game

Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi

Narrator (voice)

Search and Destroy

Luck of the Draw

King of the Mountain

Harry 'Nails' Niles

From Hell to Texas

William "Cowby" Tomkins

A Tribute to Johnny Cash

Running Out of Luck

I Died a Thousand Times

Joe (uncredited)

The Glory Stompers

1st Sgt. Jack Falen

Chelsea on the Rocks

No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos

Mysteries of Love

The American Dreamer

Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work

Rev. Tom Hartley

The American Way

Sheriff Ben Gilchrist

To Shoot a Mad Dog

Self (archive footage)

William Bradford Berrigan

Llyn Foulkes One Man Band

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder

Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter

Held for Ransom

Lured Innocence

The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money

The James Dean Story

Emmanuelle: A Hard Look

The Sky is Falling

Eye of the Storm

Marvin Gladstone

The Revenge of the Dead Indians

Last In, First Out

Cleveland Carter

Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper

Self (uncredited)

Self (uncredited)

to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour

Frank Booth (archive footage)

The Other Side of the Wind

Self (uncredited)

An American Carol

Judge Clarence Henderson

SnowwhiteRosered

Panic in the City

Rediscovering a Rebel

Self / Goon (archive footage)

Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’

Self (archive footage)

Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth

Sketches of Frank Gehry

Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act

The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose

Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

Out of the Blue and Into the Black

Black Leather Jacket

Lieutenant Ron Bliss

Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir

No Frank in Lumberton

Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

James Dean and Me

Self (uncredited)

On the tracks of a filmmaker

Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch

Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of

Tarzan (Double)

The Last Film Festival

Nick Twain - Producer

Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life

Blue Velvet Revisited

Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth

William S. Burroughs

Russian Suicide Chair

Tim Leary: The Art of Dying

Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain

Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage

The Crow: Wicked Prayer

Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider

Self (archive footage)

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

Beautiful Darling

Self (archive footage)

The Venice Project

Roland / Salvatore

When Hippies Ruled The World

Welcome to Hollywood

Along for the Ride

Self (archive footage)

Self (uncredited)

The Sixth Element: The Ross Clarke-Jones Story

13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests

James Dean: The First American Teenager

The Sorceror's Apprentice

New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

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

Captain Elsworth

Return to 'Giant'

The Brothers Warner

Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

Self (archive footage)

Tell Them Who You Are

Some Kind of Genius

Forever Hollywood

Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar

Self (archive footage)

Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture

Screen Test [ST155]: Dennis Hopper

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

Not Quite Hollywood

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

The A-Z of Separating People from their Money

The Ten Commandments of Creativity

The Cool School

Marlon Brando: The Wild One

Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Real James Dean

Various Roles (archive footage)

Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O

Narrator (voice)

New Scenes from America

Himself - Actor

A Hero of Our Time

Wim Wenders, Desperado

Self (archive footage)

Santabear's High Flying Adventure

Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

Stark: Mirror Image

Lieutenant Ron Bliss

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

U2: A Year in Pop

Narrator (voice)

A Decade Under the Influence

The Groovenians

Dad/King Normans

Born to Be Wild

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

Self (uncredited)

Gorillaz: Demon Days Live in Harlem at Apollo Theater

Fighting Against the Wind: Making 'the American Dreamer'

The Sunrise Gun

Willie Nelson: Down Home

Films to Die For

(archive footage) (uncredited)

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Lt. Lefty Enright (archive footage) (uncredited)

Der Weg des Ruhms - Hollywoods Walk of Fame

Self (archive footage)

Crew

Director, Screenplay

Second Unit Director

Out of the Blue

Director, Writer

Director, Story, Editor

The Glory Stompers

Director, Writer

Russian Suicide Chair

The American Dreamer

Mary Jennifer at the Beach