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Dennis Hopper
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…
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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
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2026
This Is Buzz
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
Films to Die For
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2023
Spirit of Golf
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2022
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2021
Morceaux de Cannes
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
TV show Self
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2020
Hopper/Welles
Movie Self
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2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
Movie Self
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2018
The Other Side of the Wind
Movie Dennis Hopper
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2018
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2016
Along for the Ride
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2016
Blue Velvet Revisited
Movie Self
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2016
The Last Film Festival
Movie Nick Twain - Producer
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2016
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2016
Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar
Movie Self (archive footage)
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- 2015
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2014
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Movie Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
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2014
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Movie Lt. Lefty Enright (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2013
Llyn Foulkes One Man Band
Movie Himself
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2013
Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
Movie Himself
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2012
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2012
Scene Missing
Movie Self
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2011
Corman's World
Movie Various Roles (archive footage)
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2011
Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
Movie Frank Booth
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2011
Der Weg des Ruhms - Hollywoods Walk of Fame
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2011
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2010
Stardust
Movie Self (uncredited)
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2010
Alpha and Omega
Movie Tony (voice)
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2010
Beautiful Darling
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2009
B movie
Movie Himself
- 2009
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2009
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Movie Self
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2009
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
Movie Self
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2008
Palermo Shooting
Movie Frank
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2008
Crash
TV show Ben Cendars
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2008
The Brothers Warner
Movie Self
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2008
An American Carol
Movie Judge Clarence Henderson
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2008
Not Quite Hollywood
Movie Self
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2008
Elegy
Movie George O'Hearn
