Dennis Hopper

Movie Actor

Dennis Hopper was born in Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas, United States on May 17th, 1936 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 74, Dennis Hopper biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Dennis Lee Hopper, Alan Smithee
Date of Birth
May 17, 1936
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Dodge City, Ford County, Kansas, United States
Death Date
May 29, 2010 (age 74)
Zodiac Sign
Taurus
Networth
$40 Million
Profession
Actor, Art Collector, Artist, Character Actor, Film Actor, Film Director, Filmmaker, Painter, Photographer, Screenwriter, Sculptor, Television Actor, Visual Artist, Voice Actor, Writer
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Dennis Hopper Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 74 years old, Dennis Hopper has this physical status:

Height
172cm
Weight
68kg
Hair Color
Salt and Pepper
Eye Color
Blue
Build
Average
Measurements
Not Available
Dennis Hopper Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Not Available
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Kansas City Art Institute, Helix High School, Old Globe Theatre, Actors Studio
Dennis Hopper Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Brooke Hayward, ​ ​(m. 1961; div. 1969)​, Michelle Phillips, ​ ​(m. 1970; div. 1970)​, Daria Halprin, ​ ​(m. 1972; div. 1976)​, Katherine LaNasa, ​ ​(m. 1989; div. 1992)​, Victoria Duffy, ​ ​(m. 1996; sep. 2010)​
Children
4, including Ruthanna
Dating / Affair
Rita Moreno, Ursula Andress, Natalie Wood, Venetia Stevenson, Tuesday Weld, Brooke Hayward (1961-1969)​, Michelle Phillips (1970)​, Daria Halprin (1972-1976)​, Katherine LaNasa (1989-1992)​, Victoria Duffy (1996-2010)
Parents
James Millard Hopper, Marjorie Mae
Siblings
Marvin Hopper (Brother), David Hopper (Brother)
Other Family
James Clarence Hopper (Paternal Grandfather), Elizabeth Bertie Bell (Paternal Grandmother), William Lonnie Davis (Maternal Grandfather), Nellie Bly McInteer (Maternal Grandmother)
Dennis Hopper Career

Career

In 1954, Hopper was reported to have played an uncredited role in Johnny Guitar, but he has denied that he was in Hollywood at the time. In Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956), Hopper made his debut on film with James Dean (whom he adored greatly). Dean's death in a car crash in September 1955 affected the young Hopper greatly, and it was shortly afterward that he got into a fight with veteran director Henry Hathaway on the film From Hell to Texas (1958). Hathaway was ordered to shoot more than 80 takes of a scene for several days before he cowed to Hathaway's direction. After filming was finally complete, Hathaway allegedly told Hopper that his film career was over.

In his book Last Train to Memphis, American popular music historian Peter Guralnick explains that in 1956, Hopper and fellow actor Nick Adams appeared in Hollywood, and the three became colleagues and socialized together. In 1959, Hopper studied Method acting at the Actors Studio, under Lee Strasberg. Hopper appeared in Night Tide, an atmospheric supernatural thriller involving a mermaid in an amusement park in 1961.

As Hopper admitted that due to his insolent behavior, he could not find work in Hollywood for seven years, he credited John Wayne with saving his career. Hopper claimed that because he was the son-in-law of actress Margaret Sullavan, a friend of John Wayne, and a friend of John Wayne, Hopper recruited him for a role in The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), which also directed by Hathaway, allowing Hopper to restart his film career. During its production, Hopper appeared in another John Wayne film, True Grit (1969), and he became intimate with Wayne. In both of Wayne's films, his character is ruined in the presence of Wayne's character, to whom he utters his dying words.

In Cool Hand Luke (1967), Hopper played a supporting role as the bet-taker, "Babalugats." Hopper created Easy Rider in 1968, a tribute to Peter Fonda, Terry Southern, and Jack Nicholson, who premiered in July 1969. Hopper appeared in two major box-office films this summer, with the release of True Grit a month earlier. Hopper received acclaim for his improvisational skills and ingenious editing for Easy Rider. Fonda and Hopper's marriage to Brooke Hayward, his inability to leave the editor's desk, and his increasing use of heroin and alcohol were all affecting the production. "The cocaine epidemic in the United States is really because of me," Hopper said of Easy Rider. There was no cocaine on the street before the Easy Rider. It was everywhere after Easy Rider.

It was one of the first films to represent the hippie lifestyle, in addition to showing cocaine use on film. Hopper was a stereotype among some male teenagers who refused traditional roles and traditional American culture, partially illustrated by Fonda's long sideburns and Hopper's long hair and long mustache. As a result of their radical appearances, they were refused rooms in motels and proper service in restaurants. In several scenes during the film, their long hair became a point of contention.

Hopper was unable to profit from his Easy Rider fame for many years. He shot The Last Movie, cowritten by Stewart Stern and photographed by László Kovács in Peru in 1970, and finished production in 1971. It received the prestigious CIDALC Award at that year's Venice Film Festival, but Universal Studios executives foresee a blockbuster like Easy Rider, and did not like the film or give it a good word out, while American film audiences found it confusing, as abstract paintings are convoluted. Jules C. Stein, the MCA's founder, stepped down from his chair after seeing the first print out fresh from the lab in his screening room at Universal, said, "I just don't get this younger generation." Hopper ensconced himself at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico, which he had bought in 1970 for almost a year. He married singer Michelle Phillips of The Mamas and Papas on Halloween of 1970, contesting Fonda's right to the majority of the residual proceeds from Easy Rider. The marriage lasted eight days.

Hopper was able to maintain his lifestyle and a measure of fame by appearing in several low budget and European films throughout the 1970s as the archetypal "tormented maniac," including Mad Dog Morgan (1976), Tracks (1976), and The American Friend (1977). Hopper, a hyper-manic Vietnam-era photojournalist, returned to prominence as a blockbuster with Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979). In 1980, Hopper, who was still on the lookout for an ailing producer, received acclaim for his direction and acting in Out of the Blue. In the Neil Young/Dean Stockwell low-budget team Human Highway's immediate aftermath, Hopper starred as an addled short-order cook "Cracker." According to reports, his unreliability often delayed production. According to Peter Biskind, the New Hollywood legends, the Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, that Hopper's cocaine intake had hit three grams a day by this time, as well as 30 beers and some marijuana and Cuba libres.

Hopper began a "suicide attempt" in a coffin using 17 sticks of dynamite, which was later removed into the Mexican desert by a particularly lavish bender.

Despite Hopper's critically acclaimed appearances in Coppola's Rumble Fish (1983) and Sam Peckinpah's The Osterman Weekend (1984), it was not until he portrayed Frank Booth in David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986) that his career was truly revived. "You have to let me play Frank Booth," Hopper wrote to Lynch.

Because I am Frank Booth!"

He received critical acclaim and several accolades for his work as an alcoholic assistant basketball coach in Hoosiers, and he received an Academy Award for his work as an alcoholic assistant basketball coach in the same year. In 1986, Hopper portrayed Lt. Enright in the comedy thriller The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. He produced Colors, a critically acclaimed police procedural about gang violence in Los Angeles starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall in 1988.

In the 1990 comedy Flashback, Hopper appears as a senior hippie prankster flocked in a Furthur-like old bus to the tune of Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild." For the 1991 HBO film Paris Trout, he was nominated for an Emmy Award. In the HBO film Doublecrossed, he played drug smuggler and DEA informant Barry Seals. King Koopa appeared in Super Mario Bros., a 1993 critical and commercial failure based on the same name in video games. In 1993, he appeared in True Romance as Clifford Worley. He appeared in the 1994 blockbuster Speed with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, as well as as as a magical-phobic H.P. In the TV series Witch Hunt, Lovecraft meets the creatures of the Witch Hunt.

In 1995, Hopper appeared in Search and Destroy as a cynical TV self-help guru. He appeared in Deacon, Kevin Costner's one-eyed nemesis in Waterworld, in the same year. In 1996, he appeared in the science fiction film Space Truckers directed by Stuart Gordon. He appeared in The Prophet's Game (a dark thriller) directed by David Worth, as well as Stephanie Zimbalist, Robert Yocum, Sandra Locke, Joe Penny, and Tracey Birdsall in 1999. In 2003, Hopper was up for the dual lead in Firecracker's indie horror film Firecracker, but was disqualified at the last minute in favour of Mike Patton. In George A. Romero's Land of the Dead, Hopper played Paul Kaufman. Hopper appeared in An American Carol in 2008. He appeared in The Death in Wim Wenders' Palermo Shooting in 2008. Ben Kingsley, Penélope Cruz, and Debbie Harry made his last big feature film appearance in the 2008 film Elegy. Tony, the alpha-male of the Eastern wolf pack in the 2010 3D computer animated film Alpha and Omega, was the voice of Tony. He died before the film was released. At the start of the film credits, the producers were compelled to dedicate the film to his memory.

In 1971, Hopper appeared on the Other Side of the Wind, but the film was eventually released on Netflix in 2018.

In 1955, Hopper appeared in an episode of the Richard Boone television series Medic, portraying a young epileptic.

In the 1956 episode "Quicksand" of the first hour-long western television series Cheyenne, starring Clint Walker, he appeared as an arrogant young gunfighter, the Utah Kid. The Kid left Cheyenne Bodie with no choice but to kill him in a gunfight, according to the storyline. In another Cheyenne episode titled "The Iron Trail," Hopper played thief Abe Larson. Billy the Kid appeared on Sugarfoot's episode "Brannigan's Boots" in 1957. Will Hutchins played Billy the Kid.

Vernon Tippet played him in the first episode of the well-known television series "The Rifleman" (1958–1963). Chuck Connors appeared in the series, and Sam Peckinpah wrote the first episode "The Sharpshooter."

He appeared in over 140 episodes of television shows including Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Petticoat Junction, The Twilight Zone, The Investigators, Jesse James' Legend, Entourage, The Time Tunnel, and Combat!

Hopper appeared on the second episode of "The Johnny Cash Show" on September 30, 1970, where he sang a duet with Cash entitled "Goin' Up Goin' Down." Kris Kristofferson about Hopper wrote the song, according to Cash. Kristofferson had written some songs for his Peruvian-shot film "The Last Movie," in which Kristofferson appeared in his debut role with Julie Adams, according to Hopper. During his appearance, Hopper also recited Rudyard Kipling's famous poem If—

In the early 1990s, Hopper co-produced a series of television commercials for Nike. In those ads, he appeared as a "crazed referee." In the first season of the famous action drama 24, Victor Drazen played villain Victor Drazen.

Hopper appeared on the final two episodes of the cult 1991 television show Fishing with John, with host John Lurie.

In the 2005 television series E-Ring, a drama set at The Pentagon, Hopper appeared as a US Army colonel, but the show was cancelled after 14 episodes were broadcast. In all 22 episodes that were shot, Hopper appeared. In the Starz television series Crash, Ben Cendars was also a character actor on stage, appearing in the Starz television series Crash, which lasted two seasons (26 episodes).

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