Biography 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.
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Filmography Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
2024
Self (archive footage)
Details to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour
2023
Frank Booth (archive footage)
Details Spirit of Golf
2023
Character TBA
Details Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
Self (archive footage)
Details Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
2020
Self
Details The Other Side of the Wind
2018
Dennis Hopper
Details They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
2018
Self (archive footage)
Details Along for the Ride
2016
Self (archive footage)
Details Blue Velvet Revisited
2016
Self
Details The Last Film Festival
2016
Nick Twain - Producer
Details Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
2016
Self (archive footage)
Details Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar
2016
Self (archive footage)
Details Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Details Llyn Foulkes One Man Band
2013
Himself
Details Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
2013
Himself
Details Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
2012
Self (archive footage)
Details Corman's World
2011
Various Roles (archive footage)
Details Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
2011
Frank Booth
Details Stardust
2010
Self (uncredited)
Details Alpha and Omega
2010
Tony (voice)
Details Beautiful Darling
2010
Self (archive footage)
Details 13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests
2009
Self
Details Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009
Self
Details No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
2009
Self
Details The Brothers Warner
2008
Self - Actor
Details An American Carol
2008
Judge Clarence Henderson
Details Not Quite Hollywood
2008
Self
Details Swing Vote
2008
Donald Greenleaf
Details Russian Suicide Chair
2008
Themself
Details Chelsea on the Rocks
2008
Self
Details Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
2008
Self
Details Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth
2008
Self
Details Bananaz
2008
Narrator (voice)
Details The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
2007
Self
Details Brando: An Icon Is Born
2007
Himself
Details The Sixth Element: The Ross Clarke-Jones Story
2006
Narrator
Details Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
2006
Self
Details The Real James Dean
2006
Self
Details 50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
Self
Details The Art of Football from A to Z
2006
Self
Details Sketches of Frank Gehry
2006
Self
Details Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi
2006
Narrator (voice)
Details Gorillaz: Demon Days Live at the Manchester Opera House
2006
Narrator (voice)
Details 10th & Wolf
2006
Matty Matello
Details Hoboken Hollow
2006
Sheriff Greer
Details Land of the Dead
2005
Kaufman
Details The Crow: Wicked Prayer
2005
El Niño
Details Inside Deep Throat
2005
Narrator (voice)
Details Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
2005
Himself
Details Out of Season
2004
Harry Barlow
Details Tell Them Who You Are
2004
Self
Details The Last Ride
2004
Ronnie Purnell
Details Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
2004
Self
Details Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
2004
Self (archive footage)
Details The Night We Called It a Day
2003
Frank Sinatra
Details A Decade Under the Influence
2003
Self
Details New Scenes from America
2003
Himself - Actor
Details Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
Self
Details Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
2003
Self
Details The Groovenians
2002
Dad/King Normans
Details The Piano Player
2002
Robert Nile
Details When Hippies Ruled The World
2002
Self
Details Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002
Self (uncredited)
Details Knockaround Guys
2001
Benny Chains
Details L.A.P.D.: To Protect And To Serve
2001
Captain Elsworth
Details Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture
2001
Self
Details Emmanuelle: A Hard Look
2001
Himself
Details The Prophet's Game
2000
Vincent Swan
Details Luck of the Draw
2000
Giani Ponti
Details Spreading Ground
2000
Det. Ed DeLongpre
Details The Apostate
2000
Lewis Garou
Details The Ten Commandments of Creativity
2000
Self
Details Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage
1999
Self
Details The Pursuit of Happiness
1999
Self
Details The Venice Project
1999
Roland / Salvatore
Details A Tribute To Johnny Cash
1999
Self
Details Straight Shooter
1999
Frank Hector
Details EDtv
1999
Henry 'Hank' Pekurny
Details Bad City Blues
1999
Cleveland Carter
Details The Source
1999
William S. Burroughs
Details The A-Z of Separating People from their Money
1998
Self
Details Welcome to Hollywood
1998
Dennis Hopper
Details Meet the Deedles
1998
Frank Slater
Details Lured Innocence
1997
Rick Chambers
Details Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain
1997
Self
Details Road Ends
1997
Sheriff Ben Gilchrist
Details Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997
Self
Details Top of the World
1997
Charles Atlas
Details U2: A Year in Pop
1997
Narrator (voice)
Details Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life
1997
Self
Details Samson and Delilah
1996
Generale Tariq
Details The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
1996
Self - Host
Details The Last Days of Frankie the Fly
1996
Frankie
Details Space Truckers
1996
John Canyon
Details Basquiat
1996
Bruno Bischofberger
Details Carried Away
1996
Joseph Svenden
Details Rediscovering a Rebel
1996
Self / Goon (archive footage)
Details Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir
1995
Himself
Details Search and Destroy
1995
Dr. Waxling
Details James Dean and Me
1995
Self (uncredited)
Details Witch Hunt
1994
H. Phillip Lovecraft
Details Marlon Brando: The Wild One
1994
Self
Details Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
1993
Self
Details True Romance
1993
Clifford Worley
Details Super Mario Bros.
1993
King Koopa
Details Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
1993
Self
Details Red Rock West
1993
Lyle from Dallas
Details Boiling Point
1993
Rudolph 'Red' Diamond
Details The Revenge of the Dead Indians
1993
Himself
Details The Heart of Justice
1992
Austin Blair
Details Nails
1992
Harry 'Nails' Niles
Details Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991
Self
Details Eye of the Storm
1991
Marvin Gladstone
Details The Indian Runner
1991
Caesar
Details Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas
1991
Self
Details Doublecrossed
1991
Barry Seal
Details Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
1991
Self (uncredited)
Details Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
1990
Self
Details Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
1990
Self
Details Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
1990
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Details Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
1990
Self
Details Chattahoochee
1990
Walker Benson
Details Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring
1989
Self
Details Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife
1989
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Details Blood Red
1989
William Bradford Berrigan
Details Black Leather Jacket
1989
Narrator
Details No Frank in Lumberton
1988
Self
Details On the tracks of a filmmaker
1988
Dennis Hooper
Details Santabear's High Flying Adventure
1987
(voice)
Details The American Way
1987
Captain
Details The Pick-up Artist
1987
Flash Jensen
Details Straight to Hell
1987
I.G. Farben
Details Running Out of Luck
1987
Video Director
Details Out of the Blue and Into the Black
1987
Self
Details The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
1986
Lieutenant 'Lefty' Enright
Details Stark: Mirror Image
1986
Lieutenant Ron Bliss
Details Some Kind of Genius
1986
Himself
Details My Science Project
1985
Bob Roberts
Details Stark
1985
Lieutenant Ron Bliss
Details A Hero of Our Time
1985
Casey
Details White Star
1983
Kenneth Barlow
Details The Osterman Weekend
1983
Richard Tremayne
Details Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
1983
Himself
Details Human Highway
1982
Cracker / Stranger
Details King of the Mountain
1981
Cal
Details Apocalypse Now
1979
Photojournalist
Details Last In, First Out
1978
Medford
Details The Sorceror's Apprentice
1977
A Spy
Details The American Friend
1977
Tom Ripley
Details Tracks
1976
1st Sgt. Jack Falen
Details Mad Dog Morgan
1976
Daniel Morgan
Details James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975
Self
Details Crush Proof
1972
Dennis Hopper
Details Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972
Self
Details The American Dreamer
1971
Himself
Details Head
1968
Dennis Hopper (uncredited)
Details The Glory Stompers
1967
Chino
Details Cool Hand Luke
1967
Babalugats
Details Screen Test #3
1966
Character TBA
Details Queen of Blood
1966
Paul Grant
Details Light Years
1966
Character TBA
Details Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965
Self
Details The Sons of Katie Elder
1965
Dave Hastings
Details The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys
1964
Character TBA
Details Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of
1964
Tarzan (Double)
Details Screen Test [ST155]: Dennis Hopper
1964
Himself
Details Key Witness
1960
William "Cowby" Tomkins
Details The Young Land
1959
Hatfield Carnes
Details Swiss Family Robinson
1958
Fritz
Details From Hell to Texas
1958
Tom Boyd
Details Sayonara
1957
MP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited)
Details The Story of Mankind
1957
Napoleon Bonaparte
Details The James Dean Story
1957
Self
Details Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957
Billy Clanton
Details Giant
1956
Jordan "Jordy" Benedict III
Details New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
1956
Self
Details I Died a Thousand Times
1955
Joe (uncredited)
Details Rebel Without a Cause
1955
Goon
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