Dennis Hopper

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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Known For

The Graham Norton Show

Self

The Daily Show

Self

King of the Hill

Dennis Hopper (voice)

Die Harald Schmidt Show

Self

Saturday Night Live

Self - Host

Wagon Train

Emmett Lawton

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2024	Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes	Self (archive footage)
2023	Spirit of Golf
2023	to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour	Frank Booth (archive footage)
2020	Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth	Self
2020	Hopper/Welles	Self
2020	Wim Wenders, Desperado	Self (archive footage)
2018	The Other Side of the Wind	Dennis Hopper
2018	They'll Love Me When I'm Dead	Self (archive footage)
2016	The Last Film Festival	Nick Twain - Producer
2016	Blue Velvet Revisited	Self
2016	Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider	Self (archive footage)
2016	Along for the Ride	Self (archive footage)
2016	Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar	Self (archive footage)
2014	Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles	Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2013	Llyn Foulkes One Man Band	Himself
2013	Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter	Himself
2012	Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’	Self (archive footage)
2012	Scene Missing	Self
2011	Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage	Frank Booth
2011	Corman's World	Various Roles (archive footage)
2010	Alpha and Omega	Tony (voice)
2010	Stardust	Self (uncredited)
2010	Beautiful Darling	Self (archive footage)
2009	No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos	Self
2009	Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder	Self
2009	13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests	Self
2009	B movie	Himself
2008	Swing Vote	Donald Greenleaf
2008	Elegy	George O'Hearn
2008	Palermo Shooting	Frank
2008	Hell Ride	Eddie Zero
2008	Sleepwalking	Mr. Reedy
2008	Chelsea on the Rocks	Self
2008	An American Carol	Judge Clarence Henderson
2008	Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth	Self
2008	Russian Suicide Chair	Himself
2008	Tim Leary: The Art of Dying	Self
2008	The Brothers Warner	Self - Actor
2008	Not Quite Hollywood	Self
2008	The Cool School	Self
2008	Bananaz	Narrator (voice)
2007	Brando: An Icon Is Born	Himself
2007	The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose	Self
2007	Brando	Self
2006	10th & Wolf	Matty Matello
2006	Memory	Max Lichtenstein
2006	50 Films to See Before You Die	Self
2006	Hoboken Hollow	Sheriff Greer
2006	Gorillaz: Demon Days Live at the Manchester Opera House	Narrator (voice)
2006	The Art of Football from A to Z	Self
2006	Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi	Narrator (voice)
2006	Wanderlust	Himself
2006	Sketches of Frank Gehry	Self
2006	The Sixth Element: The Ross Clarke-Jones Story	Narrator
2006	The Real James Dean	Self
2006	Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film	Self
2006	Gorillaz: Demon Days Live in Harlem at Apollo Theater
2005	Land of the Dead	Kaufman
2005	Champion	Self
2005	Inside Deep Throat	Narrator (voice)
2005	Americano	Riccardo
2005	Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents	Himself
2005	House of 9	Father Duffy
2005	The Crow: Wicked Prayer	El Niño
2004	Out of Season	Harry Barlow
2004	The Keeper	Krebs
2004	The Last Ride	Ronnie Purnell
2004	Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments	Self
2004	Tell Them Who You Are	Self
2004	Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'	Self (archive footage)
2003	Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood	Self
2003	Unspeakable	Warden
2003	The Night We Called It a Day	Frank Sinatra
2003	Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)	Self
2003	New Scenes from America	Himself - Actor
2003	A Decade Under the Influence	Self
2002	The Piano Player	Robert Nile
2002	Leo	Horace
2002	I Don't Know Jack	Self
2002	Mysteries of Love	Self
2002	When Hippies Ruled The World	Self
2002	Flatland	Smith
2002	1 Giant Leap	Self
2002	The Groovenians	Dad/King Normans
2002	Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film	Self (uncredited)
2001	Ticker	Alex Swan
2001	Knockaround Guys	Benny Chains
2001	Choke	Henry Clark
2001	Emmanuelle: A Hard Look	Himself
2001	L.A.P.D.: To Protect And To Serve	Captain Elsworth
2001	Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture	Self
2001	Jazz Seen	Self
2000	Spreading Ground	Det. Ed DeLongpre
2000	Jesus' Son	Bill
2000	The Prophet's Game	Vincent Swan
2000	Luck of the Draw	Giani Ponti
2000	Held for Ransom	JD
2000	The Apostate	Lewis Garou
2000	The Ten Commandments of Creativity	Self
1999	Tycus	Peter Crowford
1999	Straight Shooter	Frank Hector
1999	EDtv	Henry 'Hank' Pekurny
1999	The Pursuit of Happiness	Self
1999	A Tribute To Johnny Cash	Self
1999	Bad City Blues	Cleveland Carter
1999	The Source	William S. Burroughs
1999	Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage	Self
1999	The Venice Project	Roland / Salvatore
1999	Forever Hollywood	Self
1998	Meet the Deedles	Frank Slater
1998	Welcome to Hollywood	Dennis Hopper
1998	The A-Z of Separating People from their Money	Self
1997	The Blackout	Mickey
1997	Top of the World	Charles Atlas
1997	Road Ends	Sheriff Ben Gilchrist
1997	Lured Innocence	Rick Chambers
1997	Cannes Man	Self
1997	Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life	Self
1997	Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain	Self
1997	Who Is Henry Jaglom?	Self
1997	U2: A Year in Pop	Narrator (voice)
1996	Basquiat	Bruno Bischofberger
1996	Space Truckers	John Canyon
1996	The Last Days of Frankie the Fly	Frankie
1996	Carried Away	Joseph Svenden
1996	Samson and Delilah	Generale Tariq
1996	The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money	Self - Host
1996	Rediscovering a Rebel	Self / Goon (archive footage)
1996	Return to 'Giant'	Self
1995	Waterworld	Deacon
1995	Search and Destroy	Dr. Waxling
1995	Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir	Himself
1995	James Dean and Me	Self (uncredited)
1995	Born to Be Wild	Himself
1994	Speed	Howard Payne
1994	Chasers	Doggie
1994	Witch Hunt	H. Phillip Lovecraft
1994	Marlon Brando: The Wild One	Self
1993	True Romance	Clifford Worley
1993	Red Rock West	Lyle from Dallas
1993	Boiling Point	Rudolph 'Red' Diamond
1993	Super Mario Bros.	King Koopa
1993	Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work	Self
1993	The Revenge of the Dead Indians	Himself
1993	Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O	Self
1992	The Heart of Justice	Austin Blair
1992	Sunset Heat	Carl Madson
1992	Nails	Harry 'Nails' Niles
1991	Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse	Self
1991	The Indian Runner	Caesar
1991	Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas	Self
1991	Paris Trout	Paris Trout
1991	Doublecrossed	Barry Seal
1991	Eye of the Storm	Marvin Gladstone
1991	Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper	Self (uncredited)
1991	SnowwhiteRosered	Self
1990	Catchfire	Milo
1990	Flashback	Huey Walker
1990	Chattahoochee	Walker Benson
1990	Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch	Self
1990	Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders	Self
1990	Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol	Self
1990	Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1989	Blood Red	William Bradford Berrigan
1989	Black Leather Jacket	Narrator
1989	Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1989	Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring	Self
1988	No Frank in Lumberton	Self
1988	On the tracks of a filmmaker	Dennis Hooper
1987	O.C. and Stiggs	Sponson
1987	Straight to Hell	I.G. Farben
1987	The Pick-up Artist	Flash Jensen
1987	Black Widow	Ben Dumers
1987	Running Out of Luck	Video Director
1987	The American Way	Captain
1987	Out of the Blue and Into the Black	Self
1987	Blue Peanuts	Snoopy (Voice)
1987	Santabear's High Flying Adventure	(voice)
1986	Blue Velvet	Frank Booth
1986	River's Edge	Feck
1986	Hoosiers	Shooter
1986	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2	Lieutenant 'Lefty' Enright
1986	Some Kind of Genius	Himself
1986	Stark: Mirror Image	Lieutenant Ron Bliss
1985	My Science Project	Bob Roberts
1985	Stark	Lieutenant Ron Bliss
1985	A Hero of Our Time	Casey
1984	The Inside Man	Miller
1983	Rumble Fish	Father
1983	The Osterman Weekend	Richard Tremayne
1983	White Star	Kenneth Barlow
1983	Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act	Himself
1982	Human Highway	Cracker / Stranger
1981	Out of the Blue	Don
1981	King of the Mountain	Cal
1981	Reborn	Rev. Tom Hartley
1979	Apocalypse Now	Photojournalist
1978	Last In, First Out	Medford
1978	Flesh Color	Mel
1977	The American Friend	Tom Ripley
1977	The Sorceror's Apprentice	A Spy
1976	Mad Dog Morgan	Daniel Morgan
1976	Tracks	1st Sgt. Jack Falen
1976	To Shoot a Mad Dog	Self
1975	Bloodbath	Chicken
1975	James Dean: The First American Teenager	Self
1973	Kid Blue	Bickford Waner
1972	Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here	Self
1972	Crush Proof	Dennis Hopper
1971	The Last Movie	Kansas
1971	The American Dreamer	Himself
1969	Easy Rider	Billy
1969	True Grit	"Moon"
1968	Hang 'em High	Prophet
1968	Head	Dennis Hopper (uncredited)
1968	Panic in the City	Goff
1967	Cool Hand Luke	Babalugats
1967	The Trip	Max
1967	The Glory Stompers	Chino
1966	Queen of Blood	Paul Grant
1966	Light Years
1966	Screen Test #3
1965	The Sons of Katie Elder	Dave Hastings
1965	Andy Warhol Screen Tests	Self
1964	The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys
1964	Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of	Tarzan (Double)
1964	Screen Test [ST155]: Dennis Hopper	Himself
1961	Night Tide	Johnny Drake
1960	Key Witness	William "Cowby" Tomkins
1959	The Young Land	Hatfield Carnes
1959	Disneyland '59	Self
1958	Swiss Family Robinson	Fritz
1958	From Hell to Texas	Tom Boyd
1957	Gunfight at the O.K. Corral	Billy Clanton
1957	The Story of Mankind	Napoleon Bonaparte
1957	The James Dean Story	Self
1957	Sayonara	MP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited)
1956	Giant	Jordan "Jordy" Benedict III
1956	New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'	Self
1956	High Air	Steve Redman
1955	Rebel Without a Cause	Goon
1955	I Died a Thousand Times	Joe (uncredited)
	Art, Acting, and the Suicide Chair: Dennis Hopper
	He's Alive	Peter Vollmer
	The Good Life	Mr. B
	HOPPER: In His Own Words	Dennis Hopper
	Fighting Against the Wind: Making 'the American Dreamer'	Self

Year	TV Show	Role
2020	Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen	Self
2011	On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America	self
2008	Crash	Ben Cendars
2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self
2007	Brando: The Documentary	Self
2005	E-Ring	Eli McNulty
2004	Entourage
2004	10 Things Every Guy Should Experience	Self
2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003	Las Vegas
2002	V Graham Norton	Self
2002	Firestarter: Rekindled	James Richardson
2002	The Groovenians	Dad / King Normans (voice)
2002	Flatland	Smith
2001	24	Victor Drazen
2000	Jason and the Argonauts	Pelias
1997	Scene by Scene	Self
1997	King of the Hill	Dennis Hopper (voice)
1996	The Daily Show	Self
1996	E! True Hollywood Story
1996	Samson and Delilah	Generale Tariq
1995	Die Harald Schmidt Show	Self
1994	Inside the Actors Studio	Self
1992	HBO First Look
1991	Fishing with John	Self
1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1987	Seitenblicke	self
1980	Wild Times	Doc Holliday
1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host
1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self
1969	The Johnny Cash Show	Self
1967	The Guns of Will Sonnett
1965	The Big Valley	Jimmy Sweetwater
1965	The Legend of Jesse James	Jud Salt
1963	Petticoat Junction	Alan Landman
1963	Arrest and Trial
1963	The Greatest Show on Earth
1963	The Dakotas
1963	The Lieutenant	Cpl. Peter Devlin
1962	Combat!	Zack Fielder
1961	The Defenders	Alfred Carter Jr.
1961	The Defenders	Jason Thomas
1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self
1961	87th Precinct	Andrew Mason
1961	The Investigators	Adrian
1960	Surfside 6
1960	The Barbara Stanwyck Show	Gerald Collins
1959	The Twilight Zone	Peter Vollmer
1959	Bonanza	Dev Farnum
1958	Naked City	Vinnie Winford
1958	The Rifleman
1958	The Rifleman	Vernon Tippert
1957	Sugarfoot	Billy the Kid
1957	Wagon Train	Emmett Lawton
1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Vernon 'Vern' Tippert
1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Denny Sunrise
1956	Conflict
1955	Cheyenne
1955	Gunsmoke	Billy Kimbo
1955	Highway Patrol
1955	The Millionaire	Adam Spencer
1955	Matinee Theater
1955	Kings Row
1955	Cheyenne	Utah Kid
1955	Screen Director's Playhouse	Steve Redman
1954	Medic	Robert
1953	General Electric Theater	Fred Judson
1953	Letter to Loretta	Ross Morton
1948	Studio One	David Williams
1948	Studio One	Harry Wales
1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter
1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee/Presenter