His politics, like much of his life, were unpredictable. ", Guitarist Slash tweeted, "You take the great ones for granted until they're gone. Or afraid of facts Id dug up? Hopper was able to sustain his lifestyle and a measure of celebrity by acting in numerous 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). He was nominated for an Emmy Award[26] for the 1991 HBO film Paris Trout. Hopper won wide acclaim as the director for his improvisational methods and innovative editing for Easy Rider. Dennis Hopper directing the film The Last Movie in 1971. From there he went to Warner Bros., where he made "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Giant" while in his late teens. [62], On April 5, 2010, a court ruled that Duffy could continue living on Hopper's property, and that he must pay US$12,000 per month spousal and child support for their daughter Galen. He was 74. Treatment at a detox clinic helped him stop drinking but he still used cocaine, and at one point he became so hallucinatory that he was committed to the psychiatric ward of a Los Angeles hospital. In between contesting Fonda's rights to the majority of the residual profits from Easy Rider, he married singer Michelle Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas on Halloween of 1970. Upon wrapping the scene, Mr. Hopper later recalled, Mr. Hathaway told him that his career in Hollywood was finished. What went down behind those corrugated steel walls of Dennis Hopper's Venice fortress as he lay dying at age 74? [36] His painting style ranges from abstract impressionism to photorealism and often includes references to his cinematic work and to other artists. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Natalie Wood reportedly juggled her "Rebel Without a Cause" director Nicholas Ray and actor Dennis Hopper at the Chateau Marmont. Mr. Hopper issued a news release citing irreconcilable differences for the filing. Upon his release, Hopper joined Alcoholics Anonymous, quit drugs and launched yet another comeback. More details soon. It began in 1986 when he played an alcoholic ex-basketball star in "Hoosiers," which brought him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. He appeared in three films released posthumously: Alpha and Omega (2010), The Last Film Festival (2016)[5] and the long-delayed The Other Side of the Wind (2018), which had been filmed in the early 1970s. He appeared in the first episode of the popular TV series, "The Rifleman" (19581963) as protagonist Vernon Tippet. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. He was 74. Despite Duffy's bid to be named the sole beneficiary of Hopper's million-dollar policy, the judge ruled against her and limited her claim to one-quarter of the policy. Hopper was married to Victoria Duffy from 1998 until they divorced in 2010, months before his death. On the way, Hopper and Fonda befriend a drunken young lawyer (Jack Nicholson, whom Hopper had resisted casting, in a breakout role), but arouse the enmity of Southern rednecks and are murdered before they can return home. He was 74. He was tormented and deceitful, funny and knowledgeable, tolerant and tough, intoxicating and toxic. "A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.". 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[18] The production was plagued by creative differences and personal acrimony between Fonda and Hopper, the dissolution of Hopper's marriage to Brooke Hayward, his unwillingness to leave the editor's desk and his accelerating abuse of drugs and alcohol. Hopper, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer in. The success of "Easy Rider," and the spectacular failure of his next film, "The Last Movie," fit the pattern for the talented but sometimes uncontrollable actor-director, who also had parts in such favorites as "Apocalypse Now" and "Hoosiers." [50], According to Rolling Stone magazine, Hopper was "one of Hollywood's most notorious drug addicts" for 20 years. Upon his release, Hopper joined Alcoholics Anonymous, quit drugs and launched yet another comeback. ", "Work is fun to me," he told a reporter in 1991. But Mr. Hoppers after-hours style continued to affect his work; in Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse, a documentary about the making of that film, the director, Francis Ford Coppola, is seen lamenting that Mr. Hopper cannot seem to learn his lines. Actress Marlee Matlin called Hopper a "maverick, a wonderful actor. [77][78] His funeral took place on June 3, 2010, at San Francisco de Asis Mission Church in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper has died at the age of 74 following a battle with prostate cancer. Following the critical and commercial failure of his second film as director, The Last Movie (1971), he worked on various independent and foreign projects in which he was frequently typecast as mentally disturbed outsiders in such films as Mad Dog Morgan (1976) and The American Friend (1977) until he found new fame for his role as an American photojournalist in Apocalypse Now (1979). Here is all you want to know, and more! But success as a Hollywood star brought with it a growing hubris, and in 1958 Mr. Hopper found himself in a battle of wills with the director Henry Hathaway on the set of From Hell to Texas.. or redistributed. Peter Biskind states in the New Hollywood history Easy Riders, Raging Bulls that Hopper's cocaine intake had reached three grams a day by this time, complemented by 30 beers, and some marijuana and Cuba libres. He saw a career resurgence in 1986 when he was widely acclaimed for his performances in Blue Velvet and Hoosiers, the latter of which saw him nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Dennis Hopper Episode aired Apr 18, 2021 IMDb RATING 8.0 /10 9 YOUR RATING Rate Documentary Biography Dr. Michael Hunter is investigating the cause of death of actor Dennis Hopper. Hopper took a large cast and crew to a village in Peru to film the tale of a Peruvian tribe corrupted by a movie company. May 29, 2010 -- Dennis Hopper, the director, star and co-writer of "Easy Rider" and an edgy actor in numerous other films, has died at age 74 after a lengthy illness, his production company Easy . The mother he had violent sex fantasies about, though I never acted on them, he told me back in 1985. He deathly feared opening a Pandoras past that might include deeds hed literally forgotten. And there was a time when I had a lot of energy to display how crazy that was.. His role as a wild druggie in "Blue Velvet," also in 1986, won him more acclaim, and years later the character wound up No. Four years later, Fonda told The Independent that Hopper refused to speak to him prior to his death, and even barred him from the funeral. [48], In the late 1980s, Hopper purchased a trio of nearly identical two-story, loft-style condominiums at 330 Indiana Avenue in Venice Beach, California one made of concrete, one of plywood, and one of green roofing shingles built by Frank Gehry and two artist friends of Hopper's, Chuck Arnoldi and Laddie John Dill, in 1981. In later years he picked up some income by becoming a pitchman for Ameriprise Financial, aiming ads at baby boomers looking ahead to retirement. [51] Hopper was married five times. The book, whose title refers to the house where he lived with Hayward in the Hollywood Hills in the 1960s, was edited by his daughter Marin Hopper. Lawsuit. You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! Immediately thereafter, Hopper starred as an addled short-order cook "Cracker" in the Neil Young/Dean Stockwell low-budget collaboration Human Highway. In the storyline, the Kid gave Cheyenne Bodie no choice but to kill him in a gunfight. From that point on, Hopper maintained a frantic work pace, appearing in many forgettable movies and a few memorable ones, including 1993's "True Romance," where he played a well-meaning ex-cop trying to protect his son from a gangster played by Christopher Walken. He had . That was the year I began to notice a ghostly figure nervously hovering at Westside art openings. But, again, he made a remarkable comeback, starting with a memorable performance as a drugged-out journalist in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic, "Apocalypse Now," a spectacularly long and troubled film to shoot. On the set of "True Grit," Hopper so angered John Wayne that the star reportedly chased Hopper with a loaded gun. After Easy Rider, it was everywhere". It was difficult to recognize the manic performer Id admired in Francis Ford Coppolas Apocalypse Now and Wim Wenders The American Friend. That outrageous hipster of Easy Rider? "A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.". On viewing the first release print, fresh from the lab, in his screening room at Universal, MCA founder Jules C. Stein rose from his chair and said, "I just don't understand this younger generation." Suffered a stroke on 14 February 1970. [9] Hopper had two brothers, Marvin and David.[10]. Hopper, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer in October 2009, was surrounded by his children when he died, Victoria Hopper told CNN. He made his first television appearance in 1955, and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). He also built an extensive collection of works by artists he knew, including Warhol, Ed Ruscha and Julian Schnabel. [69], On October 29, 2009, Hopper's manager Sam Maydew reported that he had been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. It won a top prize at the 1971 Venice Film Festival, but it failed with critics and at the box office. In 2005, Hopper played Paul Kaufman in George A. Romero's Land of the Dead. Larry Hagman's Daughter Fled Her Parents' House at 15 after Encounter with Dennis Hopper. And he grew close to his wifes childhood friend Peter Fonda, who, with Mr. Hopper and a few others, began mulling over a film whose story line followed traditional western themes but substituted motorcycles for horses. He appeared as an arrogant young gunfighter, the Utah Kid, in the 1956 episode "Quicksand" of the first hour-long western television series Cheyenne, starring Clint Walker. Mr. Hopper had several artistic pursuits beyond film. After moving to San Diego with his family, he played Shakespeare at the Old Globe Theater. 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He attended the Actors Studio, made his first television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared in Giant (1956). In 1970 he filmed The Last Movie, cowritten by Stewart Stern and photographed by Lszl Kovcs in Peru, and completed production in 1971. Hopper appeared in all 22 episodes that were filmed. Upon visiting Hopper for that story: Uh, like, man, sorry, you gotta come in through the garage. His limp handshake trembled. She also filed complaints about him keeping marijuana joints throughout his compound, ready to provide quick relief from pain, and loaded guns in strategic locations, ready to provide quick resolutions. Mr. Hopper, who said he stopped drinking and using drugs in the mid-1980s, followed that change with a tireless phase of his career in which he claimed to have turned down no parts. Hopper was also "notorious for his troubled relationships with women", including Michelle Phillips, who divorced him after eight days of marriage. The film was a hit at Cannes, netted a best-screenplay Oscar nomination for Hopper, Fonda and Terry Southern, and has since been listed on the American Film Institute's ranking of the top 100 American films. [49] In 1987, he commissioned an industrial-style main residence, with a corrugated metal exterior designed by Brian Murphy, as a place to display his artwork. On the set of "True Grit," Hopper so angered John Wayne that the star reportedly chased Hopper with a loaded gun. Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and artist. His intimate and unguarded images of Andy Warhol, Jane Fonda, The Byrds, Paul Newman, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, James Brown, Peter Fonda, Ed Ruscha, the Grateful Dead, Michael McClure, and Timothy Leary, among others, became the subject of gallery and museum shows and were collected in several books, including "1712 North Crescent Heights." "'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me," Hopper said in 2009. In 2008 he also played The Death in Wim Wenders' Palermo Shooting. A union with actress Daria Halprin also ended in divorce after they had a daughter, Ruthana. Also in 1986, Hopper portrayed Lt. Enright in the comedy horror The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. For the next year, I researched Hopper while he became known as the hardest-working man in show business. On my own dime, I ranged far and wide in New Mexico, tracking down contacts from his drug- and alcohol-fueled lost years of the 1970s, when he lived on legendary art patron Mabel Dodge Luhans Taos estate. iReport: Hopper became honorary mayor in 2009. Hed been to hell and back and somehow translated that journey into his work. [1][2], Hopper made his directorial film debut with Easy Rider (1969), which he and co-star Peter Fonda wrote with Terry Southern. All was forgiven, at least for a moment, when he collaborated with another struggling actor, Peter Fonda, on a script about two pot-smoking, drug-dealing hippies on a motorcycle trip through the Southwest and South to take in the New Orleans Mardi Gras. With Francis Ford Coppola's blockbuster Apocalypse Now (1979), Hopper returned to prominence as a hyper-manic Vietnam-era photojournalist. He was signed as a small-part contract player at Paramount, 1935-37. Trouble on the set developed almost immediately, as Peruvian authorities pestered the company, drug-induced orgies were reported and Hopper seemed out of control. Born on May 17, 1936, in Dodge City, Kan., and raised on a nearby farm, Dennis Lee Hopper moved with his family to San Diego in the late 1940s. "He wouldn't hold back with his positive re-enforcement. The report,. [63] On May 12, 2010, a hearing was held before Judge Amy Pellman in downtown Los Angeles Superior Court. He studied at the Old Globe Theater there while in high school, then signed a contract with Warner Brothers and moved to Los Angeles. As far as I could discover, that was a great deal of fiction based on a fragment of fact. He married his fifth wife, Victoria Duffy, who was 32 years his junior, in 1996, and they had a daughter, Galen Grier. Actor Dennis Hopper has died of complications from prostate cancer. Share your favorite Hopper moments in the comments section, and scroll down for video highlights from his career. Biography - A Short Wiki Actor known for his dramatic performances in films such as Easy Rider, Blue Velvet, and Speed. [citation needed] Gerry died April 26, 2016, at 90. He died before the movie was released. In 1957 Hopper played thief Abe Larson in another Cheyenne episode titled "The Iron Trail." [29][30] Hopper also recited Rudyard Kipling's famous poem If during his appearance.[31]. He said:. When Hopper was a teenager, his family settled in San Diego, California, where he began performing at the Old . Actress Barbara Hershey, who portrayed Hoppers abused wife in Paris Trout, said after filming: I love to just look back and watch Dennis watch us.. Hopper's first wife was Brooke Hayward, the daughter of actress Margaret Sullavan and agent Leland Hayward, and author of the best-selling memoir "Haywire." After filming was finally completed, Hathaway allegedly told Hopper that his career in Hollywood was finished.[15]. At the same time, his drug and alcohol use was increasing to the point where he was said to be consuming as much as a gallon of rum a day. He had Scottish ancestors. UPDATE: Here's the Associated Press obituary. One profoundly grateful to be welcomed back. Shunned by the Hollywood studios, he found work in European films that were rarely seen in the United States. He was divorcing his fifth wife after 18 years together, obtaining an "emergency. Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Actor Dennis Hopper died at his home in Venice, California, Saturday morning, his wife said. Los Angeles, Paramount to pay $122.5 million to settle lawsuit over CBS deal, Jussie Smollett finally appeals his conviction stemming from 2019 hate-crime hoax, The Scream 6 publicity stunts hit closer to home, prompting 911 calls in Sonoma, U.K. reality TV star Stephen Bear is sentenced to 21 months for OnlyFans revenge porn, Pics or it didnt happen: Rebel Wilson claims selfie got her banned from Disneyland. I soon discovered that the gallery crasher was Hopper, that hed fled his Taos, N.M., home of more than a decade, attended a minimum of three Alcoholics Anonymous or Cocaine Anonymous meetings a day, and narrowly escaped being institutionalized while straitjacketed in a psychiatric ward. The film was a hit at Cannes, netted a best-screenplay Oscar nomination for Hopper, Fonda and Terry Southern, and has since been listed on the American Film Institute's ranking of the top 100 American films. The image was reproduced on the invitation for Ed Ruscha's second solo exhibition at Ferus Gallery in 1964. I wish Victoria the best but only want to spend these difficult days surrounded by my children and close friends, he said in the release. Below is all you want to know regarding the death of Dennis Hopper and more! Know anything about these things?, Not much. I felt his laundry: wet. He says people in this town never forget. But alcohol and drugs continued to interfere with his work. Advances in treatment for metastatic prostate cancer have improved outlook for men with the disease. [46] In 2013, Harper Collins published Hopper: A Journey into the American Dream, a biography by American writer Tom Folsom. [61], On March 23, 2010, he filed papers in court alleging Duffy had absconded with US$1.5million of his art, refused his requests to return it, and then had "left town". [54], According to Newsmeat, Hopper donated US$2,000 to the Republican National Committee in 2004 and an equal amount in 2005. Scouted by the studios, Hopper was under contract to Columbia until he insulted the boss, Harry Cohn. On 30 September 1970, Hopper appeared on the second episode of season 2 of "The Johnny Cash Show" where he sang a duet with Cash entitled "Goin' Up Goin' Down". Early in his career, he painted and wrote poetry, though many of his works were destroyed in a 1961 fire that burned scores of homes, including his, in the Los Angeles enclave Bel Air. "All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.". Hopper debuted in an episode of the Richard Boone television series Medic in 1955, portraying a young epileptic. Hopper died at his home in the coastal Venice district of Los Angeles, just 12 days after his 74th birthday on the morning of May 29, 2010. The artist I came to know was a serious careerist calculating his return from illegality and literal madness, tenaciously managing his sobriety. Hopper took the outburst and insults "very personally" and made it a point to antagonize Brando the rest of the evening, first at a boxing match, then at a theater, he said. In gratitude for resurrecting his career and because, he said, I knew the art world, Hopper asked me to collaborate on his biography. Known in the motion picture industry for his anti-establishment. [39] Dennis Hopper: Photographs 19611967 was published in February 2011, by Taschen. Wood was a consummate researcher of . He went on to appear in several films in the early 1980s, including the well regarded "Rumblefish" and "The Osterman Weekend," as well as the campy "My Science Project" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.". Actor known for his dramatic performances in films such as Easy Rider, Blue Velvet, and Speed. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. ", Its success prompted studio heads to schedule a new kind of movie: low cost, with inventive photography and themes about a young, restive baby boom generation. Actor, Motion Picture Director. He also played the part of record producer Ben Cendars in the Starz television series Crash, which lasted two seasons (26 episodes). Fonda produced "Easy Rider" and Hopper directed it for a meager $380,000. Hopper's first wife was Brooke Hayward, the daughter of actress Margaret Sullavan and agent Leland Hayward, and author of the best-selling memoir "Haywire." The print sold at Christie's, New York, for US$302,500 in January 2011. We hung out together while my tape recorder consumed cassette after cassette of Dennis Hopper stories. "A cinematic Ali v. "Much of Hollywood," wrote critic-historian David Thomson, "found Hopper a pain in the neck.". His recklessness led him once to leave his children in danger. In January 2010, Hopper filed to end his 14-year marriage to Victoria Hopper, who stated in court filings that the actor was seeking to cut her out of her inheritance, a claim Hopper denied. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. And in 1996 he starred in the science fiction comedy Space Truckers directed by Stuart Gordon. He went on to appear in several films in the early 1980s, including the well regarded "Rumblefish" and "The Osterman Weekend," as well as the campy "My Science Project" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.". [20], Besides showing drug use on film, it was one of the first films to portray the hippie lifestyle. It was my mind.. Hes the only actor in Hollywood whos had as many women as me, Hopper rationalized. Hopper then appealed but the judge again ruled in Torn's favor and Hopper was required to pay another US$475,000 in punitive damages. Huberman said that the man who came to Houston in 1983 was still haunted by the likes of co-stars Dean . Legal Statement. For years he lived in Los Angeles' bohemian beach community of Venice, in a house designed by acclaimed architect Frank Gehry. Market data provided by Factset. After moving to San Diego with his family, he played Shakespeare at the Old Globe Theater. Hopper was unable to capitalize on his Easy Rider success for several years. Dennis Hopper Death Certificate 6/7/2010 7:43 PM PT TMZ has just obtained Dennis Hopper 's death certificate . "Photographing the LA Art Scene: 19551975", Craig Krull Gallery (1996), Winkler, Peter L. "Dennis Hopper: The Wild Ride of a Hollywood Rebel", Barricade Books (2011), Rozzo, Mark "Everybody Thought We Were Crazy" Harper Collins (2022), Burke, Tom, "Dennis Hopper Saves the Movies", in, Herring, H. D., "Out of the Dream and into the Nightmare: Dennis Hopper's Apocalyptic Vision of America", in, Macklin, F. A., "Easy Rider: The Initiation of Dennis Hopper", in, Martin, A., "Dennis Hopper: Out of the Blue and into the Black", in, Scharres, B., "From Out of the Blue: The Return of Dennis Hopper" in, Weber, Bruce, "A Wild Man is Mellowing, Albeit Not on Screen", in, This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 22:07. I wonder if Hopper saw his exit as a last movie? He was twice nominated for Oscars. Over the last decade, Ive realized that hed always felt a specific fear about going into the true roots of his personal myth. His other notable films include Apocalypse Now and Rumble Fish. Later, he moved to New York to study at the Actors Studio, where Dean had learned his craft. Hopper stated that because he was the son-in-law of actress Margaret Sullavan, a friend of John Wayne, Wayne hired Hopper for a role in The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), also directed by Hathaway, which enabled Hopper to restart his film career. But alcohol and drugs continued to interfere with his work. He saw his first movie at 5 and became enthralled. Journalist Ann Hornaday wrote: "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". Hopper teamed with Nike in the early 1990s to make a series of television commercials. "[39], Hopper began working as a painter and a poet as well as a collector of art in the 1960s as well, particularly Pop Art. Shunned by the Hollywood studios, he found work in European films that were rarely seen in the United States. And sex. Sex is something that has to be in the book, he insisted. May 17, 1936 Died May 29, 2010 (74) Add to list Nominated for 2 Oscars 23 wins & 17 nominations total Photos 424 Known for Easy Rider 7.3 Billy 1969 Blue Velvet 7.7 Frank Booth 1986 Speed 7.3 Howard Payne 1994 Waterworld 6.3 Deacon 1995 Credits Edit In a December 1994 interview on the Charlie Rose Show, Hopper credited John Wayne with saving his career, as Hopper acknowledged that because of his insolent behavior, he could not find work in Hollywood for seven years. Frazier. Hopper was drugged-out off camera, too, and his rambling chatter was worked into the final cut. In 1957, he played Billy the Kid on the episode "Brannigan's Boots" of Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins. "All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job -- two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.". [42] The proceeds of the two-day sale of some 300 pieces from Hopper's collection at Christie's went to his four children.[43]. As I described interviewing an eccentric Taos Square hotel owner, Hoppers face changed complexion, acquired a ghastly hue. He was especially fond of the plays of William Shakespeare. shaka wear graphic tees is candy digital publicly traded ellen lawson wife of ted lawson is dennis hopper related to william hopper. In later years he picked up some income by becoming a pitchman for Ameriprise Financial, aiming ads at baby boomers looking ahead to retirement. LOS ANGELES -- Dennis Hopper, the high-flying Hollywood wild man whose memorable and erratic career included an early turn in "Rebel Without a Cause," an improbable smash with "Easy Rider" and a classic character role in "Blue Velvet," has died. Hopper was originally cast as Christof in the 1998 Peter Weir film, The Truman Show, but left due to "creative differences". The same year, he starred as Deacon, the one-eyed nemesis of Kevin Costner in Waterworld. In 2011, Barricade Books published film historian Peter L. Winkler's biography, Dennis Hopper: The Wild Ride of a Hollywood Rebel. RIP Dennis Hopper.". Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckinghams rocky relationship: A timeline of love and war, Tom Sizemore, Saving Private Ryan actor, dies after brain aneurysm, Daisy Jones & the Six becomes the first fictional band to hit No. In his book Last Train to Memphis, American popular music historian Peter Guralnick says that in 1956, when Elvis Presley was making his first film in Hollywood, Hopper was roommates with fellow actor Nick Adams and the three became friends and socialized together. Hopper also began a prolific and acclaimed photography career in the 1960s. Easy Rider introduced much of its audience, if not Mr. Hopper, to cocaine, and the films success accelerated a period of intense drug and alcohol use that Mr. Hopper later said nearly killed him and turned him into a professional pariah. For his last performance, he was the voice of Tony, the alpha-male of the Eastern wolf pack inside the 2010 3D computer animated film Alpha and Omega. It went on to gross $40 million worldwide, a substantial sum for its time. His role as a wild druggie in "Blue Velvet," also in 1986, won him more acclaim, and years later the character wound up No. [17] Hopper acted in another John Wayne film, True Grit (1969), and during its production, he became well acquainted with Wayne. Dennis Lee Hopper was born in 1936, in Dodge City, Kan., and spent much of his youth on the nearby farm of his grandparents. Hopper also once owned Warhol's Mao, which he shot one evening in a fit of paranoia, the two bullet holes possibly adding to the print's value. Hopper struck up a friendship with actor Vincent Price, whose passion for art influenced Hopper's interest in art. He spent much of the 1970s and early 1980s living as an "outcast" in Taos, New Mexico, after the success of Easy Rider. But his . [34] Early in his career, he painted and wrote poetry, though many of his works were destroyed in the 1961 Bel Air Fire, which burned hundreds of homes, including his and his wife's, on Stone Canyon Road[35] in Bel Air. Will Dominion-Fox News lawsuit be different? And he was broke at that time, Hollywood considered him unemployable. Date Of Birth: May 17, 1936 Date Of Death: May 29, 2010 Cause Of Death: N/A Ethnicity: White Nationality: American Dennis Hopper was born on the 17th of May, 1936.

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