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Dennis Hopper
You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body . . . my liver . . . okay, my brain . . . went. — Dennis Hopper THE common wisdom in Hollywood . . . let’s rethink that. The common opinion in Hollywood is that the first half of Dennis Hopper’s life was ruined by working with James Dean (in Rebel Without a Cause and Giant). When Dean was killed, Hopper seemed to absorb all his friend’s causeless rebellion, but not all of his charm. Directors considered him a temperamental pain, and it took years before he and his pal, Peter Fonda, turned a $400,000 investment into the $40 million counterculture classic Easy Rider. Hopper, who directed, acted, and co-wrote the script, next made The Last Movie, which was so self-indulgently awful and druggy that it was the last movie anyone let him direct for ten years. Divorced from Brooke (Haywire) Hayward, stoned and drunk, he hung out in Taos augmenting his reputation as a wild man. He was inspired, to say the least, by his Apocalypse Now role, in 1979. A year later, he appeared in a small Canadian film; he was asked to take over as director, and Out of the Blue actually came in on schedule. By 1986, he had sobered up, and in 1989 he married a much younger woman. It didn’t last, but, in his ’50s, he did become a father again. His performances in Blue Velvet and Hoosiers were among the best of his career. Two years later, he directed Colors quite respectably. No one tops over-the-top Hopper in the realm of menace; his gallery of middle-aged oddballs, freaks, and psychos is usually worth the price of admission.
Occupation: Actor, Director
Date of Birth: May 17, 1936
Place of Birth: Dodge City, Kan., USA
Sign: Sun in Taurus, Moon in Aries
Relations: Wife: Victoria Duffy; ex-wives: Katherine LaNasa, Daria Halprin, Michelle Phillips (married eight days), Brooke Hayward; kids: Marin (daughter of Brooke Hayward), Ruthana (daughter of Daria Halprin), Henry Lee (son of Katherine LaNasa)
Education: High school
Fan Mail: C/O Creative Artists Agency
9830 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
USA.
Dennis Hopper: Credits
MOVIES
Actor
Jesus’ Son — 2000
EDtv — 1999
Meet the Deedles — 1998
Basquiat — 1996
Carried Away — 1996
Search and Destroy — 1995
Waterworld — 1995
Speed — 1994
The Heart of Justice — 1993
Super Mario Bros. — 1993
True Romance — 1993
Boiling Point — 1993
Nails — 1992
Midnight Heat — 1992
Red Rock West — 1992
Eye of the Storm — 1991
Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse — 1991
Doublecrossed — 1991
The Indian Runner — 1991
Paris Trout — 1991
Hollywood Mavericks — 1990
Chattahoochee — 1990
Flashback — 1990
Backtrack — 1989
Blood Red — 1989
Motion and Emotion — 1989
Colors — 1988
The Pick-Up Artist — 1987
Straight to Hell — 1987
River’s Edge — 1987
Black Widow — 1987
Blue Velvet — 1986
Hoosiers — 1986
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 — 1986
Riders of the Storm — 1986
Stark: Mirror Image — 1986
My Science Project — 1985
Stark — 1985
Slagskampen — 1984
O. C. and Stiggs — 1984
Rumble Fish — 1983
The Osterman Weekend — 1983
Out of the Blue — 1983
White Star — 1982
Reborn — 1981
King of the Mountain — 1981
Let It Rock — 1981
Apocalypse Now — 1979
L’Ordre et la Securité du Monde — 1978
Couleur Chair — 1977
Les Apprentis Sorciers — 1977
The American Friend — 1977
Tracks — 1976
Mad Dog Morgan — 1976
The Sky Is Falling — 1975
Kid Blue — 1973
Crush Proof — 1972
The Last Movie/Chinchero — 1971
True Grit — 1969
Easy Rider — 1969
Hang ‘Em High — 1968
Panic in the City — 1968
Cool Hand Luke — 1967
The Glory Stompers — 1967
The Trip — 1967
Planet of Blood — 1966
The Sons of Katie Elder — 1965
Tarzan and Jane Regained . . . Sort Of — 1964
Mad Dog Morgan/Mad Dog — 1961
Night Tide — 1961
Key Witness — 1960
The Young Land — 1959
From Hell to Texas — 1958
Sayonara — 1957
The Story of Mankind — 1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral — 1957
Giant — 1956
Rebel Without a Cause — 1955
I Died a Thousand Times — 1955
Director
Chasers — 1994
The Hot Spot — 1990
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol — 1990
Backtrack — 1989
Colors — 1988
Out of the Blue — 1983
The Last Movie/Chinchero — 1971
Easy Rider — 1969
Screenwriter
The Last Movie/Chinchero — 1971
Other Movie Credits
The American Dreamer — 1971 (Co-Screenwriter)
Easy Rider — 1969 (Co-Screenwriter)
BOOKS
Out of the Sixties
TV
King of the Hill — 1997 (Voice only)
Inside the Actors Studio — 1995 (Series)
Witch Hunt — 1994 (Movie)
Addicted to Fame — 1994 (Special)
The Heart of Justice — 1993 (Movie)
Sunset Heat — 1992 (Movie)
Nails — 1992 (Movie)
Paris Trout — 1991 (Movie)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse — 1991 (Special)
Doublecrossed — 1991 (Movie)
Dennis Hopper — 1991 (Special)
The 16th Annual People’s Choice Awards — 1990 (Special)
Montgomery Clift: His Place in the Sun — 1989 (Special)
Keith Haring: Drawing the Line — 1989 (Special)
Rolling Stone Magazine’s 20 Years of Rock ‘n’ Roll — 1987 (Special; host)
Stark: Mirror Image (Stark II) — 1986 (Movie)
Stark — 1985 (Movie)
Wild Times — 1980 (Mini-Series)
Twilight Zone — 1963 (Appearance)
The Loretta Young Show — 1962 - 1963 (Series)
The Twilight Zone — 1959 - 1963 (Appearance)
Conflict — 1957 (Appearance)
Medic — 1955 (Appearance)
COMMERCIALS
Nike
Home Box Office
Comme des Garçons model
Topics: Actor, Celebrities, Director
Tags: Actor, Backtrack, Basquiat, Blood Red, Boiling Point, Carried Away, Chattahoochee, Dennis Hopper, Director, EDtv, flashback, Haywar, Hollywood, Speed, Waterworld
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