“For the last four years I have been working on having this retrospective, and that is all I have done. I have done just a couple of movies just to keep some money in my pocket.”
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Dennis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and visual artist. He is considered one of the key figures of the New Hollywood era. He earned prizes from the Cannes Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.
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Born 17 May 1936 · Died 29 May 2010 · Q102711
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2026· 5 entries
“It is the most important thing that ever happened to me, to be here at this museum.”
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“I am very humbled by having this show.”
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“The cocaine problem in the United States is really because of me. There was no cocaine before Easy Rider on the street. After Easy Rider, it was everywhere”
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The Guardian: ‘The Edward Hopper of the Black Country’: the photographer whose epic shots captured Sikh life in Walsall
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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: On the road: Dennis Hopper's 1960s photography
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2018· 1 entry
The Guardian: Observer picture archive: Dennis Hopper, 24 October 1982
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: Dennis Hopper documents the 1960s – in pictures
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2013· 1 entry
HarperCollins published Hopper: A Journey into the American Dream, a biography by American writer Tom Folsom
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2011· 1 entry
Barricade Books published film historian Peter L
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2010· 5 entries
Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (2010).
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At San Francisco de Asis Mission Church in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico
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Died 2010-05-29.
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Was honored with the 2,403rd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of Grauman's Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard
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Hopper filed for divorce from his fifth wife Victoria Duffy
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2009· 2 entries
Hopper's manager Sam Maydew reported that he had been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer
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Hopper, then 73, was reportedly taken by ambulance to an unidentified Manhattan hospital wearing an oxygen mask and "with numerous tubes visible"
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2008· 3 entries
Also played The Death in Wim Wenders' Palermo Shooting
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Hopper starred in An American Carol
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Hopper was honored with the rank of commander of France's National Order of Arts and Letters, at a ceremony in Paris
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2005· 1 entry
Hopper played Paul Kaufman in George A
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2003· 1 entry
Hopper was in the running for the dual lead in the indie horror drama Firecracker, but was ousted at the last minute in favor of Mike Patton
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Donostia Award (2002).
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1999· 1 entry
Starred in The Prophet's Game (a dark thriller), directed by David Worth and also starring Stephanie Zimbalist, Robert Yocum, Sondra Locke, Joe Penny and Tracey Birdsall
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1996· 2 entries
Starred in the science fiction comedy Space Truckers directed by Stuart Gordon
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Appeared as art dealer Bruno Bischofberger in Basquiat
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1995· 3 entries
Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor - Razzie Award for Waterworld (1995).
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Awarded MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for Speed (1995).
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Hopper played a greedy television self-help guru, Dr
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1994· 1 entry
Rip Torn filed a defamation lawsuit against Hopper over a story Hopper told on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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1993· 1 entry
Played Clifford Worley in True Romance
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1988· 1 entry
Directed Colors, a critically acclaimed police procedural about gang violence in Los Angeles starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall
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1987· 2 entries
Acted in the neo-noir thriller Black Widow alongside Debra Winger, the action comedy Straight to Hell, the adventure film Running Out of Luck starring Mick Jagger and the romantic comedy The Pick-up Artist starring Mo
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Commissioned an industrial-style main residence, with a corrugated metal exterior designed by Brian Murphy, as a place to display his artwork
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor for Blue Velvet (1986).
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“You have to let me play Frank Booth. Because I am Frank Booth!”
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1980· 1 entry
For his directing and acting in Out of the Blue
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1971· 1 entry
Appearing as himself; after decades of legal, financial and technical delays, the film was finally released on Netflix in 2018
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1970· 2 entries
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"
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Filmed The Last Movie, cowritten by Stewart Stern and photographed by László Kovács in Peru, and completed production in 1971
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1968· 1 entry
Hopper teamed with Peter Fonda, Terry Southern and Jack Nicholson to make Easy Rider, which premiered in July 1969
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1961· 2 entries
With a camera bought for him by his first wife Brooke Hayward
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Hopper played his first lead role in Night Tide, an atmospheric supernatural thriller involving a mermaid in an amusement park
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1959· 1 entry
Hopper moved to New York to study Method acting under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio
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1956· 1 entry
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
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1954· 2 entries
But he was quoted as saying he was not in Hollywood when the film was made
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And soon after appeared in two of the films that made James Dean famous, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956)
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1936· 2 entries
Born 1936-05-17.
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In Dodge City, Kansas, to Marjorie Mae (née Davis; July 12, 1917 – January 12, 2007) and Jay Millard Hopper (June 23, 1916 – August 7, 1982)
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