When Hopper was a teenager, his family settled in San Diego, California, where he began performing at the Old . 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 . 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. LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 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. With Hopper hailed as a brilliant filmmaker, Universal Pictures lavished $850,000 on his next project, "The Last Movie.". All rights reserved. Lovecraft in the TV movie Witch Hunt. In the next ten years he made a name in television, and by the end of the 1960 With Hopper hailed as a brilliant filmmaker, Universal Pictures lavished $850,000 on his next project, "The Last Movie.". In March 2010, it was announced that Hopper was on the "short list" for Jeffrey Deitch's inaugural show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). [56], Despite being a Republican, Hopper supported Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election. It was so. Looking frail, he began his brief acceptance speech by sardonically thanking the paparazzi for supposedly distracting him and causing him to lose his balance and fall the day before. [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 teamed with Nike in the early 1990s to make a series of television commercials. Hopper appeared in all 22 episodes that were filmed. Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and artist. Thats gotta be my focus., Doubleday pulled the plug on our initial effort to collaborate and Hopper went on to direct Colors., After Colors opened, without preamble Hopper phoned. Getty Images "It was the first show-biz hotel to allow black. Hopper starred as a U.S. Army colonel in the 2005 television series E-Ring, a drama set at The Pentagon, but the series was canceled after 14 episodes aired. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. Hopper forced Hathaway to shoot more than 80 takes of a scene over several days before he acquiesced to Hathaway's direction. Trouble on the set developed almost immediately, as Peruvian authorities pestered the company, drug-induced orgies were reported and Hopper seemed out of control. Hopper's manager announced in October 2009 that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He was twice nominated for Oscars. During a promotional tour last fall for that series, he fell ill; shortly thereafter, he began a new round of treatments for prostate cancer, which he said had been first diagnosed a decade ago. Actor Dennis Hopper left behind a legacy of movie achievements when he died on May 29, 2010, at age 74 from prostate cancer. He was a two-time Academy Award nominee, and in March 2010, was honored with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Hopper and his wife were involved in a highly public and bitter divorce fight in the last months of his life. You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! "Much of Hollywood," wrote critic-historian David Thomson, "found Hopper a pain in the neck.". Hopper, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer in. I wonder if Hopper saw his exit as a last movie? The establishment gave official blessing in 1998 when "Easy Rider" was included in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Now wouldnt that make you a paranoiac? Dennis asked rhetorically. ", "So long Dennis," tweeted actress Virginia Madsen, who starred in "The Hot Spot." Most recently, Mr. Hopper starred in the television series Crash, an adaptation of the Oscar-winning film of the same title. We hung out together while my tape recorder consumed cassette after cassette of Dennis Hopper stories. [14] In 1993, he played Clifford Worley in True Romance. Hes the only actor in Hollywood whos had as many women as me, Hopper rationalized. 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. His intimate and unguarded images of celebrities like Ike and Tina Turner, Andy Warhol and Jane Fonda were the subject of gallery shows and were collected in a book, 1712 North Crescent Heights. The book, whose title was his address in the Hollywood Hills in the 1960s, was edited by Marin Hopper, his daughter by Ms. Hayward. Given nearly $1 million by Universal for a follow-up project, he retreated with a cadre of hippies to Peru to shoot The Last Movie, a hallucinogenic film about the making of a movie. On the set of "True Grit," Hopper so angered John Wayne that the star reportedly chased Hopper with a loaded gun. It went on to gross $40 million worldwide, a substantial sum for its time. He starred as King Koopa in Super Mario Bros., a 1993 critical and commercial failure loosely based on the video game of the same name. I was terribly nave in those days, he told The New York Times in 2002. He went on to helm his third directorial work Out of the Blue (1980), for which he was again honored at Cannes, and appeared in Rumble Fish, The Osterman Weekend (both 1983), and My Science Project (1985). 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. [1][2], Hopper made his directorial film debut with Easy Rider (1969), which he and co-star Peter Fonda wrote with Terry Southern. 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. A couple months before his death, he was honored with a star on the. Share your favorite Hopper moments in the comments section, and scroll down for video highlights from his career. He earned a second Oscar nomination for best supporting actor for his role as the alcoholic father of a troubled high school basketball star in Hoosiers (1986), and he honed his portrayal of unhinged villains in films like Blue Velvet (also in 1986), Speed (1994) and Waterworld (1995), as well as in the first season of the television series 24 (2002). After World War II, the family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where the young Hopper attended Saturday art classes at the Kansas City Art Institute. After moving to San Diego with his family, he played Shakespeare at the Old Globe Theater. After a promising start that included roles in two James Dean films, Hopper's acting career had languished as he developed a reputation for throwing tantrums and abusing alcohol and drugs. From there he went to Warner Bros., where he made "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Giant" while in his late teens. Hopper was drugged-out off camera, too, and his rambling chatter was worked into the final cut. [citation needed] Hopper's early photography is known for portraits from the 1960s, and he began shooting portraits for Vogue and other magazines. 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.. He married five times and led a dramatic life right to the end. 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. officer, in which he was originally cast. When Jeremy went to his room to wake him, he found Hof stone cold dead. Actor Dennis Hopper has died of complications from prostate cancer. [74] According to papers filed in his divorce court case, Hopper was terminally ill and was unable to undergo chemotherapy to treat his prostate cancer.[75][76]. which lists his cause of death as hepatic (liver) failure and prostate. 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. Dean's death in a car accident in September 1955 affected the young Hopper deeply and it was shortly afterward that he got into a confrontation with veteran director Henry Hathaway on the film From Hell to Texas (1958). In the next ten years he made a name for himself in television, and by the end of the 1960s had appeared in several films, notably Cool Hand Luke (1967) and Hang 'Em High (1968). Hopper was unable to capitalize on his Easy Rider success for several years. Hopper sought career counseling from Warren Beatty, who advised him not to write a tell-all book. [54], According to Newsmeat, Hopper donated US$2,000 to the Republican National Committee in 2004 and an equal amount in 2005. Lawsuit. Because I am Frank Booth! In 2008 he also played The Death in Wim Wenders' Palermo Shooting. Frazier. [33], Hopper's fascination with art began with painting lessons at the Nelson-Atkins Museum while still a child in Kansas City, Missouri. Dean's death in a car accident in September 1955 affected the young Hopper deeply and it was shortly afterward that he got into a confrontation with veteran director Henry Hathaway on the film From Hell to Texas (1958). Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. A washer and dryer stood at the foot of the stairs to his Venice studio. Shortly thereafter, he played drug smuggler and DEA informant Barry Seal in the HBO film Doublecrossed. A judge ruled in Torn's favor and Hopper was ordered to pay US$475,000 in damages. Mr. Hopper was seen mostly in small film parts until he returned to prominence with his performance in Apocalypse Now (1979). And there was a time when I had a lot of energy to display how crazy that was.. On the set of "True Grit," Hopper so angered John Wayne that the star reportedly chased Hopper with a loaded gun. He was a two-time Academy Award nominee, and in March 2010, was honored with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Fonda produced "Easy Rider" and Hopper directed it for a meager $380,000. In 1995, Hopper played a greedy TV self-help guru, Dr. Luther Waxling in Search and Destroy. Huberman said that the man who came to Houston in 1983 was still haunted by the likes of co-stars Dean . 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. He says people in this town never forget. Also in 1986, Hopper portrayed Lt. Enright in the comedy horror The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. The cancer spread to his bones and he died on May 29, 2010. 7. He was nominated for an Emmy Award[26] for the 1991 HBO film Paris Trout. [57] Hopper confirmed this in an election day appearance on the ABC daytime show The View. In the 2000s, he was featured in the television series "Crash" and such films as "Elegy" and "Hell Ride. Mostly on your own? The film earned Hopper a Cannes Film Festival Award for "Best First Work" and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (shared with Fonda and Southern). He remembered his mother: She was wild, very emotional, a screamer and a yeller. Upon visiting Hopper for that story: Uh, like, man, sorry, you gotta come in through the garage. His limp handshake trembled. The series starred Chuck Connors and the premiere episode "The Sharpshooter" was written by Sam Peckinpah.[28]. That film, Easy Rider, which Mr. Hopper wrote with Mr. Fonda and Terry Southern and directed, followed a pair of truth-seeking bikers (Mr. Fonda and Mr. Hopper) on a cross-country journey to New Orleans. A union with actress Daria Halprin also ended in divorce after they had a daughter, Ruthana. 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. The title was prescient. Market data provided by Factset. Sex is something that has to be in the book, he insisted. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Kan., and raised on a nearby farm, Dennis Lee Hopper moved with . The mother he had violent sex fantasies about, though I never acted on them, he told me back in 1985. 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". He attended the Actors Studio, made his first television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared alongside James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause and Giant (1956). UPDATE: Here's the Associated Press obituary. He also left behind valuable life lessons about prostate cancer.. [36] His painting style ranges from abstract impressionism to photorealism and often includes references to his cinematic work and to other artists. Known in the motion picture industry for his anti-establishment. In 2011, Barricade Books published film historian Peter L. Winkler's biography, Dennis Hopper: The Wild Ride of a Hollywood Rebel. ", From that point on, Hopper maintained a frantic work pace, appearing in many forgettable movies and a few memorable ones, including the 1994 hit "Speed," in which he played the maniacal plotter of a freeway disaster. Hopper had a supporting role as the bet-taker, "Babalugats", in Cool Hand Luke (1967). For years he lived in Los Angeles' bohemian beach community of Venice, in a house designed by acclaimed architect Frank Gehry. [47], On the Gorillaz album Demon Days, Hopper narrates the song "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head". In 1990, Dennis Hopper directed The Hot Spot, which was not a box-office hit. It won the prize for best first film at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival (though it faced only one competitor, as the critic Vincent Canby pointed out in a tepid 1969 review in The New York Times). Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Trouble on the set developed almost immediately, as Peruvian authorities pestered the company, drug-induced orgies were reported and Hopper seemed out of control. He also played the part of record producer Ben Cendars in the Starz television series Crash, which lasted two seasons (26 episodes). Hopper found greater fame for portraying the villains of the films Super Mario Bros. (1993), Speed (1994), and Waterworld (1995). When he finally completed filming, he retired to his home in Taos, N.M., to piece together the film, a process that took almost a year, in part because he was using psychedelic drugs for editing inspiration. From there he went to Warner Bros., where he made "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Giant" while in his late teens. He was 74. Hopper debuted in an episode of the Richard Boone television series Medic in 1955, portraying a young epileptic. Hopper and his fourth wife, dancer Katherine LaNasa, had a son, Henry, before divorcing. Hopper had 3 daughters and a son. 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. 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." Advances in treatment for metastatic prostate cancer have improved outlook for men with the disease. Dennis Hopper, in full Dennis Lee Hopper, (born May 17, 1936, Dodge City, Kansas, U.S.died May 29, 2010, Los Angeles, California), American film actor, director, and writer who rose to fame as a countercultural icon in the 1960s and later developed into a noted character actor. Hopper was drugged-out off camera, too, and his rambling chatter was worked into the final cut. 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. In 1988, he directed Colors, a critically acclaimed police procedural about gang violence in Los Angeles starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall. I used women all my life, just as I used alcohol and drugs. He also built an extensive collection of works by artists he knew, including Warhol, Ed Ruscha and Julian Schnabel. When, in 1985, NBC produced a TV movie, Perry Mason Returns, Hale was back as Della, and her son, William Katt, was cast as Paul Drake Jr, replacing Hopper, who had died in 1970. When he was 13, Hopper and his family moved to San Diego, where his mother worked as a lifeguard instructor and his father was a post office manager, having previously served in the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, in World War II in the China Burma India Theater. Hopper had several artistic pursuits beyond film. Dennis Hopper directing the film The Last Movie in 1971. Hopper was also "notorious for his troubled relationships with women", including Michelle Phillips, who divorced him after eight days of marriage. 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. He was signed as a small-part contract player at Paramount, 1935-37. [14] Hopper made his debut on film in two roles with James Dean (whom he admired immensely) in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). After staging a "suicide attempt" (really more of a daredevil act) in a coffin using 17 sticks of dynamite during an "art happening" at the Rice University Media Center (filmed by professor and documentary filmmaker Brian Huberman),[24] and later disappearing into the Mexican desert during a particularly extravagant bender, Hopper entered a drug rehabilitation program in 1983. 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? Actress Marlee Matlin called Hopper a "maverick, a wonderful actor. In both of the films with Wayne, Hopper's character is killed in the presence of Wayne's character, to whom he utters his dying words. He subsequently appeared in over 140 episodes of television shows such as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Petticoat Junction, The Twilight Zone, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, The Defenders, The Investigators, The Legend of Jesse James, Entourage, The Big Valley, The Time Tunnel, and Combat!. He said his reason for not voting Republican was the selection of Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential candidate. Torn won a defamation suit against Hopper when a judge ruled Hopper lied. But Hopper also was a man who could charm while seeing the truth beneath the masks of Hollywood. His role as a wild druggie in "Blue Velvet," also in 1986, won him more acclaim, and years later the character wound up No. . Hopper's manager announced in October 2009 that he. The remaining US$750,000 was to go to his estate. The same year, he starred as Deacon, the one-eyed nemesis of Kevin Costner in Waterworld. He married five times and led a dramatic life right to the end. Hopper won wide acclaim as the director for his improvisational methods and innovative editing for Easy Rider. 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. Check the lint trap?. 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. 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. Will Dominion-Fox News lawsuit be different? Illness and death The license, held by Hof, was nontransferable. [73], By March 2010, Hopper reportedly weighed only 100 pounds (45kg) and was unable to carry on long conversations. Hopper became a stereotype for some male youths who rejected traditional jobs and traditional American culture, partly exemplified by Fonda's long sideburns and Hopper wearing shoulder-length hair and a long mustache. The money theyre offering me is unbelievable, he said about another biography offer. [67], On September 28, 2009, Hopper, then 73, was reportedly taken by ambulance to an unidentified Manhattan hospital wearing an oxygen mask and "with numerous tubes visible". [45] The title of the exhibition, Double Standard, was taken from Hopper's iconic 1961 photograph of the two Standard Oil signs seen through an automobile windshield at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard, Melrose Avenue, and North Doheny Drive on historic Route 66 in Los Angeles.
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