[58], On January 14, 2010, Hopper filed for divorce from his fifth wife Victoria Duffy. The same year, he starred as Deacon, the one-eyed nemesis of Kevin Costner in Waterworld. In 1968, Hopper teamed with Peter Fonda, Terry Southern and Jack Nicholson to make Easy Rider, which premiered in July 1969. His last major feature film appearance was in the 2008 film Elegy with Ben Kingsley, Penlope Cruz and Debbie Harry. In the 1950s, he had roles in several TV shows and films, including "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) and "Giant" (1956). Hopper plays an aging hippie prankster in the 1990 comedy Flashback, fleeing in a Furthur-like old bus to the tune of Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild". Actor known for his dramatic performances in films such as Easy Rider, Blue Velvet, and Speed. [56], Despite being a Republican, Hopper supported Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election. [50], According to Rolling Stone magazine, Hopper was "one of Hollywood's most notorious drug addicts" for 20 years. His second marriage, to singer-actress Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas, lasted only eight days. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. 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. ", 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. Although he would act crazier and astutely risk more than just about any performer his managers warned that Blue Velvet was irredeemable, called Rivers Edge a career killer he no longer could risk excessive behavior. I pried at its edge with my keys until the trap cracked loose. The image was reproduced on the invitation for Ed Ruscha's second solo exhibition at Ferus Gallery in 1964. His lawyer said Hopper was too ill to attend a divorce hearing, but his older children, an 18-year-old son and two adult daughters, sat in a back row of the courtroom. After moving to San Diego with his family, he played Shakespeare at the Old Globe Theater. Share your favorite Hopper moments in the comments section, and scroll down for video highlights from his career. Fonda tried to get . [13] It was there that he developed an interest in acting, studying at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, and the Actors Studio in New York City (he studied with Lee Strasberg for five years). 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. 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. The idea was to break through inhibitions in order to become a better artist.. [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]. 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. [53], In 1994, Rip Torn filed a defamation lawsuit against Hopper over a story Hopper told on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. 36 on the AFI's list of top 50 movie villains. After moving to San Diego with his family, he played Shakespeare at the Old Globe Theater. Stepping in for an overwhelmed director, Hopper won praise in 1980 for his directing and acting in Out of the Blue. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, All the winners of the 2023 Independent Spirit Awards: live updates, Photographer Delaney George turns the lens on femininity: Black women are fine art, A take on Jesus Revolution from one who was there, defending Rowling and more, Desperate mountain residents trapped by snow beg for help; We are coming, sheriff says, Newsom, IRS give Californians until October to file tax returns, Californias snowpack is approaching an all-time record, with more on the way, David Lindley, guitarist best known for work with Jackson Browne, dies at 78. Upon his release, Hopper joined Alcoholics Anonymous, quit drugs and launched yet another comeback. 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). 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." 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.. 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. The artist I came to know was a serious careerist calculating his return from illegality and literal madness, tenaciously managing his sobriety. Hopper also began a prolific and acclaimed photography career in the 1960s. UPDATE: Here's the Associated Press obituary. Also in 1986, Hopper portrayed Lt. Enright in the comedy horror The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. I reported back on my progress. The report,. In 1990, Dennis Hopper directed The Hot Spot, which was not a box-office hit. 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.. 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. It allows hot air to circulate. The lint trap wouldnt budge. "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.". A union with actress Daria Halprin also ended in divorce after they had a daughter, Ruthana. Will Dominion-Fox News lawsuit be different? If a persons manner of dying is a distillation of his life, then Hoppers death seemed a revisit of the same stories about a man once called the patron saint of the deranged. Never an easy rider. Dennis Lee Hopper was born in 1936, in Dodge City, Kan., and spent much of his youth on the nearby farm of his grandparents. Shunned by the Hollywood studios, he found work in European films that were rarely seen in the United States. 25 Feb/23. He had . He was 74. Actor known for his dramatic performances in films such as Easy Rider, Blue Velvet, and Speed. Hopper forced Hathaway to shoot more than 80 takes of a scene over several days before he acquiesced to Hathaway's direction. He was nominated for an Emmy Award[26] for the 1991 HBO film Paris Trout. Hopper had a supporting role as the bet-taker, "Babalugats", in Cool Hand Luke (1967). He married his fifth wife, Victoria Duffy, who was 32 years his junior, in 1996, and they had a daughter, Galen Grier. Dennis died of prostate cancer on May 29, 2010, less than two weeks after his 74th birthday. More details soon. The media is focusing on the psychopathic roles and his 1960s iconic status. Mr. Hoppers five marriages included one of eight days in 1970 to the singer Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas. Dennis Hopper Death Certificate 6/7/2010 7:43 PM PT TMZ has just obtained Dennis Hopper 's death certificate . RIP Dennis Hopper.". [20], Besides showing drug use on film, it was one of the first films to portray the hippie lifestyle. The license, held by Hof, was nontransferable. Getty Images "It was the first show-biz hotel to allow black. 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. 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. Actor, Motion Picture Director. 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. 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. Dallas actor Larry Hagman led a double life and kept many secrets long after he was . "'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me," Hopper said in 2009. They battled over his valuable artworks. Obviously, the Hollywood star didnt want to go back into that dark decade. "I just want to thank you," Hopper said, as he smiled broadly. [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. ", Hopper made it to the top of the box office in the 1994 hit "Speed," in which he played the maniacal plotter of a freeway disaster. He also left behind valuable life lessons about prostate cancer.. The Dennis Hopper Trust Collection represents Hopper's directorial efforts.[79]. Hopper repeatedly mentioned a knife fight with Rip Torn on the Easy Rider location, but that never happened either. officer, in which he was originally cast. His politics, like much of his life, were unpredictable. With the release of True Grit a month earlier, Hopper had starring roles in two major box-office films that summer. Illness and death Multi-talented and unconventional actor/director regarded by many as one of the true "enfant terribles" of Hollywood who led an amazing cinematic career for more than five decades, Dennis Hopper was born on May 17, 1936, in Dodge City, Kansas. Share your favorite Hopper moments in the comments section, and scroll down for video highlights from his career. "A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.". 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. While funeral arrangements have not been decided, Hopper's wish was to be buried in Taos, New Mexico, his wife said. 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. Pushed into acting by his mother, Hopper began in summer stock and on the New York stage. You always got something unexpected from him. Hopper, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer in. He was 74. The marriage lasted eight days. This brought the directors to dedicate the film to his memory at the beginning of the movie credits. Hopper died May 29, 2010, in Los Angeles, 12 days after his 74th birthday. The film caught on despite tension between Hopper and Fonda and between Hopper and the original choice for Nicholson's part, Rip Torn, who quit after a bitter argument with the director. The mother he had violent sex fantasies about, though I never acted on them, he told me back in 1985. 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." Years later, Hopper told Jay Leno on The Tonight Show that hed fired Torn from Easy Rider after the actor pulled a knife. He soon left for New York, where he studied with Lee Strasberg for several years, performed on stage and acted in more than 100 episodes of television shows. [9] Hopper had two brothers, Marvin and David.[10]. Hopper found greater fame for portraying the villains of the films Super Mario Bros. (1993), Speed (1994), and Waterworld (1995). He deathly feared opening a Pandoras past that might include deeds hed literally forgotten. ", 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. The actor made his last public appearance on March 26, when his star was dedicated on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. 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 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.". 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. Before Easy Rider, Hopper had starred in a biker movie called The Glory Stompers, Fonda did the Corman movie The Wild Angels, and Nicholson acted in Hells Angels on Wheels. His second marriage, to singer-actress Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas, lasted only eight days. His eye for modern art was uncanny, resulting in a multimillion-dollar collection. He also played the part of record producer Ben Cendars in the Starz television series Crash, which lasted two seasons (26 episodes). In gratitude for resurrecting his career and because, he said, I knew the art world, Hopper asked me to collaborate on his biography. The remaining US$750,000 was to go to his estate. His credits include no fewer than six films released in 2008 and at least 25 over the past 10 years. 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. He said:. When Hopper was a teenager, his family settled in San Diego, California, where he began performing at the Old . [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). 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. He was a two-time Academy Award nominee, and in March 2010, was honored with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. All rights reserved. While we worked on the biography, Hollywood rediscovered a born-again actor. Mr. Hopper edited the film while living at Los Gallos, a 22-room adobe house in Taos, N.M., that he rechristened the Mud Palace and envisioned as a counterculture Hollywood. Upon wrapping the scene, Mr. Hopper later recalled, Mr. Hathaway told him that his career in Hollywood was finished. [14] In 1993, he played Clifford Worley in True Romance. 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. 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. [citation needed], He has been widely reported to be the godfather of actress Amber Tamblyn;[52] in a 2009 interview with Parade, Tamblyn explained that "godfather" was "just a loose term" for Hopper, Dean Stockwell and Neil Young, three famous friends of her father's, who were always around the house when she was growing up, and who were big influences on her life. 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. [77][78] His funeral took place on June 3, 2010, at San Francisco de Asis Mission Church in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. Hopper's later work included a leading role in the short-lived television series Crash (20082009), inspired by the film of the same name. 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? 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. From there he went to Warner Bros., where he made "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Giant" while in his late teens. ", "Work is fun to me," he told a reporter in 1991. Thanks so much, man., Thus began a tortured, 10-year relationship. You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! 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. His off-camera personality will remain in my memory long after his personas fade from the screen. 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. In Taos, I met many people who loathed Hopper, and many who remembered him as their hero and champion and friend. According to The New York Times, Dennis Hopper died on May 29, 2010, in his California home. "A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.". 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). 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. ", "So long Dennis," tweeted actress Virginia Madsen, who starred in "The Hot Spot." He returned to directing, with "Colors," "The Hot Spot" and "Chasers. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2009. "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. Five months after former brothel owner and reality TV star Dennis Hof was found dead in his bedroom in Nevada, an autopsy report confirmed his cause of death as a heart attack. "U taught me so much.". [citation needed] Hopper's early photography is known for portraits from the 1960s, and he began shooting portraits for Vogue and other magazines. Though Hopper died two weeks later, Duffy insisted at the hearing that he was well enough to be deposed. He was 74. [57] Hopper confirmed this in an election day appearance on the ABC daytime show The View. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Hopper died Saturday at his home in the Los Angeles beach community of Venice, surrounded by family and friends, family friend Alex Hitz said. He spent much of the 1970s and early 1980s living as an "outcast" in Taos, New Mexico, after the success of Easy Rider. They were denied rooms in motels and proper service in restaurants as a result of their radical looks. What went down behind those corrugated steel walls of Dennis Hoppers Venice fortress as he lay dying at age 74? In 1995, Hopper played a greedy TV self-help guru, Dr. Luther Waxling in Search and Destroy. He also built an extensive collection of works by artists he knew, including Warhol, Ed Ruscha and Julian Schnabel. "[25] He won critical acclaim and several awards for this role, and in the same year received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as an alcoholic assistant basketball coach in Hoosiers. For example, was it true he was a close friend of James Deans? "'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me," Hopper said in 2009. In the storyline, the Kid gave Cheyenne Bodie no choice but to kill him in a gunfight. But I prefer to ignore the gossip blog rumors of mental incapacity that leaked out from Hoppers Venice compound during his long good night. 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). Hopper died Saturday at his home in the Los Angeles beach community of Venice, surrounded by family and friends, family friend Alex Hitz said. Or, perhaps, while dying he looked up at a teddy bear on a shelf the one handmade by his mother. Scouted by the studios, Hopper was under contract to Columbia until he insulted the boss, Harry Cohn. [16] In 1961, Hopper played his first lead role in Night Tide, an atmospheric supernatural thriller involving a mermaid in an amusement park. Part of HuffPost Entertainment. ", Guitarist Slash tweeted, "You take the great ones for granted until they're gone. May 30, 2010 -- Hollywood and fans were saddened by the news that legendary actor and director Dennis Hopper, 74, died Saturday from complications of prostate cancer. [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. Known in the motion picture industry for his anti-establishment. He became a Hollywood sensation for "Easy Rider," the 1969 film he directed and co-wrote in which he played a dissolute, counter cultural biker. The film caught on despite tension between Hopper and Fonda and between Hopper and the original choice for Nicholson's part, Rip Torn, who quit after a bitter argument with the director. Hopper died Saturday at his home in the Los Angeles beach community of Venice, surrounded by family and friends, family friend Alex Hitz said. He attended the Actors Studio, made his first television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared in Giant (1956). He confirmed his status as a rising star the next year, as the son of a wealthy rancher played by Rock Hudson in Giant, the epic western also starring Elizabeth Taylor and Dean. During his lifetime, Hopper's own work as well as his collection was shown in monographic and group exhibitions around the world including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; MAK Vienna: Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, Vienna; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Cinmathque Franaise, Paris, and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne. Dennis Hopper directing the film The Last Movie in 1971. 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. Fonda produced "Easy Rider" and Hopper directed it for a meager $380,000. Subsequently received leads at Warner Brothers in second features. Could you make time to work around my film schedule and do the book? 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 . Trouble on the set developed almost immediately, as Peruvian authorities pestered the company, drug-induced orgies were reported and Hopper seemed out of control. [63] On May 12, 2010, a hearing was held before Judge Amy Pellman in downtown Los Angeles Superior Court. "[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. A washer and dryer stood at the foot of the stairs to his Venice studio. Hed been to hell and back and somehow translated that journey into his work. Legal Statement. [22] During the tumultuous editing process, Hopper ensconced himself at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico, which he had purchased in 1970,[23] for almost an entire year. Or a final chance to play the lead in a Shakespeare tragedy? or redistributed. 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. Hopper's manager announced in October 2009 that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Hopper was unable to capitalize on his Easy Rider success for several years. 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.
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