Born May 17, 1936, in Dodge City, Kan., Dennis Hopper began his acting career with small parts on the high school stage. His first major film role came with Rebel Without a Cause (1955), starring friend James Dean. The pair later costarred in the Oscar-winning Giant (1956).Hopper spent much of the 1960s fighting for civil rights but returned to the big screen in 1969, directing, co-writing and starring in Easy Rider, for which he received a Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination. His appearance in 1979's Apocalypse Now was his only major role of that decade.
Hopper resurfaced in a string of supporting roles in the 1980s, including River's Edge, Blue Velvet and Hoosiers, which earned him a Best Supporting Actor nomination. He also returned to directing with the L.A. gang film Colors (1988) and became Hollywood's favorite villain actor with parts in Speed (1994) and Waterworld (1995).
AddBlue VelvetAn innocent (Kyle MacLachlan) gets mixed up in a small-town murder mystery involving a kinky nightclub chanteuse (Isabella Rossellini) and a kidnapper (Dennis Hopper) with a penchant for snorting helium. One of the most bizarre (and critically acclaimed) movies of the 1980s, Blue Velvet inspired a... Read More
AddEasy RiderWith cash from a cocaine sale, freewheelers Billy and Wyatt hop on their motorcycles and ride across America toward New Orleans. Along the way, they add boozy lawyer George to their trouble-finding, society-questioning entourage. Dennis Hopper writes, directs and stars in this landmark 1960s... Read More
Add AllCrash: Season 1Maverick record producer Ben (Dennis Hopper) searches for his last big hit in the melting pot of Los Angeles, where intertwining tales of the American dream collide in this gripping TV drama, based on Paul Haggis's Oscar-winning film of the same name. Like its source, the series -- which also stars... Read More
AddThe American FriendCunning American sociopath Tom Ripley (Dennis Hopper) sells forged paintings in Germany. Idealistic, happily married art restorer Jonathan Zimmermann (Bruno Ganz) is dying from a rare blood disease. But when Ripley arranges for the desperate family man to carry out a high-paying mob hit, the two... Read More
AddFlashbackIn this action-comedy, uptight yuppie FBI agent John Buckner (Kiefer Sutherland) must escort ex-1960s hippie radical Huey Walker (Dennis Hopper) to prison -- but he finds that the old burnout is a little cagier than he'd counted on. Walker gets Buckner intoxicated and steals his ID, landing the... Read More
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