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 . 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. In 1990, Dennis Hopper directed The Hot Spot, which was not a box-office hit. Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Actor Dennis Hopper died at his home in Venice, California, Saturday morning, his wife said. He was 74. 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. It began in 1986 when he played an alcoholic ex-basketball star in "Hoosiers," which brought him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. "Much of Hollywood," wrote critic-historian David Thomson, "found Hopper a pain in the neck.". The artist I came to know was a serious careerist calculating his return from illegality and literal madness, tenaciously managing his sobriety. 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. In later years he picked up some income by becoming a pitchman for Ameriprise Financial, aiming ads at baby boomers looking ahead to retirement. RIP Dennis Hopper.". There was no cocaine before Easy Rider on the street. [68] On October 2, he was discharged after receiving treatment for dehydration. Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper has died after a long bout with prostate cancer, according to reports. Hopper's manager announced in October 2009 that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He was 74. "[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. 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. He was divorcing his fifth wife after 18 years together, obtaining an emergency restraining order to keep her at a 10-foot distance. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. But the private Dennis I spent a decade alongside, working on his biography, had a different persona. The print sold at Christie's, New York, for US$302,500 in January 2011. According to Torn's suit, it was actually Hopper who pulled the knife on him. 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 had a supporting role as the bet-taker, "Babalugats", in Cool Hand Luke (1967). Upon visiting Hopper for that story: Uh, like, man, sorry, you gotta come in through the garage. His limp handshake trembled. The same year, he starred as Deacon, the one-eyed nemesis of Kevin Costner in Waterworld. Lovecraft in the TV movie Witch Hunt. [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". UPDATE: Here's the Associated Press obituary. He was divorcing his fifth wife after 18 years together, obtaining an "emergency. Dennis Lee Hopper was born in 1936, in Dodge City, Kan., and spent much of his youth on the nearby farm of his grandparents. Here is all you want to know, and more! Stepping in for an overwhelmed director, Hopper won praise in 1980 for his directing and acting in Out of the Blue. When Hopper was a teenager, his family settled in San Diego, California, where he began performing at the Old . His credits include no fewer than six films released in 2008 and at least 25 over the past 10 years. In 1995, Hopper played a greedy TV self-help guru, Dr. Luther Waxling in Search and Destroy. "[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. Hopper and his wife were involved in a highly public and bitter divorce fight in the last months of his life. [69], On October 29, 2009, Hopper's manager Sam Maydew reported that he had been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. Hopper struck up a friendship with actor Vincent Price, whose passion for art influenced Hopper's interest in art. 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". From there he went to Warner Bros., where he made "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Giant" while in his late teens. Shunned by the Hollywood studios, he found work in European films that were rarely seen in the United States. Advances in treatment for metastatic prostate cancer have improved outlook for men with the disease. [36] His painting style ranges from abstract impressionism to photorealism and often includes references to his cinematic work and to other artists. 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. He married his fifth wife, Victoria Duffy, who was 32 years his junior, in 1996, and they had a daughter, Galen Grier. Was he holding on to his sobriety? In 2011, Barricade Books published film historian Peter L. Winkler's biography, Dennis Hopper: The Wild Ride of a Hollywood Rebel. Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper has died after a long bout with prostate cancer, according to reports. Seemed like a potential story for my then-employer, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner daily newspaper. 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. [1][2], Hopper made his directorial film debut with Easy Rider (1969), which he and co-star Peter Fonda wrote with Terry Southern. For the next year, I researched Hopper while he became known as the hardest-working man in show business. On my own dime, I ranged far and wide in New Mexico, tracking down contacts from his drug- and alcohol-fueled lost years of the 1970s, when he lived on legendary art patron Mabel Dodge Luhans Taos estate. He was a two-time Academy Award nominee, and in March 2010, was honored with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. 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. 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. Scouted by the studios, Hopper was under contract to Columbia until he insulted the boss, Harry Cohn. 25 Feb/23. 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. 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He was especially fond of the plays of William Shakespeare. [64] The hearing also dealt with who would be the beneficiary on Hopper's life insurance policy, which listed his wife as a beneficiary. 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.". As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. In 2008 he also played The Death in Wim Wenders' Palermo Shooting. Dennis Weaver was a vegetarian since 1958 [12] and student of yoga and meditation since the 1960s and a devoted follower of Paramahansa Yogananda, the Indian guru who established the Self-Realization Fellowship in the United States. 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. But alcohol and drugs continued to interfere with his work. Produced for the Starz cable channel, the show had Mr. Hopper portraying a music producer unhinged by years of drug use. Mr. Hopper, who said he stopped drinking and using drugs in the mid-1980s, followed that change with a tireless phase of his career in which he claimed to have turned down no parts. Find out the cause of death and more exciting information regarding the death of this famous movie actor. Known in the motion picture industry for his anti-establishment. Upon his release, Hopper joined Alcoholics Anonymous, quit drugs and launched yet another comeback. Hopper, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer in October 2009, was surrounded by his children when he died, Victoria Hopper told CNN. Hopper was unable to capitalize on his Easy Rider success for several years. Later, he moved to New York to study at the Actors Studio, where Dean had learned his craft. 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. Market data provided by Factset. 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. The cause was complications from metastasized prostate cancer, according to a statement issued by Alex Hitz, a family friend. Its not that he wouldnt; its that he couldnt sign any book contract. Actress Marlee Matlin called Hopper a "maverick, a wonderful actor. In the 1950s, he had roles in several TV shows and films, including "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) and "Giant" (1956). Mr. Hopper first won praise in Hollywood as a teenager in 1955 for his portrayal of an epileptic on the NBC series Medic and for a small part in the James Dean film Rebel Without a Cause.. It was my mind.. Hopper's first wife was Brooke Hayward, the daughter of actress Margaret Sullavan and agent Leland Hayward, and author of the best-selling memoir "Haywire." Know anything about these things?, Not much. I felt his laundry: wet. He appeared as a "crazed referee" in those ads. I wish Victoria the best but only want to spend these difficult days surrounded by my children and close friends, he said in the release. Fonda produced "Easy Rider" and Hopper directed it for a meager $380,000. Dennis Hopper, the maverick director and costar of the landmark 1969 counterculture film classic "Easy Rider" whose drug- and alcohol-fueled reputation as a Hollywood bad boy preceded his. According to Hopper, Torn was originally cast in the film but was replaced with Jack Nicholson after the incident. 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. Getty Images "It was the first show-biz hotel to allow black. [56], Despite being a Republican, Hopper supported Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election. Production was reportedly often delayed by his unreliable behavior. [21] Their long hair became a point of contention in various scenes during the film.[21]. May 30, 2010, 3:43 PM. Born on May 17, 1936, in Dodge City, Kan., and raised on a nearby farm, Dennis Lee Hopper moved with his family to San Diego in the late 1940s. He was 74. Hopper debuted in an episode of the Richard Boone television series Medic in 1955, portraying a young epileptic. His paranoid eyes avoided mine. 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.". His body was buried at the Jesus Nazareno Cemetery in Ranchos de Taos. [60] On March 9, 2010, Duffy refused to move out of the Hopper home, despite the court's order that she do so by March 15. 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). Hopper filmed scenes for The Other Side of the Wind in 1971, appearing as himself; after decades of legal, financial and technical delays, the film was finally released on Netflix in 2018.[6]. He made his first television appearance in 1955, and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. Hopper also began a prolific and acclaimed photography career in the 1960s. Around that time, Ms. Hayward gave him a camera as a gift, and Mr. Hopper took up photography. [17] Hopper acted in another John Wayne film, True Grit (1969), and during its production, he became well acquainted with Wayne. 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O'Brien and M. Netter, in, "Citizen Hopper", interview with C. Hodenfield, in. With Hopper hailed as a brilliant filmmaker, Universal Pictures lavished $850,000 on his next project, "The Last Movie.". He was a prolific photographer, painter, and sculptor. [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. But, again, he made a remarkable comeback, starting with a memorable performance as a drugged-out journalist in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic, "Apocalypse Now," a spectacularly long and troubled film to shoot. It went on to gross $40 million worldwide, a substantial sum for its time. 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. 36 on the AFI's list of top 50 movie villains. 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. 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. 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). What went down behind those corrugated steel walls of Dennis Hopper's Venice fortress as he lay dying at age 74? Cash said the song was written by Kris Kristofferson about Hopper. 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. "A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.". [34] One of the first art works Hopper owned was an early print of Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans bought for US$75. Soon he was traveling in social circles with Dean and was linked romantically with Natalie Wood and Joanne Woodward. Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Actor Dennis Hopper died at his home in Venice, California, Saturday morning, his wife said. Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and artist. The media is focusing on the psychopathic roles and his 1960s iconic status. As I described interviewing an eccentric Taos Square hotel owner, Hoppers face changed complexion, acquired a ghastly hue. 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). Hopper had had bit roles in "Rebel Without A Cause" and "Giant" with fellow actor James Dean. 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.. In 2003, 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. [16] In 1961, Hopper played his first lead role in Night Tide, an atmospheric supernatural thriller involving a mermaid in an amusement park. Hopper was 74 at the time of his death and the cause was "complications from metastasized. 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. He married five times and led a dramatic life right to the end. Upon his release, Hopper joined Alcoholics Anonymous, quit drugs and launched yet another comeback. [citation needed] Hopper's early photography is known for portraits from the 1960s, and he began shooting portraits for Vogue and other magazines. 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. Dennis Hopper (May 17, 1936 - May 29, 2010) was an American actor, director, writer, film editor, photographer and artist. 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. [40] German film director Wim Wenders said of Hopper that if hed only been a photographer, hed be one of the great photographers of the twentieth century.[39] In The New Yorker, Hopper, as photographer, was described as "a compelling, important, and weirdly omnipresent chronicler of his times. Or a final chance to play the lead in a Shakespeare tragedy? The film Alpha and Omega, which was among his last film roles, was dedicated to him, as was the 2011 film Restless, which starred his son Henry Hopper. [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. Trouble on the set developed almost immediately, as Peruvian authorities pestered the company, drug-induced orgies were reported and Hopper seemed out of control. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. They had a daughter, Marin, before Hopper's drug-induced violence led to divorce after eight years. 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 also left behind valuable life lessons about prostate cancer.. Dennis Hopper reached the respectable age of 74 years. The title was prescient. All rights reserved. Dennis Hopper died at age 74, respectable. The title was prescient. [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. Described as a pothead, womanizer, and drunk, the late actor Larry Hagman lived life like an eternal party. 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. 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.. His photographs of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington and the 1965 civil-rights march in Selma, Alabama, were published. Scouted by the studios, Hopper was under contract to Columbia until he insulted the boss, Harry Cohn. Check the lint trap?. Actor known for his dramatic performances in films such as Easy Rider, Blue Velvet, and Speed.

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