More details soon. In later years he picked up some income by becoming a pitchman for Ameriprise Financial, aiming ads at baby boomers looking ahead to retirement. [70] In January 2010, it was reported that Hopper's cancer had metastasized to his bones. In later years he picked up some income by becoming a pitchman for Ameriprise Financial, aiming ads at baby boomers looking ahead to retirement. [36] His painting style ranges from abstract impressionism to photorealism and often includes references to his cinematic work and to other artists. He married five times and led a dramatic life right to the end. ", "Work is fun to me," he told a reporter in 1991. UPDATE: Here's the Associated Press obituary. [44] In April 2010, Deitch confirmed that Hopper's work, curated by Julian Schnabel, will indeed be the focus of his debut at MOCA. 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. The old rebel contributed money to the Republican Party in recent years, but also voted for Democrat Barack Obama in 2008. ", "Work is fun to me," he told a reporter in 1991. Dennis Hopper reached the respectable age of 74 years. Kan., and raised on a nearby farm, Dennis Lee Hopper moved with . He appeared as a "crazed referee" in those ads. While funeral arrangements have not been decided, Hopper's wish was to be buried in Taos, New Mexico, his wife said. The title of the exhibition, "Double Standard," is taken from a 1961 Hopper photograph of two Standard Oil signs seen through an automobile windshield on historic Route 66 in Los Angeles. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Lawsuit. Hopper repeatedly mentioned a knife fight with Rip Torn on the Easy Rider location, but that never happened either. Could you make time to work around my film schedule and do the book? He had died in the night of a heart attack. [33], Hopper's fascination with art began with painting lessons at the Nelson-Atkins Museum while still a child in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1988, he directed Colors, a critically acclaimed police procedural about gang violence in Los Angeles starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall. He was a prolific photographer, painter, and sculptor. The marriage lasted eight days. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! He studied at the Old Globe Theater there while in high school, then signed a contract with Warner Brothers and moved to Los Angeles. Anyone can read what you share. [32] He portrayed villain Victor Drazen in the first season of the popular action drama 24. Upon wrapping the scene, Mr. Hopper later recalled, Mr. Hathaway told him that his career in Hollywood was finished. [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). It began in 1986 when he played an alcoholic ex-basketball star in "Hoosiers," which brought him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. On reading the script Hopper said to Lynch: "You have to let me play Frank Booth. In his book Last Train to Memphis, American popular music historian Peter Guralnick says that in 1956, 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. 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 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. He died before the movie was released. [36] In 196067, before the making of Easy Rider, Hopper created 18,000 images that chronicled the remarkable artists, musicians, actors places, happenings, demonstrations, and concerts of that period. Hopper teamed with Nike in the early 1990s to make a series of television commercials. Hopper and his fourth wife, dancer Katherine LaNasa, had a son, Henry, before divorcing. 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. He was 74. [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. ", 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. Mr. Hopper was hospitalized in Los Angeles in January, at which time he also filed for divorce from his fifth wife, Victoria Duffy, with whom he had a young daughter. [61], On March 23, 2010, he filed papers in court alleging Duffy had absconded with US$1.5million of his art, refused his requests to return it, and then had "left town". Actor known for his dramatic performances in films such as Easy Rider, Blue Velvet, and Speed. Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Actor Dennis Hopper died at his home in Venice, California, Saturday morning, his wife said. Hopper died May 29, 2010, in Los Angeles, 12 days after his 74th birthday. Actor, Motion Picture Director. It went on to gross $40 million worldwide, a substantial sum for its time. You always got something unexpected from him. 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. Hopper was drugged-out off camera, too, and his rambling chatter was worked into the final cut. Dennis Hopper died at age 74, respectable. The same year, he starred as Deacon, the one-eyed nemesis of Kevin Costner in Waterworld. "A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.". Hopper took the outburst and insults "very personally" and made it a point to antagonize Brando the rest of the evening, first at a boxing match, then at a theater, he said. 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. The remaining US$750,000 was to go to his estate. In gratitude for resurrecting his career and because, he said, I knew the art world, Hopper asked me to collaborate on his biography. 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It allows hot air to circulate. The lint trap wouldnt budge. The Dennis Hopper Trust Collection represents Hopper's directorial efforts.[79]. "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. [1][2], Hopper made his directorial film debut with Easy Rider (1969), which he and co-star Peter Fonda wrote with Terry Southern. 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. His eye for modern art was uncanny, resulting in a multimillion-dollar collection. [68] On October 2, he was discharged after receiving treatment for dehydration. 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. Fonda produced "Easy Rider" and Hopper directed it for a meager $380,000. [53], In 1994, Rip Torn filed a defamation lawsuit against Hopper over a story Hopper told on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Suffered a stroke on 14 February 1970. His second marriage, to singer-actress Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas, lasted only eight days. ", 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. "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.". He had . "U taught me so much.". Biography - A Short Wiki. With the release of True Grit a month earlier, Hopper had starring roles in two major box-office films that summer. 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. 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. [27] In 1999, he starred in The Prophet's Game (a dark thriller), directed by David Worth and also starring Stephanie Zimbalist, Robert Yocum, Sandra Locke, Joe Penny and Tracey Birdsall. Or, perhaps, while dying he looked up at a teddy bear on a shelf the one handmade by his mother. Or afraid of facts Id dug up? It wasnt my liver, my kidneys and all that stuff that went. Scouted by the studios, Hopper was under contract to Columbia until he insulted the boss, Harry Cohn. Hopper found greater fame for portraying the villains of the films Super Mario Bros. (1993), Speed (1994), and Waterworld (1995). 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. It began in 1986 when he played an alcoholic ex-basketball star in "Hoosiers," which brought him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. He co-starred in the 1994 blockbuster Speed with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, and as magic-phobic H.P. 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). 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. "Sean Penn", interview with Julian Schnabel and Dennis Hopper, Krull, Craig. Fonda produced "Easy Rider" and Hopper directed it for a meager $380,000. Well, the D.A. Believe it or not, Dennis Hof was running for the Nevada State Legislature. 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]. Soon he was traveling in social circles with Dean and was linked romantically with Natalie Wood and Joanne Woodward. The film was a hit at Cannes, netted a best-screenplay Oscar nomination for Hopper, Fonda and Terry Southern, and has since been listed on the American Film Institute's ranking of the top 100 American films. Now wouldnt that make you a paranoiac? Dennis asked rhetorically. His politics, like much of his life, were unpredictable. In 2011, Barricade Books published film historian Peter L. Winkler's biography, Dennis Hopper: The Wild Ride of a Hollywood Rebel. Hopper appeared on the final two episodes of the cult 1991 television show Fishing with John with host John Lurie. Murdoch has survived scandal after scandal. 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. As I described interviewing an eccentric Taos Square hotel owner, Hoppers face changed complexion, acquired a ghastly hue. Id rather remember the secretive, serious, focused artist who never fully revealed himself to me and maybe never to anyone. Hes the only actor in Hollywood whos had as many women as me, Hopper rationalized. 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. Around that time, Ms. Hayward gave him a camera as a gift, and Mr. Hopper took up photography. 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." His credits include no fewer than six films released in 2008 and at least 25 over the past 10 years. And he was broke at that time, Hollywood considered him unemployable. [56], Despite being a Republican, Hopper supported Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election. A judge ruled in Torn's favor and Hopper was ordered to pay US$475,000 in damages. "He wouldn't hold back with his positive re-enforcement. [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. Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckinghams rocky relationship: A timeline of love and war, Tom Sizemore, Saving Private Ryan actor, dies after brain aneurysm, Daisy Jones & the Six becomes the first fictional band to hit No. I was terribly nave in those days, he told The New York Times in 2002. 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. Here is all you want to know, and more! Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and artist. Check the lint trap?. Later, he moved to New York to study at the Actors Studio, where Dean had learned his craft. 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. But alcohol and drugs continued to interfere with his work. He wanted the opening chapter to re-create his defiant confrontation with Columbia Pictures studio head Harry Cohn, whod dared to mock Hoppers Shakespeare background. On the way, Hopper and Fonda befriend a drunken young lawyer (Jack Nicholson, whom Hopper had resisted casting, in a breakout role), but arouse the enmity of Southern rednecks and are murdered before they can return home. 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. ", "So long Dennis," tweeted actress Virginia Madsen, who starred in "The Hot Spot." The license, held by Hof, was nontransferable. Dennis Hopper (May 17, 1936 - May 29, 2010) was an American actor, director, writer, film editor, photographer and artist. His off-camera personality will remain in my memory long after his personas fade from the screen. [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. [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. officer, in which he was originally cast. "A cinematic Ali v. 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. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. He says people in this town never forget. Hopper was married to Victoria Duffy from 1998 until they divorced in 2010, months before his death. I scraped out the crusted lint. He made his first television appearance in 1955, and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). 36 on the AFI's list of top 50 movie villains. . Pushed into acting by his mother, Hopper began in summer stock and on the New York stage. 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. Hopper was unable to capitalize on his Easy Rider success for several years. Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and photographer. The moving image collection of Dennis Hopper is held at the Academy Film Archive. Hopper had 3 daughters and a son. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2009. Shortly thereafter, he played drug smuggler and DEA informant Barry Seal in the HBO film Doublecrossed. 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. Legal Statement. The story has several versions; the most common is that his refusal to play a scene in the manner that the director requested resulted in Mr. Hoppers stubbornly performing more than 80 takes before he finally followed orders. 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. [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]. [citation needed] Gerry died April 26, 2016, at 90. In the 1950s, he had roles in several TV shows and films, including "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) and "Giant" (1956). Hopper debuted in an episode of the Richard Boone television series Medic in 1955, portraying a young epileptic. With Hopper hailed as a brilliant filmmaker, Universal Pictures lavished $850,000 on his next project, "The Last Movie.". 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. 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.". 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. Will Dominion-Fox News lawsuit be different? Biography - A Short Wiki Upon visiting Hopper for that story: Uh, like, man, sorry, you gotta come in through the garage. His limp handshake trembled. [9] Hopper had two brothers, Marvin and David.[10]. And sex. which lists his cause of death as hepatic (liver) failure and prostate. He also built an extensive collection of works by artists he knew, including Warhol, Ed Ruscha and Julian Schnabel. Actor Dennis Hopper has died of complications from prostate cancer. Hopper's manager announced in October 2009 that he. Date Of Birth: May 17, 1936 Date Of Death: May 29, 2010 Cause Of Death: N/A Ethnicity: White Nationality: American Dennis Hopper was born on the 17th of May, 1936. "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.". He was committed to a variety of social causes, including African American and Native American rights. UPDATE: Here's the Associated Press obituary. Seemed like a potential story for my then-employer, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner daily newspaper. Subsequently received leads at Warner Brothers in second features. Wood was a consummate researcher of . Produced for the Starz cable channel, the show had Mr. Hopper portraying a music producer unhinged by years of drug use. 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". Hopper made a name for himself in the classic films Blue Velvet, Rebel Without a Cause and, most famously, Easy Rider. He rarely laughed, and cautiously measured every move. Hopper once insulted actor Rip Torn after he said "Texans are hippie-hatting rednecks" and was sued for a total of $475,000 dollars. Natalie Wood reportedly juggled her "Rebel Without a Cause" director Nicholas Ray and actor Dennis Hopper at the Chateau Marmont. His role as a wild druggie in "Blue Velvet," also in 1986, won him more acclaim, and years later the character wound up No. Because I am Frank Booth! 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 was divorcing his fifth wife after 18 years together, obtaining an emergency restraining order to keep her at a 10-foot distance. [59] After citing her "outrageous conduct" and stating she was "insane", "inhuman" and "volatile", Hopper was granted a restraining order against her on February 11, 2010, and as a result, she was forbidden to come within 10 feet (3m) of him or contact him. He continued, Everyone here today that Ive invited and obviously some that I havent invited have enriched my life tremendously., https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/movies/30hopper.html. Hopper also once owned Warhol's Mao, which he shot one evening in a fit of paranoia, the two bullet holes possibly adding to the print's value. Check out the death cause, death date, and more facts about the circumstances surrounding movie actor Dennis Hopper's death. The cancer spread to his bones and he died on May 29, 2010. "Much of Hollywood," wrote critic-historian David Thomson, "found Hopper a pain in the neck.". Dennis Hopper, whose portrayals of drug-addled, often deranged misfits in the landmark films Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now and Blue Velvet drew on his early out-of-control experiences as part of a new generation of Hollywood rebel, died Saturday at his home in Venice, Calif. He was a two-time Academy Award nominee, and in March 2010, was honored with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Hopper did not attend the hearing. Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Actor Dennis Hopper died at his home in Venice, California, Saturday morning, his wife said. He said his reason for not voting Republican was the selection of Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential candidate. "[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. Actor Dennis Hopper left behind a legacy of movie achievements when he died on May 29, 2010, at age 74 from prostate cancer. [47], On the Gorillaz album Demon Days, Hopper narrates the song "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head". His recklessness led him once to leave his children in danger. Share your favorite Hopper moments in the comments section, and scroll down for video highlights from his career. Was he holding on to his sobriety? 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." 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). We hung out together while my tape recorder consumed cassette after cassette of Dennis Hopper stories. 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.
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