RIP Dennis Hopper.". Hopper died at his home in the coastal Venice district of Los Angeles, just 12 days after his 74th birthday on the morning of May 29, 2010. 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. [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). I thought the crazier you behaved, the better artist you would be. [1][37], Ostracized by the Hollywood film studios due to his reputation for being a "difficult" actor, Hopper turned to photography in 1961 with a camera bought for him by his first wife Brooke Hayward. Natalie Wood reportedly juggled her "Rebel Without a Cause" director Nicholas Ray and actor Dennis Hopper at the Chateau Marmont. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. They were denied rooms in motels and proper service in restaurants as a result of their radical looks. Or, perhaps, while dying he looked up at a teddy bear on a shelf the one handmade by his mother. Mr. Hopper also shared an Oscar nomination for writing the film, while a nomination for best supporting actor went to a little-known Jack Nicholson. He died before the movie was released. A washer and dryer stood at the foot of the stairs to his Venice studio. Fonda produced "Easy Rider" and Hopper directed it for a meager $380,000. They had a daughter, Marin, before Hopper's drug-induced violence led to divorce after eight years. 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. Thanks so much, man., Thus began a tortured, 10-year relationship. [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. Four years later, Fonda told The Independent that Hopper refused to speak to him prior to his death, and even barred him from the funeral. "He wouldn't hold back with his positive re-enforcement. 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. Larry Hagman's Daughter Fled Her Parents' House at 15 after Encounter with Dennis Hopper. 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. [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. 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. 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. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. It wasnt my liver, my kidneys and all that stuff that went. He returned to directing, with "Colors," "The Hot Spot" and "Chasers. The cause was complications from metastasized prostate cancer, according to a statement issued by Alex Hitz, a family friend. Hopper debuted in an episode of the Richard Boone television series Medic in 1955, portraying a young epileptic. Upon his release, Hopper joined Alcoholics Anonymous, quit drugs and launched yet another comeback. With Hopper hailed as a brilliant filmmaker, Universal Pictures lavished $850,000 on his next project, "The Last Movie.". Hopper was reported to have an uncredited role in Johnny Guitar in 1954, but he has stated that he was not in Hollywood when this film was made. 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. Suffered a stroke on 14 February 1970. Hes smart about these things. When I pressed, he explained: Theres a chance, if I play things right, Ill finally direct a studio picture. 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. His photographs of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington and the 1965 civil-rights march in Selma, Alabama, were published. You always got something unexpected from him. Sex is something that has to be in the book, he insisted. But I prefer to ignore the gossip blog rumors of mental incapacity that leaked out from Hoppers Venice compound during his long good night. But alcohol and drugs continued to interfere with his work. [63] On May 12, 2010, a hearing was held before Judge Amy Pellman in downtown Los Angeles Superior Court. Seemed like a potential story for my then-employer, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner daily newspaper. Fine art from an iPhone? Hopper's manager announced in October 2009 that he. In 1957 Hopper played thief Abe Larson in another Cheyenne episode titled "The Iron Trail." He married his fifth wife, Victoria Duffy, who was 32 years his junior, in 1996, and they had a daughter, Galen Grier. Biography - A Short Wiki. [21] Their long hair became a point of contention in various scenes during the film.[21]. In 1968, Hopper teamed with Peter Fonda, Terry Southern and Jack Nicholson to make Easy Rider, which premiered in July 1969. Hopper found greater fame for portraying the villains of the films Super Mario Bros. (1993), Speed (1994), and Waterworld (1995). It was not until after his marriage in 1961 to Brooke Hayward who, as the daughter of Leland Hayward, a producer and agent, and Margaret Sullavan, the actress, was part of Hollywood royalty that Mr. Hopper was regularly offered film roles again. Shunned by the Hollywood studios, he found work in European films that were rarely seen in the United States. [19] Hopper said of Easy Rider: "The cocaine problem in the United States is really because of me. UPDATE: Here's the Associated Press obituary. Also in 1986, Hopper portrayed Lt. Enright in the comedy horror The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. He was 74. Hopper made a name for himself in the classic films Blue Velvet, Rebel Without a Cause and, most famously, Easy Rider. In the 2000s, he was featured in the television series "Crash" and such films as "Elegy" and "Hell Ride. [56], Despite being a Republican, Hopper supported Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election. Over the last decade, Ive realized that hed always felt a specific fear about going into the true roots of his personal myth. ", 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. Hopper's manager announced in October 2009 that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He married five times and led a dramatic life right to the end. Hopper had 3 daughters and a son. Hopper stooped to ponder the dryers crammed contents. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. ", "Work is fun to me," he told a reporter in 1991. Hopper's acting career has spanned almost six decades. His body was buried at the Jesus Nazareno Cemetery in Ranchos de Taos. After becoming sober in the 1980s, Mr. Hopper began taking on roles in several films a year, becoming one of the most recognizable character actors of the day. 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O'Brien and M. Netter, in, "Citizen Hopper", interview with C. Hodenfield, in. His last major feature film appearance was in the 2008 film Elegy with Ben Kingsley, Penlope Cruz and Debbie Harry. 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. He says people in this town never forget. Hopper had had bit roles in "Rebel Without A Cause" and "Giant" with fellow actor James Dean. [53], In 1994, Rip Torn filed a defamation lawsuit against Hopper over a story Hopper told on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. For years he lived in Los Angeles' bohemian beach community of Venice, in a house designed by acclaimed architect Frank Gehry. He appeared as a "crazed referee" in those ads. [1][2], Hopper made his directorial film debut with Easy Rider (1969), which he and co-star Peter Fonda wrote with Terry Southern. [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. officer, in which he was originally cast. On 30 September 1970, Hopper appeared on the second episode of season 2 of "The Johnny Cash Show" where he sang a duet with Cash entitled "Goin' Up Goin' Down". 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). 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. Find out the cause of death and more exciting information regarding the death of this famous movie actor. 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. 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. 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 . 36 on the AFI's list of top 50 movie villains. His paranoid eyes avoided mine. Get the best of Fox News' entertainment coverage, right in your inbox. Biography - A Short Wiki. 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. Was he holding on to his sobriety? [32] He portrayed villain Victor Drazen in the first season of the popular action drama 24. 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. His politics, like much of his life, were unpredictable. 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. But Hopper also was a man who could charm while seeing the truth beneath the masks of Hollywood. Actor known for his dramatic performances in films such as Easy Rider, Blue Velvet, and Speed. 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. He was especially fond of the plays of William Shakespeare. He was a prolific photographer, painter, and sculptor. "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.". 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." [54], According to Newsmeat, Hopper donated US$2,000 to the Republican National Committee in 2004 and an equal amount in 2005. Produced for the Starz cable channel, the show had Mr. Hopper portraying a music producer unhinged by years of drug use. 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. Hes the only actor in Hollywood whos had as many women as me, Hopper rationalized. 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. Fonda tried to get . 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. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. 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 best Instagram photos from 2014, After IVF shock, mom gives birth to two sets of identical twins, Inside North Korea: Water park, sacred birth site and some minders, Hopper was surrounded by his children when he died, his wife said, Actor was diagnosed with prostate cancer last October, Hopper wished to be buried in Taos, New Mexico, his wife said, Hopper and wife Victoria were in the midst of a bitter divorce battle during his illness. He was known for being a Movie Actor. [47], On the Gorillaz album Demon Days, Hopper narrates the song "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head". In 1957, he played Billy the Kid on the episode "Brannigan's Boots" of Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins. Getty Images "It was the first show-biz hotel to allow black. ", 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. His art, dating to a 1955 painting, is the subject of a show opening July 11 at the Museum of Contemporary Art's Geffen Contemporary space in downtown Los Angeles. Around that time, Ms. Hayward gave him a camera as a gift, and Mr. Hopper took up photography. His other notable films include Apocalypse Now and Rumble Fish. He said his reason for not voting Republican was the selection of Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential candidate. [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. 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. Upon wrapping the scene, Mr. Hopper later recalled, Mr. Hathaway told him that his career in Hollywood was finished. The series starred Chuck Connors and the premiere episode "The Sharpshooter" was written by Sam Peckinpah.[28]. Later, he moved to New York to study at the Actors Studio, where Dean had learned his craft. Dallas actor Larry Hagman led a double life and kept many secrets long after he was . His second marriage, to singer-actress Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas, lasted only eight days. Hopper appeared on the final two episodes of the cult 1991 television show Fishing with John with host John Lurie. 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." 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. ", "What he did for me was to give me the confidence to feel like I was doing it right," said Sims, 29. 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). [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]. On the set of "True Grit," Hopper so angered John Wayne that the star reportedly chased Hopper with a loaded gun. Hopper claimed that Torn pulled a knife on him during pre-production of the film Easy Rider. On March 26, surrounded by friends like Mr. Nicholson and David Lynch, the director of Blue Velvet, Mr. Hopper received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Hopper died Saturday at his home in the Los Angeles beach community of Venice, surrounded by family and friends, family friend Alex Hitz said. And sex. 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. Obviously, the Hollywood star didnt want to go back into that dark decade. Hopper forced Hathaway to shoot more than 80 takes of a scene over several days before he acquiesced to Hathaway's direction. Dennis Hopper Episode aired Apr 18, 2021 IMDb RATING 8.0 /10 9 YOUR RATING Rate Documentary Biography Dr. Michael Hunter is investigating the cause of death of actor Dennis Hopper. 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 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). Biography - A Short Wiki Upon his release, Hopper joined Alcoholics Anonymous, quit drugs and launched yet another comeback. He remembered his mother: She was wild, very emotional, a screamer and a yeller. 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. 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. In later years he picked up some income by becoming a pitchman for Ameriprise Financial, aiming ads at baby boomers looking ahead to retirement. Market data provided by Factset. I soon discovered that the gallery crasher was Hopper, that hed fled his Taos, N.M., home of more than a decade, attended a minimum of three Alcoholics Anonymous or Cocaine Anonymous meetings a day, and narrowly escaped being institutionalized while straitjacketed in a psychiatric ward. Known for such cult classics as Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now and Blue Velvet, Hopper embodied the . I scraped out the crusted lint. 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.". 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 made his first television appearance in 1955, and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). He was divorcing his fifth wife after 18 years together, obtaining an emergency restraining order to keep her at a 10-foot distance. He also left behind valuable life lessons about prostate cancer.. For example, was it true he was a close friend of James Deans? A couple months before his death, he was honored with a star on the. 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. 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.
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