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Dennis Hopper

Key figure of New Hollywood; actor, director, photographer.

He is considered a key figure of the New Hollywood era and earned prizes from the Cannes Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival.[1] Hopper died on May 29, 2010.[1]

Quick Facts

Birth name
Dennis Lee Hopper
Born
17 May 1936
Birthplace
Dodge City, Kansas, U.S.
Died
29 May 2010
Place of death
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Education
Actors Studio
Occupation
  • Actor
  • film director
  • photographer
  • visual artist
Years active
1954–2010

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

He appeared with James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956), and Dean's death in 1955 affected him deeply.[2][3] John Wayne hired Hopper for The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), which restarted his film career.[4] He became frequently typecast as mentally disturbed outsiders in films such as Blue Velvet (1986).[5] Hopper's acting training occurred at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre and New York's Actors Studio, and his initial television role came in 1954.[6]

The 1969 film Easy Rider marked Hopper's first directorial effort; he co-wrote the screenplay with co-star Peter Fonda and Terry Southern.[7] Hopper's performance in Hoosiers (1986) led to an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.[5] Among Hopper's later film appearances were parts in Speed (1994) and Waterworld (1995).[5][8]

What the cited sources add

The Bel Air fire burned down their house on Stone Canyon Road shortly after they moved in.[9] The judge found Hopper acted with malice when he told Jay Leno that Torn pulled a knife on him during Easy Rider pre-production.[10]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Dennis Hopper" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Specktor, "They Were Reckless and in Love, and They Were the New Hollywood", The Atlantic, 2022-05-30; Canfield, "'Road Trip to Nowhere: Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture' Review", Slant Magazine, 2022-07-22 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Dennis Hopper" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Murray, Noel (December 2, 2008). Random Roles with Dennis Hopper . The A.V. Club, Onion Inc. Retrieved May 29, 2010. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Dennis Hopper" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Wyatt, "Dennis Hopper, 74, Hollywood Rebel, Dies", The New York Times, May 29, 2010 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Dennis Hopper" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Charlie Rose (December 21, 1994). Dennis Hopper Interview (video). CharlieRose.com; Charlie Rose LLC. Retrieved May 29, 2010. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Dennis Hopper" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Nordine, "Netflix Acquires 'The Other Side of the Wind,' Orson Welles' Unfinished Swan Song", March 14, 2017; Nordine, "Dennis Hopper's 'The Last Film Festival' Acquired by Monterey Media", June 21, 2016 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Dennis Hopper" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: LaSalle, "Dennis Hopper, director of 'Easy Rider,' dies", SFGATE, 2010-05-30; Carone, "Dennis Hopper's History With San Diego Arts", KPBS Public Media, 2010-05-31 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Dennis Hopper" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Specktor, "They Were Reckless and in Love, and They Were the New Hollywood", The Atlantic, 2022-05-30; "Dennis Hopper", The Daily Telegraph, May 30, 2010; "The Dennis Hopper Photograph That Caught Los Angeles", May 12, 2022 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. "The Truman Show, and Its (Very) Late Casting Change", July 16, 2018. facts only, no text reused. denofgeek.com
  9. Hayward, "Once Upon a Time in L.A.", September 2001. facts only, no text reused. vanityfair.com
  10. Staff, "Court ruling doubles the 'Easy' score: Torn 2, Hopper zip", CNN, May 11, 1999. facts only, no text reused. cnn.com

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Dennis Hopper (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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