Dennis Hopper

Highest Rated: 100% Apocalypse Now: Final Cut (2019)

Lowest Rated: 0% The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005)

Birthday: May 17, 1936

Birthplace: Dodge City, Kansas, USA

The odyssey of Dennis Hopper was one of Hollywood's longest, strangest trips. A onetime teen performer, he went through a series of career metamorphoses -- studio pariah, rebel filmmaker, drug casualty, and comeback kid -- before finally settling comfortably into the role of character actor par excellence, with a rogues' gallery of killers and freaks unmatched in psychotic intensity and demented glee. Along the way, Hopper defined a generation, documenting the shining hopes and bitter disappointments of the hippie counterculture and bringing their message to movie screens everywhere. By extension, he spearheaded a revolt in the motion picture industry, forcing the studio establishment to acknowledge a youth market they'd long done their best to deny. Born May 17, 1936 in Dodge City, Kansas, Hopper began acting during his teen years, and made his professional debut on the TV series Medic. In 1955 he made a legendary collaboration with the director Nicholas Ray in the classic Rebel Without a Cause, appearing as a young tough opposite James Dean. Hopper and Dean became close friends during filming, and also worked together on 1956's Giant. After Dean's tragic death, it was often remarked that Hopper attempted to fill his friend's shoes by borrowing much of his persona, absorbing the late icon's famously defiant attitude and becoming so temperamental that his once-bright career quickly began to wane. Seeking roles far removed from the stereotypical 'troubled teens' which previously dotted his resume, Hopper began training with the Actors Studio. However, on the set of Henry Hathaway's From Hell to Texas he so incensed cast and crew with his insistence upon multiple takes for his improvisational techniques -- the reshoots sometimes numbering upwards of 100 -- that he found himself a Hollywood exile. He spent much of the next decade mired in "B"-movies, if he was lucky enough to work at all. Producers considered him such a risk that upon completing 1960's Key Witness he did not reappear on-screen for another three years. With a noteworthy role in Hathaway's 1965 John Wayne western The Sons of Katie Elder, Hopper made tentative steps towards a comeback. He then appeared in a number of psychedelic films, including 1967's The Trip and the following year's Monkees feature Head, and earned a new audience among anti-establishment viewers.With friends Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson in front of the camera, Hopper decided to direct his own movie, and secured over $400,000 in financing to begin filming a screenplay written by novelist Terry Southern. The result was 1969's Easy Rider, a sprawling, drug-fueled journey through an America torn apart by the conflict in Vietnam. Initially rejected by producer Roger Corman, the film became a countercultural touchstone, grossing millions at the box office and proving to Hollywood executives that the ever-expanding youth market and their considerable spending capital would indeed react to films targeted to their issues and concerns, spawning a cottage industry of like-minded films. Long a pariah, Hopper was suddenly hailed as a major new filmmaker, and his success became so great that in 1971 he appeared in an autobiographical documentary, American Dreamer, exploring his life and times.The true follow-up to Easy Rider, however, was 1971's The Last Movie, an excessive, self-indulgent mess that, while acclaimed by jurors at the Venice Film Festival, was otherwise savaged by critics and snubbed by audiences. Once again Hopper was left picking up the pieces of his career; he appeared only sporadically in films throughout the 1970s, most of them made well outside of Hollywood. His personal life a shambles -- his marriage to singer/actress Michelle Phillips lasted just eight days -- Hopper spent much of the decade in a haze, earning a notorious reputation as an unhinged wild man. An appearance as a disturbed photojournalist in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now did little to repair most perceptions of hi

Photos

View All Photos

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies

		Credit
100%	Apocalypse Now: Final Cut	Photojournalist	—	2019
No Score Yet	The Last Film Festival	Nick Twain - Producer	$4K	2016
No Score Yet	Human Highway	Actor	—	2015
No Score Yet	Key Witness	Actor	—	2013
No Score Yet	White Star (Let It Rock)	Actor	—	2011
16%	Alpha and Omega	Tony	$25.1M	2010
No Score Yet	Stardust	Actor	—	2010
71%	Chelsea on the Rocks	Actor	—	2009
12%	The Informers	Actor	—	2009
No Score Yet	The Art Of Football	Actor	—	2009
13%	An American Carol	Judge	$7M	2008
No Score Yet	The Brothers Warner	Actor	—	2008
No Score Yet	No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos	Actor	—	2008
10%	Hell Ride	Eddie Zero	$0.2M	2008
No Score Yet	Ferlinghetti: A City Light	Actor	$5.3K	2008
95%	Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!	Actor	—	2008
38%	Swing Vote	Donald Greenleaf	$16.3M	2008
92%	The Cool School	Actor	—	2008
75%	Elegy	George O'Hearn	$3.5M	2008
17%	Sleepwalking	Mr. Reedy	—	2008
No Score Yet	Bananaz	Actor	—	2008
No Score Yet	13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests	Actor	—	2008
No Score Yet	Palermo Shooting	Frank	—	2008
No Score Yet	Brando	Actor	—	2007
No Score Yet	3055 Jean Leon	Actor	—	2006
19%	10th & Wolf	Matello	—	2006
82%	Sketches of Frank Gehry	Actor	$0.3M	2006
No Score Yet	Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi	Narrator	—	2006
14%	Memory	Max Lichtenstein	—	2006
100%	Bound to Lose	Actor	—	2006
No Score Yet	The Sixth Element	Narrator	—	2006
74%	Land of the Dead	Kaufman	$20.5M	2005
0%	The Crow: Wicked Prayer	El Nino	—	2005
88%	Tell Them Who You Are	Actor	—	2005
82%	Inside Deep Throat	Narrator	$0.5M	2005
63%	Americano	Riccardo	—	2005
No Score Yet	House of 9	Father Duffy	—	2005
No Score Yet	Champion	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	Hoboken Hollow	Sheriff Greer	—	2005
No Score Yet	The Real James Dean: From Indiana Farmboy To Hollywood Legend	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	The Night We Called It A Day	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	All the Way	Frank Sinatra	—	2004
No Score Yet	The Last Ride	Ronnie Purnell	—	2004
No Score Yet	Out of Season	Harry Barlow	—	2004
No Score Yet	The Keeper	Lieutenant Krebs	—	2004
100%	Easy Riders---Raging Bulls	Actor	—	2003
No Score Yet	Unspeakable	Warden	—	2003
No Score Yet	All the Way: The Kidnapping of a Music Legend	Actor	—	2003
No Score Yet	Night We Called It a Day	Actor	—	2003
21%	Knockaround Guys	Benny Chains	$11.6M	2002
No Score Yet	The Target	Robert Nile	—	2002
No Score Yet	Mysteries of Love	Actor	—	2002
No Score Yet	I Don't Know Jack	Actor	—	2002
No Score Yet	1 Giant Leap	Actor	—	2002
No Score Yet	Firestarter 2: Rekindled	James Richardson	—	2002
43%	Leo	Horace	—	2002
No Score Yet	New Scenes from America (Nye scener fra Amerika)	Actor	—	2002
No Score Yet	L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve	Captain Elsworth	—	2001
93%	Apocalypse Now Redux	Photojournalist	$2M	2001
No Score Yet	Choke	Henry Clark	—	2001
No Score Yet	The Prophet's Game	Vincent	—	2001
No Score Yet	Ticker	Swann	—	2001
No Score Yet	Rehenes Equivocados	JD	—	2000
33%	Jason and the Argonauts	Pelias	—	2000
No Score Yet	Luck of the Draw	Giani Ponti	—	2000
No Score Yet	The Spreading Ground	Det. Ed Delongpre	—	2000
No Score Yet	Tycus	Peter Crawford	—	2000
No Score Yet	Robert Rauschenberg: Inventive Genius	Narrator	—	1999
No Score Yet	Top of the World	Atlas	—	1999
88%	The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation	William S. Burroughs	—	1999
81%	Jesus' Son	Bill	—	1999
64%	EDtv	Hank	—	1999
No Score Yet	Straight Shooter	Frank Hector	—	1999
No Score Yet	Lured Innocence	Rick Chambers	—	1999
No Score Yet	The Apostate	Lewis Garou	—	1999
7%	Meet the Deedles	Frank Slater	—	1998
No Score Yet	Welcome to Hollywood	Actor	—	1998
No Score Yet	Road Ends	Gilchrist	—	1997
0%	The Blackout	Mickey Wayne	—	1997
No Score Yet	The Last Days of Frankie the Fly	Frankie	—	1997
8%	Space Truckers	John Canyon	—	1997
No Score Yet	Samson and Delilah	Tariq	—	1996
68%	Basquiat	Bruno Bischofberger	—	1996
64%	Carried Away	Joseph Svenden	—	1996
No Score Yet	The Fine Art of Separating People From Their Money	Host	—	1996
45%	Waterworld	Deacon	—	1995
50%	Cannes Man	Himself	—	1995
33%	Search and Destroy	Dr. Waxling	$0.4M	1995
86%	Who Is Henry Jaglom?	Actor	—	1995
No Score Yet	Witch Hunt	H. Phillip Lovecraft	—	1994
94%	Speed	Howard Payne	—	1994
33%	Chasers	Director Doggie	—	1994
92%	True Romance	Clifford Worley	—	1993
23%	Super Mario Bros.	King Koopa	—	1993
18%	Boiling Point	Red Diamond	—	1993
95%	Red Rock West	Lyle	—	1993
No Score Yet	The Heart of Justice	Austin Blair	—	1993
No Score Yet	Fishing With John	Actor	—	1992
No Score Yet	Nails	Harry Niles	—	1992
No Score Yet	Sunset Heat	Carl Madson	—	1992
No Score Yet	Eye of the Storm	Marvin Gladstone	—	1991
No Score Yet	Paris Trout	Paris Trout	—	1991
74%	The Indian Runner	Caesar	—	1991
100%	Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse	Actor	—	1991
No Score Yet	Doublecrossed	Barry Seal	—	1991
No Score Yet	Flashing on the Sixties	Actor	—	1991
50%	Catchfire (Backtrack)	Director Milo	—	1990
73%	The Hot Spot	Director	—	1990
86%	Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol	Actor	—	1990
43%	Flashback	Huey Walker	—	1990
No Score Yet	Hollywood Mavericks	Actor	—	1990
14%	Chattahoochee	Walker	—	1989
No Score Yet	Blood Red	William Bradford Berrigan	—	1988
No Score Yet	Riders of the Storm	The Captain	—	1988
81%	Colors	Director	—	1988
No Score Yet	Monsters and Maniacs	Actor	—	1988
No Score Yet	Bloodbath	Actor	—	1988
57%	The Pick-Up Artist	Flash Jensen	—	1987
No Score Yet	O.C. and Stiggs	Sponson	—	1987
38%	Straight to Hell	Farber	—	1987
86%	River's Edge	Feck	—	1987
48%	Black Widow	Ben Dumers	—	1987
No Score Yet	Rolling Stone Presents Twenty Years of Rock & Roll	Actor	—	1987
89%	Hoosiers	Wilbur Shooter Flatch	—	1986
93%	Blue Velvet	Frank Booth	—	1986
48%	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2	Lt. `Lefty' Enright	—	1986
No Score Yet	Running Out of Luck	Video Director	—	1986
14%	My Science Project	Bob Roberts	—	1985
No Score Yet	Stark	Lieutenant Ron Bliss	—	1985
No Score Yet	The Inside Man	Miller	—	1984
44%	The Osterman Weekend	Tremayne	—	1983
70%	Rumble Fish	Father	—	1983
No Score Yet	Human Highway	Cracker	—	1982
92%	Out of the Blue	Director Don Barnes	—	1982
No Score Yet	King of the Mountain	Cal	—	1981
98%	Apocalypse Now	Photojournalist	—	1979
No Score Yet	Wild Times	Actor	—	1979
No Score Yet	Concorde Affair	Actor	—	1978
No Score Yet	Reborn	Rev. Tom Hartley	—	1978
91%	Der Amerikanische Freund (The American Friend)	Tom Ripley	—	1977
No Score Yet	Les Apprentis-sorciers (The Sorceror's Apprentice)	Spy	—	1977
No Score Yet	Mad Dog Morgan	Daniel Morgan	—	1976
43%	Tracks	1st Sgt. Jack Falen	—	1976
No Score Yet	James Dean: The First American Teenager	Actor	—	1975
No Score Yet	Kid Blue	Bickford Waner	—	1973
No Score Yet	Crush Proof	Actor	—	1972
50%	The Last Movie	Director Kansas	—	1971
88%	The American Dreamer	Actor Screenwriter	—	1971
88%	Five Easy Pieces	Actor Director	—	1970
88%	True Grit	Moon	—	1969
No Score Yet	Backtrack	Producer	—	1969
88%	Easy Rider	Director Screenwriter Billy	—	1969
75%	Head	Himself (uncredited)	—	1968
92%	Hang 'em High	The Prophet	—	1968
No Score Yet	Panic in the City	Goff	—	1968
No Score Yet	The Glory Stompers	Chino	—	1967
39%	The Trip	Max	—	1967
100%	Cool Hand Luke	Babalugats	—	1967
17%	Queen of Blood	Paul Grant	—	1966
100%	The Sons of Katie Elder	Dave Hastings	—	1965
No Score Yet	Tarzan and Jane Regained...Sort Of	Actor	—	1964
100%	Night Tide	Johnny Drake	—	1963
No Score Yet	The Young Land	Hatfield Carnes	—	1959
No Score Yet	From Hell to Texas	Tom Boyd	—	1958
No Score Yet	The Story of Mankind	Napoleon	—	1957
82%	Gunfight at the O.K. Corral	Billy Clanton	—	1957
95%	Giant	Jordan Benedict III	—	1956
96%	Rebel Without a Cause	Goon	—	1955
No Score Yet	I Died a Thousand Times	Joe	—	1955

TV

		Credit
86%	24 2001-2014	Victor Drazen	2010 2002
No Score Yet	Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 2009-2014	Guest	2009
6%	Crash 2008-2009	Ben Cendars	2009 2008
No Score Yet	The Daily Show With Jon Stewart 1999-2015	Guest	2008
66%	Entourage 2004-2011	Guest Himself	2007
No Score Yet	American Masters 2001	Appearing	2006
15%	E-Ring 2005-2006	Colonel Eli McNulty Col. Eli McNulty	2006 2005
No Score Yet	Las Vegas 2003-2008	Jon Castille	2004
No Score Yet	MADtv 1995-2009	Guest	2000
No Score Yet	King of the Hill 1997-2010	Voice	1997
No Score Yet	Saturday Night Live 1975	Guest Host	1990 1987
No Score Yet	Gunsmoke 1955-1975	Kimbro	1965
No Score Yet	Bonanza 1959-1973	Dev Farnum	1964
82%	The Twilight Zone 1959-1964	Peter Vollmer	1963

QUOTES FROM Dennis Hopper CHARACTERS

Frank Sinatra says: It's all true. Does he beat up on people? Does he act like a fink du jour? Does he have a heart of gold? That's your answer.

Photo Journalist says: The heads. You're looking at the heads. Sometimes he goes too far. He's the first one to admit it.

Photo Journalist says: There's mines over there, there's mines over there, and watch out those goddamn monkeys bite, I'll tell ya.

Photo Journalist says: One through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel in space, you can't go out into space, you know, without, like, you know, uh, with fractions - what are you going to land on - one-quarter, three-eighths? What are you going to do when you go from here to Venus or something? That's dialectic physics.

Paul Grant says: Not a bad film for a budget of $50,000. It's worth watching.

Kaufman says: Zombies--they creep me out.

Feck says: I mean, you kill a person, they don't let you forget it. They stick after you like ghosts. They don't believe you when you say you're sorry. They want you to pay somehow.

Clifford Worley says: So if that's a fact tell me... Am I lying?

Frank Booth says: Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst! Blue! Ribbon!!!

Frank Booth says: Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst! Blue! Ribbon!

Frank Booth says: No! I wan't you to fuck it!

Frank Booth says: No I want you to fuck it.

Tony says: What did you do to my son Winston!

Winston says: An alpha and omega... an omega and an alpha... I don't know... Eve? *Eve starts to stand up then faints*

Winston says: An alpha and omega... an omega and an alpha... I don't know... Eve? [Eve starts to stand up then faints]

Frank Booth says: Shut Up! It's Daddy, S***head.

Frank Booth says: F*** You, F***ing F***!

Clifford Worley says: 'Cause you, you're part eggplant

Clifford Worley says: 'Cause you, you're part eggplant.

Vincenzo Coccotti says: You're a cantaloupe

Vincenzo Coccotti says: You're a cantaloupe.

Frank Booth says: You're like me

Frank Booth says: You're like me.

Frank Booth says: I'll send you a love letter. You know what that is? It's a bullet from a fuckin gun! If you get a love letter from me, you're fucked forever!

Frank Booth says: Now it's dark! Mommy! Baby wants to fuck!

Frank Booth says: The candy coloured clown they call the sandman

Frank Booth says: The candy coloured clown they call the sandman.

George says: Beautiful women are invisible.

David Kepesh says: Invisible? What the hell does that mean? They jump out at you. A beautiful woman stands out... stands apart. You can't miss her.

George says: But we never actually see the person. We see the beautiful shell. We're blocked by the beauty barrier. Yes. We're so dazzled by the outside, we never make it inside.

Feck says: Cat's have claws!

Frank Booth says: "Don't be a good neighbor to her."

Frank Booth says: Don't be a good neighbor to her.

Tony says: Take the valley!

Clifford Worley says: Now, if that's a fact, tell me, am I lying? 'Cause you-- you're part eggplant.

Clifford Worley says: Can I have that Chesterfield now?

Frank Booth says: Let's hit the fuckin' road !

Frank Booth says: Let's hit the fuckin' road!

Kaufman says: In a world where the dead are returning to life, the word "trouble" loses much of its meaning.

Kaufman says: In a world where the dead are returning to life, the word 'trouble' loses much of its meaning.

King Koopa says: Monkey!

Kaufman says: In a world where the dead are returning to life, the word "trouble" loses much of its meaning.

Kaufman says: In a world where the dead are returning to life, the word 'trouble' loses much of its meaning.

Lt. "Lefty" Enright says: It's the Devil's playground!

Frank Booth says: Let's fuck! I'll fuck anything that moves!

Mario Mario says: King Koopa: Ba-bomb!

King Koopa says: Ba-bomb!

Frank Booth says: heineken-fuck that shit!

Frank Booth says: Heineken? Fuck that shit!

Clifford Worley says: Your part eggplant

Clifford Worley says: 'Cause you, you're part eggplant.

Howard Payne says: Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?

King Koopa says: that, ''koopa clown'', is one mean, egg sucking son of a snake.

King Koopa says: That 'koopa clown' is one mean, egg sucking son of a snake.

Detective says: (when asked what he was going to do about the murders) Yes, sir, I know some old boys at the paper. We'll get your story out for you.

Lt. "Lefty" Enright says: Brazos...Brazos!

Lt. "Lefty" Enright says: Brazos. Brazos!

Drayton Sawyer the Cook says: Let's make a deal right here. Real cash money, you and me, huh? (Shouts) - I don't care who sent you!

Lt. "Lefty" Enright says: I'm the Lord of the Harvest!

Drayton Sawyer the Cook says: What's that...some new health food bunch?

Lt. "Lefty" Enright says: (after watching a pile of bloody guts pour from a wall) - It's the devil's playground. - (screams and wields his chainsaw) I'm bringing it down! Down to hell! Bring it all down!!! Bring it all dooooooown!!

Lt. "Lefty" Enright says: (after watching a pile of bloody guts pour from a wall) - It's the devil's playground. (screams and wields his chainsaw) I'm bringing it down! Down to hell! Bring it all down! Bring it all down!

Chop-Top says: (after Stretch sees him in her studio) I wanna buy some radio-ad time.

Lt. "Lefty" Enright says: Are you f**king crazy? We are closed...off the air till tomorrow. You'll have to just come back.

Lt. "Lefty" Enright says: Are you f**king crazy? We are closed, off the air till tomorrow. You'll have to just come back.

Chop-Top says: No, but...yeah but...Whoa, so this is radio land, huh...the infinite turnover? The waves through the ether fuzz roll on forever...Can't close that. Hi, I know what you're thinking. This is weird. Hope I can handle it - You know, you're my fave.

Lt. "Lefty" Enright says: They live on fear, thrive on it. I got no fear left.

Lt. "Lefty" Enright says: Yeah, one of 'em got so wild he sawed his own head off going 90 miles an hour. Hell? Hell is exactly what they raised.

Lt. "Lefty" Enright says: Yeah, one of them got so wild he sawed his own head off going 90 miles an hour. Hell? Hell is exactly what they raised.