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Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer, and artist. He attended the Actors Studio, made his first television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared alongside James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), and Giant (1956). In the next ten years he made a name in television, and by the end of the 1960s had appeared in several films, notably Cool Hand Luke (1967) and Hang 'Em High (1968). Hopper also began a prolific and acclaimed photography career in the 1960s.

Birth Name

Dennis Lee Hopper

Born

Sunday, 17 May 1936

Died

Saturday, 29 May 2010

Actor Filmography

Title	Character	Year

Loving Highsmith	Tom Ripley	2022
The Andy Warhol Diaries	Self	2022
Mr. Saturday Night	Self	2021
Hopper/Welles	Self	2020
Jay Sebring....Cutting to the Truth	Self	2020
Wim Wenders: Desperado	Self / Self (archive footage)	2020
LA Originals	Self	2020
Dialogue Earth	Self	2019
David Crosby: Remember My Name	Self	2019
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead	Himself (archive footage) / Self	2018

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Actor Filmography

Title	Character	Year

Loving Highsmith	Tom Ripley	2022
The Andy Warhol Diaries	Self	2022
Mr. Saturday Night	Self	2021
Hopper/Welles	Self	2020
Jay Sebring....Cutting to the Truth	Self	2020
Wim Wenders: Desperado	Self / Self (archive footage)	2020
LA Originals	Self	2020
Dialogue Earth	Self	2019
David Crosby: Remember My Name	Self	2019
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead	Himself (archive footage) / Self	2018
The Other Side of the Wind	Dennis Hopper / Himself	2018
Along for the Ride	Self	2016
The Last Film Festival	Nick Twain - Producer / Nick Twain	2016
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider	(archive footage) / Self (archive footage)	2016
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles	Self / Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)	2014
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films	Lieutenant 'Lefty' Enright	2014
The Tanning of America	Self - Director, Colors	2014
Llyn Foulkes One Man Band	Himself / Self	2013
Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter	Himself	2013
Flatland	Smith	2012
Raul: O Início, o Fim e o Meio	Self	2012
America's Book of Secrets	(archive footage)	2012
Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel	Max / Various Roles (archive footage)	2011
A Football Life	Self	2011
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards	Self - Memorial Tribute	2011
Straight to Hell Returns	I.G. Farben	2010
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood	Billy	2010
Stardust	Self	2010
Alpha and Omega	Tony (voice) / Tony	2010
Beautiful Darling	Self / Self (archive footage)	2010
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder	Himself / Self	2009
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos	Self	2009
Palermo Shooting	Frank	2008
Crash	Ben Cendars	2008
An American Carol	Judge / Judge Clarence Henderson	2008
The Brothers Warner	Self - Actor / Himself	2008
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!	Self	2008
Hell Ride	Eddie Zero	2008
Chelsea on the Rocks	Himself / Self	2008
Swing Vote	Donald Greenleaf	2008
Elegy	George O'Hearn	2008
Nostalgia Critic	King Koopa (archive footage)	2008
The Cool School	Self	2008
Sleepwalking	Mr. Reedy	2008
Bananaz	Himself / Self	2008
Pioneers of Television	Peter Devlin in The Lieutenant: To Set It Right	2008
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose	Himself / Self	2007
Cinemassacre's Monster Madness	Kaufman, Lieutenant 'Lefty' Enright	2007
Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen	Quote Reader	2007
Concert for Diana	Self - Presenter	2007
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition	Self	2007
Brando	Self	2007
3055 Jean Leon		2007
The Graham Norton Show	Self - Guest	2007
Memory	Max Lichtenstein	2006
Wanderlust	Himself / Self	2006
The Drug Years	Self	2006
The Art of Football from A to Z	Self	2006
Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi	Narrator (voice) / Narrator	2006
Gorillaz: Live in Manchester	Narrator	2006
Americano	Riccardo	2006
10th & Wolf	Matty Matello	2006
By the Ways: A Journey with William Eggleston	Self	2006
Hoboken Hollow	Sheriff Greer	2005
20 to 1	Babalugats, Howard Payne	2005
E-Ring	Col. Eli McNulty / Eli McNulty, Col. Eli McNulty	2005
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream	Self	2005
Land of the Dead	Kaufman	2005
House of 9	Father Duffy	2005
The Crow: Wicked Prayer	El Niño	2005
Champion	Himself / Self	2005
Inside Deep Throat	Narrator / Narrator (voice)	2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson	Himself - Guest	2005
Out of Season	Harry Barlow	2004
Tell Them Who You Are	Himself / Self	2004
Entourage	Dennis Hopper	2004
The Last Ride	Ronnie Purnell	2004
The Keeper	Krebs	2004
10 Things Every Guy Should Experience	Self	2004
Art in Progress	Self	2004
Shootout	Self	2003
Las Vegas	Jon Castille	2003
Unspeakable	Warden / Warden Earl Blakely	2003
All the Way	Frank Sinatra	2003
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains	Self	2003
Willie Nelson & Friends: Live and Kickin'	Self	2003
A Decade Under the Influence	Self	2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood	Himself / Self	2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Himself - Guest	2003
The Piano Player	Robert Nile	2002
1 Giant Leap	Himself / Self	2002
V Graham Norton	Self - Guest	2002
Leo	Horace	2002
Firestarter 2: Rekindled	James Richardson	2002
Mysteries of Love	Himself / Self	2002
24	Victor Drazen	2001
L.A.P.D.: to Protect and to Serve	Captain Elsworth	2001
Knockaround Guys	Benny Chains	2001
On the Record with Bob Costas	Self - Guest	2001
Emmanuelle: A Hard Look	Himself / Self	2001
Ticker	Alex Swan	2001
Choke	Henry Clark	2001
Held for Ransom	JD	2000
Jesus' Son	Bill	2000
Jason and the Argonauts	Pelias	2000
Luck of the Draw	Giani Ponti	2000
The Prophet's Game	Vincent Swan	2000
Lured Innocence	Rick Chambers	2000
The 10 Commandments of Creativity	Himself / Self	2000
The Apostate	Lewis Garou	2000
The Spreading Ground	Det. Ed DeLongpre / Ed DeLongpre	2000
Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage	Himself / Self	1999
The Venice Project	Roland / Salvatore	1999
Independent Lens	Self	1999
Me and Will	Easy Rider clip (archive footage) / Billy	1999
An All-Star Tribute to Johnny Cash	Himself / Self	1999
Straight Shooter	Frank Hector	1999
The Century: America's Time	Self - Actor, Self	1999
Edtv	Hank / Henry 'Hank' Pekurny	1999
Bad City Blues	Cleveland Carter / Dolores	1999
Tycus	Peter Crawford / Peter Crowford	1999
ESPN SportsCentury	Self - Host	1999
The Source	William S. Burroughs	1999
The Directors	Self	1999
Welcome to Hollywood	Dennis Hopper	1998
James Dean: A Portrait	Self	1998
Meet the Deedles	Frank Slater	1998
E! Mysteries & Scandals	Self	1998
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch	Self	1997
Road Ends	Sheriff Ben Gilchrist	1997
Top of the World	Charles Atlas	1997
Who Is Henry Jaglom?	Self	1997
The Blackout	Mickey Wayne / Mickey	1997
Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life	Self	1997
King of the Hill	Self	1997
The World's Best Sellers: The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money	Host / Self - Host / Introduction	1996
The Last Days of Frankie the Fly	Frankie	1996
Basquiat	Bruno Bischofberger	1996
The Daily Show	Self - Guest	1996
E! True Hollywood Story	Himself	1996
Space Truckers	John Canyon	1996
Carried Away	Joseph Svenden	1996
Cannes Man	Himself / Dennis Hopper	1996
Die Harald Schmidt Show	Himself	1995
MADtv	Self	1995
Waterworld	Deacon	1995
Search and Destroy	Dr. Luther Waxling	1995
James Dean and Me	Himself / Self	1995
Witch Hunt	H. Phillip Lovecraft	1994
Inside the Actors Studio	Self - Guest	1994
Speed	Howard Payne	1994
Dennis Miller Live	Self - Guest	1994
Chasers	Doggie	1994
Flashing on the Sixties: A Tribal Document	Self	1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Himself - Guest	1993
True Romance	Clifford Worley	1993
Super Mario Bros.	King Koopa	1993
Red Rock West	Lyle / Lyle from Dallas	1993
Boiling Point	Rudolph 'Red' Diamond / Red	1993
Bob Dylan: 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration	Self	1993
WWE Raw	Self - Audience Member	1993
The Revenge of the Dead Indians	Himself / Self	1993
The Heart of Justice	Austin Blair	1992
Nails	Harry 'Nails' Niles	1992
Sunset Heat	Carl Madson	1992
HBO First Look	Self - Host	1992
Fishing with John	Self	1991
Eye of the Storm	Marvin Gladstone	1991
The Indian Runner	Caesar	1991
Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas	Self	1991
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse	Himself / Self	1991
Doublecrossed	Barry Seal	1991
Paris Trout	Paris Trout	1991
Trier's Element	Self (Cannes 1991 footage)	1991
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol	Self	1990
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections	Self	1990
Catchfire	Milo	1990
Flashback	Huey Walker	1990
Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring	Self	1990
Chattahoochee	Walker Benson	1989
Blood Red	William Bradford Berrigan	1989
Monsters & Maniacs	Self	1988
Forever James Dean	Goon (alternative 'Rebel Without a Cause' footage)	1988
Santabear's High Flying Adventure	(voice)	1987
The Pick-up Artist	Flash Jensen / Flash	1987
The American Way	Captain / The Captain	1987
Straight to Hell Returns	I.G. Farben	1987
Biography	Self	1987
Apocalypse Pooh	Photojournalist	1987
The 59th Annual Academy Awards	Self - Nominee	1987
Rabbit Ears: The Tale of Peter Rabbit	Storyteller	1987
Black Widow	Ben / Ben Dumers	1987
Hoosiers	Shooter	1987
Rabbit Ears: The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher	Storyteller	1987
Rolling Stone Presents Twenty Years of Rock & Roll	Self - Host	1987
Nightlife	Self	1986
River's Edge	Feck	1986
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2	Lieutenant 'Lefty' Enright	1986
American Masters	Self, Goon, Narrator	1986
Blue Velvet	Frank Booth	1986
My Science Project	Bob Roberts	1985
Stark	Lieutenant Ron Bliss	1985
O.C. and Stiggs	Sponson	1985
Slagskämpen	Miller	1984
White Star	Kenneth Barlow / Ken Barlow	1983
The Osterman Weekend	Richard Tremayne	1983
Rumble Fish	Father	1983
Human Highway	Stranger / Cracker	1982
Out of the Blue	Don	1981
King of the Mountain	Cal	1981
Reborn	Rev. Tom Hartley	1981
Wild Times	Doc Holliday	1980
Apocalypse Now	Photojournalist	1979
Last In, First Out	Medford	1978
The American Friend	Tom Ripley	1977
Tracks	1st Sgt. Jack Falen / Sgt. Jack Falen	1976
Mad Dog Morgan	Daniel Morgan	1976
Bloodbath	Chicken	1975
Saturday Night Live	Himself - Host / Various, Himself - Host / Tom / Henry / General Stewart / Guest	1975
Arena	Presenter	1975
Kid Blue	Bickford Waner	1973
The Last Movie	Kansas	1971
The American Dreamer	Self - The American Dreamer / Himself	1971
The David Frost Show	Self - Guest	1969
Easy Rider	Billy	1969
True Grit	'Moon' / "Moon"	1969
The Johnny Cash Show	Self - Singer	1969
Head	Self	1968
Panic in the City	Goff	1968
Hang 'Em High	The Prophet / Prophet	1968
The Glory Stompers	Chino	1967
The Guns of Will Sonnett	Vern Reed	1967
The Trip	Max	1967
Cool Hand Luke	Babalugats	1967
The Time Tunnel	Tabor - Passenger	1966
Queen of Blood	Paul Grant	1966
Convoy	Roger Small	1965
The Dean Martin Show	Himself	1965
The Big Valley	Jimmy Sweetwater, Leon Grell	1965
The Legend of Jesse James	Jud Salt	1965
Court Martial	Cpl. Jack Winston	1965
The Sons of Katie Elder	Dave Hastings	1965
Screen Test #1	Himself	1965
Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of	Tarzan(Double)	1964
Espionage	Ferno	1963
Petticoat Junction	Alan Landman	1963
The Greatest Show on Earth	Rhymer	1963
Arrest and Trial	Coley Mitchum	1963
The Lieutenant	Cpl. Peter Devlin	1963
Night Tide	Johnny Drake	1963
Combat!	Zack Fielder	1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Himself - Guest, Himself	1962
The Dakotas	Ross Kendrick	1962
The Investigators	Adrian Brewster	1961
87th Precinct	Andrew Mason	1961
The Defenders	Alfred Carter Jr., Jason Thomas	1961
Key Witness	William 'Cowboy' Tomkins / William "Cowby" Tomkins	1960
Surfside 6	Tommy Trask	1960
Here's Hollywood	Self	1960
The Barbara Stanwyck Show	Gerald Collins	1960
The Twilight Zone	Peter Vollmer	1959
The Betty Hutton Show	Mike	1959
Bonanza	Dev Farnum	1959
The Young Land	Hatfield Carnes	1959
Naked City	Vinnie Winford	1958
The Rifleman	Vernon Tippert, Johnny Clover	1958
Decision	Joey Redman Jr.	1958
From Hell to Texas	Tom Boyd	1958
Sayonara	Military Police	1957
The Story of Mankind	Napoleon Bonaparte	1957
Wagon Train	Emmett Lawton	1957
Sugarfoot	Billy the Kid	1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral	Billy Clanton	1957
The James Dean Story	Self - 'Giant' Premiere	1957
Giant	Jordan Benedict III / Jordan "Jordy" Benedict III	1956
Zane Grey Theatre	Denny Sunrise, Vernon 'Vern' Tippert	1956
Conflict	Ed Novak	1956
The Kaiser Aluminum Hour	Pauly	1956
I Died a Thousand Times	Joe	1955
Rebel Without a Cause	Goon	1955
Screen Directors Playhouse	Steve Redman	1955
Cheyenne	Abe Larson, Utah Kid	1955
Kings Row	Tod Monaghan	1955
Gunsmoke	Billy Kimbo	1955
The Millionaire	Adam Spencer	1955
The Lineup	Leighton	1954
Medic	Robert	1954
Public Defender	Frank Terry	1954
The Loretta Young Show	Ross Morton	1953
General Electric Theater	Fred Judson	1953
Lux Video Theatre	Steven, at 18	1950
Studio One	David Williams, Harry Wales	1948

Director Filmography

Title	Year

Chasers	1994
The Hot Spot	1990
Catchfire	1990
Colors	1988
Out of the Blue	1981
The Last Movie	1971
Easy Rider	1969

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Year	Type	Category	Won

1991	Emmy	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special	Nominated
1987	Oscar	Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Nominated
1987	Golden Globe	Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture	Nominated
1987	Golden Globe	Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture	Nominated
1970	Oscar	Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced	Nominated