Editing Dennis Hopper

{{Short description|American actor, filmmaker and artist (1936–2010)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Dennis Hopper
| image              = Dennis Hopper Cannes 2008 (cropped).jpg
| image_upright      = 0.9
| caption            = Hopper in 2008
| birth_name         = Dennis Lee Hopper
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1936|5|17}}
| birth_place        = [[Dodge City, Kansas]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{death date and age|2010|5|29|1936|5|17}}
| death_place        = [[Venice, Los Angeles|Los Angeles]], California, U.S.
| burial_place       = Jesús Nazareno Cemetery, [[Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico]], U.S.
| alma_mater         = [[Actors Studio]]
| works              = [[Dennis Hopper filmography|Filmography]]
| occupation         = {{hlist|Actor|film director|photographer|painter}}
| years_active       = 1954–2010
| spouse             = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[Brooke Hayward]]|1961|1969|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|[[Michelle Phillips]]|October 31, 1970|November 8, 1970|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|[[Daria Halprin]]|1972|1976|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|[[Katherine LaNasa]]|June 17, 1989|April 1992|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|Victoria Duffy|April 13, 1996|2010|end={{abbr|sep.|separation}}}}
}}
| children           = 4, including [[Ruthanna Hopper|Ruthanna]]
}}

'''Dennis Lee Hopper''' (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and visual artist. He was considered one of the key figures of [[New Hollywood]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Specktor |first=Matthew |date=2022-05-30 |title=They Were Reckless and in Love, and They Were the New Hollywood |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/05/everybody-thought-we-were-crazy-book-dennis-hopper/643114/ |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Canfield |first=Kevin |date=2022-07-22 |title='Road Trip to Nowhere: Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture' Review |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/books/road-trip-to-nowhere-hollywood-encounters-the-counterculture-review-jon-lewis/ |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=Slant Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> He earned prizes from the [[Cannes Film Festival]] and [[Venice International Film Festival]] as well as nominations for two [[Academy Awards]], a [[Primetime Emmy Award]] and two [[Golden Globe Awards]].

Hopper studied acting at the [[Old Globe Theatre]] in San Diego and the [[Actors Studio]] in New York.<ref>{{Cite news |last=LaSalle |first=Mick |date=2010-05-30 |title=Dennis Hopper, director of 'Easy Rider,' dies |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Dennis-Hopper-director-of-Easy-Rider-dies-3263022.php |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230331194015/https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Dennis-Hopper-director-of-Easy-Rider-dies-3263022.php |archive-date=2023-03-31 |access-date=2025-01-02 |work=SFGATE |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Carone |first=Angela |date=2010-05-31 |title=Dennis Hopper's History With San Diego Arts |url=https://www.kpbs.org/news/arts-culture/2010/05/31/dennis-hopper-and-old-globe |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=KPBS Public Media |language=en}}</ref> He made his first television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared in two of the films that made [[James Dean]] famous, ''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]'' (1955) and ''[[Giant (1956 film)|Giant]]'' (1956). He then played supporting roles in films like ''[[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film)|Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]]'' (1957), ''[[The Sons of Katie Elder]]'' (1965), ''[[Cool Hand Luke]]'' (1967), ''[[Hang 'Em High]]'' (1968) and ''[[True Grit (1969 film)|True Grit]]'' (1969). Hopper made his directorial film debut with ''[[Easy Rider]]'' (1969), which he and co-star [[Peter Fonda]] wrote with [[Terry Southern]]. The film earned Hopper a [[Cannes Film Festival]] Award for Best Debut, and an [[Academy Award]] nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]]. He also began a prolific and acclaimed photography career in the 1960s.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Dennis Hopper">{{cite news |date=May 30, 2010 |title=Dennis Hopper |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obituaries/7786470/Dennis-Hopper.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obituaries/7786470/Dennis-Hopper.html |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=May 12, 2022 |title=The Dennis Hopper Photograph That Caught Los Angeles |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-dennis-hopper-photograph-that-caught-los-angeles |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220514014414/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-dennis-hopper-photograph-that-caught-los-angeles |archive-date=May 14, 2022 |access-date=May 14, 2022 |magazine=The New Yorker}}</ref>

He became frequently [[typecast]] as mentally disturbed outsiders and rebels in such films as ''[[Mad Dog Morgan]]'' (1976), ''[[The American Friend]]'' (1977), ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' (1979), ''[[Rumble Fish]]'' (1983), and ''[[Blue Velvet (film)|Blue Velvet]]'' (1986). He received an [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor]] nomination for his role in ''[[Hoosiers (film)|Hoosiers]]'' (1986). His later film roles included ''[[True Romance]]'' (1993), ''[[Speed (1994 film)|Speed]]'' (1994), ''[[Waterworld]]'' (1995) and ''[[Elegy (film)|Elegy]]'' (2009). He appeared posthumously in the long-delayed ''[[The Other Side of the Wind]]'' (2018), which had previously been filmed in the early 1970s.<ref name="swan song">{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2017/03/netflix-the-other-side-of-the-wind-orson-welles-unfinished-1201793651/|title=Netflix Acquires 'The Other Side of the Wind,' Orson Welles' Unfinished Swan Song|first1=Michael|last1=Nordine|date=March 14, 2017|access-date=September 21, 2020|archive-date=September 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922030932/https://www.indiewire.com/2017/03/netflix-the-other-side-of-the-wind-orson-welles-unfinished-1201793651/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiewire.com/2016/06/dennis-hopper-the-last-film-festival-linda-yellen-1201691519/|title=Dennis Hopper's 'The Last Film Festival' Acquired by Monterey Media |first=Michael|last=Nordine|date=June 21, 2016|access-date=September 9, 2016|archive-date=December 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203154715/https://www.indiewire.com/2016/06/dennis-hopper-the-last-film-festival-linda-yellen-1201691519/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Other directorial credits for Hopper include ''[[The Last Movie]]'' (1971), ''[[Out of the Blue (1980 film)|Out of the Blue]]'' (1980), ''[[Colors (film)|Colors]]'' (1988), and ''[[The Hot Spot]]'' (1990). He received [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie|Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie]] nomination for his role in ''[[Paris Trout]]'' (1991). His other television roles include in the [[HBO]] film ''[[Doublecrossed]]'' (1991), ''[[24 (TV series)|24]]'' (2002), the [[NBC]] series ''[[E-Ring]]'' (2005–2006), and the [[Starz]] series ''[[Crash (2008 TV series)|Crash]]'' (2008–2009).

== Early life and education ==
Dennis Lee Hopper was born on May 17, 1936, in [[Dodge City, Kansas]], to Marjorie Mae (née Davis; July 12, 1917 – January 12, 2007)<ref>Staff (March 11, 2008). [http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/republican-hopper-considers-a-vote-for-obama_1062239 Dennis Hopper – Republican Hopper considers a vote for Obama] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329151118/http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/republican-hopper-considers-a-vote-for-obama_1062239 |date=March 29, 2010 }}. ContactMusic.com. Retrieved May 29, 2010.</ref> and Jay Millard Hopper<ref name="autogenerated2">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/7783681/Dennis-Hopper-Born-to-be-wild.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/7783681/Dennis-Hopper-Born-to-be-wild.html |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Dennis Hopper: Born to be wild|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|author1=Philip Sherwell |author2=Robert Mendick | date=May 29, 2010| access-date=September 6, 2010| location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref> (June 23, 1916 – August 7, 1982). He had Scottish ancestors.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/feb/21/1 | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Rosanna | last=Greenstreet | title=Q&A | date=February 21, 2009 | access-date=December 14, 2016 | archive-date=September 20, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920185900/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/feb/21/1 | url-status=live }}</ref> Hopper had two younger brothers, Marvin and David.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7799095/Jack-Nicholson-pays-tribute-to-soul-mate-Dennis-Hopper.html|title=Jack Nicholson pays tribute to 'soul mate' Dennis Hopper | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph|date=June 2, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100605054557/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7799095/Jack-Nicholson-pays-tribute-to-soul-mate-Dennis-Hopper.html |archive-date=June 5, 2010 }} Archived June 5, 2010.</ref>

After World War II, the family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where the young Hopper attended Saturday art classes at the [[Kansas City Art Institute]]. 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]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://constantinereport.com/in-memorium-dennis-hopper-son-of-an-oss-spy-evolves-from-rebel-to-republicancia-dod-tv-torture-revisited/|title=In Memoriam: Dennis Hopper - Son of an OSS Spy - 'Evolves' from Rebel to Republican ... CIA-DoD TV Torture Revisited|date=May 29, 2010|access-date=June 15, 2021|archive-date=June 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615021653/https://constantinereport.com/in-memorium-dennis-hopper-son-of-an-oss-spy-evolves-from-rebel-to-republicancia-dod-tv-torture-revisited/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271%7C98259%7C1%7C,00.html |author=O'Hare, Cate |title=Hopper Evolves From Rebel to Republican |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070828103035/http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1%2C1002%2C271%7C98259%7C1%7C%2C00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 28, 2007 |work=Zap2It |date=October 26, 2005 |access-date=May 31, 2013}}</ref> Hopper was voted most likely to succeed at [[Helix High School]], where he was active in the drama club, speech and choir.<ref>{{cite news|title=Helix High's Hopper rebels without pause|date=February 4, 1990|newspaper=The San Diego Union-Tribune|page=E-1|first=Divina|last=Infusino}}</ref> It was there that he developed an interest in acting, studying at the [[Old Globe Theatre]] in San Diego,<!--<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmcatcher.com/interview_detail/141/620/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=November 12, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207033043/http://www.filmcatcher.com/interview_detail/141/620/ |archive-date=December 7, 2008 }}</ref> rm horrible blog cite --> and the [[Actors Studio]] in New York City (he studied with [[Lee Strasberg]] for five years). Hopper struck up a friendship with actor [[Vincent Price]], whose passion for art influenced Hopper's interest in art. He was especially fond of the plays of [[William Shakespeare]].

==Career==
=== 1954–1966: Early roles ===
[[File:Dennis Hopper & Karen Sharpe - Conflict TV Promotional Photograph (1957).jpg|thumb|Hopper, aged 20, with actress [[Karen Sharpe]] in an April 1957 promotional photograph for an episode of the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] television series ''[[Conflict (American TV series)|Conflict]]'']]
Hopper was reported to have had an uncredited role in ''[[Johnny Guitar]]'' in 1954, but he was quoted as saying he was not in Hollywood when the film was made.<ref name="AVCRR">Murray, Noel (December 2, 2008). [http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/random_roles_dennis_hopper Random Roles with Dennis Hopper] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203122236/http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/random_roles_dennis_hopper |date=December 3, 2008 }}. ''[[The A.V. Club]]'', Onion Inc. Retrieved May 29, 2010.</ref> 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 film)|Giant]]'' (1956). 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). Hopper reportedly forced Hathaway to shoot more than 80 takes of a scene over several days before he acquiesced to Hathaway's direction. After filming was finally completed, Hathaway allegedly told Hopper that his career in Hollywood was finished.<ref>{{cite news|last=Wyatt|first=Edward|title=Dennis Hopper, 74, Hollywood Rebel, Dies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/movies/30hopper.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 29, 2010|access-date=February 24, 2017|archive-date=March 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303051501/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/movies/30hopper.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

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 (actor, born 1931)|Nick Adams]] and the three became friends and socialized together. In 1959, Hopper moved to New York to study [[Method acting]] under [[Lee Strasberg]] at the [[Actors Studio]].<ref>Noever, Peter. ''Dennis Hopper: a System of Moments'', Hatje Cantz Publishers (2001) p. 258</ref> In 1961, Hopper played his first lead role in ''[[Night Tide]]'', an atmospheric supernatural thriller involving a mermaid in an amusement park. 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. Hopper stated that, because of his marriage to Brooke Hayward, he was the son-in-law of actress [[Margaret Sullavan]], a friend of John Wayne, and Wayne hired Hopper for a role in ''[[The Sons of Katie Elder]]'' (1965), also directed by Hathaway, which enabled Hopper to restart his film career.<ref>Charlie Rose (December 21, 1994). [http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/7142 Dennis Hopper Interview] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100608221033/http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/7142 |date=June 8, 2010}} (video). ''CharlieRose.com''; Charlie Rose LLC. Retrieved May 29, 2010.</ref>

Hopper debuted in an episode of the [[Richard Boone]] television series ''[[Medic (TV series)|Medic]]'' in 1955, portraying a young [[epilepsy|epileptic]]. He appeared in the first episode of the popular TV series ''[[The Rifleman]]'' (1958–1963) as the troubled orphan protagonist Vernon Tippet who is exploited by his greedy uncle. The series starred [[Chuck Connors]] and the premiere episode "The Sharpshooter" was written by [[Sam Peckinpah]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0686728/?ref_=ttep_ep1|title=The Sharpshooter|date=September 30, 1958|via=IMDb|access-date=March 23, 2020|archive-date=March 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309051943/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0686728/?ref_=ttep_ep1|url-status=live}}</ref> Hopper subsequently appeared in over 140 episodes of television shows such as ''[[Gunsmoke]]'', ''[[Bonanza]]'', ''[[Petticoat Junction]]'', ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'', ''[[The Barbara Stanwyck Show]]'', ''[[The Defenders (1961 TV series)|The Defenders]]'', ''[[The Investigators (1961 TV series)|The Investigators]]'', ''[[The Legend of Jesse James (TV series)|The Legend of Jesse James]]'', ''[[Entourage (U.S. TV series)|Entourage]]'', ''[[The Big Valley]]'', ''[[The Time Tunnel]]'', and ''[[Combat!]]''.

=== 1967–1986: Breakthrough and acclaim ===
[[File:Dennis Hopper and Michelle Phillips, 1970.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Hopper with second wife [[Michelle Phillips]] in 1970, during editing of ''[[The Last Movie]]'']]
Hopper had a supporting role as the bet-taker, "Babalugats", in ''[[Cool Hand Luke]]'' (1967). In 1968, Hopper teamed with [[Peter Fonda]], [[Terry Southern]] and [[Jack Nicholson]] to make ''[[Easy Rider]]'', which premiered in July 1969. With the release of ''[[True Grit (1969 film)|True Grit]]'' a month earlier, Hopper had starring roles in two major box-office films that summer. Hopper won wide acclaim as the director for his improvisational methods and innovative editing for ''Easy Rider''.<ref name="Biskind2011">{{cite book|author=Peter Biskind|title=Easy Riders Raging Bulls|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J3ucTdpeE9YC&pg=PA74|access-date=November 18, 2012|date=December 13, 2011|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4391-2661-5|pages=74–}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Biskind|title=Easy Riders Raging Bulls|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J3ucTdpeE9YC&pg=PA71|access-date=November 19, 2012|date=December 13, 2011|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4391-2661-5|pages=71–}}</ref> Hopper said of ''Easy Rider'': "The cocaine problem in the United States is really because of me. There was no cocaine before ''Easy Rider'' on the street. After ''Easy Rider'', it was everywhere".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jahsonic.com/NewHollywood.html|title=New Hollywood (1967–1977)|access-date=December 3, 2013|archive-date=June 23, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130623190630/http://www.jahsonic.com/NewHollywood.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Besides showing drug use on film, it was one of the first films to portray the hippie lifestyle. Hopper became a [[role model]] 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. They were denied rooms in motels and proper service in restaurants as a result of their radical looks.<ref name=Hillman>Hillman, Betty Luther. ''Dressing for the Culture Wars: Style and the Politics of Self-Presentation in the 1960s and 1970s'', Univ. of Nebraska Press (2015) e-book</ref> Their long hair became a point of contention in various scenes during the film.<ref name=Hillman/> Journalist Ann Hornaday wrote: "With its portrait of [[counterculture of the 1960s|counterculture]] heroes raising their middle fingers to the uptight middle-class hypocrisies, ''Easy Rider'' became the cinematic symbol of the 1960s, a celluloid anthem to freedom, macho bravado and anti-establishment rebellion".<ref>{{cite news|last=Hornaday|first=Ann|date=May 29, 2010|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/29/AR2010052903020.html|title=Dennis Hopper's influential career came full-circle|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=May 30, 2010|archive-date=November 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110165754/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/29/AR2010052903020.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Film critic Matthew Hays wrote "no other persona better signifies the lost idealism of the 1960s than that of Dennis Hopper".<ref name=Hays>{{cite book|editor-last1=Unterburger|editor-first1=Amy L.|title=International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers – vol 3 Actors and Actresses|publisher=St. James Press|year=1997|page=564|isbn=9781558623002}}</ref>

[[File:Dennis Hopper 1973.jpg|thumb|Hopper in 1973]]
Hopper was unable to capitalize on his ''Easy Rider'' success for several years. In 1970 he filmed ''[[The Last Movie]]'', cowritten by [[Stewart Stern]] and photographed by [[László Kovács (cinematographer)|László Kovács]] in Peru, and completed production in 1971. It won the prestigious CIDALC Award at that year's Venice Film Festival, but Universal Studios leaders expected a blockbuster like ''Easy Rider'', and did not like the film or give it an enthusiastic release, while American film audiences found it confounding – as convoluted as an abstract painting. On viewing the first release print, fresh from the lab, in his screening room at Universal, [[MCA Inc.|MCA]] founder [[Jules C. Stein]] rose from his chair and said, "I just don't understand this younger generation."<ref>Rol Murrow, quoted in book ''HOPPER'' by Tom Folsom (2013)</ref> During the tumultuous editing process, Hopper ensconced himself at the [[Mabel Dodge Luhan House]] in Taos, New Mexico, which he had purchased in 1970,<ref name="Thompson">{{cite news|url=http://www.nmmagazine.com/outings_mdlhouse_feb10.php|title=Outings: Mabel Dodge Luhan House|last=Thompson|first=Linda|work=[[New Mexico Magazine]]|access-date=August 7, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100504093655/http://www.nmmagazine.com/outings_mdlhouse_feb10.php|archive-date=May 4, 2010}}</ref> for almost an entire year. 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. The marriage lasted eight days.

Hopper acted in another John Wayne film, ''[[True Grit (1969 film)|True Grit]]'' (1969), and during its production, he became well acquainted with Wayne. In both of the films with Wayne, Hopper's character is killed in the presence of Wayne's character, to whom he utters his dying words. On September 30, 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". Cash said the song was written by [[Kris Kristofferson]] about Hopper. Hopper added that Kristofferson had written some songs for his Peruvian-shot movie ''The Last Movie'', in which Kristofferson appeared in his debut role with [[Julie Adams]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1123104/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_248|title=Episode #2.2|date=September 30, 1970|via=IMDb|access-date=March 23, 2020|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308105924/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1123104/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_248|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067327/?ref_=_142|title=The Last Movie|date=October 21, 1988|via=IMDb|access-date=March 23, 2020|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308123038/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067327/?ref_=_142|url-status=live}}</ref> Hopper also recited [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s famous poem [[If—]] during his appearance.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2LUbk_7uKg | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211028/T2LUbk_7uKg| archive-date=October 28, 2021|title=Video |website=www.youtube.com | date=March 24, 2015|access-date=September 21, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> 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 film)|Tracks]]'' (1976), and ''[[The American Friend]]'' (1977). With [[Francis Ford Coppola]]'s blockbuster ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' (1979), Hopper returned to prominence as a hyper-manic Vietnam-era photojournalist. Stepping in for an overwhelmed director, Hopper won praise in 1980 for his directing and acting in ''[[Out of the Blue (1980 film)|Out of the Blue]]''. Immediately thereafter, Hopper starred as an addled short-order cook "Cracker" in the [[Neil Young]]/[[Dean Stockwell]] low-budget collaboration ''[[Human Highway]]''. Production was reportedly often delayed by his unreliable behavior. [[Peter Biskind]] states in the [[New Hollywood]] history ''[[Easy Riders, Raging Bulls]]'' that Hopper's cocaine intake had reached three grams a day by this time, complemented by 30 beers, and some marijuana and [[Cuba libre]]s.

After staging a "suicide attempt" (really more of a daredevil act) in a coffin using 17 sticks of dynamite during an "art happening" at the Rice University Media Center (filmed by professor and documentary filmmaker Brian Huberman),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brianhuberman.com/about/ |title=Brian Huberman About Brian Huberman |publisher=Brianhuberman.com |date=January 5, 1995 |access-date=January 14, 2013 |archive-date=January 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113102014/http://www.brianhuberman.com/about/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and later disappearing into the Mexican desert during a particularly extravagant bender, Hopper entered a [[drug rehabilitation]] program in 1983.

Though Hopper gave critically acclaimed performances in Coppola's ''[[Rumble Fish]]'' (1983) and [[Sam Peckinpah]]'s ''[[The Osterman Weekend (film)|The Osterman Weekend]]'' (1983), it was not until he portrayed the gas-huffing, obscenity-screaming villain [[Frank Booth (Blue Velvet)|Frank Booth]] in [[David Lynch]]'s ''[[Blue Velvet (film)|Blue Velvet]]'' (1986) that his career truly revived. On reading the script Hopper said to Lynch: "You have to let me play Frank Booth. Because I am Frank Booth!"<ref>Egan, Barry (November 2, 2007). [http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/film-cinema/keeping-your-hair-on-1210900.html Keeping your hair on] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080929071743/http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/film-cinema/keeping-your-hair-on-1210900.html |date=September 29, 2008 }}. [[Irish Independent|The Independent]]. Retrieved May 29, 2010.</ref> He won critical acclaim and several awards for this role, and in the same year received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as an alcoholic assistant basketball coach in ''[[Hoosiers (film)|Hoosiers]]''. Also in 1986, Hopper portrayed Lt. Enright in the [[comedy horror]] ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2]]''.

=== 1987–2010: Later work and final roles ===
[[File:DennisHopperJackNicholson.jpg|upright|thumb|right|alt=Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson wearing tuxedos and holding drinks|Hopper (left) with his friend and ''Easy Rider'' co-star [[Jack Nicholson]] in 1990]]
In 1987 he acted in the [[neo-noir]] thriller ''[[Black Widow (1987 film)|Black Widow]]'' alongside [[Debra Winger]], the action comedy ''[[Straight to Hell (film)|Straight to Hell]]'', the adventure film ''[[Running Out of Luck]]'' starring [[Mick Jagger]] and the romantic comedy ''[[The Pick-up Artist (1987 film)|The Pick-up Artist]]'' starring [[Molly Ringwald]] and [[Robert Downey Jr.]] In 1988, he directed ''[[Colors (film)|Colors]]'', a critically acclaimed [[police procedural]] about gang violence in Los Angeles starring [[Sean Penn]] and [[Robert Duvall]]. Hopper plays an aging hippie prankster in the 1990 comedy ''[[Flashback (1990 film)|Flashback]]'', fleeing in a ''[[Furthur (bus)|Furthur]]''-like old bus to the tune of Steppenwolf's "[[Born to Be Wild]]". Hopper teamed with Nike in the early 1990s to make a series of television commercials. He appeared as a "crazed referee" in those ads.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tailgatingideas.com/dennis-hopper-nike-football-commercials/|title=A Collection of the Dennis Hopper "Crazy Ref" Commercials|website=Tailgating Ideas|author1=Dave|date=September 9, 2009|access-date=July 21, 2014|archive-date=July 26, 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140726063308/http://www.tailgatingideas.com/dennis-hopper-nike-football-commercials/|url-status=live}}</ref> Hopper appeared on the final two episodes of the cult 1991 television show ''[[Fishing with John]]'' with host [[John Lurie]]. He was nominated for the [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie]] for the 1991 HBO film ''Paris Trout''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/celebrities/dennis-hopper |title=Dennis Hopper Emmy Nominated |publisher=Emmys.com |access-date=January 14, 2013}}</ref> Shortly thereafter, he played drug smuggler and [[Drug Enforcement Administration|DEA]] informant [[Barry Seal]] in the HBO film ''[[Doublecrossed]]''.

He starred as [[Bowser|King Koopa]] in ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros.]]'', a 1993 critical and commercial failure loosely based on the video game of the same name.<ref name="AVCRR"/> In 1993, he played Clifford Worley in ''[[True Romance]]''. He co-starred in the 1994 blockbuster ''[[Speed (1994 film)|Speed]]'' with [[Keanu Reeves]] and [[Sandra Bullock]], and as magic-phobic [[H.P. Lovecraft]] in the television movie ''[[Witch Hunt (1994 film)|Witch Hunt]]''. In 1995, Hopper played a greedy television self-help guru, Dr. Luther Waxling in ''[[Search and Destroy (1995 film)|Search and Destroy]]''. The same year, he starred as Deacon, the one-eyed nemesis of [[Kevin Costner]] in ''[[Waterworld]]''. And in 1996 he starred in the science fiction comedy ''[[Space Truckers]]'' directed by [[Stuart Gordon]]. Also in 1996 he appeared as art dealer [[Bruno Bischofberger]] in [[Basquiat (film)|''Basquiat'']]. Hopper was originally cast as Christof in the 1998 [[Peter Weir]] film, ''[[The Truman Show]]'', but left during the filming due to "creative differences"; he was replaced by [[Ed Harris]].<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-09-ca-46744-story.html Is Jim Carrey Flying in the Face of Success, Again?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215075341/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-09-ca-46744-story.html |date=February 15, 2023 }} ''Los Angeles Times'' April 9, 1997</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-truman-show-and-its-very-late-casting-change/ | title=The Truman Show, and Its (Very) Late Casting Change | date=July 16, 2018 | access-date=August 21, 2023 | archive-date=August 21, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230821073641/https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-truman-show-and-its-very-late-casting-change/ | url-status=live }}</ref> In 1999, he starred in ''The Prophet's Game'' (a dark thriller), directed by [[David Worth (cinematographer)|David Worth]] and also starring [[Stephanie Zimbalist]], Robert Yocum, [[Sondra Locke]], [[Joe Penny]] and [[Tracey Birdsall]]. In 2003, Hopper was in the running for the dual lead in the indie horror drama ''[[Firecracker (2005 film)|Firecracker]]'', but was ousted at the last minute in favor of [[Mike Patton]].

In 2005, Hopper played Paul Kaufman in George A. Romero's ''[[Land of the Dead]]''. He portrayed villain [[Victor Drazen]] in the first season of the popular action drama ''[[24 (TV series)|24]]''. 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. Hopper appeared in all 22 episodes that were filmed. He also played the part of record producer Ben Cendars in the Starz television series ''[[Crash (2008 TV series)|Crash]]'', which lasted two seasons (26 episodes).

In 2008, Hopper starred in ''[[An American Carol]]''. In 2008 he also played The Death in [[Wim Wenders]]' ''[[Palermo Shooting]]''. His last major feature film appearance was in the 2008 film ''[[Elegy (film)|Elegy]]'' with [[Ben Kingsley]], [[Penélope Cruz]] and [[Debbie Harry]]. For his last performance, he was the voice of Tony, the alpha-male of the Eastern wolf pack in the 2010 animated film ''[[Alpha and Omega (film)|Alpha and Omega]]''. He died before the movie was released. This brought the directors to dedicate the film to his memory at the beginning of the movie credits. 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.<ref name="swan song" />

==Photography and art==
[[File:Dennis Hopper hat.jpg|thumb|upright|Hopper in June 2008]]
Hopper had several artistic pursuits beyond film. He was a prolific photographer, painter, and sculptor.<ref name="Hopper art show opens">{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1180943.stm |title=Hopper art show opens |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091105195915/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1180943.stm |archive-date=November 5, 2009 |work=BBC News |date=February 20, 2001}}</ref>

Hopper's fascination with art began with painting lessons at the [[Nelson-Atkins Museum]] while still a child in Kansas City, Missouri.<ref name="Los Angeles Times">{{cite news |first=Jessica |last=Hundley |date=July 11, 2010 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-jul-11-la-ca-dennis-hopper-20100711-story.html |title=Dennis Hopper, easy-rider art enthusiast |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220503084928/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-jul-11-la-ca-dennis-hopper-20100711-story.html |archive-date=May 3, 2022 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=May 3, 2022}}</ref> Early in his career, he painted and wrote poetry, though many of his works were destroyed in the 1961 [[Bel Air Fire]], which burned hundreds of homes, including his and his wife's, on Stone Canyon Road<ref name="Once Upon a Time in L.A">{{cite magazine |first=Brooke |last=Hayward |date=September 2001 |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/classic/features/making-of-easy-rider-200109 |title=Once Upon a Time in L.A. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013190431/http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/classic/features/making-of-easy-rider-200109 |archive-date=October 13, 2012 |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]}}</ref> in [[Bel Air, Los Angeles|Bel Air]].<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news |first=Edward |last=Wyatt |date=May 29, 2010 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/movies/30hopper.html |title=Dennis Hopper, 74, Hollywood Rebel, Dies |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303051501/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/movies/30hopper.html |archive-date=March 3, 2017 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> His painting style ranges from [[abstract impressionism]] to [[photorealism]] and often includes references to his cinematic work and to other artists.<ref name="Dennis Hopper"/><ref>{{cite book |first1=Dennis |last1=Hopper |first2=Jan-Hein |last2=Sassen |first3=Rudi |last3=Fuchs |title=Dennis Hopper: Paintings, Photographs, Films |location=Amsterdam |publisher=NAi Publishers/Stedelijk Museum |date=2001 |isbn=90-5662-195-5}}</ref>

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]].<ref name="Once Upon a Time in L.A"/> During this period he created the cover art for the [[Ike & Tina Turner]] album ''[[River Deep – Mountain High (album)|River Deep – Mountain High]]'' (released in 1966).<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Tales of Ike and Tina Turner|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|last=Fong-Torres|first=Ben|author-link=Ben Fong-Torres|date=October 14, 1971|page=2|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/tales-of-ike-and-tina-turner-237489/| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208215940/https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/tales-of-ike-and-tina-turner-237489/ |archive-date=February 8, 2022| access-date=May 3, 2022}}</ref> He became a prolific photographer, and noted writer [[Terry Southern]] profiled Hopper in ''Better Homes and Gardens'' as an up-and-coming photographer "to watch" in the mid-1960s.{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}} Hopper's early photography is known for portraits from the 1960s, and he began shooting portraits for ''Vogue'' and other magazines. His photographs of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington and the 1965 civil-rights march in [[Selma, Alabama]], were published. His intimate and unguarded images of [[Andy Warhol]], [[Jane Fonda]], [[The Byrds]], [[Paul Newman]], [[Jasper Johns]], [[Claes Oldenburg]], [[Robert Rauschenberg]], [[James Brown]], [[Peter Fonda]], [[Ed Ruscha]], [[the Grateful Dead]], [[Michael McClure]], and [[Timothy Leary]], among others, became the subject of gallery and museum shows and were collected in several books, including ''1712 North Crescent Heights''. The book, whose title refers to the house where he lived with Hayward in the [[Hollywood Hills]] in the 1960s, was edited by his daughter [[Marin Hopper]].<ref name="nytimes.com"/> From 1960 to 1967, 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.<ref name="auto">{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/dennis-hoppers-quiet-vision-of-nineteen-sixties-hollywood|title=Dennis Hopper's Quiet Vision of Nineteen-Sixties Hollywood|first=Mark|last=Rozzo|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=September 10, 2020|archive-date=August 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810002905/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/dennis-hoppers-quiet-vision-of-nineteen-sixties-hollywood|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Dennis Hopper: Photographs 1961–1967'' was published in February 2011, by [[Taschen]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Walsh |first=John |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/rebel-with-a-camera-dennis-hoppers-stunning-photographic-archive-is-revealed-2216480.html |title=Rebel with a camera: Dennis Hopper's stunning photographic archive is revealed |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827001018/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/rebel-with-a-camera-dennis-hoppers-stunning-photographic-archive-is-revealed-2216480.html |archive-date=August 27, 2017 |work=The Independent |date=February 19, 2011 |access-date=April 12, 2011}}</ref> German film director [[Wim Wenders]] said of Hopper that if "he'd only been a photographer, he'd be one of the great photographers of the twentieth century."<ref name="auto"/> In ''[[The New Yorker]]'', Hopper, as photographer, was described as "a compelling, important, and weirdly omnipresent chronicler of his times."<ref name="auto"/>

Hopper began working as a painter and a poet as well as a collector of art in the 1960s as well, particularly [[Pop Art]]. Over his lifetime he amassed a formidable array of 20th- and 21st-century art, including many of [[Julian Schnabel]]'s works (such as a shattered-plate portrait of Hopper); numerous works from his early cohorts, such as [[Ed Ruscha]], [[Edward Kienholz]], [[Roy Lichtenstein]] (''Sinking Sun'', 1964),<ref>{{cite magazine | last=Hopper | first=Marin | date=June 6, 2012 | title=Marin Hopper's Malibu Memories | magazine=[[Harper's Bazaar]] | url=http://www.harpersbazaar.com/magazine/feature-articles/marin-hopper-malibu-childhood-0612 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019220113/http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/marin-hopper-malibu-childhood-0612 | archive-date=October 19, 2013 | url-status=dead }}</ref> and Warhol (''Double Mona Lisa'', 1963);<ref name="Once Upon a Time in L.A"/> and pieces by contemporary artists such as [[Damien Hirst]] and [[Robin Rhode]]. He was involved in L.A.'s [[Ferus]] and [[Virginia Dwan]] galleries in the 1960s, and he was a longtime friend and supporter to New York dealer [[Tony Shafrazi]].<ref name="Los Angeles Times"/> One of the first art works Hopper owned was an early print of [[Andy Warhol]]'s [[Campbell's Soup Cans]] bought for US$75. 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. The print sold at Christie's, New York, for US$302,500 in January 2011.<ref name=christie>{{cite web |url=http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/prints-multiples/andy-warhol-in-collaboration-with-dennis-5399542-details.aspx |title=Sale 2412 Lot 37: Andy Warhol (1928–1987) In Collaboration With Dennis Hopper (1936–2010) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020135434/http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/prints-multiples/andy-warhol-in-collaboration-with-dennis-5399542-details.aspx |archive-date=October 20, 2013 |publisher=Christie's, New York}}</ref>

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 Cinémathèque Française, Paris, and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne. 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).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://flavorwire.com/80848/dennis-hopper-said-to-be-shortlisted-for-deitch-debut-at-la-moca |title=Dennis Hopper to be Deitch's Debut at LA MOCA |first=Kelsey |last=Keith |publisher=Flavorpill |work=Flavorwire.com |date=March 30, 2010 |access-date=May 29, 2010 |archive-date=April 2, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100402233614/http://flavorwire.com/80848/dennis-hopper-said-to-be-shortlisted-for-deitch-debut-at-la-moca |url-status=live }}</ref> In April 2010, Deitch confirmed that Hopper's work, curated by Julian Schnabel, will indeed be the focus of his debut at MOCA.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/04/deitch-on-first-show-at-moca-dennis-hopper-art-curated-by-julian-schnabel-.html|title=Jeffrey Deitch's first show at MOCA: Dennis Hopper, curated by Julian Schnabel|author=Finkel, Jori|publisher=[[Los Angeles Times]]|work=Culture Monster|date=April 15, 2010|access-date=May 29, 2010|archive-date=April 17, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100417225939/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/04/deitch-on-first-show-at-moca-dennis-hopper-art-curated-by-julian-schnabel-.html|url-status=live}}</ref> 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 [[U.S. Route 66|Route 66]] in Los Angeles. The image was reproduced on the invitation for [[Ed Ruscha]]'s second solo exhibition at Ferus Gallery in 1964.

In 2011, Barricade Books published film historian Peter L. Winkler's biography, ''Dennis Hopper: The Wild Ride of a Hollywood Rebel''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Winkler | first=P.L. | title=Dennis Hopper: The Wild Ride of a Hollywood Rebel | publisher=Barricade Books, Incorporated | year=2014 | isbn=978-1-56980-513-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJfWngEACAAJ | access-date=September 21, 2020 }}</ref> In 2013, HarperCollins published ''Hopper: A Journey into the American Dream'', a biography by American writer [[Tom Folsom]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Folsom |first=Tom |url=http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Hopper-Tom-Folsom/?isbn=9780062206947 |title=Hopper: A Journey into the American Dream |publisher=Harpercollins.com |date=March 24, 2010 |access-date=January 14, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313170402/http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Hopper-Tom-Folsom?isbn=9780062206947 |archive-date=March 13, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

On the [[Gorillaz]] album ''[[Demon Days]]'', Hopper narrates the song "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/3526-demon-days/|title=Gorillaz, Demon Days review|author=Mitchum, Rob|date=May 22, 2005|work=pitchfork.com|access-date=May 29, 2010|archive-date=February 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218063248/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/3526-demon-days/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Hopper is also the subject of [[The Waterboys]] album released on 4 April 2025 titled ''[[Life, Death and Dennis Hopper]]''. Written by singer songwriter [[Mike Scott (Scottish musician)|Mike Scott]], the album contains twenty five compositions dedicated to the actor and includes contributions from [[Bruce Springsteen]], [[Fiona Apple]], and [[Steve Earle]] amongst others.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-waterboys-announce-new-album-life-death-and-dennis-hopper-with-bruce-springsteen-fiona-apple-and-more-3826540 |title=The Waterboys announce new album ‘Life, Death And Dennis Hopper’ with Bruce Springsteen, Fiona Apple and more |work=NME |last=Duran |first=Anagricel |date=January 6, 2025 |access-date=April 22, 2025}}</ref>

In the late 1980s, Hopper purchased a trio of nearly identical two-story, loft-style condominiums at 330 Indiana Avenue in Venice Beach, California – one made of concrete, one of plywood, and one of green roofing shingles – built by [[Frank Gehry]] and two artist friends of Hopper's, [[Chuck Arnoldi]] and Laddie John Dill, in 1981.<ref>{{cite magazine |author-link=Bob Colacello |last=Colacello |first=Bob |date=August 2010 |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/08/dennis-hopper-201008 |title=The City of Warring Angels |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013014358/http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/08/dennis-hopper-201008 |archive-date=October 13, 2012 |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]}}</ref> In 1987, he commissioned an industrial-style main residence, with a corrugated metal exterior designed by Brian Murphy, as a place to display his artwork.<ref>{{cite web |first=Lauren |last=Beale |date=August 4, 2011 |url=https://www.latimes.com/la-xpm-2011-aug-04-la-hm-hotprop-dennis-hopper-20110804-story.html |title=Dennis Hopper's Venice property is back on the market |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=April 22, 2025}}</ref>

==Personal life==
[[File:Dennis Hopper 1990.jpg|thumb|right|Hopper with [[Katherine LaNasa]], his fourth wife, at the [[62nd Academy Awards]] in 1990]]
According to ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, Hopper was "one of Hollywood's most notorious drug addicts" for 20 years. He spent much of the 1970s and early 1980s living as an "outcast" in [[Taos, New Mexico]], after the success of ''Easy Rider''. Hopper was also "notorious for his troubled relationships with women", including [[Michelle Phillips]], who divorced him after eight days of marriage.<ref name="RSObit">{{cite web| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/hollywood-hellraiser-dennis-hopper-dies-at-74-20100529| title=Hollywood Hellraiser Dennis Hopper Dies at 74| author=Matos, Michaelangelo| publisher=Rolling Stone| work=RollingStone.com| date=May 29, 2010| access-date=March 11, 2011| archive-date=June 28, 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628221815/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/hollywood-hellraiser-dennis-hopper-dies-at-74-20100529| url-status=dead}}</ref> Hopper was married five times:<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.cnbc.com/2010/05/30/dennis-hopper-actor-in-easy-rider-blue-velvet-dies.html| title=Dennis Hopper, Actor in 'Easy Rider,' 'Blue Velvet,' Dies| publisher=[[CNBC]]| date=May 30, 2010| access-date=March 6, 2023| archive-date=March 6, 2023| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306150600/https://www.cnbc.com/2010/05/30/dennis-hopper-actor-in-easy-rider-blue-velvet-dies.html| url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Brooke Hayward]], married 1961 – divorced 1969, 1 child, daughter Marin Hopper (b. 1962);
* [[Michelle Phillips]], married October 31, 1970 – divorced November 8, 1970;
* [[Daria Halprin]], married 1972 – divorced 1976, 1 child, daughter [[Ruthanna Hopper]] (b. 1972);
* [[Katherine LaNasa]], married June 17, 1989 – divorced April 1992, 1 child, son Henry Hopper (b. 1990);
* Victoria Duffy, married April 13, 1996 – separated January 12, 2010, 1 child, daughter Galen Grier Hopper (b. 2003).

Hopper has been widely reported to be the godfather of actress [[Amber Tamblyn]];<ref>{{IMDb name|id=0848560|section=bio|name=Russ Tamblyn}}. Retrieved April 3, 2012.</ref> 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 [[Russ Tamblyn|her father]]'s, who were always around the house when she was growing up, and who were big influences on her life.<ref>{{cite news|last=Tamblyn|first=Amber|title=Amber Tamblyn: Confessions of a Child Star|url=http://www.parade.com/celebrity/2009/08/amber-tamblyn-confessions.html|work=Interview by Kevin Sessums, August 30, 2009|date=August 30, 2009|publisher=Parade Publications, Inc.|access-date=April 3, 2012}}</ref>

In 1994, [[Rip Torn]] filed a defamation lawsuit against Hopper over a story Hopper told on ''[[The Tonight Show with Jay Leno]]''. Hopper claimed that Torn pulled a knife on him during pre-production of the film ''Easy Rider''. According to Hopper, Torn was originally cast in the film but was replaced with [[Jack Nicholson]] after the incident. According to Torn's suit, it was actually Hopper who pulled the knife on him. A judge ruled in Torn's favor and Hopper was ordered to pay US$475,000 in damages. Hopper then appealed but the judge again ruled in Torn's favor and Hopper was required to pay another US$475,000 in punitive damages.<ref>{{cite news| title=Court ruling doubles the 'Easy' score: Torn 2, Hopper zip| url=http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/News/9905/11/showbuzz/#story3| publisher=CNN| author=Staff| date=May 11, 1999| access-date=April 26, 2007| archive-date=May 29, 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529002039/http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/News/9905/11/showbuzz/#story3| url-status=live}}</ref>

According to Newsmeat, Hopper donated US$2,000 to the [[Republican National Committee]] in 2004 and an equal amount in 2005.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |url=http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Dennis_Hopper.php |title=NEWSMEAT ▷ Dennis Hopper's Federal Campaign Contribution Report |publisher=Newsmeat.com |access-date=November 12, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091231160308/http://newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Dennis_Hopper.php |archive-date=December 31, 2009}}</ref> Hopper donated $600 to Irish political party [[Sinn Féin]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Hollywood stars among Sinn Fein donors who pledged $12m to party |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/herald/news/hollywood-stars-among-sinn-fein-donors-who-pledged-12m-to-party-31043008.html |work=Irish Independent |access-date=April 12, 2023 |archive-date=April 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412112827/https://www.independent.ie/regionals/herald/news/hollywood-stars-among-sinn-fein-donors-who-pledged-12m-to-party-31043008.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Hopper was honored with the rank of commander of [[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres|France's National Order of Arts and Letters]], at a ceremony in Paris.<ref>Staff (October 15, 2008). [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7668813.stm French honour for Dennis Hopper] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122204813/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7668813.stm |date=January 22, 2009 }}. [[BBC]] News. Retrieved May 29, 2010.</ref>

Despite being a Republican, Hopper supported [[Barack Obama]] in the [[2008 United States presidential election|2008 presidential election]].<ref>AFP (October 13, 2008). [http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j5EWRC22Nx_phjXpenOArhNeOUew Dennis Hopper praying for Obama victory] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015231035/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j5EWRC22Nx_phjXpenOArhNeOUew |date=October 15, 2008 }}. [[Agence France-Presse|AFP]]. Retrieved May 29, 2010.</ref> Hopper confirmed this in an [[Election Day (politics)|election day]] appearance on the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] daytime show ''[[The View (talk show)|The View]]''. He said his reason for not voting Republican was the selection of [[Sarah Palin]] as the Republican [[vice presidential candidate]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Dennis Hopper: I Voted For Obama Because Of Palin (VIDEO) |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dennis-hopper-i-voted-for_n_140940 |website=HuffPost |access-date=June 2, 2022 |date=December 5, 2008 |archive-date=June 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220603005542/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dennis-hopper-i-voted-for_n_140940 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Hopper was a longtime friend of actress [[Sally Kirkland]], who admitted in a 2021 [[Reelz]] documentary that they had a [[one-night stand]] early on in their friendship.<ref>"Dennis Hopper". ''Autopsy: The Last Hours of''. S12, E4. Reelz. April 18, 2021. Cable television.</ref>

===Divorce from Victoria Duffy===
On January 14, 2010, Hopper filed for divorce from his fifth wife Victoria Duffy.<ref>Thomson, Katherine (January 15, 2010). [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dennis-hopper-divorce-sho_n_424589 "Dennis Hopper divorce shocker"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220603005543/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dennis-hopper-divorce-sho_n_424589 |date=June 3, 2022 }}. HuffPost. Retrieved June 2, 2022.</ref> 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 {{convert|10|ft|m|0}} of him or contact him.<ref>Sehgal, Samia (February 12, 2010). [http://www.themoneytimes.com/featured/20100212/dennis-hopper-gets-restraining-order-against-wife-id-10100264.html "Dennis Hopper gets restraining order against wife"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721203650/http://www.themoneytimes.com/featured/20100212/dennis-hopper-gets-restraining-order-against-wife-id-10100264.html |date=July 21, 2011 }}. The Money Times. Retrieved May 29, 2010.</ref> On March 9, 2010, Duffy refused to move out of the Hopper home, despite the court's order that she do so by March 15.<ref>Staff (March 10, 2010). [https://www.contactmusic.com/dennis-hopper/news/hoppers-wife-refuses-to-move-out_1134848 "Hopper's Wife Refuses to Move Out"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220603005542/https://www.contactmusic.com/dennis-hopper/news/hoppers-wife-refuses-to-move-out_1134848 |date=June 3, 2022 }}. ContactMusic.com. Retrieved June 2, 2022.</ref>

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. Hopper did not attend the hearing.<ref>Chubb, Tina (April 6, 2010). [http://www.inentertainment.co.uk/20100406/dennis-hopper-divorce-case-key-issues-settled-by-judge/ "Dennis Hopper divorce case: key issues settled by judge"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100409123310/http://www.inentertainment.co.uk/20100406/dennis-hopper-divorce-case-key-issues-settled-by-judge/ |date=April 9, 2010 }}. ''InEntertainment''. Retrieved May 29, 2010.</ref> On May 12, 2010, a hearing was held before Judge Amy Pellman in downtown Los Angeles Superior Court. Though Hopper died two weeks later, Duffy insisted at the hearing that he was well enough to be deposed.<ref name="Finn">{{cite web| url=https://www.eonline.com/news/180743/dennis_hoppers_wife_wasnt_too_sick_pot| title=Dennis Hopper's Wife: He Wasn't Too sick for Pot Runs and Plane Rides| last=Finn| first=Natalie| date=May 12, 2010| work=[[E!]]| access-date=June 2, 2022| archive-date=September 3, 2022| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220903145127/https://www.eonline.com/news/180743/dennis_hoppers_wife_wasnt_too_sick_pot| url-status=live}}</ref> The hearing also dealt with who would be the beneficiary on Hopper's life insurance policy, which listed his wife as a beneficiary.<ref>Staff (April 6, 2010). [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8604410.stm "Judge allows wife to live with Dennis Hopper"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502075244/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8604410.stm |date=May 2, 2014 }}. BBC News. Retrieved May 29, 2010.</ref> A very ill Hopper did not appear in court though his estranged wife did. Despite Duffy's bid to be named the sole beneficiary of Hopper's million-dollar policy, the judge ruled against her and limited her claim to one-quarter of the policy. The remaining US$750,000 was to go to his estate.<ref>James, Michael S. and Marikar, Sheila (May 29, 2010) [https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Media/dennis-hopper-dies-age-74/story?id=10214007/ "Dennis Hopper Dies at Age 74".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729203236/https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Media/dennis-hopper-dies-age-74/story?id=10214007/ |date=July 29, 2020 }} Retrieved August 10, 2010.</ref>

==Illness and death==
[[File:DennisHopperSideMar10.jpg|thumb|Hopper at a ceremony to receive a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] on March 26, 2010, two months and three days before his death]]
On September 28, 2009, Hopper, then 73, was reportedly taken by ambulance to an unidentified Manhattan hospital wearing an oxygen mask and "with numerous tubes visible".<ref>{{cite news| author=Kate Stanhope| title=Dennis Hopper Hospitalized in New York| url=https://www.tvguide.com/news/dennis-hopper-hospitalized-1010368/| work=TV Guide| date=September 29, 2009| access-date=June 2, 2022| archive-date=December 13, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213041155/http://www.tvguide.com/news/dennis-hopper-hospitalized-1010368.aspx| url-status=dead}}</ref> On October 2, he was discharged after receiving treatment for dehydration.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dennis Hopper released from hospital |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hopper/dennis-hopper-released-from-hospital-idUSTRE58T75E20091001 |website=Reuters |access-date=June 2, 2022 |date=October 1, 2009 |archive-date=June 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220603005543/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hopper/dennis-hopper-released-from-hospital-idUSTRE58T75E20091001 |url-status=live }}</ref>

On October 29, 2009, Hopper's manager Sam Maydew reported that he had been diagnosed with advanced [[prostate cancer]].<ref>[http://www.today.com/id/33543972 Dennis Hopper's manager reports prostate cancer diagnosis] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200914220628/http://www.today.com/id/33543972 |date=September 14, 2020 }}. [[Associated Press]]. October 29, 2009. Retrieved May 29, 2010.</ref> In January 2010, it was reported that Hopper's cancer had [[Metastasis|metastasized]] to his bones.<ref>Lee, Ken (January 15, 2010). [https://people.com/celebrity/dennis-hopper-files-for-divorce/ Dennis Hopper files for divorce] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220603005543/https://people.com/celebrity/dennis-hopper-files-for-divorce/ |date=June 3, 2022 }}. People. Retrieved June 2, 2022.</ref>

On March 18, 2010, he was honored with the 2,403rd star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] in front of [[Grauman's Egyptian Theatre]] on [[Hollywood Boulevard]].<ref>Staff (March 18, 2010). [http://www.pr-inside.com/hopper-to-be-honored-on-hollywood-r1783445.htm Hopper to be Honored on Hollywood Walk of Fame] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531152952/http://www.pr-inside.com/hopper-to-be-honored-on-hollywood-r1783445.htm |date=May 31, 2012 }}. PR Inside.com. Retrieved May 29, 2010.</ref> Surrounded by family, fans, and friends—including [[Jack Nicholson]], [[Viggo Mortensen]], [[David Lynch]], and [[Michael Madsen]]—he attended its addition to the sidewalk six days later.<ref>Duke, Alan (March 26, 2010). [http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/26/dennis.hopper/index.html Dennis Hopper attends Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108044140/http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/26/dennis.hopper/index.html |date=November 8, 2012 }} ''CNN.com''; CNN. Retrieved May 29, 2010.</ref>

By March 2010, Hopper reportedly weighed only {{convert|100|lb|kg}} and was unable to carry on long conversations.<ref>KTLA (March 26, 2010). [http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-dennis-hopper-star,0,1384617.story Ailing Actor Dennis Hopper Receives Star on Walk of Fame] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101010013443/http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-dennis-hopper-star,0,1384617.story |date=October 10, 2010 }}. [[KTLA]] News. Retrieved May 29, 2010.</ref> According to papers filed in his divorce court case, Hopper was [[terminal illness|terminally ill]] and was unable to undergo [[chemotherapy]] to treat his prostate cancer.<ref>BBC (March 25, 2010). [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8586552.stm Actor Dennis Hopper 'is terminally ill'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131008143618/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8586552.stm |date=October 8, 2013 }}. [[BBC]] News. Retrieved May 29, 2010.</ref><ref>AP (March 25, 2010). {{YouTube|67Mc1UzBcOY|Actor Dennis Hopper Reportedly on His Death Bed}}; [[Associated Press]]. Retrieved May 29, 2010.</ref><!-- This AP video is not copyvio, it's published by AP under their YouTube account. -->

Hopper died at his home in the coastal [[Venice, Los Angeles|Venice]] district of Los Angeles, on May 29, 2010, at age 74.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hopper/hollywood-hellraiser-dennis-hopper-dead-at-74-idUSTRE64S1OJ20100529|title=Hollywood hellraiser Dennis Hopper dead at 74 |author-first1=Dean |author-last1=Goodman |publisher=Reuters |date=May 29, 2010 |access-date=June 2, 2022 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200124083508/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hopper/hollywood-hellraiser-dennis-hopper-dead-at-74-idUSTRE64S1OJ20100529 |archive-date=January 24, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Wyatt |first=Edward |date=May 29, 2010 |title=Dennis Hopper, 74, Hollywood Rebel, Dies |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/movies/30hopper.html |access-date=April 10, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303051501/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/movies/30hopper.html |url-status=live }}</ref> His funeral took place on June 3, 2010, at [[San Francisco de Asis Mission Church]] in [[Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico]]. His body was buried at the Jesus Nazareno Cemetery in Ranchos de Taos.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brighthubeducation.com/social-studies-help/73250-dennis-hopper-taos-new-mexico/|title=Dennis Hopper Buried in Taos, New Mexico: Picture of Dennis Hopper's Grave|date=June 4, 2010|website=www.brighthubeducation.com|access-date=December 19, 2023|archive-date=December 19, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231219235057/https://www.brighthubeducation.com/social-studies-help/73250-dennis-hopper-taos-new-mexico/|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Grave of late actor Dennis Hopper.jpg|thumb|Hopper's grave in [[Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico]]]]
The film ''[[Alpha and Omega (film)|Alpha and Omega]]'', which was among his last film roles, was dedicated to him, as was the 2011 film ''[[Restless (2011 film)|Restless]]'', which starred his son Henry Hopper.

==Filmography==
{{main|Dennis Hopper filmography}}
{{div col}}
* ''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]'' (1955) as Goon
* [[Giant (1956 film)|''Giant'']] (1956) as Jordan Benedict III
* [[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film)|''Gunfight at the O.K. Corral'']] (1957) as [[Billy Clanton]]
* ''[[The Rifleman]]'' (1958) first season first episode 
* ''[[Night Tide]]'' (1961) as Johnny Drake
* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' (1963) Season 4 Episode 4 "He's Alive" as Peter
* ''[[Bonanza]]'' (1964) Season 5 Episode 31 as a bounty hunter
* ''[[The Sons of Katie Elder]]'' (1965) as Dave Hastings
* ''[[Combat!]]'' (1967) Season 5 Episode 22 "A Little Jazz" as Zack Fielder
* ''[[Cool Hand Luke]]'' (1967) as Babalugats
* ''[[Panic in the City]]'' (1968) as Golf
* ''[[Easy Rider]]'' (1969) as Billy – Also writer-director
* ''[[True Grit (1969 film)|True Grit]]'' (1969) as Moon
* ''[[The Last Movie]]'' (1971) as Kansas – Also writer-director
* ''[[Kid Blue]]'' (1973) as Bickford Warner
* ''[[Mad Dog Morgan]]'' (1976) as [[Daniel Morgan (bushranger)|Daniel Morgan]]
* ''[[The American Friend]]'' (1977) as [[Tom Ripley]]
* ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' (1979) as The Photojournalist
* [[Out of the Blue (1980 film)|''Out of the Blue'']] (1980) as Don – Also director
* ''[[The Osterman Weekend (film)|The Osterman Weekend]]'' (1983) as Richard Tremayne
* ''[[Rumble Fish]]'' (1983) as Father
* ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2]]'' (1986) as Lefty Enright
* ''[[River's Edge]]'' (1986) as Feck
* [[Blue Velvet (film)|''Blue Velvet'']] (1986) as [[Frank Booth (Blue Velvet)|Frank Booth]]
* [[Hoosiers (film)|''Hoosiers'']] (1986) as Shooter
* [[Colors (film)|''Colors'']] (1988) – Director only
*''[[Flashback (1990 film)|Flashback]]'' (1990) as Huey Walker 
* ''[[Catchfire]]'' (1990) as Milo – Also director
* ''[[The Indian Runner]]'' (1991) as Caesar
* [[Super Mario Bros. (film)|''Super Mario Bros.'']] (1993) as [[King Koopa]]
* ''[[True Romance]]'' (1993) as Clifford Worley
* ''[[Red Rock West]]'' (1993) as Lyle from Dallas
* [[Speed (1994 film)|''Speed'']] (1994) as Howard Payne
* ''[[Waterworld]]'' (1995) as Deacon
* ''[[Space Truckers]]'' (1996) as John Canyon
* ''[[Carried Away (1996 film)|Carried Away]]'' (1996) as Joseph Svenden
* [[Basquiat (film)|''Basquiat'']] (1996) as [[Bruno Bischofberger]]
* ''[[EDtv]]'' (1999) as Hank Pekurny
*"[[The Target]]" (2002) as Robert Nile
* ''[[Land of the Dead]]'' (2005) as Kaufman
* ''[[House of 9]]'' (2005) as Father Duffy
* [[Elegy (film)|''Elegy'']] (2008) as George O'Hearn
* ''[[Palermo Shooting]]'' (2008) as Frank
* ''[[The Other Side of the Wind]]'' (2018) posthumously as Himself
{{div col end}}

==Other works==
===Books===
* ''Dennis Hopper: Out of the Sixties'', Twelvetrees Press (1986)
* ''Dennis Hopper: Flashback'' (1990)
* ''1712 North Crescent Heights'', Greybull Press (2001)
* ''Dennis Hopper: A System of Moments'', Hartje Cantz (2001)
* ''[[Dennis Hopper: Photographs, 1961–1967]]'', Taschen (2009)
* ''Dennis Hopper & the New Hollywood'', Rizzoli International Publications (2009)
* ''Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album'', Prestel Verlag (2014)
* ''Dennis Hopper: Drugstore Camera'', Damiani (2015)
* ''Dennis Hopper: Colors, the Polaroids'', Damiani (2016)
* ''Dennis Hopper: In Dreams: Scenes from the Archives'', Damiani (2019)

===Exhibitions===
* Solo exhibition of assemblages, Primus-Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles (1963)
* ''Los Angeles Now'' group exhibition, Robert Fraser Gallery, London (1966)
* ''Bomb Drop'', Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena (1968)
* ''Dennis Hopper: Black and White Photographs'', Fort Worth Museum of Art, Fort Worth (1970)
* ''Dennis Hopper: Black and White Photographs'', Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1971)
* ''Dennis Hopper and Ed Ruscha'', Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York (1992)
* ''Dennis Hopper: A System of Moments'', Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna (2001)
* ''Dennis Hopper & the New Hollywood'', [[Cinémathèque française]], Paris (2008–09)
* ''Dennis Hopper & the New Hollywood'', [[ACMI (museum)|Australian Centre for the Moving Image]], Melbourne (2009–10)
* ''Dennis Hopper: Double Standard'', Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles (2010)
* ''The Lost Album'', Gagosian, New York (2013)
* ''The Lost Album'', Royal Academy of Arts, London (2014)

===Music===
* ''Demon Days''(album, 2005), Gorillaz, ''Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head''(song)

==Archive==
The moving image collection of Dennis Hopper is held at the [[Academy Film Archive]]. The Dennis Hopper Trust Collection represents Hopper's directorial efforts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dennis Hopper Trust Collection|url=http://www.oscars.org/film-archive/collections/dennis-hopper-collection|website=Academy Film Archive|date=September 4, 2014|access-date=July 6, 2016|archive-date=July 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160703054152/https://www.oscars.org/film-archive/collections/dennis-hopper-collection|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Awards and nominations==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! scope="col"| Year
! scope="col"| Award
! scope="col"| Category
! scope="col"| Work
! scope="col"| Result
! scope="col" class="unsortable"| {{Abbr|Ref(s)|Reference(s)}}
|-
| rowspan="6" | 1969
| [[Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]]<br /><small>(shared with [[Peter Fonda]] and [[Terry Southern]])</small>
| rowspan="6" | ''[[Easy Rider]]''
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1461541200273|title=Session Timeout – Academy Awards® Database – AMPAS}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[Cannes Film Festival]]
| Best First Work
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1969/awardCompetition.html|title=Awards 1969 : Competition|access-date=December 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601051638/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1969/awardCompetition.html|archive-date=June 1, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| [[Palme d'Or]]
| {{nom}}
|
|-
| [[Directors Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Feature Film|Outstanding Directing – Feature Film]]
| {{nom}}
|
|-
| [[National Society of Film Critics Awards]]
| Special Award<br /><small>(For his achievements as director, co-writer and co-star.)</small>
| {{won}}
|
|-
| [[Writers Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen]]<br /><small>(shared with [[Peter Fonda]] and [[Terry Southern]])</small>
| {{nom}}
|
|-
| 1971
| [[Venice Film Festival]]
| CIDALC Award
| ''[[The Last Movie]]''
| {{Won}}
|
|-
| 1980
| [[Cannes Film Festival]]
| [[Palme d'Or]]
| ''[[Out of the Blue (1980 film)|Out of the Blue]]''
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000147/1980 |title=Cannes Film Festival – Awards for 1980 |website=IMDb |access-date=July 1, 2018 |archive-date=June 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170616023054/http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000147/1980 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="8" | 1986
| [[Boston Society of Film Critics]]
| [[Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]<br /><small>(tied with [[Ray Liotta]] for ''[[Something Wild (1986 film)|Something Wild]]'')</small>
| rowspan="5" | ''[[Blue Velvet (film)|Blue Velvet]]''
| rowspan="1" {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bostonfilmcritics.org/content/past-award-winners#1980s|title=Past Award Winners – Boston Society of Film Critics|access-date=April 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008041238/http://www.bostonfilmcritics.org/content/past-award-winners#1980s|archive-date=October 8, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| [[Independent Spirit Awards]]
| [[Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead|Best Male Lead]]
| {{nom}}
|
|-
| [[Montreal World Film Festival]]
| Best Actor
| {{won}} 
| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ffm-montreal.org/en/awards/31-awards-of-the-montreal-world-film-festival-1986.html|title=Awards of the Montreal World Film Festival – 1986 – World Film Festival|access-date=April 25, 2016|archive-date=May 31, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531053241/http://www.ffm-montreal.org/en/awards/31-awards-of-the-montreal-world-film-festival-1986.html|url-status=usurped}}</ref>
|-
| [[National Society of Film Critics Awards]]
| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://nationalsocietyoffilmcritics.com/about-2/|title=Past Awards|date=December 19, 2009|access-date=April 25, 2016|archive-date=October 17, 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20151017103247/http://nationalsocietyoffilmcritics.com/about-2/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[Golden Globe Awards]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actor]]
| {{nom}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Hoosiers (film)|Hoosiers]]''
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| [[Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1461546130313|title=Session Timeout – Academy Awards® Database – AMPAS}}</ref>
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| [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association]]
| [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| ''[[Hoosiers (film)|Hoosiers]]'' + ''[[Blue Velvet (film)|Blue Velvet]]''
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lafca.net/years/1986.html|title=LAFCA|access-date=April 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160521041317/http://www.lafca.net/years/1986.html|archive-date=May 21, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| rowspan="3" | 1991
| [[Primetime Emmy Awards|Emmy Awards]]
| [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie|Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a Movie]]
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Paris Trout]]''
| rowspan="3" {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/dennis-hopper|title=Dennis Hopper|website=Television Academy|access-date=December 20, 2023|archive-date=March 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318004228/https://www.emmys.com/bios/dennis-hopper|url-status=live}}</ref>
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| rowspan="2" | [[CableACE Awards]]
| rowspan="2" | Outstanding Lead Actor – Movie or Miniseries
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| ''Doublecrossed''
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| 1994
| [[MTV Movie Awards]]
| [[MTV Movie Award for Best Villain|Best Villain]]
| ''[[Speed (1994 film)|Speed]]''
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/1995/|title=Movie Awards 1995 – MTV Movie Awards|website=[[MTV]]|access-date=April 25, 2016|archive-date=August 30, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830211407/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/movieawards/1995/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| 1995
| [[Razzie Awards]]
| [[Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor|Worst Supporting Actor]]
| ''[[Waterworld]]''
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1996/03/24/Showgirls-runs-away-with-Razzies/7017827643600/|title=Showgirls' runs away with Razzies|work=UPI|date=March 24, 1996|access-date=October 26, 2020|archive-date=November 27, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221127125719/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1996/03/24/Showgirls-runs-away-with-Razzies/7017827643600/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|}

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* "Dennis Hopper, Riding High", ''Playboy'' (Chicago), Dec. 1969
* Interview with G. O'Brien and M. Netter, in ''Inter/View'' (New York), Feb. 1972
* Interview in ''Cahiers du Cinéma'' (Paris), July–August 1980
* "How Far to the Last Movie?", ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' (London) Oct. 1982
* "Citizen Hopper", interview with C. Hodenfield, in ''Film Comment'' (New York) Nov/Dec. 1986
* Interview with B. Kelly, in ''American Film'' (Los Angeles) March 1988
* Interview with David Denicolo, in ''Interview'' (New York), Feb. 1990
* "Sean Penn", interview with Julian Schnabel and Dennis Hopper, ''Interview'' (New York) Sept. 1991
* "Gary Oldman", in ''Interview'' (New York), Jan. 1992

==Further reading==
;Books
* [[Peter Biskind|Biskind, Peter]]. ''Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood'', Simon and Schuster (1999)
* [[J. Hoberman|Hoberman, J.]] ''Dennis Hopper: From Method to Madness'', Walker Art Center (1988)
* Krull, Craig. "Photographing the LA Art Scene: 1955–1975", Craig Krull Gallery (1996)
* Rodriguez, Elean. ''Dennis Hopper: A Madness to his Method'', St. Martin's Press (1988)
* ''Dennis Hopper: Photographs 1961–1967'', Taschen (2011)
* Winkler, Peter L. "Dennis Hopper: The Wild Ride of a Hollywood Rebel", Barricade Books (2011)
* [[Tom Folsom|Folsom, Tom]]. "Hopper: A Journey into the American Dream", It Books/HarperCollins (2013)
* Rozzo, Mark "Everybody Thought We Were Crazy" HarperCollins (2022)
;Articles
* Algar, N., "Hopper at Birmingham", in ''Sight and Sound'' (London), Summer 1982
* Burke, Tom, "Dennis Hopper Saves the Movies", in ''Esquire'' (New York), Dec. 1970
* Burns, Dan E., "Dennis Hopper's ''The Last Movie'': Beginning of the End", in ''Literature/Film Quarterly'', 1979
* Herring, H. D., "Out of the Dream and into the Nightmare: Dennis Hopper's Apocalyptic Vision of America", in ''Journal of Popular Film'' (Washington, D.C.), Winter 1983
* {{cite news |last=Hopper |first=Marin |url=http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/09/dennis-hopper-day-descends-on-taos-new-mexico/ |title=Dennis Hopper Day Descends on Taos, N.M. |work=The New York Times Style Magazine |date=September 9, 2014}}
* Macklin, F. A., "Easy Rider: The Initiation of Dennis Hopper", in ''Film Heritage'' (Dayton, Ohio), Fall 1969
* Martin, A., "Dennis Hopper: Out of the Blue and into the Black", in ''Cinema Papers'' (Melbourne), July 1987
* Scharres, B., "From Out of the Blue: The Return of Dennis Hopper" in ''Journal of the University Film and Video Assoc.'' (Carbondale, IL), Spring 1983
* Weber, Bruce, "A Wild Man is Mellowing, Albeit Not on Screen", in ''New York Times'', September 8, 1994

==External links==
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* [https://texasarchive.org/2015_01650 Dennis Hopper 1986 interview on KVUE] about ''[[Colors (film)|Colors]]'' from [[Texas Archive of the Moving Image]]
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* [http://www.artnet.com/Artists/ArtistHomePage.aspx?artist_id=8500&page_tab=Bio_and_links Dennis Hopper Exhibition History]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100601005915/http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/34392/dennis-hopper-life--times Dennis Hopper: Life & Times] – slideshow by ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]''

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