Actor
· Acting
Dennis Hopper
Born 1936-05-17
Died 2010-05-29
📍 Dodge City, Kansas, USA
Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954, and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). During the next 10 years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films. He directed and starred in Easy Rider (1969), winning an award at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer. "With its portrait of 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." Film critic Matthew Hays notes that "no other persona better signifies the lost idealism of the 1960s than that of Dennis Hopper." He was unable to build on his success for several years, until a featured role in Apocalypse Now (1979) brought him attention. He subsequently appeared in Rumble Fish (1983) and The Osterman Weekend (1983), and received critical recognition for his work in Blue Velvet and Hoosiers, with the latter film garnering him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He directed Colors (1988) and played the villain in Speed (1994). Hopper's later work included a leading role in the television series Crash. Hopper's last performance was filmed just before his death: The Last Film Festival, slated for a 2011 release. Hopper was also a prolific and acclaimed photographer, a profession he began in the 1960s.
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Filmography 304
This Is Buzz
as Himself
2026
Films to Die For
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025
to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour
as Frank Booth (archive footage)
2023
Spirit of Golf
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
Hopper/Welles
as Self
2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
as Self
2020
The Other Side of the Wind
as Dennis Hopper
2018
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Along for the Ride
as Self (archive footage)
2016
Blue Velvet Revisited
as Self
2016
The Last Film Festival
as Nick Twain - Producer
2016
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
as Self (archive footage)
2016
Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar
as Self (archive footage)
2016
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2014
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
as Lt. Lefty Enright (archive footage) (uncredited)
2014
Llyn Foulkes One Man Band
as Himself
2013
Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
as Himself
2013
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Scene Missing
as Self
2012
Corman's World
as Various Roles (archive footage)
2011
Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
as Frank Booth
2011
On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America
as Self
2011
Stardust
as Self (uncredited)
2010
Alpha and Omega
as Tony (voice)
2010
Beautiful Darling
as Self (archive footage)
2010
B movie
as Himself
2009
13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests
as Self
2009
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
as Self
2009
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
as Self
2009
Palermo Shooting
as Frank
2008
Crash
as Ben Cendars
2008
The Brothers Warner
as Self - Actor
2008
An American Carol
as Judge Clarence Henderson
2008
Not Quite Hollywood
as Self
2008
Elegy
as George O'Hearn
2008
Hell Ride
as Eddie Zero
2008
Swing Vote
as Donald Greenleaf
2008
Russian Suicide Chair
as Himself
2008
Chelsea on the Rocks
as Self
2008
Sleepwalking
as Mr. Reedy
2008
Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
as Self
2008
The Cool School
as Self
2008
Bananaz
as Self / Narrator (voice)
2008
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose
as Self
2007
Brando: An Icon Is Born
as Himself
2007
Brando
as Self
2007
Brando: The Documentary
as Self
2007
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
Memory
as Max Lichtenstein
2006
The Sixth Element: The Ross Clarke-Jones Story
as Narrator
2006
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
as Self
2006
The Real James Dean
as Self
2006
50 Films to See Before You Die
as Self
2006
Wanderlust
as Himself
2006
The Art of Football from A to Z
as Self
2006
Sketches of Frank Gehry
as Self
2006
Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi
as Narrator (voice)
2006
Gorillaz: Demon Days Live in Harlem at Apollo Theater
as Self
2006
Gorillaz: Demon Days Live at the Manchester Opera House
as Narrator (voice)
2006
10th & Wolf
as Matty Matello
2006
Hoboken Hollow
as Sheriff Greer
2006
E-Ring
as Eli McNulty
2005
On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish'
as Self (archive footage)
2005
House of 9
as Father Duffy
2005
Land of the Dead
as Kaufman
2005
The Crow: Wicked Prayer
as El Niño
2005
Champion
as Self
2005
Inside Deep Throat
as Narrator (voice)
2005
Americano
as Riccardo
2005
Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
as Himself
2005
Out of Season
as Harry Barlow
2004
Tell Them Who You Are
as Self
2004
Entourage
as Dennis Hopper
2004
The Last Ride
as Ronnie Purnell
2004
The Keeper
as Krebs
2004
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
as Self
2004
Unspeakable
as Warden
2003
Las Vegas
as Jon Castille
2003
The Night We Called It a Day
as Frank Sinatra
2003
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
as Self
2003
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
as Self
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
2003
The Groovenians
as Dad/King Normans
2002
The Groovenians
as Dad / King Normans (voice)
2002
The Piano Player
as Robert Nile
2002
1 Giant Leap
as Self
2002
V Graham Norton
as Self
2002
When Hippies Ruled The World
as Self
2002
I Don't Know Jack
as Self
2002
Flatland
as Smith
2002
Leo
as Horace
2002
Firestarter: Rekindled
as James Richardson
2002
Mysteries of Love
as Self
2002
Flatland
as Smith
2002
Knockaround Guys
as Benny Chains
2001
24
as Victor Drazen
2001
L.A.P.D.: To Protect And To Serve
as Captain Elsworth
2001
Jazz Seen
as Self
2001
Choke
as Henry Clark
2001
Ticker
as Alex Swan
2001
Emmanuelle: A Hard Look
as Himself
2001
Held for Ransom
as JD
2000
Welcome to Hollywood
as Dennis Hopper
2000
Jesus' Son
as Bill
2000
The Prophet's Game
as Vincent Swan
2000
Jason and the Argonauts
as Pelias
2000
Luck of the Draw
as Giani Ponti
2000
Spreading Ground
as Det. Ed DeLongpre
2000
Michael Angel
as Lewis Garou
2000
The Ten Commandments of Creativity
as Self
2000
Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage
as Self
1999
The Pursuit of Happiness
as Self
1999
The Venice Project
as Roland / Salvatore
1999
Tycus
as Peter Crowford
1999
A Tribute to Johnny Cash
as Self
1999
Straight Shooter
as Frank Hector
1999
EDtv
as Henry 'Hank' Pekurny
1999
Bad City Blues
as Cleveland Carter
1999
The Source
as William S. Burroughs
1999
Forever Hollywood
as Self
1999
Lured Innocence
as Rick Chambers
1998
The A-Z of Separating People from their Money
as Self
1998
Meet the Deedles
as Frank Slater
1998
Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain
as Self
1997
Road Ends
as Sheriff Ben Gilchrist
1997
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
as Self
1997
The Blackout
as Mickey
1997
Scene by Scene
as Self
1997
Top of the World
as Charles Atlas
1997
U2: A Year in Pop
as Narrator (voice)
1997
King of the Hill
as Dennis Hopper (voice)
1997
Samson and Delilah
as General Tariq
1996
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
as Self - Host
1996
The Last Days of Frankie the Fly
as Frankie
1996
Space Truckers
as John Canyon
1996
Return to 'Giant'
as Self
1996
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Basquiat
as Bruno Bischofberger
1996
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
Cannes Man
as Self
1996
Carried Away
as Joseph Svenden
1996
Rediscovering a Rebel
as Self / Goon (archive footage)
1996
Die Harald Schmidt Show
as Self
1995
Born to Be Wild
as Himself
1995
Waterworld
as Deacon
1995
Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir
as Himself
1995
Search and Destroy
as Dr. Waxling
1995
James Dean and Me
as Self (uncredited)
1995
Witch Hunt
as H. Phillip Lovecraft
1994
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
as Self
1994
Speed
as Howard Payne
1994
Chasers
as Doggie
1994
Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
as Self
1993
True Romance
as Clifford Worley
1993
Super Mario Bros.
as King Koopa
1993
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
as Self
1993
Red Rock West
as Lyle from Dallas
1993
Boiling Point
as Rudolph 'Red' Diamond
1993
The Revenge of the Dead Indians
as Himself
1993
The Heart of Justice
as Austin Blair
1992
Nails
as Harry 'Nails' Niles
1992
Sunset Heat
as Carl Madson
1992
HBO First Look
1992
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
as Self
1991
Fishing with John
as Self
1991
SnowwhiteRosered
as Self
1991
Eye of the Storm
as Marvin Gladstone
1991
The Indian Runner
as Caesar
1991
Picture This
as Self
1991
Doublecrossed
as Barry Seal
1991
Paris Trout
as Paris Trout
1991
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Alejandro Jodorowsky
as Self
1991
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch
as Self
1990
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
as Self
1990
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1990
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
as Self
1990
Chattahoochee
as Walker Benson
1990
Catchfire
as Milo
1990
Flashback
as Huey Walker
1990
Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring
as Self
1989
Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1989
Blood Red
as William Bradford Berrigan
1989
Black Leather Jacket
as Narrator
1989
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
No Frank in Lumberton
as Self
1988
On the tracks of a filmmaker
as Dennis Hooper
1988
Art, Acting, & the Suicide Chair: A Conversation with Dennis Hopper
1988
The American Way
as Captain
1987
The Pick-up Artist
as Flash Jensen
1987
O.C. and Stiggs
as Sponson
1987
Straight to Hell
as I.G. Farben
1987
Biography
as Self
1987
Black Widow
as Ben Dumers
1987
Running Out of Luck
as Video Director
1987
Out of the Blue and Into the Black
as Self
1987
Hoosiers
as Shooter
1986
River's Edge
as Feck
1986
Blue Velvet
as Frank Booth
1986
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
as Lieutenant 'Lefty' Enright
1986
Stark: Mirror Image
as Lieutenant Ron Bliss
1986
Some Kind of Genius
as Himself
1986
My Science Project
as Bob Roberts
1985
Stark
as Lieutenant Ron Bliss
1985
A Hero of Our Time
as Casey
1985
The Inside Man
as Miller
1984
White Star
as Kenneth Barlow
1983
The Osterman Weekend
as Richard Tremayne
1983
Rumble Fish
as Father
1983
Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
as Himself
1983
Human Highway
as Cracker / Stranger
1982
Reborn
as Rev. Tom Hartley
1981
Out of the Blue
as Don
1981
King of the Mountain
as Cal
1981
Wild Times
as Doc Holliday
1980
Apocalypse Now
as Photojournalist
1979
Flesh Color
as Mel
1978
Last In, First Out
as Medford
1978
The American Friend
as Tom Ripley
1977
Tracks
as 1st Sgt. Jack Falen
1976
Mad Dog Morgan
as Daniel Morgan
1976
To Shoot a Mad Dog
as Self
1976
The Sky is Falling
as Chicken
1975
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
James Dean: The First American Teenager
as Self
1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
Kid Blue
as Bickford Waner
1973
Crush Proof
as Dennis Hopper
1972
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
as Self
1972
The Last Movie
as Kansas
1971
The American Dreamer
as Himself
1971
Easy Rider
as Billy
1969
True Grit
as "Moon"
1969
The Johnny Cash Show
as Self
1969
Head
as Self (uncredited)
1968
Panic in the City
as Goff
1968
Hang 'em High
as Prophet
1968
The Glory Stompers
as Chino
1967
Cool Hand Luke
as Babalugats
1967
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
The Trip
as Max
1967
Screen Test #3
as Self (uncredited)
1966
Queen of Blood
as Paul Grant
1966
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
as Self
1965
The Big Valley
as Jimmy Sweetwater
1965
The Legend of Jesse James
as Jud Salt
1965
The Sons of Katie Elder
as Dave Hastings
1965
The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys
1964
Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of
as Tarzan (Double)
1964
Screen Test [ST155]: Dennis Hopper
as Himself
1964
Espionage
as Ferno
1963
Petticoat Junction
as Alan Landman
1963
Arrest and Trial
1963
The Lieutenant
as Cpl. Peter Devlin
1963
The Dakotas
1963
Combat!
as Zack Fielder
1962
The Hold-Out
as Fred Judson
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
The Investigators
as Adrian
1961
87th Precinct
as Andrew Mason
1961
The Defenders
as Alfred Carter Jr.
1961
The Defenders
as Jason Thomas
1961
Night Tide
as Johnny Drake
1961
Key Witness
as William "Cowby" Tomkins
1960
Surfside 6
1960
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Gerald Collins
1960
The Twilight Zone
as Peter Vollmer
1959
Bonanza
as Dev Farnum
1959
Disneyland '59
as Self
1959
The Young Land
as Hatfield Carnes
1959
The Sunrise Gun
as Denny Sunrise
1959
Naked City
as Vinnie Winford
1958
The Rifleman
as Vernon Tippert
1958
The Rifleman
as Johnny Clover
1958
From Hell to Texas
as Tom Boyd
1958
Sayonara
as MP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited)
1957
The Story of Mankind
as Napoleon Bonaparte
1957
Wagon Train
as Emmett Lawton
1957
Sugarfoot
as Billy the Kid
1957
The James Dean Story
as Self
1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
as Billy Clanton
1957
Giant
as Jordan "Jordy" Benedict III
1956
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
as Self
1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Vernon 'Vern' Tippert
1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Denny Sunrise
1956
I Died a Thousand Times
as Joe (uncredited)
1955
Matinee Theater
1955
Rebel Without a Cause
as Goon
1955
Screen Director's Playhouse
as Steve Redman
1955
Highway Patrol
1955
Cheyenne
1955
Cheyenne
as Utah Kid
1955
Gunsmoke
as Billy Kimbo
1955
The Millionaire
as Adam Spencer
1955
Medic
as Robert
1954
Letter to Loretta
as Ross Morton
1953
General Electric Theater
as Fred Judson
1953
Studio One
as David Williams
1948
Studio One
as Harry Wales
1948
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944