Dennis Hopper

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Born: 5/17/1936

Biography: The odyssey of Dennis Hopper has been one of Hollywood's longest, strangest trips. A onetime teen performer, he went through a series of career metamorphoses -- studio pariah, rebel filmmaker, drug casualty, and comeback kid -- before finally settling comfortably into the ro …

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ActorAll Actor Credits

Alpha and Omega [Movie]

2010

Crash [TV Series] as Ben Cendars

2008

Crash: Season 01 [TV Series] as Ben Cendars

2008

Elegy [Movie] as George

2008

Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation [Movie]

2008

The Palermo Shooting [Movie] as Frank

2008

DirectorAll Director Credits

Chasers [Movie]

1994

Backtrack [Movie]

1991

The Hot Spot [Movie]

1990

Colors [Movie]

1988

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NEWS & GOSSIP

?How?d You Turn A Billion Steers Into Buildings Made of Mirrors??

07/09/09 I was on a farmer's schedule: down with the dark, up with the dawn. | The Texas Observer - Austin TX
DVD Extra: Jolson, Lupino, Sheridan Join Warner Achive Lineup

07/09/09 Mark Rydell's "The Fox" (with Sandy Dennis as a lesbian) Among the 24 new titles are several Ida Lupino and Ann Sheridan titles, also being offered as a discounted bundle; several new Elizabeth Taylor movies; Brian DePalma 's "Get to Know Your Rabbit" with Tommy Smothers and Orson Welles ; and Irving Allen's truly bizarre "The Story of Mankind" (1957). | Lou Lumenick On Film
Check out the Watcher's Twitter-ific news feed!

07/08/09 Sorry the blogging has been light this week. | The Watcher - Chicago Tribune
Scenes We Love: True Romance

07/07/09 With the possible exception of the "zombie versus shark" scene in Lucio Fulci's Zombi (coming soon), there may be no greater scene in film history than the exchange between Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper at the midpoint of True Romance . | Cinematical.com
Gas up for 9 classic road-trip films

07/02/09 Not taking to the open road this Fourth of July? | St Louis Post-Dispatch - St Louis MO
3-D most engaging part of third 'Ice Age' movie

07/01/09 The new "Ice Age" movie highlights what people mean when they say Pixar movies like "Up" are so much better than animated films from other studios like Fox and DreamWorks. | The Capital Times - Madison WI
Television movies for the week of June 28

06/27/09 Excited people want to use a lovable Saint Bernard to locate a buried fortune. | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Pittsburgh PA
Film: My Year Of Flops: All Real, All Uncut Case File #140: EDtv

06/23/09 Entertainment Television don't generally qualify as news, or special, or entertainment, or even television, but we seem to have reached a new nadir in our sordid fascination with the grotesque creatures on reality TV. | The A.V. Club
Porn Star Sasha Grey's Sex Scenes Cut in Soderbergh's 'The G

06/18/09 After initially "discovering" Sasha Grey in Los Angeles Magazine, veteran director Steven Soderbergh was determined to hire the X-rated film star to play her first mainstream role: a high-class NYC hooker in his new drama "The Girlfriend Experience." | FOX News
Bijou summer film lineup crosses numerous genres

06/17/09 n "Let the Right One In," a 2008 R-rated Swedish film, is described as part drama, part thriller and part horror film. | News Sentinel - Knoxville TN
Indies find face time at CineVegas

06/17/09 Over the past eight years, Sundance vet Trevor Groth has been moonlighting at a little festival in Nevada called CineVegas. | Variety
Dennis Hopper: ?A dry martini is an acquired taste, but once you?ve acquired it

06/15/09 The secret weapon, or at least ongoing inspiration, of the eleven year old CineVegas film festival is Dennis Hopper, the American actor (and artist) long associated with the renegade spirit of U.S. independent film from his work on such maverick movies as "Easy Rider" and "Blue Velvet," among others. | indieWIRE
Cavemen, Mobsters and Nazi Zombies

06/15/09 This week in theaters sees more history coming to life while the oceans around us die. | Independent Film Channel (IFC)
Live from CineVegas: You Don't Know Jack, Because That's Not Him

06/14/09 The Twitters were abuzz a few nights ago, when the CineVegas Film Festival hosted an event at the Sapphire Gentlemen's Club and people saw Jack Nicholson there. | Cinematical.com
No Need To Take The ?Pelham 1 2 3? For These Classic Subway Scenes

06/12/09 As a subway commuter myself, I have to admit that the idea of getting hijacked by criminals looking to ransom off New York City resident and torture Denzel Washington is pretty terrifying. | MTV Movies Blog
Everyone In Showbiz Needs a New Agent, Except Joy Behar [Trade Roundup]

06/12/09 Mostly for actors who never quite took off the way some had hoped. | Gawker
Live from CineVegas: Welcome to Sinny-Vegas!

06/11/09 Hey, speaking of The Hangover (weren't we?), the 11th annual CineVegas Film Festival kicked off last night at Planet Hollywood, on the world-famous, super-classy, not-at-all-gaudy Las Vegas Strip. | Cinematical.com
Our Favorite Summers: 1994

05/28/09 The summer started out early and promisingly with Spike Lee's warm, nostalgic Crooklyn , which is still one of his most underrated films. | Cinematical.com
Jon Gosselin Fails To Escape Family On Motorcycle, Dennis Hopper Sheds A Tear For Him [Gossip Roundup]

05/24/09 Kevin Bacon got his BlackBerry jacked by a guy at the B/D/E station on 53rd and 7th. | Gawker
Apparently There Really Is an 'Easy Rider' Sequel Coming

05/19/09 People have been talking about a possible sequel to Easy Rider for decades, but no one ever took it seriously. | Cinematical.com

Year
Result
Award
Movie

1986
Won
Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Pic
Hoosiers

1986
Won
Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Pic
Blue Velvet

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