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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dennis Hopper, the high-flying Hollywood wild man whose memorable and erratic career included an early turn in "Rebel Without a Cause," an improbable smash with "Easy Rider" and a classic character role in "Blue Velvet," has died. He was 74.
Hopper died Saturday at his home in the Los Angeles beach community of Venice, surrounded by family and friends, family friend Alex Hitz said. Hopper's manager announced in October 2009 that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
The success of "Easy Rider," and the spectacular failure of his next film, "The Last Movie," fit the pattern for the talented but sometimes uncontrollable actor-director, who also had parts in such favorites as "Apocalypse Now" and "Hoosiers." He was a two-time Academy Award nominee, and in March 2010, was honored with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
After a promising start that included roles in two James Dean films, Hopper's acting career had languished as he developed a reputation for throwing tantrums and abusing alcohol and drugs. On the set of "True Grit," Hopper so angered John Wayne that the star reportedly chased Hopper with a loaded gun.
Photos: Remembering Dennis Hopper: 1936-2010
He married five times and led a dramatic life right to the end. In January 2010, Hopper filed to end his 14-year marriage to Victoria Hopper, who stated in court filings that the actor was seeking to cut her out of her inheritance, a claim Hopper denied.
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"Much of Hollywood," wrote critic-historian David Thomson, "found Hopper a pain in the neck."
All was forgiven, at least for a moment, when he collaborated with another struggling actor, Peter Fonda, on a script about two pot-smoking, drug-dealing hippies on a motorcycle trip through the Southwest and South to take in the New Orleans Mardi Gras.
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On the way, Hopper and Fonda befriend a drunken young lawyer (Jack Nicholson, whom Hopper had resisted casting, in a breakout role), but arouse the enmity of Southern rednecks and are murdered before they can return home.
"'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me," Hopper said in 2009. "A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country."
Fonda produced "Easy Rider" and Hopper directed it for a meager $380,000. It went on to gross $40 million worldwide, a substantial sum for its time. The film caught on despite tension between Hopper and Fonda and between Hopper and the original choice for Nicholson's part, Rip Torn, who quit after a bitter argument with the director.
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Damn Wiggs how many celebs have gone down in a year you got a list?
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PIP
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Dennis was a GREAT GUY !!...true legend, very sad what happened to him :'(
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Dennis was a GREAT GUY !!...true legend, very sad what happened to him :'(
Good pic = Easy Rider ruled.
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PIP.
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R.I.P
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true romance great scene telling walken's character that sicilians have black blood and that made him part eggplant.
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He married five times...
What can I say. The man believed in the sanctity of marriage.
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The Rivers Edge was a crazy one..
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The Rivers Edge was a crazy one..
One of my all-time favorite movies. I remember seeing this as teenager, and was like my life was up there on the screen.
The classic Hopper line from the movie:
"I used to eat so much pussy back then, my beard looked like a glazed donut."
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true romance great scene telling walken's character that sicilians have black blood and that made him part eggplant.
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One of my favorite actors! :(
RIP brother.
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Chec k out Hopper in Blue Velvet,Red Rock West,and Boiling Point................... great movies.
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He took them to the show in Hoosiers
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Chec k out Hopper in Blue Velvet,Red Rock West,and Boiling Point................... great movies.
Boiling point was great
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sucks
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thanx....
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Great guy and actor, lived a full life, type of free spirited american that is almost extinct now.
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thanx....
Ditto, one of my fav movies scenes ever, classic. RIP
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fuck him.