Dennis Hopper

Acting

May 17, 1936

— May 29, 2010(74 years old)

Dodge City, Kansas, USA

Popularity: 3

Biography

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...

Also Known As

Dennis Lee Hopper • Alan Smithee

Recent & Upcoming

Films to Die For

(archive footage) (uncredited) • Oct 2025

Known For

7.8

24

Victor Drazen

7.5

Bonanza

Dev Farnum

7.4

King of the Hill

Dennis Hopper (voice)

8.5

Gem

The Twilight Zone

Peter Vollmer

7.4

Entourage

Dennis Hopper

7.0

Las Vegas

Jon Castille

7.2

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Presenter

7.2

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Nominee / Presenter

6.6

Wagon Train

Emmett Lawton

7.1

The Rifleman

7.1

The Rifleman

Vernon Tippert

7.7

Combat!

Zack Fielder

Photos of Dennis Hopper

Filmography

2020s

Films to Die For

(archive footage) (uncredited)

Spirit of Golf

Self (archive footage)

to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour

Frank Booth (archive footage)

5.9

Hopper/Welles

Self

7.7

Wim Wenders, Desperado

Self (archive footage)

7.5

Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth

Self

2010s

6.7

The Other Side of the Wind

Dennis Hopper

7.1

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

Self (archive footage)

5.8

Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider

Self (archive footage)

6.9

Blue Velvet Revisited

Self

7.0

Along for the Ride

Self (archive footage)

3.2

The Last Film Festival

Nick Twain - Producer

Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar

Self (archive footage)

7.2

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Lt. Lefty Enright (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.5

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

6.4

Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter

Himself

7.7

Llyn Foulkes One Man Band

Himself

6.3

Scene Missing

Self

5.0

Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’

Self (archive footage)

7.1

Corman's World

Various Roles (archive footage)

6.9

Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage

Frank Booth

6.0

Alpha and Omega

Tony (voice)

6.0

Stardust

Self (uncredited)

5.7

Beautiful Darling

Self (archive footage)

2000s

6.8

B movie

Himself

5.9

No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos

Self

5.0

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder

Self

13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests

Self

5.1

Hell Ride

Eddie Zero

6.3

Elegy

George O'Hearn

6.2

Palermo Shooting

Frank

6.0

Sleepwalking

Mr. Reedy

7.3

Bananaz

Narrator (voice)

7.0

Pashmy Dream

Writer

4.2

An American Carol

Judge Clarence Henderson

5.7

Swing Vote

Donald Greenleaf

6.8

Not Quite Hollywood

Self

6.6

The Brothers Warner

Self - Actor

5.6

Chelsea on the Rocks

Self

5.9

The Cool School

Self

Tim Leary: The Art of Dying

Self

Russian Suicide Chair

Himself

6.8

Brando

Self

7.0

Brando: An Icon Is Born

Himself

The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose

Self

5.2

Memory

Max Lichtenstein

5.9

10th & Wolf

Matty Matello

3.6

Hoboken Hollow

Sheriff Greer

8.5

50 Films to See Before You Die

Self

The Sixth Element: The Ross Clarke-Jones Story

Narrator

5.0

Wanderlust

Himself

6.9

Sketches of Frank Gehry

Self

4.8

The Art of Football from A to Z

Self

7.6

Gorillaz: Demon Days Live at the Manchester Opera House

Narrator (voice)

The Real James Dean

Self

8.2

Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

Self

5.4

Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi

Narrator (voice)

7.0

Gorillaz: Demon Days Live in Harlem at Apollo Theater

6.2

Land of the Dead

Kaufman

6.4

Inside Deep Throat

Narrator (voice)

6.4

Champion

Self

4.7

Americano

Riccardo

3.7

The Crow: Wicked Prayer

El Niño

5.0

House of 9

Father Duffy

Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents

Himself

4.4

The Keeper

Krebs

7.5

Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

Self

4.2

The Last Ride

Ronnie Purnell

4.7

Out of Season

Harry Barlow

5.9

Tell Them Who You Are

Self

3.6

Unspeakable

Warden

7.1

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Self

4.8

The Night We Called It a Day

Frank Sinatra

7.9

A Decade Under the Influence

Self

5.0

Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)

Self

6.0

Leo

Horace

3.0

The Groovenians

Dad/King Normans

7.7

I Don't Know Jack

Self

4.7

1 Giant Leap

Self

4.1

The Piano Player

Robert Nile

7.1

Mysteries of Love

Self

Flatland

Smith

5.0

When Hippies Ruled The World

Self

Jazz Seen

Self

3.7

Ticker

Alex Swan

3.8

Choke

Henry Clark

6.0

Knockaround Guys

Benny Chains

5.6

L.A.P.D.: To Protect And To Serve

Captain Elsworth

5.2

Emmanuelle: A Hard Look

Himself

6.3

Jesus' Son

Bill

3.7

The Apostate

Lewis Garou

3.1

Spreading Ground

Det. Ed DeLongpre

5.0

Homeless

Director

4.5

Luck of the Draw

Giani Ponti

4.8

The Prophet's Game

Vincent Swan

3.8

Welcome to Hollywood

Dennis Hopper

4.8

Held for Ransom

8.0

The Ten Commandments of Creativity

Self

1990s

4.1

Tycus

Peter Crowford

4.5

Straight Shooter

Frank Hector

8.0

Forever Hollywood

Self

6.0

EDtv

Henry 'Hank' Pekurny

5.2

The Source

William S. Burroughs

7.0

Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage

Self

2.7

Bad City Blues

Cleveland Carter

8.0

A Tribute to Johnny Cash

Self

5.0

The Venice Project

Roland / Salvatore

The Pursuit of Happiness

Self

4.5

Meet the Deedles

Frank Slater

The A-Z of Separating People from their Money

Self

4.1

Lured Innocence

Rick Chambers

5.8

The Blackout

Mickey

4.1

Road Ends

Sheriff Ben Gilchrist

5.0

Top of the World

Charles Atlas

6.6

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

Self

6.4

Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain

Self

U2: A Year in Pop

Narrator (voice)

5.4

Space Truckers

John Canyon

6.6

Basquiat

Bruno Bischofberger

5.4

Carried Away

Joseph Svenden

5.9

The Last Days of Frankie the Fly

Frankie

5.2

Cannes Man

Self

Samson and Delilah

Generale Tariq

Rediscovering a Rebel

Self / Goon (archive footage)

5.2

The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money

Self - Host

6.1

Return to 'Giant'

Self

6.2

Waterworld

Deacon

8.7

James Dean and Me

Self (uncredited)

4.7

Search and Destroy

Dr. Waxling

Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir

Himself

Born to Be Wild

Himself

7.1

Speed

Howard Payne

5.1

Witch Hunt

H. Phillip Lovecraft

5.4

Chasers

Doggie

6.0

Marlon Brando: The Wild One

Self

7.5

Gem

True Romance

Clifford Worley

4.9

Boiling Point

Rudolph 'Red' Diamond

4.5

Super Mario Bros.

King Koopa

6.7

Red Rock West

Lyle from Dallas

Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O

Self

Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work

Self

The Revenge of the Dead Indians

Himself

3.9

Sunset Heat

Carl Madson

4.7

Nails

Harry 'Nails' Niles

5.5

The Heart of Justice

Austin Blair

5.2

Paris Trout

7.9

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Self

6.5

The Indian Runner

Caesar

9.0

Picture This

Self

3.9

Eye of the Storm

Marvin Gladstone

3.9

Doublecrossed

Barry Seal

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Self

5.3

Catchfire

Milo

5.6

Chattahoochee

Walker Benson

6.3

Flashback

Huey Walker

6.2

The Hot Spot

Director

7.3

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Self

Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders

Self

6.5

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.0

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch

Self

1980s

4.6

Blood Red

William Bradford Berrigan

Black Leather Jacket

Narrator

Rabbit Ears - The Fisherman and His Wife

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

7.0

Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring

Self

6.5

Colors

Director

7.8

No Frank in Lumberton

Self

On the tracks of a filmmaker

Dennis Hooper

6.1

Black Widow

Ben Dumers

5.6

The Pick-up Artist

Flash Jensen

5.4

Straight to Hell

I.G. Farben

5.8

Running Out of Luck

Video Director

4.3

O.C. and Stiggs

Sponson

5.8

The American Way

Captain

Out of the Blue and Into the Black

Self

7.6

Gem

Blue Velvet

Frank Booth

7.0

Hoosiers

Shooter

5.7

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Lieutenant 'Lefty' Enright

6.5

River's Edge

Feck

Stark: Mirror Image

Lieutenant Ron Bliss

Some Kind of Genius

Himself

3.0

Stark

Lieutenant Ron Bliss

6.2

My Science Project

Bob Roberts

A Hero of Our Time

Casey

3.5

The Inside Man

Miller

7.0

Rumble Fish

Father

5.9

White Star

Kenneth Barlow

5.6

The Osterman Weekend

Richard Tremayne

Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act

Himself

4.9

Human Highway

Cracker / Stranger

3.9

Reborn

Rev. Tom Hartley

5.5

King of the Mountain

Cal

6.9

Out of the Blue

Don

1970s

8.3

Apocalypse Now

Photojournalist

4.7

Flesh Color

Mel

3.4

Last In, First Out

Medford

7.1

The American Friend

Tom Ripley

5.8

Mad Dog Morgan

Daniel Morgan

5.5

Tracks

1st Sgt. Jack Falen

To Shoot a Mad Dog

Self

3.9

The Sky is Falling

Chicken

6.0

James Dean: The First American Teenager

Self

6.9

Kid Blue

Bickford Waner

4.0

Crush Proof

Dennis Hopper

6.0

Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

Self

5.8

The Last Movie

Kansas

5.4

The American Dreamer

Himself

1960s

7.1

Easy Rider

Billy

7.3

True Grit

"Moon"

6.2

Head

Self (uncredited)

6.8

Hang 'em High

Prophet

5.2

Panic in the City

Goff

7.7

Gem

Cool Hand Luke

Babalugats

5.7

The Trip

Max

5.2

The Glory Stompers

Chino

5.2

Queen of Blood

Paul Grant

8.0

Screen Test #3

Self (uncredited)

7.0

The Sons of Katie Elder

Dave Hastings

8.0

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

Self

Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of

Tarzan (Double)

The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys

5.1

Screen Test [ST155]: Dennis Hopper

Himself

6.4

Night Tide

Johnny Drake

6.9

Key Witness

William "Cowby" Tomkins

1950s

6.4

The Young Land

Hatfield Carnes

6.5

Disneyland '59

Self

The Sunrise Gun

Denny Sunrise

5.9

From Hell to Texas

Tom Boyd

6.7

Sayonara

MP in Kelly's House / MP at Tokyo Airport (voice) (uncredited)

7.0

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Billy Clanton

4.3

The Story of Mankind

Napoleon Bonaparte

5.4

The James Dean Story

Self

7.6

Gem

Giant

Jordan "Jordy" Benedict III

6.0

New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'

Self

Rebel Without a Cause movie poster (1955)

7.5

Gem

Rebel Without a Cause

Goon

6.1

I Died a Thousand Times

Joe (uncredited)