Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper was born in Dodge City, Kansas, in 1936, and spent part of his childhood on his grandparents' farm. He acted alongside James Dean in 1955, gained with the studios a reputation as a difficult actor, then left in 1959 to study for five years at the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg. He directed three films between 1969 and 1980, returned as a character actor in the eighties, took photographs and painted, and put together a collection of contemporary art. He died in Los Angeles in 2010.

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• CinemaEasy RiderDennis Hopper · 1969Cinema