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  1. May 29, 2010 · Actor dies at age of 74 (AP) LOS ANGELES -- Dennis Hopper, the high-flying Hollywood wild man whose memorable and erratic career included an early turn in "Rebel Without a Cause," an improbable...

  2. In both of the films with Wayne, Hopper's character is killed in the presence of Wayne's character, to whom he utters his dying words. On September 30, 1970, Hopper appeared on the second episode of season 2 of The Johnny Cash Show where he sang a duet with Cash entitled "Goin' Up Goin' Down".

  3. May 29, 2010 · Actor Dennis Hopper dies from prostate cancer. The 74-year-old died at his Venice, California home. He is best known for his role in 1969 fill "Easy Rider". (CNN) -- There was Dennis Hopper...

  4. May 29, 2010 · Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper has died at the age of 74 following a battle with prostate cancer. Known for such cult classics as Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now and Blue Velvet, Hopper embodied...

    • Early Interest in Art, Acting
    • Pop Art Champion
    • Late-Life Controversy

    When Hopper was 13, his family moved to San Diego and it was there he began his pursuit of acting, apprenticing with a local theatre. By the late 1950s, he was studying at the famed Actors Studio in New York. Hopper made his on-screen debut portraying an epileptic in an episode of the Richard Boone television series Medic. That same year, he was ca...

    Throughout his film career, Hopper was also an active artist, visual arts champion and collector. Hopper cultivated friendships with such seminal artists as Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, David Hockney and Ed Ruscha. Often describing himself as "an art bum," he amassed one of the world's most enviable collections of contemporary Ameri...

    Hopper revealed in October 2009 that he had been battling prostate cancer for about seven years. He returned to the headlines just three months later when he filed for divorce from his fifth wife, Victoria Duffy. The couple was together for nearly two decades and were raising a young daughter together, Galen. At the time, the actor said he wanted t...

  5. May 29, 2010 · May 29, 2010. Dennis Hopper, whose portrayals of drug-addled, often deranged misfits in the landmark films “Easy Rider,” “Apocalypse Now” and “Blue Velvet” drew on his early out-of-control...

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  7. May 29, 2010 · The much-loved American filmmaker and actor Dennis Hopper died Saturday at his home in Venice, Calif., seven months after his manager announced that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He...