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Dennis Hopper

Also known as Dennis Lee Hopper

American actor and film director (1936–2010)

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Dennis Hopper was an American actor and film director who lived from 1936 to 2010 and became a notable figure in Hollywood cinema. He is significant for his work both in front of and behind the camera during a career that spanned several decades.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1936
Works: 13

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Easy Rider
Achieving Business Excellence, Quality and Performance Improvement
Dennis Hopper
1712 North Crescent Heights : photographs 1962-1968
Bucharest Nights

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1936-05-17
Active to: 2010-05-29

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Listeners: 536
Total plays: 2,033

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5 total works indexed

The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project
· 1996 · cited 18,867x
The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis
· 1988 · cited 15,768x
Matrix Elasticity Directs Stem Cell Lineage Specification
· 2006 · cited 12,397x
Self-Reports in Organizational Research: Problems and Prospects
· 1986 · cited 11,917x
The Amyloid Hypothesis of Alzheimer's Disease: Progress and Problems on the Road to Therapeutics
· 2002 · cited 11,550x

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Image: Dennis Hopper Cannes 2008 (cropped).jpg
Height: 173
Number of children: 4

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date of birth: 1936-05-17
Commons category: Dennis Hopper
date of death: 2010-05-29
Commons gallery: Dennis Hopper
start of work period: 1954-00-00
end of work period: 2010-00-00
name in native language: Dennis Hopper
birth name: Dennis Lee Hopper

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Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and visual artist. He is considered one of the key figures of the New Hollywood era. He earned prizes from the Cannes Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.

Hopper studied acting at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and the Actors Studio in New York. He made his first television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared in two of the films that made James Dean famous, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). He then played supporting roles in films such as Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Hang 'Em High (1968) and True Grit (1969). Hopper made his directorial film debut with Easy Rider (1969), which he and co-star Peter Fonda wrote with Terry Southern. The film earned Hopper a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Debut, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He also began a prolific and acclaimed photography career in the 1960s.