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Dennis Hopper

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Also known as Dennis Lee Hopper

American actor and film director (1936–2010)

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Dennis Hopper was an American male actor and author whose professional career spanned from 1954 to 2010. Born on May 17, 1936, and deceased on May 29, 2010, he was recognized in the Hollywood Walk of Fame collection. His recorded works include *Easy Rider*, *Achieving Business Excellence*, *Quality and Performance Improvement*, *Dennis Hopper*, *1712 North Crescent Heights : photographs 1962-1968*, and *Bucharest Nights*.

Hopper had four children and stood 173 centimeters tall. His creative output has been categorized with tags such as spoken word, poetry, and 70's. He is referenced by 1,370 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 23 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1936
Works
13

Top works

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

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Music · MusicBrainz

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

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
536
Total plays
2,033

Tags

spoken wordpoetry70'sactor

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project

    · 1996 · cited 18,867x

  2. The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis

    · 1988 · cited 15,809x

  3. Matrix Elasticity Directs Stem Cell Lineage Specification

    · 2006 · cited 12,535x

  4. Self-Reports in Organizational Research: Problems and Prospects

    · 1986 · cited 12,097x

  5. The Amyloid Hypothesis of Alzheimer's Disease: Progress and Problems on the Road to Therapeutics

    · 2002 · cited 11,629x

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dennis Hopper” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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