Dennis Hopper movies

Hopper was educated at Wooster School, Danbury, Connecticut and was voted most likely to succeed by his high school class (Helix High School, La Mesa, California a suburb of San Diego, California). It was there he developed an interest in acting, studying at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California and the Actors Studio in New York City, New York (studied with Lee Strasberg for five years).

He was especially fond of the plays of William Shakespeare.
Hopper made his acting debut on an episode of the Richard Boone television show Medic in 1955 playing a young epileptic. Hopper was then cast in two roles with James Dean (whom he admired immensely) in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). Deans death in a 1955 car accident affected the young Hopper deeply and it was shortly afterwards that he got into a confrontation with veteran director Henry Hathaway on the film From Hell To Texas. Hopper refused directions for 80 takes over several days. This infamous incident resulted in his being blacklisted from films for several years.In his book Last Train to Memphis, American popular music historian Peter Guralnick says that in 1956 when Elvis Presley was making his first film in Hollywood, Dennis Hopper was roommates with fellow actor Nick Adams and the three became friends and socialized together. Hopper moved to New York and studied at the famous Lee Strasberg acting school.

Dennis Hopper Movies

All movies starring Dennis Hopper.

• 10th & Wolf
• Apocalypse Now
• Black Widow
• Blue Velvet
• Cool Hand Luke
• Easy Rider
• Ferris Wheel
• Giant
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
• Hell Ride
• Knockaround Guys
• Land of the Dead
• Rebel Without a Cause
• Rumble Fish
• A Flower in Brazil
• Dead On: The Life and Cinema of George A. Romero
• Elegy
• Forever
• True Grit