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NAME:	Dennis Hopper
PROFILE:	Name: Dennis Hopper Height: 5' 9" Sex: M Nationality: American Birth Date: May 17, 1936 Birth Place: Dodge City, Kansas, USA Profession: actor Education: Wooster School, Danbury, Connecticut Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California Actors Studio in New York, New York (studied with Lee Strasberg for five years) Husband/Wife: Victoria Duffy (married April 13, 1996), Katherine LaNasa (ballet dancer, choreographer; b. December 1, 1967; married 1989; separated April 1992; divorced), Daria Halprin (therapist, former actress; married 1972; divorced 1976), Michelle Phillips (singer) Son: Henry Lee Hopper (born in September 1990; mother: Katherine LaNasa) Daughter: Galen Grier Hopper (born on March 26, 2003 in L.A; mother: Victoria Duffy), Ruthana Hopper (born in 1974; mother: Daria Halprin), Marin Hopper (born in 1961; mother: Brooke Hayward) Claim to fame: feature directing and cowriting debut, Easy Rider (1969); also acted; shared Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination with Peter Fonda and Terry Southern Contact: Click here
GOSSIP:	Was among the celebrities visiting Indiana to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of James Dean. (April 15, 2005) After Dean Martin's tragic death, it was often remarked that Hopper attempted to fill his friend's shoes by borrowing much of his persona, absorbing the late icon's famously defiant attitude and becoming so temperamental that his once-bright career quickly began to wane. Is set to climb aboard a motorbike once again - he's taking his Guggenheim Motorcycle Gang on a publicity ride. Hopper and Dean Martin became close friends during filming, and also worked together on 1956's GIANT. Long a pariah, Hopper was suddenly hailed as a major new filmmaker, and his success became so great that in 1971 he produced an autobiographical documentary, AMERICAN DREAMER, exploring his life and times. Several of the actors who were considered for the role of Frank in BLUE VELVET (1986) found the character too repulsive and intense. Hopper, by contrast, is reported to have exclaimed, I've got to play Frank. Because I am Frank! Robert Duvall and Hopper leave APOCALYPSE NOW (1979) the exact same way: by standing up from a squatting position and walking out of the frame to the right. In the scene of WATERWORLD (1995) where his character deacon takes aim at Kevin Costner with his rifle, he first licks his thumb and then wipes the rifle sight, just like Gary Cooper does with his Alvin York character in SERGEANT YORK. Originally cast as Christof in THE TRUMAN SHOW (1998), but walked off the set after his first day. When science teacher Bob Roberts (Hopper) returns from the 1960s in MY SCIENCE PROJECT (1985), he's wearing the same costume that Hopper wore when he played Billy in EASY RIDER (1969). BLUE VELVET (1986): The oxygen mask used by Dennis Hopper in the scenes at Dorothy Vallens' apartment was intended by Lynch to dispense helium. The resulting helium voice -given the profanity in those scenes- would have given them a different flavor indeed! Due to the danger of inhaling helium, however, Dennis Hopper refused to comply. BLUE VELVET (1986): A scene in which Dennis Hopper slaps Isabella Rossellini across the face was edited to just be heard off-screen to satisfy MPAA concerns about violence towards women. Lynch stated that in his opinion the change made the scene more disturbing. While making the circuit of talk shows to promote this movie, he stated WITCH HUNT (1994) (TV) was the strangest movie he had been in. In EASY RIDER, (1969) Peter Fonda, Hopper, and Jack Nicholson were actually smoking marijuana on camera. Required 85 retakes for one scene in FROM HELL TO TEXAS (1958), causing director Henry Hathaway to tell him you'll never work in this town again! It was ten years before Hopper obtained another major role. MORE DENNIS HOPPER TRIVIA
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