Dennis Hopper RIP

[Redbaron]

Another one bites the dust. One of the greats.

 

Dennis Hopper dies

 

 

[rchapstick]

You beat Shygye to it ...

[Redbaron]

... was thinking same as I read it on the news and posted. I don't usually post death notices but they seem to be dropping off like flies lately

[dave32]

Was sad to read about this when I woke up this morning. Don't know much about him as a person, but as an artist he left an impressive body of work that had a significant impact on people's lives. I've watched Blue Velvet and Easy Rider too many times, starting when I was about 12 (when I didn't really understand them like I do now, kinda). That ain't no joke.

 

RIP Mr Hopper.

 

Ps. Yep, Shygye is gonna be pissed.

[unit731]

Life Magazine.

 

I recall reading about Dennis Hopper a few/couple years after Easy Rider. Some studio gave him a movie to direct in South/Central America. And I think it became one big drug party. I think the movie bombed. The Last Movie ?

 

Anyway, he didn't do much until Apocalypse Now and even then I think he was still on drugs. But a fine piece of acting. Classic Hopper at his best.

 

A true anti-establishment type - it was funny seeing him play generals in movies and on the tele.

 

He seemed to hang in there and kept working. I suppose real talent and persistence.

 

 

Two RIP's for this guy.

 

THE PHOTOGRAPHER

[Steve]

I loved Dennis Hoppper. He was one of a few actors who could take just about any role and make it their own and interesting. I would say him, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Walken, Samuel Jackson and possibly a couple others have that ability.

 

You just knew their personal life was just as odd or weird. One of those actors you'd love to spend a night hanging out with in Hollywood, Vegas or even Peorgia, Illinois because it would be memorable.

 

He took a lot of roles late in life on just for the paycheck it seems but even when he did he was intersting.

 

 

[shygye]

Hopper Interview Vid

 

Hopper then married singer Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and Papas – a union that lasted eight days. “The first seven were pretty good,†recalls Hopper, even though Phillips suggested that the actor consider suicide.

 

Finally, he was captured running naked and hysterical in a South American jungle -- and was briefly institutionalized.

 

[cavanami]

Sat in the balcony of the Chicago Theater and saw Easy Rider when it first came out.

Everyone was passing "smoking material" down the rows for a puff...I'm sure no one inhaled!

Dennis Hopper was unique!!!

[BelgianBoy]

Rest In Peace Dennis.....

 

Check his last work, great stuff ! Crash TV serie

 

BB

[gobbledonk]

Am I the only one who feels old when I read another obituary for a face we knew from the 60s/70s/early 80s ?

 

I particularly loved Hopper in Apocalypse Now - just where the acting stopped and the crazy man began was impossible to judge, but I agree with others that he made every role interesting simply by being in a given shot. Sad to see anyone taken out by prostate cancer, but particularly so in the case of someone who could easily have been found face down after a party. Jim Thompson had the right idea - disappear in the jungle and leave the rest of the world wandering what the hell happened.

 

RIP.