The Hollywood star, best known his roles Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now Blue Velvet, has died from cancer
Dennis Hopper, rogue talent who sparked renaissance in American cinema, has died at age of 74. The hard-living screen star died at his home in coastal Los Angeles suburb of Venice at around 8am local time, surrounded family and friends, Alex Hitz, close friend, told Reuters.
The actor film-maker was believed have been suffering from terminal cancer was admitted the Cedars Sinai Medical Centre shortly before Christmas. His recent months were mired messy public divorce case with his fifth wife. In March, he appeared Hollywood Boulevard when he was honoured with star the Walk Fame.
Hopper will perhaps be best remembered his landmark 1969 movie Easy Rider, the film that introduced mainstream Hollywood to the counter-culture. His freewheeling tale two bikers an odyssey through America became one the most successful independent pictures ever made, galvanising the industry opening the doors new generation film-makers that included Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg Francis Ford Coppola.
But Hopper was to prove too turbulent personality to ever be regarded as safe bet by industry. His 1971 epic The Last Movie proved critical commercial disaster his middle years were blighted by drug alcohol abuse. He would later confess that he used cocaine order to sober himself up for further drinking bouts.
In front the camera, he became known compelling, wild-eyed performances films such as Tracks, River’s Edge and Apocalypse Now. Arguably his most memorable turn came as the psychotic, helium-snorting Frank Booth Dennis Lynch’s 1986 classic Blue Velvet. “You have let me play Frank Booth,” Hopper reportedly told Lynch at the time. “Because am Frank Booth.”
After cutting his teeth at fabled Actor’s Studio New York, he made his film debut alongside his friend James Dean 1955’s Rebel Without Cause. He went work Dean again Giant had supporting role 1957 western Gunfight at OK Corral. Other notable roles include The American Friend, Speed True Romance.
The failure The Last Movie did not quite kill off Hopper’s career as film-maker. His directing credits include acclaimed Out Blue and Colors, Los Angeles gang saga that starred Sean Penn. In later years he found fresh lease life as painter, photographer and collector modern art. He married five times and survived his four children.
“There moments that I′ve had some real brilliance, you know,” he reflected recently. “But I think they moments. And sometimes, in career, moments enough.”
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