Dennis Hopper RIP.

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LOS ANGELES — Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper, best known for directing and starring in the 1969 cult classic "Easy Rider," died on Saturday at his home in Venice, California, from complications of prostate cancer, a friend told Reuters. Hopper was 74.
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He died of the exact same cancer my last grandpa died of when I was like 8. ;(

Guy was a really great actor, producer, director of over 100 films and a scary bomber in the 1994 movie "Speed":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRmhneo5A48

He was also the bad-ass villian in Waterworld:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hUtSL_PSwE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLUpbbYdjf0
 
* Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
* I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
* Giant (1956)
* Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
* The Story of Mankind (1957)
* Sayonara (1957) (voice only)
* From Hell to Texas (1958)
* The Young Land (1959)
* Key Witness (1960)
* Night Tide (1961)
* Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of (1964)
* The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
* Queen of Blood (1966)
* The Trip (1967)
* Cool Hand Luke (1967)
* The Glory Stompers (1968)
* Hang 'Em High (1968)
* Panic in the City (1968)
* Easy Rider (1969) (Director)
* True Grit (1969)
* The Festival Game (1970) (documentary)
* The American Dreamer (1971) (documentary)
* The Last Movie (1971) (Director)
* The Other Side of the Wind (1972) (unfinished)
* Crush Proof (1972)
* Kid Blue (1973)
* Tracks (1976)
* Mad Dog Morgan (1976)
* The American Friend (1977)
* The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1977)
* Flesh Color (1978)
* Last In, First Out (1978)
* Apocalypse Now (1979)
* Bloodbath (1979)
* Out of the Blue (1980) (Director)
* Reborn (1981)
* King of the Mountain (1981)
* Neil Young: Human Highway (1982)
* Rumble Fish (1983)
* The Osterman Weekend (1983)
* White Star (1983)
* The Dynamite Coffin Stunt (1983)
* Jungle Warriors (1984)
* The Inside Man (1984)
* My Science Project (1985)
* Riders of the Storm (1986)
* The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
* River's Edge (1986)
* Blue Velvet (1986)
* Hoosiers (1986)
* Running Out of Luck (1987)
* Black Widow (1987)
* Straight to Hell (1987)
* O.C. and Stiggs (1987)
* The Pick-up Artist (1987)
* Blood Red (1989)
* Chattahoochee (1989)
* Flashing on the Sixties, A Tribal Docment directed by Lisa Law (1989)
* Flashback (1990)
* Hollywood Mavericks (1990) (documentary)
* Catchfire (1990) (Director)
* Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1990) (documentary)
* Motion & Emotion (1990) (documentary)
* Sunset Heat (1991)
* Paris Trout (1991)
* Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) (documentary)
* Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas (1991) (documentary)
* The Indian Runner (1991)
* Eye of the Storm (1991)
* SnowwhiteRosered (1991) (documentary)
* Nails (1992) (1992)
* Red Rock West (1992)
* The Revenge of the Dead Indians (1993)
* Boiling Point (1993)
* Super Mario Bros. (1993)
* True Romance (1993)
* Chasers (1994)
* Speed (1994)
* Search and Destroy (1995)
* Waterworld (1995)
* Cannes Man (1996)
* Carried Away (1996)
* Space Truckers (1996)
* Basquiat (1996)
* The Last Days of Frankie the Fly (1996)
* Top of the World (1997)
* The Good Life (1997)
* The Blackout (1997)
* Who Is Henry Jaglom? (1997) (documentary)
* Road Ends (1997)
* Black Dahlia (1998) (video game)
* Michael Angel (1998)
* Meet the Deedles (1998)
* Tycus (1998)
* Robert Rauschenberg: Inventive Genius (1999) (documentary) (narrator)
* The Prophet's Game (1999)
* Lured Innocence (1999)
* The Source (1999) (documentary)
* EDtv (1999)
* Straight Shooter (1999)
* Jesus' Son (1999)
* The Venice Project (1999)
* Bad City Blues (1999)
* The Spreading Ground (2000)
* Jason and the Argonauts (2000)
* Luck of the Draw (2000)
* Welcome to Hollywood (2000)
* Held for Ransom (2000)
* Ticker (2001)
* Choke (2001)
* Knockaround Guys (2001)
* Jazz Seen: The Life and Times of William Claxton (2001) (documentary)
* L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve (2001)
* 1 Giant Leap (2002) (documentary)
* I Don't Know Jack (2002) (documentary)
* Unspeakable (2002)
* Leo (2002)
* Venice: Lost and Found (2002) (documentary)
* The Piano Player (2002)
* Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003) (documentary)
* A Decade Under the Influence (2003) (documentary)
* Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die) (2003) (documentary)
* The Night We Called It a Day (2003)
* Legacy (2004)
* The Keeper (2004)
* The Last Ride (2004)
* Out of Season (2004)
* Tell Them Who You Are (2004) (documentary)
* Inside Deep Throat (2005) (documentary) (narrator)
* House of 9 (2005)
* Hoboken Hollow (2005)
* Americano (2005)
* Land of the Dead (2005)
* Going Through Splat: The Life and Work of Stewart Stern (2005) (documentary)
* Champion (2005) (documentary)
* The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005)
* Land of the Dead (2005)
* Sketches of Frank Gehry (2005) (documentary)
* Tainted Love (2006)
* The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose (2006) (documentary)
* Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi (2006) (documentary) (narrator)
* 10th & Wolf (2006)
* Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (2006) (documentary)
* 3055 Jean Leon (2006) (documentary)
* Memory (2006)
* By the Ways: A Journey with William Eggleston (2007) (documentary)
* Hell Ride (2008)
* Sleepwalking (2008)
* Bananaz (2008) (documentary)
* Elegy (2008)
* Générations 68 (2008) (documentary)
* Swing Vote (2008)
* Chelsea on the Rocks (2008) (documentary)
* Palermo Shooting (2008)
* Ferlinghetti: A City Light (2008) (documentary)
* An American Carol (2008)
* Shooting Palermo (2008) (documentary)
* The Brothers Warner (2008) (documentary)
* No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos (2008) (documentary)
* Dead On: The Life and Cinema of George A. Romero (2008) (documentary)
* The Last Film Festival (2009)
* Forever (2009)
* Deadly Creatures (2009) (video game)

[edit] Upcoming

* Alpha and Omega (2010)

[edit] Short subjects

* The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys (1964)
* Screen Test#1 (1965)
* Screen Test#2 (1965)
* Screen Test#3 (1966)
* Screen Test#4 (1966)
* Luke (1967)
* A Hero of Our Time (1985)
* New Scenes from America (2003)

[edit] Awards

Academy Awards

* (1970) Nominated - Best Original Screenplay / Easy Rider (shared with Peter Fonda and Terry Southern)
* (1987) Nominated - Best Supporting Actor / Hoosiers

Golden Globe Awards

* (1987) Nominated - Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture / Hoosiers
* (1987) Nominated - Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture / Blue Velvet

Primetime Emmy Awards

* (1991) Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie / Paris Trout

Cannes Film Festival Awards

* (1969) Won - Best First Work Award / Easy Rider
* (1969) Nominated - Palme d'Or / Easy Rider
* (1980) Nominated - Palme d'Or / Out of the Blue

Directors Guild of America Award

* (1970) Nominated - Outstanding Directing - Feature Film / Easy Rider

Independent Spirit Awards

* (1987) Nominated - Best Male Lead / Blue Velvet

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

* (1987) Won - Best Supporting Actor / Blue Velvet

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

* (1987) Won - Best Supporting Actor / Blue Velvet & Hoosiers

MTV Movie Awards

* (1995) Won - Best Villain / Speed

National Society of Film Critics Awards

* (1970) Won - Special Award ("For the director, co-writer and co-star") / Easy Rider
* (1987) Won - Best Supporting Actor / Blue Velvet

Writers Guild of America Award

* (1970) Nominated - Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen / Easy Rider (shared with Peter Fonda and Terry Southern)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hopper

Pretty amazing career. That doesn't even include appearances on television series like Crash.
On March 18, 2010, it was announced that Hopper would be honored with the 2,403rd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in front of the iconic Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard.[39] Surrounded by friends including Jack Nicholson, Viggo Mortensen, David Lynch, Michael Madsen, family, and fans, he attended its addition to the sidewalk on March 26, 2010.
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Finally, someone honored before they died.
 
RIP. He was a great actor. I wanted him to be Dr. Breen in a Half-Life movie.
 
Oh man.
That ****ing sucks, I loved him.
 
He was the porno director in GTA: Vice City too.
 
Sad news. :(
Too many famous/well-known people are dying this month.
 
That's a cool looking photo.

I didn't notice that it was ironic until I saw the file name.
 
Damn, no chance of a HL2 movie now then, with Dennis Hopper as Dr Breen and Gary Coleman as Eli Vance.
 
Despite a prolific career in some movie classic, I think I'll remember him best for his spoken word bit for the Gorillaz album track 'Fire Coming Out of a Monkey's Head'. Even the daftest projects he took never really undermined his credibility (yup, not even Mario), and he added value to just about everything I've seen him in.
 
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! painful memories of space truckers.

anyway RIP Dennis the true menace.
 
Really loved him as an actor! its a shame, like mentioned, he would have made an excellent Breen. also I don't think there are more % of celebrities dying, there are just more we know because they've been in show biz longer. In 100 years there will be a lot more celebrities dying at a faster rate because there are a lot more famous people
 
I'm so glad my parents never took me to see Mario Bros. what the **** are those guys with the small heads?? i heard they really ****ed up Mario but WTF!
 
Warped said:
THOSE don't look like KOOPAS!! I'd be pissed if I saw that as a kid. It also amazes me to this day I still haven't seen it
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i thought it was an awesome movie when i saw it. its a shitty rendition of Super Mario bros for sure, but it's really entertaining
 
Mogi67 said:
i thought it was an awesome movie when i saw it. its a shitty rendition of Super Mario bros for sure, but it's really entertaining
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gotta agree, its a good kids film, but when you get older, it gets bad.
 
I think I may have seen it and I'm not exactly sure. I was only 5 or 6 but all I remembered even at that age was the characters didn't look like Mario characters and I remember asking my mom "is this the Mario Bros movie?" several times. I mean even at that age, I knew the movie was stupid.
 
I picture him in the Mario Bros movie as well even though I've seen a good amount of his work. I liked the movie when I saw it for some reason, maybe Hopper made it so.
 
Warped said:
THOSE don't look like KOOPAS!! I'd be pissed if I saw that as a kid. It also amazes me to this day I still haven't seen it
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Actually, good sir, those are goombas.

I think the only enemy that didn't get completely warped for the purpose of the movie was the Bob-ombs. Yeah, those were still ****ing cool.
 
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