Birthday: May 17, 1936
The odyssey of Dennis Hopper has been one of Hollywood's longest, strangest trips. A onetime teen performer, he went through a series of career metamorphoses -- studio pariah, rebel filmmaker, drug casualty, and comeback kid -- before finally settling comfortably into the role of character actor par excellence, with a rogues' gallery of killers and freaks unmatched in psychotic intensity and ...more- 1986
- Golden Globe
- Best Supporting Actor
- Blue Velvet
- nom
- 1986
- Independent Spirit Award
- Best Actor
- Blue Velvet
- nom
- 1986
- Golden Globe
- Best Supporting Actor
- Hoosiers
- nom
- 1986
- Academy
- Best Supporting Actor
- Hoosiers
- nom
- 1985
- L.A. Film Critics Association
- Best Supporting Actor
- Blue Velvet
- win
- 2008
- Sleepwalking
- Mr. Reedy
- 2008
- Elegy
- George
- 2008
- The Palermo Shooting
- Frank
- 2008
- Swing Vote
- Donald Greenleaf
- 2007
- Memory
- Max Lichtenstein
- 1994
- Chasers
- Director
- 1991
- Backtrack
- Director
- 1990
- The Hot Spot
- Director
- 1988
- Colors
- Director
- 1981
- Out of the Blue
- Director









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