Obituaries

Dennis Hopper | 1936-2010

Dennis Hopper left, onstage as Bob Dylan, with guitar, Arlo Guthrie, holding mike, and others perform at a benefit at Madison Square Garden in New York on May 9 , 1974, in honor of the late Chilean President Salvador Allende. In background are film director Melvin Van Peebles and singer Melanie. At right is Dave Van Ronk.

Dennis Hopper left, onstage as Bob Dylan, with guitar, Arlo Guthrie, holding mike, and others perform at a benefit at Madison Square Garden in New York on May 9 , 1974, in honor of the late Chilean President Salvador Allende. In background are film director Melvin Van Peebles and singer Melanie. At right is Dave Van Ronk.  (Ray Stubblebine / Associated Press)

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American director-actor Dennis Hopper arrives at the Festival Palace to present “Tracks” at Cannes International Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 17, 1976.  (Neal Ulevich / Associated Press)

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American actor-director Dennis Hopper in Dallas in 1982.  (Ron Heflin / Associated Press)

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Dennis Hopper during an interview in Los Angeles in 1985.  (Wally Fong / Associated Press)

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Dennis Hopper during a press conference in Venice, Italy, at the 56th Venice Film Festival in 1999.  (Francesco Proietti / Associated Press)

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Grand Marshal Dennis Hopper waves to the crowd along Vine Street during the 69th annual Hollywood Christmas Parade in 2000.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

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Dennis Hopper at ACE Gallery in Los Angeles, where he had a 45-year survey of photographs, paintings, billboards, film clips, found objects from commercial contexts, and sculptural work from 1960 to the present.  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

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Dennis Hopper is in the Sundance Film Festival entry “Hell Ride” in 2008.  (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

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Dennis Hopper with his wife Victoria Duffy and his son Henry Hopper at the opening night ceremony and premiere of the film “Blindness” at the 61st International film festival in Cannes, France, in 2008.  (Francois Mori / Associated Press)

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Dennis Hopper and his wife, Victoria Duffy, after Hopper was named a Commander in France’s National Order Of Arts and Letters in Paris in 2008.  (Jacques Brinon / Associated Press)

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Dennis Hopper in 2008 at the Paris Cinematheque, the French Film Library, ahead of the exhibition “Dennis Hopper et le nouvel Hollywood” (“Dennis Hopper and the new Hollywood”).  (Bertrand Guay / AFP/Getty Images)

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Dennis Hopper onstage during the “Starz” panel for “Crash” at the Television Critics Assn. summer press tour in Pasadenain July 2009.  (Matt Sayles / Associated Press)

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