Dennis Hopper, the hero of Hollywood and anti-hero, dies

LOS ANGELES - Dennis Hopper, who introduced the culture-cons in Hollywood with "Easy Rider" and had a career marked by successes, failures and returns, has died at the age of 74. Hopper, who was twice nominated for an Oscar and received a star on the Walk of Fame this year, died on Saturday at his home near Venice, Los Angeles, said family friend Alex Hitz. Hopper had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2009 was. were "We drove the streets of America and changed the way movies in Hollywood," Peter Fonda's "Easy Rider made" star, said in comments carried by several new points of sale. "I have been blessed by his passion and friendship." The success of "Easy Rider" and the failure of his next film, "The Last Movie" to adapt the model to the wild, but talented Hopper, who also plays favorites like "Rebel Without a Cause," "Apocalypse Now", "Blue Velvet" and "Hoosiers." Other awards were posted on the websites of celebrities and Twitter feeds. "So, Dennis, directed by actress Virginia Madsen, who played in the hopper" The Hot Spot, said on his Twitter page. " U has taught me a lot. "After a promising start that included roles in two films, James Dean, Hopper languished as a career when he developed a reputation for anger and drug abuse. have driven on the set of "True Grit, John Wayne Hopper so irritated that would star with Hopper loaded gun." Much of Hollywood, "writes the critic and historian David Thomson," Hopper is a pain in the neck. "Everything was awarded when he worked with Fonda on a script about two pot-smoking, drug-hippies on a Moto-Cross Country Trip. On the way, Hopper and Fonda make friends with a young lawyer drunk (Jack Nicholson in the role of the discussion) but arouse the hostility of the South and rednecks are killed before they can go home. "'Easy Rider' has never been a movie bike for me," Hopper said in 2009. "Much of it was political, which in this country happens. "Fonda produced Easy Rider" Hopper and led to a meager $ 380,000. He went around the world to gross $ 40,000,000, a significant amount of time. It was a success in Cannes, a screenwriting Oscar was nominated for Best Hopper, Fonda and Terry Southern. The property has the official blessing of 1998 was included in "Easy Rider" in the United States National Film Registry as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant." The success prompted the studio chiefs to a new kind of film: low cost, with photography and inventive themes of a generation of baby boomers plan aroused. With hopper celebrated as a brilliant film maker, Universal Pictures wasted $ 850,000 on his next project, "The Last Movie". The title was ahead. Hopper has a great cast and crew of a village in Peru film the story u not d Tribe Urch film company damaged. Trouble on the whole to develop almost immediately that the Peruvian authorities to the company and drug-induced orgy of harassment reported. The film took a sip-and-drug-addled Hopper edit almost a year and when it was published, "The Last Movie" was such a noise that unwanted interference Hopper in Hollywood for a decade and has forced him to work in to see Europe. He made a remarkable comeback, beginning with a memorable performance as a drug-out journalist in Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam war epic Francis, "Apocalypse Now". Hopper was on drugs from the off, and even incoherent gossip incorporated into the film. Hopper made a series of appearances in the 1980 film watering but still resulted in drug and alcohol use him in the rehabilitation and psychiatry at the hospital. In his Liberation stop Hopper to Alcoholics Anonymous, Drugs and came into being called back another. It began in 1986 when he played an alcoholic ex-basketball star in "Hoosiers" and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Your role as a drunken savage in "Blue Velvet", has earned more praise in 1986, and years later, the character wound up No. 36 on AFI's list of Top 50 movie villains. He also turned the management of "Colours", "Hot Spot" and "Chasers." Hopper Dennis Lee was in 1936 in Dodge City, Kansas born and spent much of his youth farm near his grandparents. After moving to San Diego with his family, he played Shakespeare at the Old Globe Theater. identifies by the studios, Hopper has been a contract with Columbia until he insulted the chief Harry Cohn. From there he moved to Warner Bros., where he "Rebel Without a Cause" and was "Giant", while his late teens. He was later to study in New York at Actors Studio, where Dean had learned his trade. Hopper married five times. In January, he announced at the end of his 14-year marriage to Victoria Hopper, who said in court filings, that was the actor tries to cut him the inheritance, rejected a request funnel. He was a descendant of the family, Brooke Hayward Hollywood for eight years and the Mamas and the Papas singer Michelle Phillips married for eight days. He married Victoria Duffy, who was 32 years his junior, in 1996. Hopper has maintained a frenetic pace of work during the last two decades of his life. He has taken it to the top of the box office as a revenge bus bomber in 1994 hit "Speed", and in the 2000s, she has featured in movies such as "Jesus Son" and the television series "Crash." "Work fun for me," Hopper told a reporter in 1991. "All these years as an actor and director and not be able to get a job - two weeks is too long, not knowing what my next task will be." ___ AP National Writer Hillel Italy and Associated Press writers Frazier Moore, Bob Thomas and Andrew Dalton contributed to this report.