Hopped Up On Hopper

Dennis Hopper, before the alcoholism and LSD abuse took hold in the late 1960s, was regarded as one of the greatest actors of his generation.

Anyone under 50 knows Hopper better as one of the great portrayers of the unhinged and psychotic. His role as the disturbing gas huffer Frank in Blue Velvet being one of the finest examples, along with the dope-dealing Feck in River's Edge

Dennis Hopper died today, after a long battle with cancer.

Roger Ebert's obituary

A rarely seen example of Hopper's monumental acting talent from an early Twilight Zone ;



Hopper completely unhinged in the mid-1970s Australian bushranger film :



And, to my generation at least, probably his greatest role, at least the most memorial and quotable :



Dennis Hopper's Science Fiction Movie Roles

Dennis Hopper The Photographer : On The Long Walk With Martin Luther King