Hollywood’s Most Unhinged Outlaw

[@DH-ve5bl]

It’s amazing he lived as long as he did.

[@powderriver2424]

Evil never dies

[@r.d.sandman6474]

Him & Donald Trump!

[@roberthooper8883]

@@r.d.sandman6474 you misspelled brandon biden= I fixed it for you. You are welcome

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

Immature masculinity is not something to strive for.

[@gregorygermann5975]

Define" lived"

[@DavoInMelbourne]

Just because people are famous, good looking and rich, DOES NOT automatically make them good people.

[@desiguy55]

never ever meet your hero, it could be devastating. good words to live by. Dennis hopper was one of these actors, good actor but terrible person.

[@eddiebreen5933]

@@DavoInMelbourne or just because you heard it on KZbin or TV does not mean there bad ither lol gossip sells

[@eddiebreen5933]

@@desiguy55 did you know him

[@spanglestein66]

In fact …the opposite is more likely

[@spanglestein66]

@@eddiebreen5933why watch it then …..and did you know him

[@robertamcmunn3642]

No big story, Hoppers family just turned Fonda away from the funeral. I'm sure he left with a sigh of relief.

[@alexandru5369]

Yep If I was his family I would've let Fonda in he was trying too be respectful (clearly) not bitter like Hopper was. He probably missed their friendship

[@skeeter197140]

Thank you. I didn't want to sit through 17 and a half minutes of the same stories just to hear what the "chilling surprise" was.

[@jamesmiller4184]

@@alexandru5369 I think you have it right, Alexander. 👍

[@dimpsthealien333]

The word "dirtbag" comes to mind. I knew he was nuts, but....WOW!

[@eddyraye5825]

I was thinking more on the lines of asshole. Edit: Maybe both. No, probably.

[@isaactuuri6488]

a great actor in many films, a shitty actor in many others, but not a man for his wife and famliy ever

[@Senorzilchnzero]

I bet in one year he lived more of a life than you OR me in in 10 or even 20. To live by the rules of other human beings is to be a slave. To be a willing slave is one of the worst things a man can do to his soul. And MOST people on this planet are willing slaves. They do not have the vision to understand what life really is. Most people are NPC's.

[@Charliegirl8645]

Least his last wife gave him a bit of his own medicine by the sounds of it!!! Guy was a sanctimonious prick!!!

[@Thesortvokter]

Oh Djiiiiizes, look into Diddy's life for a REAL "dirtbag".

[@randyhebbebusche3644]

Why do people elevate actors who have no regard for others. He didn't do anything for anyone else, only to gratify his own base desires.

[@isaactuuri6488]

Dennis P Diddy Hopper

[@Senorzilchnzero]

I highly dislike this frame of thinking. We, by nature, are animals. We're NOTHING more than domesticated animals with hidden agendas. The difference between him and MOST people is that most people are living a pretend life. A lie. He lived life on his own terms. We're hooked on Netflix, social media, video games and porn. Its all about our own instant gratifcations and desires. Females now go on dating sites NOT so that they can find a match but to get a dopamine hit from the messages that they receive from many guys. Our society is broken, so PLEASE, lets not sit here and pretend that its something that its not. And that we're better than some john x doe. We arent.

[@Ricardo-i3s7f]

You can be a great actor but if you’re a disgusting human being what’s the point? I totally agree

[@Ricardo-i3s7f]

@@isaactuuri6488I shouldn’t give you a thumbs up for that but i did 😮

[@brokl26]

We didn’t elevate Hopper, Hollywood did by allowing us to experience one of the top five actors of his generation. He was that amazing. Even his Nike shoe commercials where he was a referee showed us just how amazing he was.

[@lesleyewen-foster3629]

I went to the same high school as Dennis Hopper about eight years after he was a student there. Some of the teachers had still not recovered from their experience with him. I think he was their worst nightmare and they still needed to vent periodically.

[@MarkSmith-js2pu]

In Dodge?

[@lesleyewen-foster3629]

@@MarkSmith-js2pu No, La Mesa California in San Diego County. I don't know when they moved from Dodge. The name of the school is Helix High School. The most notable graduates were Dennis Hopper and Bill Walton.

[@raymond3803]

@@lesleyewen-foster3629 Interesting. Care to elaborate on how those teachers vented? I dated a woman who went to HS with Ellen DeGeneres. She had no kind words for her.

[@lesleyewen-foster3629]

@@raymond3803 It was a very long time ago. I remember his name being brought up with disgust and anger, but don't remember any specific statements.

[@dukecraig2402]

I can do you one better than that, the worst kid in my school from kindergarten to our senior class who was a constant discipline problem that probably still hold the record for detentions wound up on a SWAT team, and it was in our hometown Go figure that one out, I've never been able to.

[@alyssstout8112]

Whatever role Mr. Hopper was playing, no matter how small, he was never forgettable. And whether you loved him or hated him you could not take your eyes off of him. My assessment of him?….great actor. Terrible human being.

[@RogueBoyScout]

it's funny. These days it seems being in the Arts is the only vocation where society expects all "workers" to live up to the "consumers" moral and ethical standpoints. And if not, they need to not only be "fired", but pretty much unemployable for the rest of their lives. But in any other field, you can be a piece of sh1t3 - as long as you do your job to a satisfactory level no one really cares about your personality. I am so ambivelant about the whole woke/counterwoke culure wars. I just do not have a dog in the fight ever. But I do get peeved when I am expected to throw away all my films or CDs of Artists just because they turn out to be scumbags. If I had to do that with everything else I purchased, I'm sure by the time I "ethically sourced" all my stuff and threw out anything that has had a scumbag involved in it's creation, I'd only proabably have a pair of undies and maybe a a collection of "Diagnosis Murder"

[@spook75a28]

So many cases. Let's not talk about Klaus Kinski. Can you IMAGINE the set if someone tried to put Dennis Hopper and Klaus Kinski together, in the same movie?! No director on Earth would have what it took to control those two.

[@jeffwarren6906]

I didn't think was a great actor , but a good actor if the role was right , although it sounds like he was very difficult to work with . And who holds a grudge so deep and long that you 86 an old colleague from your funeral , and made sure your family didn't let said colleague in .. I won't give my opinion of him as a human being because I don't know if I could come up with the words to show my disgust for his humanity ..

[@stephenb2276]

Sure 🙄, no one knew who he was in that first movie w James Dean. Shut up and stop trying to be a know it all. Nobody cares about creeps n ppl like you

[@JohnLawlor-y8u]

He was a person with all the frailty and complexity of the time in Hollywood, don't like to judge from a distance but hard to keep your sanity in fish bowl, definitely a flawed person but watch in to the blue, probably his deliverance and he directed it,at the time nobody could have done such powerful and raw emotions on screen

[@SFVGIRL]

Dennis Hopper lived across the street from us in 1970 in Studio City, California. I was a little kid. I remember he always had the coolest trash. 😂 I remember once he had a giant Jefferson Airplane poster framed in glass. It was broken. I wanted it so bad, but my mom said No! He moved a couple of months later. I wish I had that poster still. It was so rad. ❤

[@mollydooker9636]

Hopper extreme behabiour is also what has given us those incredible performances. I'm surprised you didnt mention Apocalypse Now. He portrayed a very realistic nutcase.

[@shaneodwyer6132]

He was tripping balls the whole time, he was out of his mind for the entire shoot 😂

[@D-Fens_1632]

It's hilarious to me how Coppola (a HUGE creep, look into him and Victor Salva) thought he could put Hopper and Brando in the same scene and expect them both to just do what the script says. Two of the most stubborn nutjobs in the business. It went about as terribly as you'd expect. CinemaTyler has been doing an amazing series on the making of Apocalypse Now, with the most recent episode it's up to like 9 hours long. He has one or two episodes that display both of their erratic behavior in detail.

[@drmodestoesq]

I totally disagree. It looked like pure indulgence to me. I watched it when I was very young. And thought, "Who thought hiring an unhinged actor on drugs to ad lib some lines was good idea?" He was supposed to be portraying a war photographer.

[@kittenfuud]

AI clickbait is funny that way.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

That was his specialty!...it was not a stretch for him!

[@KenW-kb4uk]

More proof that the line between genius and nutcase is often paper thin.

[@dukecraig2402]

@@KenW-kb4uk Oh no, it's wide, so wide Hopper had to make the jump from one side to the other on a motorcycle. But that's OK, I've always enjoyed people that you can call "characters" in life, being around them breaks up the boredom and monotony from having to live around all the Ozzy &, Harriet types, I wish I'd have been Hopper's next door neighbor, I'd have been over his place every day watching the Dennis show.

[@drmodestoesq]

@@dukecraig2402 Would you enjoyed it if he had paranoid delusions about you? And then you had to live next to the resulting behaviour against you? What are you going to do? Move?

[@dukecraig2402]

@@drmodestoesq Sounds like you're the one who suffers from paranoid delusions, being so triggered from a comical post in the comments of a KZbin video and all. I want you to think about this while you're falling asleep tonight, Dennis is out to get you. Pleasant dreams.

[@LP-hs6yz]

He was overrated as was Easy Rider which was boring.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

Jimi Hendrix, another type of genius, once said " You have to use Fantasy, in order to bend Reality"...He really did nail that aspect of the creative process!...some artists can handle it, others burn out.

[@betsyfloyde9244]

What an insufferable jerk

[@cuccicucci4480]

No family no friends. At the end that Hollywood hurrah was a waste. Toxic little man.

[@Honey-Sanchez]

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[@curbozerboomer1773]

Well...we have an insufferable jerk, running for President once again!...what does that say about the general public, being so fascinated by horrible people?

[@g.r.bilyeu4226]

You're buying the shit this grifter is selling?

[@g.r.bilyeu4226]

@@markthomas2436 oh... do tell! Since you knew him personally!

[@papamike9866]

Personally, I don't want to leave this world angry and vengeful. It's sad.

[@michellerutherford9551]

This right here. ❤

[@rsbreth]

Yeah - don't want to leave any enemies if I can help it. Some people are just sick.

[@MaxcineRobinson-gh4vz]

Good for you .....EAD

[@MaxcineRobinson-gh4vz]

Good for you......EAD.

[@ibberman]

Neither do I, but I think I will.

[@levondelite4072]

He was so scary in that movie with Isabella Rossellini (briefly pictured with him when he’s huffing oxygen). Blue Velvet, I think. That was a twisted movie. I couldn’t wait for it to be over. He was good as a crazy, deranged person. R.I.P. Dennis

[@rkenseth]

I really like Blue Velvet, it's a must watch when I see it on one of the movie channels.

[@edgein3299]

That was actually my favorite movie of his.

[@nateo6518]

I thought it was nitrous

[@kennethrussell1158]

He was playing himself.

[@SY-ok2dq]

​@@nateo6518 From memory, I don't think it was ever made clear in the film what exactly Crazy Frank was inhaling. But I remember way back when I read reviews and articles about the film (it was listed on one article counting down the greatest films of the 80s), that Frank using a mask to inhale some kind of gas, was often mentioned, and that's where I first heard of nitrous oxide gas. This wasn't when it first came out in theaters as I was a teen in school and not able to go see it in theaters upon release, but a couple of years later. It was about a year or two perhaps before "Twin Peaks" (I became a huge Peakie immediately), and around that time I first caught "Velvet" on T.V. on an alternative arts/culture channel (sort of like Film Four in the U.K. in the 80s ). I was immediately hooked and later rented it on video, and then "Eraserhead" and other Lynch films. I was very surprised to learn that Lynch had directed a film which I had seen on T.V., and liked, when I was a kid : "The Elephant Man".

[@aliciasaracino1233]

What a truly reckless and sick person. His poor kids.

[@dp-sr1fd]

He probably has no clue who they are. There is nothing to admire in this man.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

He usually played reckless and sick people in his movies...in other words, he basically was portraying himself!...a classic example of a good-looking, manipulative narcissist!...Hollywood has quite a few of these types, I am afraid. Disgusting, to find out about such things, and I have now acquired a very negative opinion of this guy.

[@chapiit08]

@@curbozerboomer1773 Klaus Kinsky was of such a similar nature, playing a deranged or psychothic person was just as esay as letting out what he was in real life.

[@lilybond6485]

@curbozerboomer1773: He was actually worse than what was portrayed in this video. It seems he had absolutely no personal integrity. An empty vessel.

[@wildboar7473]

More Sniffers? No daughter that wanted to attend?

[@eugenegilleno9344]

Why is it in America, that Outlaws of all kinds are put on pedestals, when they should rightly be denounced as evil horrible people ?

[@cowboyofscience7611]

Mainly because we are--and have always been---a bunch of "Outlaws."

[@captng]

That's why females never get with the nice guy

[@dukecraig2402]

You seriously think that doesn't happen anywhere but America?The poor people in every country cheer on the outlaw since the beginning of time, Robin Hood isn't an American tale, people don't even have to be poor, just make them feel that their own government is against them and watch how loud they cheer the outlaw. You just think that's only in America because it's always under everyone's microscope, the news in other countries spends half its time ignoring the same kind of stories going on in their own countries because half their time is dedicated to covering stories coming out of America, because that's what gives them their best ratings.

[@thethrillofpattaya8404]

It happens in EVERY country. It is human nature.

[@marsmurphy9125]

Social conditioning. They know what they are doing.

[@kerryannmoor5908]

Apart from drug induced paranoia and insanity, he was a narcissist. A humble person does not expect nor ban anyone from their funeral. Most regular people are grateful and appreciative of being honoured that way.

[@SteveninTune]

@@kerryannmoor5908 Regular People is that like a Punk Rock band

[@rickstalentedtongue910]

@@SteveninTune Is that like a legitimate response?

[@wildboar7473]

Where is this question of "humble"??? But they attend anyway? Who said he was regular? Fame and money does wonders on ego, all sorts of abuse come....

[@fazole]

What if Roman Polanski had wanted to go? Or Harvey Weinstein?

[@wildboar7473]

@@fazole ? This he was about hate sharing, unkown, Polanski did not rape anyone (Woody Allan), willing teen. I am wonder what kind of person wanted to attend? Fonda an insane narcissist lover? Daughter....

[@dougg1075]

He was basically a carny with money. He died from what my doctor said is the most painful way to go. The bone cancer causes tumors to grow on the nerves that are in the bones. No escape

[@markthomas2436]

It is a bad ride down. Pancreatic is worse.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

The tragic thing is...if men would just wise up, and get a PSA blood test every year past the age of 40....that type of cancer can be spotted and defeated!...But once it spreads from the prostate gland...the odds are not good. I personally have experience with this, and did take those tests, eventually had prostate cancer, had radiation treatments for it...and no more cancer now.

[@rickstalentedtongue910]

@@curbozerboomer1773 Cancer is defeated by Sodium Bicarbonate. Cancer is a fungus.

[@ibberman]

@@curbozerboomer1773 Finasteride tends to mask it, to the point of no return. I'm hoping for the best as I take it, but have had problems for years. Glad to hear the treatment worked for you.

[@kenk6985]

He was one of the many crazies of Laurel Canyon...

[@hombre1965]

Here’s a nightmare cast for any director: Hopper, Brando, & Klaus Kinski together in the same film. More debauchery and derangement could hardly be imagined.

[@lilybond6485]

@hombre1965: I laughed so hard at your comment just imagining that. Klaus Kinski alone ! 😂

[@RICHIETHEF]

Kubrick could handle them.

[@arise2945]

How about the real film 'Not as a Stranger' from 1955? Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, Lee Marvin, Broderick Crawford and Lon Chaney Jr. starred. One of the principals, Mitchum I believe, described the set as being like a brewery. Drinking commenced before noon and went on late into the night at wild cast parties. In charge was director Stanley Kramer, in his first such assignment. Baptism by fire, I suppose. In addition, don't forget the UK contingent of drunken actors - Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton. Many, many more too. John Cassavetes, Errol Flynn, William Holden. The list of self-destructive types in the performing arts has no end.

[@fazole]

Well if you really want actor armageddon, don't leave out Ollie Reed and Richard Harris!

[@morellawalker373]

Omigod, Klaus Kinski! Madness!

[@thomasgregory1395]

I think one of his greatest role was in true Romance very few people could pull that off

[@bak-mariterry9143]

The 10 - 12 minutes with Christopher Walken should have gotten both of them a best supporting actor award.

[@Thataintnothing]

Awsome performance is an Great Movie !!!!

[@THEScottCampbell]

Hopper and Fonda based their "EASY RIDER" characters on Dave Crosby and Jim McGuinn of The Byrds, who played Jane Fonda's birthday party in 1965 while their single "Mr Tambourine Man" was topping the charts. McGuinn wrote and sang theme song to "EASY RIDER" and the Byrds song "Wasn't Born To Follow" was the only song played in its entirety in the film. Hopper also shot a photo session of The Byrds in 1967.

[@pam112061]

Personally, I don't think people like Dennis Hopper need to be celebrated. He was a train wreck an addict and abuser, -domestic, mental, physical you name it. He wasn't a good person and I don't think we as a society need to celebrate people like him. Yes I know thst addiction is a disease, but that doesn't give people an excuse to treat people badly

[@DanGoodShotHD]

As a former addict, I couldn't agree more. It's this b.s."It's not their fault because..." mentality that has to stop. It wasn't until I could/would take responsibility for my actions that I was able to leave that shit behind once and for all. 20 years on I have 4 wonderful kids, a beautiful house and a life I'm proud of. Hard work and accountability. Not debauchery, drugs and victimhood.

[@shabadoo24]

I don't think he's actually a good actor

[@pam112061]

@@shabadoo24 I must admit I have never, that I know of at least, seen any of his work. I can separate an actor/actress from their personal life and their acting. Like I thought Charlie Sheen was great in Two and Half Men - until he wasn't. He and the rest of the cast had good comedic timing - especially with any scene involving Berta and any other cast member. Charlie's personal life and his addiction etc., didn't factor in until he was no longer a high functioning addict. Then he went off the rails. I hope he has gotten his life straightened out, but I doubt he can ever replicate his 2&HM days again. It probably did not help his life making they much money - it was just more money to fuel his addiction and his pretty trashy lifestyle.

[@pam112061]

@@DanGoodShotHD good for you ! I am not an addict, but I know more than a few who are or have been. Getting clean and/or sober is a great accomplishment! If no one has told you today that they're proud of you for beating your addiction - even though I don't know you - I am proud of you.

[@shabadoo24]

@@pam112061 he was in the first Speed movie

[@SatansSimgma]

If you are banning people from your funeral, you didn't learn anything. Your probably getting sent back.

[@JoeGator23]

Apparently he enjoyed it and probably wouldn't mind having another go.

[@markthomas2436]

No he got sent straight to Hell.

[@mrpoizun]

His probably?

[@wildboar7473]

Jeeezzz what is the BIG DEAL on a funeral ban? Dont some do it for their Marriage? Is it the miss of free meal and liquor?

[@haroldwilson950]

I watch the movie 'Blue Velvet' at least 2 or 3 times a year just to keep myself in the zone... I'm one well-dressed man who knows where you're hiding, and "don't you fucking look at me!". Snooooooort.. And when he intensely emotes to Dean Stockwell lip-syncing to Roy Orbison's song 'Sandman', I get all teared up...Swavaaay! 😁

[@steveculbert4039]

Don't believe everything you hear. Dennis was my friend and a true friend he was. I knew him in Taos and later. Every time I was with him, he behaved as a gentleman.

[@vinnhi6425]

Are you being serious? You were friends with him? He was a good friend? That would make me happy!

[@cindyspowart555]

Thank-you! The disparagement of him and people taking such a high moral ground when it comes to him, is incredibly sad. I didn't say in a comment above that in any interview I ever saw him give, he was the consummate gentleman. I'm happy that someone who was a true friend of his spoke up. I consider him to be an artistic genius.

[@davidschaadt3460]

Fonda allegedly ripped Dennis off on the movie,which was Hopper's brainchild.

[@user-vs1tc3kj3z]

Yuck. There's a man I'm so glad I didn't know.

[@SHENDOH]

It's not like you could have if you did want to😂

[@Senorzilchnzero]

Your life is safe. Its clean. Its organized. Its just the way that many people around you would want it to be. Its neat. Its in 2D box. Its incapable of even imagining what a 3D box would look like. And dont even get me started on the potential of 4d box of imagination/life/vision. Im not here to put you down. Amazing things are happening in 2D. People live fulfilled lives. Its warm. Its nice. Its safe.

[@markthomas2436]

I agree completely. Once you have known a true narcissist? You're never the same again. Because strangely, they pull people in. They really CAN attract people, and the wicked wretch will use them up and belittle them. It is a twisted relationship. Often they end up OWING PEOPLE MONEY.

[@jason-hy8ci]

Why would anyone leave the ashes of their loved one in an open container and open to the public??? Either we're not getting the whole story or it's B.S.

[@cookshackcuisinista]

Sad life, no real happiness, washout as a human being! I feel sorry for his family!

[@JohnScorar]

You would have thought they would keep ashes in a more closed container. Also as an avid drug user I would have thought he could tell the difference.

[@drmodestoesq]

100 percent agree. People like their war stories about drugs. I remember a story about William S. Burroughs. He was in Tangiers and in the depths of his heroin addiction. He lay on his bed for a year and stared at his shoe. That's a more realistic story about drug addiction. And that's a story that's probably mainly true.

[@LP-hs6yz]

And ashes are larger, lumpy and grey.

[@rickstalentedtongue910]

@@drmodestoesq Yeah, I picture him wearing shoes in bed.

[@Eagle245-wq2ly]

I like watching this channel to find out about famous people I did not know anything about. This man was certainly on a different level.

[@wildboar7473]

not sure we know much more, sniffing ashes ???

[@SteveFugere-q6p]

When he was caste for the psychopath role in the movie Blue velvet, he said he was made for that part. I guess he wasn't kidding.

[@Skyenchantment8]

Hopper briefly owned the Mable Dodge house in Taos NM and the parties were legendary. Sorry people Hopper was loved and especially in the end his funeral biker tribute was amazing- the bikes went on for a mile Taos named a street for him. For the record Dennis did get sober and repaired friendships in later years. Not Happies - Hippies btw

[@babywah3290]

The narrator is English and you know how they love to focus on sensationalism. It’s an art form destined to be kitty litter liner in the UK.

[@kerrypickens8594]

I don’t know why are venting so much about someone they don’t even know.

[@Contessa6363]

Looks like he is channeling Rasputin when he was in full beard!😂😂

[@alexkalish8288]

I knew Dennis when he first came to Hollywood and hung out with my dad to get work and towards the end of his life here in Taos. He had one of the finest modern art collections in the world. He seemed to me a typical 50's kid , they were all trying to be cowboy Elvis. Later in his old age he was a very American original , a man who tried to stay true to himself. IMO not the person you make him out to be at all. The wild legend was part of his acting and also to get press . He did like women.... how refreshing now days -

[@rodkirkbride2230]

Thanks! Enough of this second hand bs. Dennis Hopper was his own man. In a time when crazy was the norm he rode that crazy surf and came out the other end. I for one think DH was great.

[@cindyspowart555]

Thank-you! I think Dennis Hopper was a great actor, director and photographer. I believe he sobered up after the making of Apocalypse Now when he realized that the photo journalist he was playing was actually him in real life. He was in the two season series Crash while he was dying and his last shot on film is actually in the second season as he and Peggy Lipton walk through a door together. ~ There is, of course, the story of Iggy Pop checking into a psychiatric hospital in the 1970's to detox. David Bowie and Dennis Hopper, dressed in space suits went in and tried to help Iggy escape. I do think that the Dennis Hopper people are finding "vile" or whatever other disparaging remarks, was when he was under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol, thus negating the fact that he was clean and sober for the last 2-1/2 decades of his life (or around the beginning of his 40's). ~ Did he buy into the counter culture of the 1960's? Most certainly. Again though, I don't think any of that can take away from the fact that he was an artistic genius who lived life on his terms. If only so many of the naysayers in these comments were able to say the same.

[@rodkirkbride2230]

@@cindyspowart555 Great comment. Yes, he was also a competent photographer. Hopper was a rarity, he was of his time and ahead of his time. He outshone all of his contemparies, Dean and Brando included. In my opinion.

[@cindyspowart555]

@@rodkirkbride2230 : Thank-you! I think you've added immensely to what I had to say.

[@rodkirkbride2230]

@@cindyspowart555 👍

[@mikewallace8087]

Amazing Dennis made it into Rebel without a Cause. He was destined to make his history, being talked about here.

[@ellisvener5337]

It wasn’t Hopper who insisted on reshooting the scene 80+ times in “From Hell to Texas”, it was Hathaway. I was at the Russian dynamite stunt in Houston. It was part of a retrospective of Hoppers work as an actor, film maker, and photographer put on by the Rice University Media Center and his good friend Walter Hobbs, director of the Menil Collection. I had a peripheral role in that night’s festivities where Hopper went from friendly with me to full-on psychotic rage in the blink of an eye. Wim Wenders kept me from either being shot by Hopper or kicking his ass. But that’s a story for another time. During the Russian Dynamite Stunt I was taking still photographs next to the film maker whose clip was used in this video. After surviving the stunt, Hopper remarked to a local revision station that “I feel sober for the first time in twenty years.” What this video misses is that Hopper was immensely talented, intelligent, charming, and funny as he was angry, narcissistic and trouble. It’s why his career lasted as long as it did. After he finally sobered up he did some of his best work in “Blue Velvet”, “Hoosiers”, and “Speed”.

[@cowboyofscience7611]

I thought he was in "Hoosiers."

[@tonym994]

I really liked his 'COLORS,' a well directed film, w/ a great soundtrack, especially the title song by ICE-T, and it's editing. Robert Duval and Sean Penn. w/ Tuesday Weld.

[@YouTube-tied]

@@tonym994 Tuesday Weld was in Falling Down with Robert Duval, not Colors.

[@kittenfuud]

​@@KZbin-tiedthen who played the character if not Tuesday Weld? (I have no horse in this race, I still haven't seen that movie but it would've been nice if, in your correction, you'd have mentioned who the actual actress was!)

[@tonym994]

@@KZbin-tied thank you. I'm getting old.

[@randolphduke]

I'll always remember Hopper for his "eggplant" scene with Christopher Walken in the movie "True Romance."

[@r_jd279]

It sounds like dude needed some peace. I hope he's resting in it.

[@chopperking1967]

"If you remember the 60s you weren't really there." - Dennis Hopper

[@mokeyheff]

I thought "True Romance" showcased his acting chops. Never seen him better than he was in that role. That is the role I will remember him for. He certainly did things his way

[@CJG-bk4bk]

Him and Christopher Walken were great together.

[@markthomas2436]

That WAS a great performance. He also directed The Hot Spot, which was a good and totally original movie.

[@bigrigJim]

Boiling Point was another good one .

[@markthomas2436]

@@bigrigJim oh yeah, and who could forget the scene where Jodi Foster strips down to her black lace and hose in front of him.

[@jcsinca3387]

Yeah, they credit Scott and I'm sure he helped but that was one of Tarantino's best. That was a highly underrated film. To be honest the entire cast were outstanding. That movie - True Romance - is also how I remember Hopper. I thought Easy Rider was rather boring and lame, to be honest Easy Rider sucked compared to True Romance.

[@jayswartz6446]

After watching this video, I learned more about him than I ever knew. After reading many unflattering comments.... I still Like Dennis Hopper. 😃 He first caught my attention when two close friends and myself attended the release of "Easy Rider" in 1969. We were 13 and it was a life changing movie at that time. My fondest memory of Dennis Hopper was during 1972 when I encountered a Porsche on Hwy. 101 in Marin County with him behind the wheel. We got into an "Exhibition of Speed" and topped out at 90 mph and both looked at eachother and backed off due to too much traffic. Otherwise I would have Smoked Him! 🤔 I was driving my folk's 🤫 1967 Chevy Impala SS 427/427. 😜 RIP Dennis Hopper ♥ Just another Human Being in Life's Adventures.

[@websurfer5772]

Awesome story.

[@alynneflanery9918]

ashes do NOT look like powder-- there are chunks in there of bone....

[@shuroom57]

Not always; who's your crematorium guy?😂

[@HighWealder]

They put them through a grinder.

[@drmodestoesq]

It's a typical lurid story about drug addiction. And probably an urban myth. Swiss army knives turn into machetes after a few tellings of a story.

[@ibberman]

Keith Richard should know.

[@steveberkson3873]

I was around Hopper-land in Taos in the ‘70s. I was neighbors with his brother. A lot of jewelers lived in his MD Lujan house. I saw the Cap’t America bike(replica) ..I had my own drug problems in those days ..they were crazy days

[@immobilien]

I worked on the Documentary Film "On the Trail of Easy Rider". It was my understanding that Dennis and others in Taos built 4 or more replicas of the Captain America bike to put in Movie lobbies for advertisement. I think his brother and nephew were involved in that. Not sure if those bikes are around anymore.

[@SongJLikes]

He took the ‘no boundaries’ thing beyond its, umm, boundaries . .

[@neelyohara88]

a lot of gifted people burn very hard. it’s wild to see this repeat over and over again in great artists throughout history.

[@John-isAround]

He was also a motorcycle gang leader in the Glorystompers movie and a wannabe Hitler type person in a twilight zone episode if I'm remembering correctly.

[@Nicks66Service]

I have a lobby poster for the Spanish-language version of "The Glory Stompers", "Bestias De Asfalto".

[@John-isAround]

@Nicks66Service Hopper was in a "Combat " t.v. show episode as a Jazz musician. His "Easy Rider" sidekick Peter Fonda was in a "12 O'clock High" episode as a hick but an outstanding bombardier. I noticed that Peter Fonda died on the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock festival event.

[@thethrillofpattaya8404]

He was a Genius. Few knew (or know) the movie business quite like him.

[@yvettevitacaponigro]

Thank you for sharing this with us! ✌🏼🎃

[@timmotel5804]

Good Day. Excellent. I saw "Easy Rider" at the movie theater when it first came out. WoW. All the people, including me, were Pissed Off as we exited the theater. It really had an impact on us "hippies" at the time. His roots were definitely from a wild & woolly place. Loved & Shocking, he was. Thank You for this wonderful and educational history about Dennis. *P.S. You didn't mention, but showed a brief clip of an "Apocalypse Now" scene. Another Great Movie that he was in.

[@kerryannmoor5908]

I grew up in that era and it sounds to me like he was tripping on LSD, basically because the user is in a world of fantasy - a place where they're invincible.

[@DarylOwen-q4i]

Who out there would be inclined to agree that Tavistock Institute would supply copious amounts of substances for the shin digs?

[@specialroy2140]

I met Dennis Hopper at an event at the Schindler House in West Hollywood...He was with Seymour Cassel....Both were pretty good guys...Artists !

[@Charliegirl8645]

Ach, you caught on a good day, hour, minute or second?

[@drmodestoesq]

@@Charliegirl8645 He probably an okay guy when he was sober and straight around strangers.

[@hpb5495]

So "Blue Velvet" was essentially a confession.

[@PoutinePete]

I'm glad people are starting to see what a cesspool Hollywood is and has always been.

[@rickstalentedtongue910]

They are all loosely related to the ruling class. And if you know anything about them, you will understand how vile they can be expected to be.

[@daveyboy_]

Sounds like u wanted to be on the big screen as a kid but you never had the chops. So like the fox in Aesops fable u denounce it. Imagine what kind of shitty world this would be if it were not for Hollywood.

[@rickstalentedtongue910]

@@daveyboy_ You just created a fantasy in your head based on, nothing it seems. Keep writing your screenplays in your head, nothing wrong with it.

[@daveyboy_]

@@rickstalentedtongue910 i wasn't replying to u. But whatever

[@npadiscoveryy]

It's puzzling why some people elevate actors who show little regard for others. Dennis Hopper, for instance, seemed more focused on indulging his own desires than contributing to anyone else’s well-being. It’s important to separate talent from character

[@karlfonner7589]

Dennis Hopper Was a great actor - at playing Dennis Hopper. just think of the time he grew up around. Kennedy being assassinated, the Vietnam War, race riots, duh, no wonder people rebelled. Wild times produce wild people

[@cowboyofscience7611]

I grew up during that time--after 30 years of drugs and booze, I turned out okay....mostly.

[@margitwes6495]

He as 27yo in 1963 (JFK assassination), already grown-up. He was one of those people riding the wave without the emotional connection . He wasn't a rebel, a poser.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

@@margitwes6495 I would agree with that!...He grabbed unto the "party" aspect of those times, and did not leave the party for decades...he was indeed, a self-indulgent poser!

[@KetoCarnivoreLifestyle]

Snorting ashes of someone is a very Dennis Hopper thing to do.

[@Sherpa_k2]

November 6, 1961, in the Bel Air community of Los Angeles. The Bel Air Fire. You mentioned nothing of Dennis losing his home and his body or work in paintings. He was a wonderful painter. He was an incredible photographer. Do a Google image search on his work in photos. Impressive.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

It is amazing to me, how many successful performing artists, have other artistic talents going on!

[@franksantucci3038]

Bel Air is one of the most exclusive areas in LA, even more ritzy than Beverly Hills. Alot of very rich folks lost everything in that fire, it was humongous. And I remember it very well...

[@CapoKabar]

Dennis had his reasons for barring Peter. No one has the right to intrude on others’ last day above ground unless welcomed.

[@sandrazaleski4373]

My favorite commentator ❤

[@DatmanDatmotha]

Convincing psychopath in speed

[@Halloweenfreak]

Easy rider becoming such an iconic film there was no need for any animosity afterwards, it don’t sit right with me. And being such a classic film it’s really sad on his part that he didn’t make things right with others

[@ibberman]

To me, Fonda seemed real in the movie, Hopper didn't. Seemed more like a clown.

[@franksantucci3038]

Easy Rider was a cult classic, same as Billy Jack, Two Lane Blacktop, and Vanishing Point...

[@garygorman2612]

Hoosiers...Blue Velvet....Apocalypse Now....I salute the man for the persona and depth of his craft....his chaotic life was infused with love....creativity...as well as being all too human ......selfish....hurtful..... unforgiving etc..... May he be in the Lord's bosom .....Bless all our wayward souls ....

[@gearchallenge7555]

Similar to most revisionist history, the snorting ashes story is absolute bunk. Cremated remains appear chunky from bone, etc and although there is ash material, it looks like... wait for it.... ASHES. That, and snort-able drugs are absorbed into the nasal / oral membranes . Ash would have made him choke becasue it's ASH... Mehhhh

[@ibberman]

Ask Keith Richards, he mixed some of dad's ashes with the coke, he says.

[@Idahoguy10157]

Hooper complaints of his last wife is him projecting himself on her

[@wildboar7473]

? the one that banned daughter to attend?

[@hunterluxton5976]

This video was well put together, a great script.

[@davidmurray2539]

Dennis Hopper was an absolutely unique personality and, to my mind, one of the world's greatest film actors, whether it was channeling David Crosby in Easy Rider or portraying Tom Ripley in The American Friend how could you not have thought he was the coolest dude on the planet!? All that real life stuff, much of it gossip, just fades away. Dennis Hopper belongs in discussions of the likes of Dean and Brando. The thought provoking, often discomforting ways he inhabited and presented his characters will endure for serious audiences well into the distant future. And that, to me, is justice.

[@josephreisinger33]

Remember, everyone needs to exist in one way or another. Without him, EZ RIDER would not be. And that would be a shame, wouldn't it. When there's a bad ass in the crowd, you either go with it or look the other way.

[@dcstiger]

Peter Fonda plays the lead in one of my favorite movies. It's a small independent film that got him an Oscar Nomination for Best Actor. Yulee's Gold is a very simple story told incredibly well. If you haven't seen Dennis Hopper's performance in River's Edge check it out. He does not play a lead role but it's some of his best character work.

[@fmellish71]

Rumble Fish and Out of the Blue are other very good Hopper performances

[@bak-mariterry9143]

​@@fmellish71 And True Romance with Christopher Walken .

[@curbozerboomer1773]

When Hopper was young, he did some powerful work in obscure, low-budget movies, and in TV roles. The older he got, the weirder his personal life became!

[@babywah3290]

Ulee’s Gold, the character’s full name was Ulysses.

[@garyemmert1735]

I agree with both onservations you make -two really good performances

[@cocoono11]

I loved him in Basquiat. Not a huuuge role, but large in heart as he was paying homage to his friend Warhol (played by Bowie). It was a hoot!

[@eddysgaming9868]

Did Hopper ever truly have a friend? I seriously doubt it. He had those useful to him for a time.

[@billammann9807]

Its a shame that the man had no restrictions, and used drugs for his entire life.

[@wirelessone2986]

IMH opinion that is the norm in Hollywood and music...many work very hard to hide it,some dont

[@isaactuuri6488]

@@wirelessone2986 100, norm in creative+money industries including tech. I had suits do coke in front of me without asking anything or meeting before that moment, in office in SF. Had my second tech boss (30 years ago minus 2) storing acid in the fridge (openly to office, everyone knew, he said it without hesitation), had the creators of Linux Slackware ask me to buy them an array of drugs when they came into town.

[@wildboar7473]

Why Most here say he was a monster not deserving to live.....

[@cindyspowart555]

Untrue. He was clean and sober from his early 40's up.

[@isaactuuri6488]

@@cindyspowart555 God bless your truth telling heart

[@scottjackson163]

I loved Hopper’s portrayal of Feck in The River’s Edge.

[@satansalley6526]

Forgot about that one. Twas a good performance.

[@FaerieGoatmother]

If the surprise was not a Peter Fonda mask on the corpse in the open casket, you failed us, Dennis.

[@nicholasvalentine2428]

Nice video. Thanks. Subscribed/liked.

[@Factinate]

Thanks for the sub! Welcome :D

[@raydavison4288]

Dennis Hopper wasn't "Hollywood's most unhinged outlaw." That would be Larry Hagman. 😊

[@brucerobeson6760]

I met Larry in Hawaii on Maui on Peter Fonda's boat "Tatush". Salt shakers full of cocaine, beaucoup women, the whole nine yards. To me he was a really nice guy...

[@RenataCantore]

Thank you for your Excellent presentation ❤🎉

[@JoeHernandez1210]

He was always off his Rocker. But he was a good actor

[@patrickpreston8424]

Dennis went where and when he wanted with little regard.

[@Linda-pw8gx]

I don’t think hopper has one redeeming quality

[@jackiepowell7513]

Says who? The 60 s they the Left were trying what they re doing now, dismantling usa, Don t judge one by an era. Just a caveat.

[@eddyraye5825]

He knew when to leave.

[@TheGreyRider-p5z]

He didn't give a damn about what whiney, judgemental people thought of him. That's a redeeming quality in my book.

[@j_vasey]

He’s dead?

[@isaactuuri6488]

@@j_vasey jesus, absolute savage

[@cosmicHalArizona]

I related to their characters at the time. Not a hippie not a yuppie but def. Anti-establishment.

[@debbierowley8833]

He sounds such a great bloke, how on earth did everyone manage without him! Seriously, what a foul man, doesn’t seem to me there was much to celebrate about him, I’m sure most people who knew him, must have heaved a sigh of relief......what a waste of internal organs.

[@peteshallcross787]

How did this nutcase marry so many actresses? I always thought he was nuts, but he was in 2 of my fav movies, Apocalypse Now and Hoosiers.

[@guitarandmore69]

Had no idea Hopper died. I guess that's why I haven't seen him in anything in years...

[@isaactuuri6488]

same bro

[@mariaeugenia2436]

Speed with keanu and Sandra

[@WyattRyeSway]

@@mariaeugenia2436…..only film I ever saw him in

[@dank7256]

Where you guys been ? 😂

[@Emulous79]

Christ. This man was psychotic for real. A villain for real. Must have been one of the devil's favourites.

[@eddiebreen5933]

He was brilliant in blue velvet

[@curbozerboomer1773]

He was weird, the character was weird--a perfect role for him!

[@babywah3290]

Hopper did two movies with Keanu Reeves, the first being Rivers Edge where he played an lone injured ex-biker weed dealer who had a blowup love doll for a companion.

[@franksantucci3038]

The movie Rivers Edge was a true story that happened in Milpitas California, just outside of San Jose. Can't remember for sure, either late 70s early 80s. World wide news coverage. A group of high schoolers used to cut classes, to go party next to a river, one of them killed another one, and they left the body laying in the open next to the river, apparently for days. Then they would bring their school friends out there to view the body. One of them went to the authorities. There was a whole host of weirdos involved in this story, and it was a creepy movie as well...

[@jackiepowell7513]

Blue velvet was not hugfing oxygen but a more " high" element.

[@isaactuuri6488]

dude yet probably right

[@AladdinSaneNYC]

Amyl, known as poppers!!!

[@13_13k]

@@AladdinSaneNYC --- Poppers or nitrous oxide aka whippets

[@HollywoodGoldenAgeYT]

Great video!

[@phillipwallace7211]

I doubt the bit at the end of the video. Human ashes look like cat litter, not cocaine.

[@jdsouther1958]

Ashes are crushed up bone

[@donkeedic9825]

Dennis Hopper may be from Kansas but he grew up in Lemon Grove California. I live across the street from where has childhood home once was. His home was demolished in in the late eighties and now townhouses are there in its place....

[@tonylani2015]

Outstanding video! Your work always keeps me wanting more. 😎

[@Factinate]

Happy to hear that! More always coming 😎

[@norfolkronin6307]

I loved the parts he played. He was a great actor but comes across as he described his last wife. Bit of a crank but Bless him. RIP

[@MichaelMBarnes-f7b]

Like most he was just a hollyweird employee.

[@Russell-pe8xn]

There is a huge difference between a human being and being human..

[@AlmostEthical]

I won't judge. I never walked in his shoes and I'm not into virtue signalling. He was definitely mentally ill. Still, Frank in Blue Velvet blew my mind and loved him in Apocalypse Now. It's not unusual for crazy people to create great art.

[@tonym994]

when PBR street Gang comes drifting into Kurtz's place, he has a great line. "hey, be careful, those Monkeys WILL bite!"

[@vinnhi6425]

Crispin Glover is a good example of that 😂

[@ibberman]

Art is therapy for mentally ill people.

[@Modernnannenginemarineengine]

Charles Manson does life in Jail Hopper lives his life outside

[@paulbrinsley]

The man lived life on his own terms ... love him or hate him , i don't think he'd give a damn ...

[@drmodestoesq]

Or on the terms of the drugs and alcohol he was consuming. Being an addict is being a slave.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

@@drmodestoesq Good point!...First you take the drug...soon, the drug takes you!

[@ibberman]

@@curbozerboomer1773 Kind of like women.

[@jimmarshall3066]

Fonda kept "Bogart " -ing those joints......😂

[@MoeSlislack]

so, who keeps their loved ones ashes in a gold dish? thats a bit more fuct up than hopper snorting it in my opinion and also tells me the story is probably bs.

[@Brian-uy2tj]

This is the kind conduct that inspired the term ""wasted" for being stoned, because it is a waste of time and a waste of one's life. He was a waste of everything; his life, his potential, he wasted the lives of those around him. Waste, waste, wasted

[@uriahheep5665]

It's been good!😉