Actor Dennis Hopper passed away yesterday following a bought with prostate cancer. I've never been an avid Hopper fan, but I always thought the guy was a great actor in the movies that I've seen him in. Most memorable for me are his roles in Speed, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider (of course), Hoosiers, and, for some reason, True Romance (maybe it's that seen between him and Walken right before Hopper gets iced?). I also enjoyed him as a Presidential candidate in 2008's Swing Vote and flower child Huey Walker in 1990's Flashback. But, in his passing, I've read some things about Dennis Hopper that I never knew. Some of these things I found very surprising:
- He was married 5 times
- He had great admiration for James Dean, whose death had a huge impact on Hopper
- He became friends and socialized with Elvis and actor Nick Adams in the late 50s/early 60s
- He was an avid photographer, painter and sculptor
- He spent much of the 1970s and early 1980s living as "an outcast" in a small town he purchased after the success of Easy Rider
- He had 4 children and two grandchildren
- Through his career, he battled both alcohol and drug abuse, even going through a period of time where he was drinking a 5th of rum per day.
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