Dennis Hopper would've celebrated his 83rd birthday on May 17, 2019. The Oscar-nominated performer experienced many ups-and-downs throughout his career, with his off-screen antics often overshadowing ...

A new documentary on Dennis Hopper, Nick Eberling’s “Along for the Ride,” starts Friday, Dec. 15, and the Roxie Theater is celebrating with a mini-retrospective of the iconic actor and director’s work ...

The 73-year-old actor and director looks back at a career that has spanned such major works as "Giant," "Rebel Without a Cause," "Easy Rider" and "Blue Velvet." By Elliot V. Kotek, The Associated ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. We're going to continue our series Classic Films and Movie Icons with interviews from our archive with Dennis Hopper and Isabella Rossellini, two stars of the ...

Certain actors are described as chameleons, doing everything they can to disappear as fully into a role as possible. They dive into accents, costumes, makeup to attempt to become one with the ...

How about you? GROSS: That's Dennis Hopper in the film "Blue Velvet," which was directed by David Lynch, who described Hopper as sort of the perfect American dangerous hero. "Blue Velvet" was one of ...