The actor and director Dennis Hopper is dead

dennis hopper

I t was the symbol of a generation and the director of a road-movies of the biggest cult in the history of cinema, Easy Rider . The actor and director Dennis Hopper died at age 74, Saturday, May 29, as a result of prostate cancer. He died in late afternoon at his home in Venice, California, surrounded by his family, reported a relative.

The actor revealed his illness to the end of last year. His last public appearance on 26 March to receive his star on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles . He seemed very weak from the disease. This is where a tribute and a wreath to be held in the evening.

Sulfur and rebellious, Hopper had built a career on the margins of Hollywood, appearing in films like Rebel Without a Cause (1955) with James Dean , Blue Velvet (1986) of David Lynch or Apocalypse Now (1979). But it is unlikely the success of Easy Rider, he wrote, directed and in which he starred alongside Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson , who won the prize and the consecration of the first work in the Festival Cannes in 1969. “Easy Rider is the first independent film to be distributed by a major studio, he confided to the world in an interview in 2008. It’s one of my films have been successful. “