name	Bob Rafelson
birth date	February 21, 1933
birth place	New York City }}

Robert "Bob" Rafelson (born February 21, 1933) is an American film director, writer and producer. He is most famous for directing and co-writing the film ''Five Easy Pieces'', starring Jack Nicholson, as well as being one of the creators of the pop group and TV series, The Monkees (with Raybert/BBS Productions partner Bert Schneider).

Rafelson was born in New York City, the son of a hat manufacturer. His uncle was screenwriter and playwright Samson Raphaelson.

Rafelson and Nicholson have been collaborators for over thirty years. Nicholson and Rafelson wrote and produced and Rafelson directed ''Head'', starring the Monkees, in 1968, followed by ''Five Easy Pieces''. In subsequent years, Rafelson directed Nicholson in four more films, including ''The King of Marvin Gardens'' (1972), ''The Postman Always Rings Twice'' (1981), ''Man Trouble'' (1992), and ''Blood and Wine'' (1996).

Rafelson has adapted the works of legendary noir authors James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, and Dashiell Hammett.

Director Filmography

''Head'' (1968)

''Five Easy Pieces'' (1970)

''The King of Marvin Gardens'' (1972)

''Stay Hungry'' (1976)

''The Postman Always Rings Twice'' (1981)

''Black Widow'' (1987)

''Mountains of the Moon'' (1990)

''Man Trouble'' (1992)

''Wet'' (1995) short film released in ''Tales of Erotica''

''Blood and Wine'' (1996)

''Poodle Springs'' (1998) (TV Movie)

''No Good Deed'' (2002)

References

External links

"Bob Rafelson and His Odd American Places" interview and essay by Peter Tonguette

"The Monologist and the Fighter: An Interview with Bob Rafelson" by Rainer Knepperges and Franz Müller, ''Senses of Cinema''.

''Sight and Sound'' magazine interview

Category:1933 births Category:American film directors Category:American screenwriters Category:Living people Category:The Monkees Category:Horace Mann School alumni

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birth date	April 22, 1937
birth place	New York City, New York, U.S.
alma mater	Actors Studio
home town	Neptune City, New Jersey
residence	Hollywood Hills, California
known for	The Joker, Jack Torrance
birthname	John Joseph Nicholson
occupation	Actor, director, producer, screenwriter
yearsactive	1958–present
spouse	Sandra Knight (1962–68)
children	4 (including Lorraine Nicholson)
awards	Academy Awards, Golden Globe Award, Kennedy Center Honor, Life Achievement Award }}

John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is renowned for his often dark portrayals of neurotic characters. Nicholson has been nominated for an Academy Award twelve times, and has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice: for ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' and for ''As Good as It Gets''. He also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the 1983 film ''Terms of Endearment''. He is tied with Walter Brennan for most acting wins by a male actor (three). Nicholson is well known for playing Jack Torrance in ''The Shining'' and the Joker in 1989's ''Batman'', among many other roles.

Nicholson is one of only two actors who has been nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s (the other being Michael Caine). He has won seven Golden Globe Awards, and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. In 1994, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. Notable films in which he has starred include, in chronological order, ''Easy Rider'', ''Five Easy Pieces'', ''Chinatown'', ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'', ''The Passenger'', ''The Shining'', ''Reds'', ''Terms of Endearment'', ''Batman'', ''A Few Good Men'', ''As Good as It Gets'', ''About Schmidt'' and ''The Departed''.

Early life

Nicholson was born in St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City, the son of a showgirl, June Frances Nicholson (stage name June Nilson). June had married Italian American showman Donald Furcillo (stage name Donald Rose) six months earlier in Elkton, Maryland, on October 16, 1936. Furcillo was already married. Although he reportedly offered to take care of the child, June's mother Ethel insisted that she bring up the baby, partly so that June could pursue her dancing career. Although Furcillo claimed to be Nicholson's father and to have committed bigamy by marrying June, biographer Patrick McGilligan asserted in ''Jack's Life'' that Latvian-born Eddie King (originally Edgar A. Kirschfeld), June's manager, may have been Nicholson's biological father. Other sources suggest June Nicholson was unsure of who the father was. Nicholson's mother was of Irish, English, and Dutch descent, though he and his family reportedly self-identified as Irish.

Nicholson was brought up believing that his grandparents, John Joseph Nicholson (a department store window dresser in Manasquan, New Jersey) and Ethel May (née Rhoads, a hairdresser, beautician and amateur artist in Manasquan), were his parents. Nicholson only discovered that his "parents" were actually his grandparents and his sister was in fact his mother in 1974, after a journalist for ''TIME'' magazine who was doing a feature on Nicholson informed him of the fact. By this time, both his mother and grandmother had died (in 1963 and 1970, respectively). Nicholson has stated he does not know who his biological father is, saying "Only Ethel and June knew and they never told anybody", and has chosen not to have a DNA test or to pursue the matter.

Nicholson grew up in Neptune City, New Jersey. He was raised in his mother's Roman Catholic religion. Before starting high school, his family moved to an apartment in Spring Lake, New Jersey. "Nick", as he was known to his high school friends, attended nearby Manasquan High School, where he was voted "class clown" by the Class of 1954. He was in detention every day for a whole school year. A theatre and a drama award at the school are named in his honor. In 2004, Nicholson attended his 50-year high school reunion accompanied by his aunt Lorraine.

Career

Early work

When Nicholson first came to Hollywood, he worked as a gofer for animation legends William Hanna and Joseph Barbera at the MGM cartoon studio. Seeing his talent as an artist, they offered Nicholson a starting level position as an animation artist. However, citing his desire to become an actor, he declined.

He made his film debut in a low-budget teen drama ''The Cry Baby Killer'', in 1958, playing the title role. For the following decade, Nicholson was a frequent collaborator with the film's producer, Roger Corman. Corman directed Nicholson on several occasions, most notably in ''The Little Shop of Horrors'', as masochistic dental patient Wilbur Force, and also in ''The Raven'', ''The Terror'', and ''The St. Valentine's Day Massacre''. He worked frequently with director Monte Hellman as well on low-budget westerns, though two in particular, ''Ride in the Whirlwind'' and ''The Shooting'', initially failed to find interest from any US film distributors but gained cult success on the art house circuit in France and were later sold to television.

Rise to fame

With his acting career heading nowhere, Nicholson seemed resigned to a career behind the camera as a writer/director. His first real taste of writing success was the LSD-fueled screenplay for the 1967 film, ''The Trip'' (directed by Corman), which starred Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. Nicholson also co-wrote, with Bob Rafelson, the movie ''Head'', which starred The Monkees. In addition, he also arranged the movie's soundtrack. However, after a spot opened up in Fonda and Hopper's ''Easy Rider'', it led to his first big acting break. Nicholson played hard-drinking lawyer George Hanson, for which he received his first Oscar nomination. The part of Hanson was a lucky break for Nicholson—the role had in fact been written for actor Rip Torn, who was a close friend of screen writer Terry Southern, but Torn withdrew from the project after a bitter argument with the film's director Dennis Hopper, during which the two men almost came to blows.

A Best Actor nomination came the following year for his persona-defining role in ''Five Easy Pieces'' (1970). Also that year, he appeared in the movie adaptation of ''On A Clear Day You Can See Forever'', although most of his performance was left on the cutting room floor. Jack was the first choice to play the role of Father Damien Karras in The Exorcist, but the role was turned over to Jason Miller.

Other Nicholson roles included Hal Ashby's ''The Last Detail'' (1973), for which he was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, and the classic Roman Polanski noir thriller, ''Chinatown'' (1974). Nicholson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for both films. Nicholson was friends with the director long before the death of Polanski's wife, Sharon Tate, at the hands of the Manson Family, and supported him in the days following the deaths. After Tate's death, Nicholson began sleeping with a hammer under his pillow, and took breaks from work to attend the Manson trial. It was at Nicholson's home where the rape case for which Polanski was arrested occurred. Nicholson would go on to star in The Who's ''Tommy'' (1975), directed by Ken Russell, and Michelangelo Antonioni's ''The Passenger'' (1975).

Nicholson earned his first Best Actor Oscar for portraying Randle P. McMurphy in the movie adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'', directed by Miloš Forman in 1975. His Oscar was matched when Louise Fletcher received the Best Actress Award for her portrayal of Nurse Ratched. After this, he began to take more unusual roles. He took a small role in ''The Last Tycoon'', opposite Robert De Niro. He took a less sympathetic role in Arthur Penn's western ''The Missouri Breaks'', specifically to work with Marlon Brando. He followed this by making his second directorial effort with the western comedy ''Goin' South''. His first movie as a director was a 1971 quirky release called ''Drive, He Said''.

Although he garnered no Academy Award for Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's ''The Shining'' (1980), it remains one of his more significant roles. His second Oscar, the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, came for his role of retired astronaut Garrett Breedlove in ''Terms of Endearment'' (1983), directed by James L. Brooks. Nicholson continued to work prolifically in the 80s, starring in such films as ''The Postman Always Rings Twice'' (1981), ''Reds'' (1981), ''Prizzi's Honor'' (1985), ''The Witches of Eastwick'' (1987), ''Broadcast News'' (1987), and ''Ironweed'' (1987). Three Oscar nominations also followed (''Reds'', ''Prizzi's Honor'', and ''Ironweed'').

Nicholson introduced several acts at Live Aid at the JFK Stadium in July 1985. He turned down the role of John Book in ''Witness''. The 1989 ''Batman'' movie, wherein Nicholson played the psychotic murderer and villain, The Joker, was an international smash hit, and a lucrative percentage deal earned Nicholson about $60 million. For his role as hot-headed Col. Nathan R. Jessep in ''A Few Good Men'' (1992), a movie about a murder in a U.S. Marine Corps unit, Nicholson received yet another Academy nomination. This film contained the court scene in which Nicholson famously explodes, "You can't handle the truth!", in one of the Aaron Sorkin-penned monologues to become part of popular culture.

In 1996, Nicholson collaborated once more with ''Batman'' director Tim Burton on ''Mars Attacks!'', pulling double duty as two contrasting characters, President James Dale and Las Vegas property developer Art Land. At first studio executives at Warner Bros. disliked the idea of killing off Nicholson's character, so Burton created two characters and killed them both off. Not all of Nicholson's performances have been well received. He was nominated for Razzie Awards as worst actor for ''Man Trouble'' (1992) and ''Hoffa'' (1992). However, Nicholson's performance in ''Hoffa'' also earned him a Golden Globe nomination.

Nicholson went on to win his next Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Melvin Udall, a mean-spirited, compulsive obsessive neurotic author in ''As Good as It Gets'' (1997), again directed by Brooks. His Oscar was matched with the Academy Award for Best Actress for Helen Hunt as a Manhattan waitress drawn into a love/hate friendship with Udall, a frequent diner in the restaurant in which she worked. In 2001, Nicholson was the first actor to receive the Stanislavsky Award at the Moscow International Film Festival for "conquering the heights of acting and faithfulness".

2002–present

In ''About Schmidt'' (2002), Nicholson portrayed a retired Omaha, Nebraska actuary who questions his own life following his wife's death. His quietly restrained performance earned him an Academy Award Nomination for Best Actor. In ''Anger Management'' (2003), he plays an aggressive therapist assigned to help overly pacifist Adam Sandler. In 2003, Nicholson also starred in ''Something's Gotta Give'', as an aging playboy who falls for the mother (Diane Keaton) of his young girlfriend.

In late 2006, Nicholson marked his return to the "dark side" as Frank Costello, a sadistic Boston Irish Mob boss presiding over Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning ''The Departed'', a remake of Andrew Lau's ''Infernal Affairs''.

In November 2006, Nicholson began filming his next project, Rob Reiner's ''The Bucket List'', a role for which he shaved his head. The film starred Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as dying men who fulfill their list of goals. The film was released on December 25, 2007 (limited), and January 11, 2008 (wide). In researching the role, Nicholson visited a Los Angeles hospital to see how cancer patients coped with their illnesses. His last film role to date saw him reunite with ''Terms of Endearment'' and ''As Good as It Gets'' director James L. Brooks for a small supporting role as Paul Rudd's father in ''How Do You Know''.

Personal life

Family and relationships

Nicholson has been romantically linked to numerous actresses and models, including Michelle Phillips, Bebe Buell, and Lara Flynn Boyle. Nicholson's longest relationship was for 16 years with actress Anjelica Huston, daughter of film director John Huston, from 1973 to 1989. However, the relationship ended when the media reported that Rebecca Broussard had become pregnant with Nicholson's child. Nicholson and Broussard had two children together, Lorraine (born 1990) and Raymond Nicholson (born 1992). Nicholson's other children are Jennifer (born 1963 with Sandra Knight) and Honey Hollman (b. 1981 with Winnie Hollman). Actress Susan Anspach contends that her son, Caleb Goddard (born 1970), was fathered by Nicholson, though he is not convinced he is the father.

Celebrity friendships

Nicholson lived next door to Marlon Brando for a number of years on Mulholland Drive in Beverly Hills. Warren Beatty also lived nearby, earning the road the nickname "Bad Boy Drive". After Brando's death in 2004, Nicholson purchased his neighbor's bungalow for $6.1 million, with the purpose of having it demolished. Nicholson stated that it was done out of respect to Brando's legacy, as it had become too expensive to renovate the "derelict" building which was plagued by mold.

Nicholson shared a friendship with author-journalist Hunter S. Thompson, described in his autobiography "Kingdom of Fear" where, according to Thompson, they would exchange "bizarre" presents which resulted in a perceived assassination attempt against the actor. Thompson appeared outside his home on the night of Nicholson's birthday, having set off a high-powered spotlight and gunfire, playing a tape of animal cries through an amplifier to awaken him. He then left a freshly-cut elk's heart on his door as a joke before leaving when it appeared that nobody would exit the house. Following the death of Thompson in 2005, he and fellow actors Johnny Depp, John Cusack, and Sean Penn attended his private memorial service in Colorado.

Hobbies

Nicholson is a fan of the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Lakers. His attendance at Lakers games is legendary, as he is a season ticket holder since 1970 and has held courtside season tickets for the past 25 years at both The Forum and the Staples Center, missing very few games. In a few instances, Nicholson has engaged in arguments with game officials and opposing players, and has even walked onto the court. His ardent refusal to miss a Lakers home game means that studios are rumored to have to schedule filming around the Lakers home schedule although he disputed this claim in an interview with BBC radio in 2008.

Nicholson is a collector of twentieth century and contemporary art, including the work of Scottish artist Jack Vettriano.

Honors

Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver announced on May 28, 2008, that Nicholson would be inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts. The induction ceremony took place on December 15, 2008, where he was inducted alongside 11 other legendary Californians.

In 2010, Nicholson was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.

In 2011, Nicholson received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Brown University at its two hundred and forty-third commencement. At the ceremony Ruth Simmons, Brown University's president, called him, "the most skilled actor of our lifetime."

Academy Awards history

With twelve nominations (eight for Best Actor and four for Best Supporting Actor), Jack Nicholson is the most nominated male actor in Academy Awards history. Only Nicholson and Michael Caine have been nominated for an acting (lead or supporting) Academy Award in five different decades: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. With three Oscar wins, he also ties with Walter Brennan for the second highest-number of Oscar wins in acting categories (all of Brennan's wins, however, were for Best Supporting Actor).

At the 79th Academy Awards, Nicholson had fully shaved his hair for his role in ''The Bucket List''. Those ceremonies represented the seventh time he has presented the Academy Award for Best Picture (1972, 1977, 1978, 1990, 1993, 2006, and 2007). Nicholson is an active and voting member of the Academy. During the last decade he has attended almost every ceremony, whether nominated or not, sitting in the front row.

Filmography

+List of film credits
! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
1958	''''	Jimmy Wallace
1960	''Too Soon to Love''	Buddy
1960	''''	Johnny Varron
1960	''''	Wilbur Force
1960	''Studs Lonigan''	Weary Reilly
1962	''''	Will Brocious
1963	''''	Andre Duvalier	Also (Uncredited) Director
1963	''''	Rexford Bedlo
1964	''Flight to Fury''	Jay Wickham	Also Writer
1964	''Ensign Pulver''	Dolan
1965	''Ride in the Whirlwind''	Wes	Also Producer
1966	''''	Billy Spear	Also Producer
1967	''''	Gino, Hit Man	Uncredited
1967			Writer
1968	''Psych-Out''	Stoney
1968		Himself	Also Producer/Writer
1969	''Easy Rider''	George Hanson
1970		Tad Pringle
1970	''''	Bunny
1970	''Five Easy Pieces''	Robert Eroica Dupea
1971		Jonathan Fuerst	Sant Jordi Award for Best Foreign ActorNominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
1971	''''	Mitch
1971	''Drive, He Said''		Also Producer/Writer/Director—Nominated for Palme d'Or
1972	''''	David Staebler
1973	''''	Billy "Bad Ass" Buddusky
1974		J.J. 'Jake' Gittes
1975	''''	Oscar Sullivan aka Oscar Dix
1975		Randle McMurphy
1975	''''	David Locke
1975		The Specialist
1976	''''	Tom Logan
1976	''''	Brimmer
1978	''Goin' South''	Henry Lloyd Moon	Also Director
1980	''''	Jack Torrance
1981	''''	Frank Chambers
1981		Pirate at beach	Uncredited
1981		Eugene O'Neill
1982	''''	Charlie Smith
1983	''Terms of Endearment''	Garrett Breedlove
1984	''Terror in the Aisles''		Archival Footage Only
1985	''Prizzi's Honor''	Charley Partanna
1986		Mark Forman
1987		Daryl Van Horne
1987		Bill Rorich	New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor also for ''Ironweed (film)
1987		Francis Phelan
1989
1990	''[[The Two Jakes''	J.J. 'Jake' Gittes	Also (Uncredited) Producer/Director
1992		Eugene Earl Axline, aka Harry Bliss	Nominated—Golden Raspberry Award
1992	''''	Col. Nathan R. Jessep
1992	''[[Hoffa''		Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture DramaNominated—Golden Raspberry Award
1994		Will Randall	Nominated—[[Saturn Award for Best Actor
1995	''''	Freddy Gale
1996	''Blood and Wine''	Alex Gates
1996	''''	Garrett Breedlove
1996	''Mars Attacks!''	President James Dale / Art Land	Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1997	''As Good as It Gets''	Melvin Udall
2001	''''	Jerry Black
2002	''About Schmidt''	Warren R. Schmidt
2003	''Anger Management''	Dr. Buddy Rydell	Nominated—Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Hissy Fit
2003		Harry Sanborn	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
2006	''''	Francis 'Frank' Costello
2007	''''	Edward Cole
2010		Charles Madison
2011	''Americana''	Edgar Johnson

: Additionally, in 1999, Nicholson was presented with the Golden Globe's Cecil B. DeMille Award lifetime achievement award.

References

External links

''Rolling Stone'' Interview with Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson slideshow at AMCtv.com

Literature on Jack Nicholson

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name	Karen Black
birth name	Karen Blanche Ziegler
birth date	July 01, 1939
birth place	Park Ridge, Illinois, U.S.
occupation	Actress, screenwriter, singer, composer, producer
years active	1959–present
spouse	Charles Black (m.1960)Robert Burton (1973–74)L.M. Kit Carson (1975–?)Stephen Eckelberry (1987–present)}}

Karen Black (born July 1, 1939) is an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter. She is noted for appearing in such films as ''Easy Rider'', ''Five Easy Pieces'', ''The Great Gatsby'', ''Rhinoceros'', ''The Day of the Locust'', ''Nashville'', ''Airport 1975'', and Alfred Hitchcock's final film, ''Family Plot''. Over the course of her career, she won two Golden Globe Awards (out of three nominations), and an Academy Award nomination in 1970 for Best Supporting Actress, among numerous other honors.

Early life

Black was born as Karen Blanche Ziegler in Park Ridge, Illinois, in suburban Chicago, the daughter of Elsie Mary (née Reif), a writer of several prize-winning children's novels, and Norman Arthur Ziegler. Her paternal grandfather was Arthur Ziegler, a classical musician and the first violinist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Her sister is actress Gail Brown. She attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, for two years, having commenced university studies in 1954, aged 15. She then moved to New York where she appeared in a number of Off-Broadway productions.

Career

Black began her film career in 1959 with a small role in ''The Prime Time''.

She had previously written and sung the theme song and supporting songs for The Pyx (1973).

In 1970, Black appeared as Rayette, the waitress girlfriend of Jack Nicholson, in the film ''Five Easy Pieces'', for which she was nominated for an Academy Award.

She starred as Nancy Pryor, the stewardess who is forced to fly the plane, in the disaster film ''Airport 1975''. That same year, she played multiple roles in the televised anthology film ''Trilogy of Terror''. The segments were named after the women involved in the plot: a plain college professor who seduces a student ("Julie"), a pair of sisters who squabble over their father's inheritance ("Millicent and Therese"), and, most chillingly, the lonely recipient of a cursed Zuni fetish that comes to life and pursues her relentlessly ("Amelia").

During the next two years, Black had leading roles for famed directors as an aspiring Hollywood actress in John Schlesinger's ''The Day of the Locust'', as a country singer in Robert Altman's ''Nashville'' and as a kidnapper in what turned out to be Alfred Hitchcock's last film, ''Family Plot''. She also co-starred with Bette Davis in a horror film, ''Burnt Offerings''.

In April 2009, Black reunited with director Steve Balderson for ''Stuck!'' – an homage to film noir women-in-prison dramas, which co-starred Mink Stole, Pleasant Gehman and The Go-Go's Jane Wiedlin. Black stars also in the John Landis-produced 2010 thriller ''Some Guy Who Kills People''.

In 2010, Black appeared on Cass McComb's Dream-Come-True-Girl from the album Catacombs.

Personal life

Black has been married four times, first to Charles Black from 1955 to 1962, then to Robert Burton, who played her student in the TV movie ''Trilogy of Terror'', from April 18, 1973 to October 1974. Black was next married to actor and screenwriter L. M. Kit Carson on July 4, 1975 and subsequently divorced; their son is actor Hunter Carson. She married Stephen Eckelberry on September 27, 1987 and they remain married. They have an adopted daughter, Celine.

She has been a Scientologist since the 1970s and, despite some 2006 rumors to the contrary, she and her husband are still active.

Filmography

''The Prime Time'' (1960)

''You're a Big Boy Now'' (1966)

''Hard Contract'' (1969)

''Easy Rider'' (1969)

''Hastings Corner'' (1970)

''Five Easy Pieces'' (1970)

''Drive, He Said'' (1971)

''A Gunfight'' (1971)

''Born to Win'' (1971)

''Cisco Pike'' (1972)

''Portnoy's Complaint'' (1972)

''Little Laura and Big John'' (1973)

''The Pyx'' (1973)

''The Outfit'' (1973)

Ghost Story/Circle of Fear (1973)

''Rhinoceros'' (1974)

''The Great Gatsby'' (1974)

''Law and Disorder'' (1974)

''Airport 1975'' (1974)

''Trilogy of Terror'' (1975)

''The Day of the Locust'' (1975)

''Nashville'' (1975)

''Ace Up My Sleeve'' (1976)

''Family Plot'' (1976)

''Burnt Offerings'' (1976)

''The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver'' (1977)

''1922''

''Because He's My Friend'' (1978)

''Capricorn One'' (1978)

''In Praise of Older Women'' (1978)

''The Squeeze'' (1978)

''Mr. Horn'' (1979)

''Killer Fish'' (1979)

''Power'' (1980)

''Where the Ladies Go'' (1980)

''The Last Word'' (1980)

''Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop'' (1980)

''Separate Ways'' (1981)

''Gräset sjunger'' (1981)

''Chanel Solitaire'' (1981)

''La donna giusta'' (1982)

''Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean'' (1982)

''Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?'' (1983)

''A Stroke of Genius'' (1984)

''Growing Pains'' (1984)

''The Blue Man'' (1985)

''Martin's Day'' (1985)

''Inferno in diretta'' (1985)

''Savage Dawn'' (1985)

''Invaders from Mars'' (1986)

''Flight of the Spruce Goose'' (1986)

''It's Alive III: Island of the Alive'' (1987)

''Hostage'' (1987)

''Platinum Blonde'' (1988)

''The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway'' (1988)

''The Invisible Kid'' (1988)

''Dixie Lanes'' (1988)

''Judgement'' (1989)

''Out of the Dark'' (1989)

''Homer and Eddie'' (1989)

''Evil Spirits'' (1990)

''Mirror, Mirror'' (1990)

''Fatal Encounter'' (1990)

''The Children'' (1990)

''Club Fed (1990 film)'' (1990)

''Overexposed'' (1990)

''Zapped Again!'' (1990)

''Twisted Justice'' (1990)

''Night Angel'' (1990)

''The Roller Blade Seven'' (1991)

''Rubin and Ed'' (1991)

''The Killer's Edge'' (1991)

''Children of the Night'' (1991)

''Quiet Fire'' (1991)

''Haunting Fear'' (1991)

''Return of the Roller Blade Seven'' (1992)

''Final Judgement'' (1992)

''Legend of the Roller Blade Seven'' (1992)

''Dead Girls Don't Tango'' (1992)

''Bound and Gagged: A Love Story'' (1992)

''The Double 0 Kid'' (1992)

''Caged Fear'' (1992)

''Cries of Silence'' (1993)

''Auntie Lee's Meat Pies'' (1993)

''Tuesday Never Comes'' (1993)

''The Trust'' (1993)

''Dark Blood'' (1993) (unfinished)

''Plan 10 from Outer Space'' (1994)

''Too Bad About Jack'' (1994)

''The Wacky Adventures of Dr. Boris and Nurse Shirley'' (1995)

''Starstruck'' (1995)

''Dinosaur Valley Girls'' (1996)

''Angelo a New York, Un'' (1996)

''Movies Money Murder'' (1996)

''Every Minute Is Goodbye'' (1996)

''Crimetime'' (1996)

''Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering'' (1996)

''Dogtown'' (1997)

''Modern Rhapsody'' (1997)

''Malaika'' (1997)

''Conceiving Ada'' (1997)

''Men'' (1997)

''Waiting for Dr. MacGuffin'' (1998)

''Fallen Arches'' (1998)

''Light Speed'' (1998)

''Stripping for Jesus'' (1998)

''Invisible Dad'' (1998)

''I Woke Up Early the Day I Died'' (1998)

''Sugar: The Fall of the West'' (1998)

''Stir'' (1998)

''My Neighbor's Daughter'' (1998)

''Bury the Evidence'' (1998)

''Charades'' (1998)

''Decoupage 2000: Return of the Goddess'' (1999)

''Paradise Cove'' (1999)

''Mascara'' (1999)

''The Underground Comedy Movie'' (1999)

''Oliver Twisted'' (2000)

''Inviati speciali'' (2000)

''The Donor'' (2000)

''Red Dirt'' (2000)

''Gypsy 83'' (2001)

''Hard Luck'' (2001)

''Soulkeeper'' (2001)

''Teknolust'' (2002)

''Buttleman'' (2002)

''A Light in the Darkness'' (2002)

''Paris'' (2003)

''Summer Solstice'' (2003)

''Curse of the Forty-Niner'' (2003)

''House of 1000 Corpses'' (2003)

''America Brown'' (2004)

''Birth of Industry'' (2004)

''Firecracker'' (2005)

''Dr. Rage'' (2005)

''Carma'' (2005)

''My Suicidal Sweetheart'' (2005)

''Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula'' (2005)

''Whitepaddy'' (2006)

''Hollywood Dreams'' (2006)

''Read You Like a Book'' (2006)

''Suffering Man's Charity'' (2007)

''One Long Night'' (2007)

''Contamination'' (2008)

''The Blue Tooth Virgin'' (2008)

''Watercolors'' (2008)

''First Time Long Time'' (2009)

''A Single Woman'' (2009)

''Double Duty'' (2009)

''Irene in Time'' (2009)

''Katie Q'' (2009)

''Stuck!'' (2010)

''Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!'' (2010, television - Adult Swim)

Trivia

According to Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, Karen is the all time highest rated female "Center" of Hollywood.

References

In the Heat of the Night - tv

External links

''Stuck!'' movie site

Podcast interview March 2007

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name	Dennis Hopper
alt	Dennis Hopper, with gray hair and a gray goatee, wearing a hat and sunglasses.
birth name	Dennis Lee Hopper
birth date	May 17, 1936
birth place	Dodge City, Kansas, U.S.
death date	May 29, 2010
death place	Venice, California, U.S.
death cause	Prostate cancer
restingplace	Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico
nationality	American
education	Helix High School
occupation	Actor, director, artist
years active	1954–2010
spouse	Brooke Hayward (1961–1969; divorced)Michelle Phillips (1970; divorced)Daria Halprin (1972–1976; divorced)Katherine LaNasa (1989–1992; divorced)Victoria Duffy (1996–2010; divorced)
children	3 daughters, 1 son }}

Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, ''Rebel Without a Cause'' (1955) and ''Giant'' (1956). During the next 10 years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films.

He directed and starred in ''Easy Rider'' (1969), winning an award at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer. "With its portrait of counterculture heroes raising their middle fingers to the uptight middle-class hypocrisies, ''Easy Rider'' became the cinematic symbol of the 1960s, a celluloid anthem to freedom, macho bravado and anti-establishment rebellion." Film critic Matthew Hays notes that "no other persona better signifies the lost idealism of the 1960s than that of Dennis Hopper."

He was unable to build on his success for several years, until a featured role in ''Apocalypse Now'' (1979) brought him attention. He subsequently appeared in ''Rumble Fish'' (1983) and ''The Osterman Weekend'' (1983), and received critical recognition for his work in ''Blue Velvet'' and ''Hoosiers'', with the latter film garnering him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He directed ''Colors'' (1988) and played the villain in ''Speed'' (1994). He played another villain, King Koopa, in ''Super Mario Bros.'' (1993). Hopper's later work included a leading role in the television series ''Crash''. Hopper's last performance was filmed just before his death: ''The Last Film Festival'', slated for a 2011 release.

Hopper was also a prolific and acclaimed photographer, a profession he began in the 1960s.

Early life

Hopper was born in Dodge City, Kansas, the son of Marjorie Mae (née Davis, July 12, 1917 - January 12, 2007) and Jay Millard Hopper (June 23, 1916 – August 7, 1982). Hopper had two brothers, Marvin and David.

After World War II, the family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where the young Hopper attended Saturday art classes at the Kansas City Art Institute. At the age of 13, Hopper and his family moved to San Diego, where his mother worked as a lifeguard instructor and his father was a post office manager (Hopper has acknowledged, though, that his father was in the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, in China with Mao Zedong). Hopper was voted most likely to succeed by his 1954 high school graduating class (Helix High School, La Mesa, California, a suburb of San Diego]). It was there that he developed an interest in acting, studying at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, and the Actors' Studio in New York City (he studied with Lee Strasberg for five years). Hopper struck up a friendship with actor Vincent Price, whose passion for art influenced Hopper's interest in art. He was especially fond of the plays of William Shakespeare.

Film career

Hopper was reported to have an uncredited role in ''Johnny Guitar'' in 1954 but he has stated that he was not even in Hollywood when this film was made. Hopper made his debut on film in two roles with James Dean (whom he admired immensely) in ''Rebel Without a Cause'' (1955) and ''Giant'' (1956). Dean's death in a 1955 car accident affected the young Hopper deeply and it was shortly afterwards that he got into a confrontation with veteran director Henry Hathaway on the film ''From Hell To Texas''. Hopper refused directions for 80 takes over several days.

In his book ''Last Train to Memphis'', American popular music historian Peter Guralnick says that in 1956, when Elvis Presley was making his first film in Hollywood, Hopper was roommates with fellow actor Nick Adams and the three became friends and socialized together. In 1959 Hopper moved to New York to study Method acting under Lee Strasberg at the Actor's Studio. In 1961, Hopper played his first lead role in "Night Tide" an atmospheric supernatural thriller involving a mermaid in an abandoned amusement park.

In a December 1994 interview on the Charlie Rose Show, Hopper credited John Wayne with saving his career, as Hopper acknowledged that because of his insolent behavior, he could not find work in Hollywood for seven years. Hopper stated that because he was the son-in-law of actress Margaret Sullavan, a friend of John Wayne, Wayne hired Hopper for a role in ''The Sons of Katie Elder''. This role enabled Hopper to begin making movies again.

Hopper had a supporting role as "Babalugats," the bet-taker in ''Cool Hand Luke'' (1967). Hopper acted in mainstream films including ''The Sons of Katie Elder'' (1965) and ''True Grit'' (1969). Both of these films starred John Wayne, and in both Hopper's character is killed in the presence of Wayne's character to whom he utters his dying words. During the production of ''True Grit'', he became well acquainted with Wayne.

In 1968, Hopper teamed with Peter Fonda, Terry Southern and Jack Nicholson to make ''Easy Rider'', which premiered in July 1969. With the release of ''True Grit'' a month earlier, Hopper had starring roles in two major box office films that summer. Hopper won wide acclaim as the director for his improvisational methods and innovative editing for ''Easy Rider''. The production was plagued by creative differences and personal acrimony between Fonda and Hopper, the dissolution of Hopper's marriage to Hayward, his unwillingness to leave the editor's desk, and his accelerating abuse of drugs and alcohol.

In 1971, Hopper released ''The Last Movie''. Expecting an accessible follow-up to ''Easy Rider'', audiences were treated to artistic flourishes (like the inclusion of "scene missing" card shots) and a hazily existentialist plot that dabbled in non-linearity and the absurd. After finishing first at the Venice Film Festival, the film was dismissed by audiences and critics alike during its first domestic engagement in New York City. During the tumultuous editing process, Hopper ensconced himself at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico, which he had purchased in 1970, for almost an entire year. In between contesting Fonda's rights to the majority of the residual profits from ''Easy Rider'', he married Michelle Phillips in October 1970.

Hopper was able to sustain his lifestyle and a measure of celebrity by acting in numerous low budget and European films throughout the 1970s as the archetypical "tormented maniac", including ''Mad Dog Morgan'' (1976), ''Tracks'' (1976), and ''The American Friend'' (1977). With Francis Ford Coppola's blockbuster ''Apocalypse Now'' (1979), Hopper returned to prominence as a hypo-manic Vietnam-era photojournalist. Stepping in for an overwhelmed director, Hopper won praise in 1980 for his directing and acting in ''Out of the Blue''. Immediately thereafter, Hopper starred as an addled short-order cook "Cracker" in the Neil Young/Dean Stockwell low-budget collaboration ''Human Highway''. Production was reportedly often delayed by his unreliable behavior. Peter Biskind states in the New Hollywood history ''Easy Riders, Raging Bulls'' that Hopper's cocaine intake had reached three grams a day by this time period, complemented by an additional 30 beers, marijuana, and Cuba libres.

After staging a "suicide attempt" (really more of a daredevil act) in a coffin using 17 sticks of dynamite during an "art happening" at the Rice University Media Center (filmed by professor and documentary filmmaker Brian Huberman), and later disappearing into the Mexican desert during a particularly extravagant bender, Hopper entered a drug rehabilitation program in 1983. During this period, he gave critically acclaimed performances in ''Rumble Fish'' (1983) and ''The Osterman Weekend'' (1983).

It was not until he portrayed the gas-huffing, obscenity-screaming iconic villain Frank Booth in David Lynch's ''Blue Velvet'' (1986) that his career revived. After reading the script, Hopper called Lynch and told him "You have to let me play Frank Booth. Because I am Frank Booth!" Hopper won critical acclaim and several awards for this role and the same year received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as an alcoholic basketball lover in ''Hoosiers''.

In 1988, Hopper directed the critically acclaimed ''Colors''. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for the 1991 HBO films ''Paris Trout'' and ''Doublecrossed'' (in which he played real life drug smuggler and DEA informant Barry Seal). The same year he starred as King Koopa in ''Super Mario Bros.'', a 1993 critical and commercial failure loosely based on the video game of the same name. In 1993 he played Clifford Worley in ''True Romance''. He co-starred in the 1994 blockbuster ''Speed'' with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, and as magic-phobic H. P. Lovecraft in the TV movie "Witch Hunt".

In 1995, Hopper played a greedy TV self help guru, Dr. Luther Waxling in ''Search and Destroy''. The same year, he starred as Deacon, the one-eyed nemesis of Kevin Costner in ''Waterworld''. In 2003, Hopper was in the running for the dual lead in the indie horror drama ''Firecracker'', but was ousted at the last minute in favor of Mike Patton. In 2005, Hopper played Paul Kaufman in George A. Romero's ''Land of the Dead''. In 2008, Hopper starred in ''An American Carol''. His last major feature film appearance was in the 2008 film ''Elegy'' with Sir Ben Kingsley, Penélope Cruz and Debbie Harry. For his last performance, he was the voice of Tony, the alpha-male of the Eastern wolf pack inside the 2010 3D computer animated film ''Alpha and Omega''. He died before the movie was released. This brought the directors to dedicate the film to his memory.

Television work

Hopper debuted in an episode of the Richard Boone television series ''Medic'' in 1955, portraying a young epileptic.

He appeared as an arrogant young gunfighter, the Utah Kid, in the 1956 episode "Quicksand" of the first hour-long television western television series, ABC's ''Cheyenne'', starring Clint Walker. In the story line, the Kid gave Cheyenne Bodie no choice but to kill him in a gunfight.

He subsequently appeared in over 140 episodes of television shows such as ''Gunsmoke'', ''Bonanza'', ''Petticoat Junction'', ''The Twilight Zone'', ''The Barbara Stanwyck Show'', ''The Defenders'', ''The Investigators'', ''The Legend of Jesse James'', ''Entourage'', ''The Big Valley'', ''The Time Tunnel'', ''The Rifleman'' and ''Combat!''.

Hopper teamed with Nike in the early 1990s to make a series of television commercials. He appeared as a "crazed referee" in those ads. He portrayed villain Victor Drazen in the first season of the popular drama ''24'' on the Fox television network.

Hopper starred as a U.S. Army colonel in the NBC 2005 television series ''E-Ring'', a drama set at The Pentagon, but the series was cancelled after 14 episodes aired in the USA. Hopper appeared in all 22 episodes that were filmed. He also played the part of record producer Ben Cendars in the Starz television series ''Crash''.

Photography and art

Hopper was a prolific photographer, painter, and sculptor. His photography is known for portraits from the 1960s. His painting style ranges from abstract impressionism to photorealism and often includes references to his cinematic work and to other artists.

Ostracized by the Hollywood film studios due to his reputation for being a "difficult" actor, Hopper eventually turned to photography in the 1960s with a camera bought for him by his first wife, Brooke Hayward. During this period he created the cover art for the Ike & Tina Turner single ''River Deep – Mountain High'' (released in 1966). ''Dennis Hopper: Photographs 1961-1967'' was published in February, 2011, by Taschen.

Hopper became a prolific photographer, and noted writer Terry Southern profiled Hopper in ''Better Homes and Gardens'' magazine as an up and coming photographer "to watch" in the mid 1960s.

He began working as a painter and a poet as well as a collector of art in the 1960s as well, particularly Pop Art. One of the first art works Hopper owned was an early print of Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans bought for $75. Hopper also once owned Andy Warhol's Mao which he shot one evening in a fit of paranoia, the 2 bullet holes possibly adding to the print's value. The print sold at Christie's, New York, for $302,500 in January 2011.

In March 2010, it was announced that Hopper was on the "short list" for Jeffrey Deitch's inaugural show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA).

In April 2010, Deitch confirmed that Hopper's work, curated by Julian Schnabel, will indeed be the focus of his debut at MOCA.

In May 2010 it was announced that Hopper will be the subject of an upcoming biography by American writer Tom Folsom, ''Hopper: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream''. The subtitle is a direct reference to the Hunter S. Thompson book ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas''.

On the Gorillaz album ''Demon Days'', Hopper narrates the song "Fire Coming out of the Monkey's Head."

Personal life

According to ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, he was "one of Hollywood's most notorious drug addicts" for 20 years. He spent much of the 1970s and early 1980s living as "an outcast" in a small town after the success of ''Easy Rider''. Hopper was also "notorious for his troubled relationships with women," including Michelle Phillips, who divorced him after less than two weeks of marriage. Hopper was married five times in total — he was in the process of divorcing Victoria Duffy, his wife of 14 years, at the time of his death — and was survived by:

Brooke Hayward (born 1937), daughter of Leland Hayward and Margaret Sullavan; married 1961 – divorced 1969, 1 child, daughter Marin Hopper (born on June 26, 1962)

Michelle Phillips (born 1944); married 31 October 1970 – divorced 8 November 1970

Daria Halprin (born 1948); married 1972 – divorced 1976, 1 child, daughter Ruthanna Hopper (born circa 1974)

Katherine LaNasa (born 1966); married June 17, 1989 – divorced April 1992, 1 child, son Henry Lee Hopper (born on September 11, 1990)

Victoria Duffy (born 1968); married April 13, 1996 – separated January 12, 2010, 1 child, daughter Galen Grier Hopper (born on March 26, 2003)

Hopper has two granddaughters, Violet Goldstone and Ella Brill.

In 1999, actor Rip Torn filed a defamation lawsuit against Hopper over a story Hopper told on ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno''. Hopper claimed that Torn pulled a knife on him during pre-production of the film ''Easy Rider''. According to Hopper, Torn was originally cast in the film but was replaced with Jack Nicholson after the incident. According to Torn's suit, it was actually Hopper who pulled the knife on him. A judge ruled in Torn's favor and Hopper was ordered to pay $475,000 in damages. Hopper then appealed but the judge again ruled in Torn's favor and Hopper was required to pay another US$475,000 in punitive damages.

According to Newsmeat, Hopper donated $2,000 to the Republican National Committee in 2004 and an equal amount in 2005.

Hopper has been honored with the rank of commander of France's National Order of Arts and Letters, at a ceremony in Paris.

Hopper supported Barack Obama in the 2008 US Presidential election. Hopper confirmed this in an election day appearance on the ABC daytime show ''The View''. He said his reason for not voting Republican was the selection of Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential candidate.

Divorce from Victoria Duffy

On January 14, 2010, he filed for divorce from his fifth wife, Victoria Duffy. After citing her "outrageous conduct" and stating Duffy was "insane", "inhuman" and "volatile", Hopper was granted a restraining order against her on February 11, 2010, and as a result, she was forbidden to come within of him or contact him. On March 9, 2010, Duffy refused to move out of the Hopper home, despite the court's order that she do so by March 15.

On March 23, 2010, Hopper filed papers in court alleging Duffy had absconded with $1.5 million of his art, refused his requests to return it, and then had "left town". In March 2010, a judge ruled that Duffy must stay at least away from Hopper.

On April 5, 2010, a court ruled that Duffy could continue living on Hopper's property, and that he must pay $12,000 per month spousal and child support for their daughter Galen. Hopper did not attend the hearing. On May 12, 2010, a hearing was held before Judge Amy Pellman in downtown Los Angeles Superior Court. Though Hopper died two weeks later, Duffy insisted at the hearing that he was well enough to be deposed. The hearing also addressed who to designate on Hopper's life insurance policy; it currently lists his wife as a beneficiary. A very ill Hopper did not appear in court though his estranged wife did – case BD518046. Despite Duffy's bid to be named the sole designee of Hopper's million-dollar life insurance policy, the judge ruled against her and limited her claim to one-quarter of the policy. The remaining $750,000 was designated to go to his estate.

On November 14, 2010, it was revealed that, despite Duffy's earlier assertion in her court papers of February 2010 that Hopper was mentally incompetent, and that his children had rewritten his estate plan in order to leave Duffy and her daughter, Hopper's youngest child Galen, destitute, that in fact Galen would be receiving the proceeds of 40% of his estate.

Illness and death

On September 30, 2009, news media reported that Hopper had been rushed to a New York hospital for an unspecified condition. Hopper, 73, was reportedly brought into an unidentified Manhattan hospital by an ambulance on September 28 wearing an oxygen mask and “with numerous tubes visible.” On October 2, he was discharged, after receiving treatment for dehydration.

On October 29, Hopper's manager reported that Hopper had been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. In January 2010, it was reported that Hopper's cancer had metastasized to his bones.

On March 18, 2010, it was announced that Hopper would be honored with the 2,403rd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in front of Grauman's Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. Surrounded by friends including Jack Nicholson, Viggo Mortensen, David Lynch, Michael Madsen, family and fans, he attended its addition to the sidewalk on March 26, 2010.

As of March 23, 2010, Hopper reportedly weighed only and was unable to carry on long conversations. According to papers filed in his divorce court case, Hopper was terminally ill and was unable to undergo chemotherapy to treat his prostate cancer. His lawyer reported on March 25 that he was dying from cancer.

Hopper died at his home in the coastal Los Angeles district of Venice on the morning of May 29, 2010 at the age of 74, due to complications from prostate cancer.

Hopper's funeral took place on June 3, 2010 at San Francisco de Asis Mission Church in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. He was buried in Jesus Nazareno Cemetery, Ranchos de Taos.

The film ''Alpha and Omega'', which was his last movie role, was dedicated in his memory.

Filmography

Awards

;Academy Awards

(1970) Nominated – Best Original Screenplay / ''Easy Rider'' (shared with Peter Fonda and Terry Southern)

(1987) Nominated – Best Supporting Actor / ''Hoosiers''

;Golden Globe Awards

(1987) Nominated – Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture / ''Hoosiers''

(1987) Nominated – Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture / ''Blue Velvet''

;Primetime Emmy Awards

(1991) Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie / ''Paris Trout''

;Cannes Film Festival Awards

(1969) Won – Best First Work Award / ''Easy Rider''

(1969) Nominated – Palme d'Or / ''Easy Rider''

(1980) Nominated – Palme d'Or / ''Out of the Blue''

;Directors Guild of America Award

(1970) Nominated - Outstanding Directing - Feature Film / ''Easy Rider''

;Independent Spirit Awards

(1987) Nominated - Best Male Lead / ''Blue Velvet''

;Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

(1987) Won - Best Supporting Actor / ''Blue Velvet''

;Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

(1987) Won - Best Supporting Actor / ''Blue Velvet'' & ''Hoosiers''

;MTV Movie Awards

(1995) Won - Best Villain / ''Speed''

;National Society of Film Critics Awards

(1970) Won - Special Award ("For the director, co-writer and co-star") / ''Easy Rider''

(1987) Won - Best Supporting Actor / ''Blue Velvet''

;Writers Guild of America Award

(1970) Nominated - Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen / ''Easy Rider'' (shared with Peter Fonda and Terry Southern)

References

Further reading

:Books

Biskind, Peter. ''Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood'', Simon and Schuster (1999)

Hoberman, J. ''Dennis Hopper: From Method to Madness'', Walker Art Center (1988)

Hopper, Dennis. ''Dennis Hopper: Out of the Sixties'', Twelvetrees Press (1986)

Krull, Craig. “Photographing the LA Art Scene: 1955-1975”, Craig Krull Gallery (1996)

Rodriguez, Elean. ''Dennis Hopper: A Madness to his Method'', St. Martin's Press (1988)

''Dennis Hopper: Photographs 1961-1967'', Taschen (2011)

:Articles by Hopper

"Dennis Hopper, Riding High," ''Playboy'' (Chicago), Dec. 1969

Interview with G. O'Brien and M. Netter, in ''Inter/View'' (New York), Feb. 1972

Interview in ''Cahiers du Cinema (Paris), July–August 1980

"How Far to the Last Movie?," ''Monthly Film Bulleting (London) Oct. 1982

"Citizen Hopper," interview with C. Hodenfield, in ''Film Comment'' (New York) Nov/Dec. 1986

Interview with B. Kelly, in ''American Film'' (Los Angeles) March 1988

Interview with David Denicolo, in ''Interview'' (New York), Feb. 1990

"Sean Penn," interview with Julian Schnabel and Dennis Hopper, ''Interview'' (New York) Sept. 1991

"Gary Oldman," in ''Interview'' (New York), Jan. 1992

:Articles about Hopper

Macklin, F. A., "Easy Rider: The Initiation of Dennis Hopper," in ''Film Heritage'' (Dayton, Ohio), Fall 1969

Burke, Tom, "Dennis Hopper Saves the Movies," in ''Esquire (New York), Dec. 1970

Burns, Dan E., "Dennis Hopper's ''The Last Movie'': Beginning of the End,", in ''Literature/Film Quarterly, 1979

Algar, N., "Hopper at Birmingham," in ''Sight and Sound'' (London), Summer 1982

Herring, H. D., "Out of the Dream and into the Nightmare: Dennis Hopper's Apocalyptic Vision of America," in ''Journal of Popular Film'' (Washington, D.C.), Winter 1983

Scharres, B., "From Out of the Blue: The Return of Dennis Hopper," in ''Journal of the University Film and Video Assoc. (Carbondale, IL), Spring 1983

''Current Biography'' 1987, New York, 1987

Martin, A., "Dennis Hopper: Out of the Blue and into the Black," in ''Cinema Papers (Melbourne), July 1987

Weber, Bruce, "A Wild Man is Mellowing, Albeit Not on Screen," in ''New York Times, Sept. 8, 1994

External links

Dennis Hopper Exhibition History

Dennis Hopper: Life & Times - slideshow by ''Life magazine''

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name	Timothy Carey
birth name	Timothy Agoglia Carey
birth date	March 11, 1929
birth place	Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
death date	May 11, 1994
death place	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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Timothy Agoglia Carey (born March 11, 1929, Brooklyn, New York – died May 11, 1994, Los Angeles, California) was an American film and television actor.

Carey wrote, produced, directed and starred in the 1962 feature ''The World's Greatest Sinner'' which was scored by Frank Zappa. Although it did not have wide commercial release, the film has achieved cult status through repeated screenings at the "midnight movies" in Los Angeles in the 1960s. This movie established Carey as an important figure in independent film.

As an actor, Carey appeared in the Stanley Kubrick films ''The Killing'' and ''Paths of Glory'', and in the John Cassavetes-directed films ''Minnie and Moskowitz'' and ''The Killing of a Chinese Bookie''.

He had roles in ''East of Eden'', ''The Wild One'', ''One-Eyed Jacks'' and ''Beach Blanket Bingo''. He played a minor role as the Angel of Death in the comedy film ''D.C. Cab'', and appeared in the Monkees vehicle ''Head''. His final appearance was in the 1986 movie ''Echo Park''. Carey also did a select amount of acting on TV from the 1950s through the 1980s.

Carey's image appears behind George Harrison on the cover of the Beatles album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Unfortunately, his cutout is obscured by Harrison. Outtake photos from the "Pepper" session show his full face from the movie "The Killing".

Timothy Carey died from a stroke in 1994, aged 65.

External links

Psychotronic Video Magazine's 1990 interview with Timothy Carey

''Film Comment'''s interview with Timothy Carey

''Cashiers du Cinemart'' profile

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