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Born in Dodge City, Kansas, in 1936, Dennis Hopper was discovered as a teenager and signed by Warner Bros. His first role was in Rebel Without a Cause in 1955. Hopper left Tinseltown in 1958 to work as a photographer in New York, where he studied with method guru Lee Strasberg before, depending on who you believe, he wrote and directed all, most, some or none of Easy Rider. David Lynch rescued him from cult obscurity with Blue Velvet, in which he gave the world the willies as an oxygen mask-wearing, Tourette's Syndrome-suffering psycho. Hopper is a big collector of modern art.
