How much is Dennis Hopper worth?
| Net Worth: | $45 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional Actor |
| Date of Birth: | May 17, 1936 |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 1.75 m |
About Dennis Hopper
American actor, director, and photographer named Dennis Lee Hopper. He studied at the Actors Studio, made his debut on television in 1954, and shortly after that, he was cast in Giant (1956). He gained fame on television during the course of the following 10 years, and by the end of the 1960s, he had acted in a number of movies, including Cool Hand Luke (1967) and Hang ‘Em High (1968). In the 1960s, Hopper also started a successful and well-regarded photography career.
At Helix High School, where he participated in the theatre club, speech, and choir, Hopper was selected as the student most likely to succeed. He became interested in performing there and went on to study at the Actors Studio in New York City and the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego (he studied with Lee Strasberg for five years). Actor Vincent Price and Hopper became friends, and Price’s enthusiasm for art encouraged Hopper’s interest in it. Shakespearean plays held a particular place in his heart.
Easy Rider (1969), which Hopper and co-star Peter Fonda scripted with Terry Southern, was his debut as a director. The movie garnered Hopper nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the “Best First Work” prize at the Cannes Film Festival (shared with Fonda and Southern).
He worked on numerous independent and foreign projects after his second film as a director, The Last Movie (1971), was a critical and financial failure. He was frequently typecast as mentally ill outsiders in movies like Mad Dog Morgan (1976) and The American Friend (1977), among others, until he discovered new fame for his role as an American photojournalist in Apocalypse Now (1979).
Out of the Blue, his third film as a director, won him another Cannes prize. He also acted in Rumble Fish, The Osterman Weekend, and My Science Project, all of which were released in 1983. He experienced a professional revival in 1986 with to his critically lauded performances in Blue Velvet and Hoosiers, the latter of which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
In his later career, Hopper played a pivotal part in the brief television series Crash (2008–2009), which was based on the same-named motion picture. Alpha and Omega (2010), The Last Film Festival (2016), and the long-delayed The Other Side of the Wind (2018), which was shot in the early 1970s, were three posthumously released movies in which he made an appearance.
Hopper divorced Victoria Duffy, his sixth wife, on January 14, 2010.
Hopper received a restraining order against her in 2010, for her “outrageous conduct” and because he deemed her to be “crazy,” “inhuman,” and “volatile.” In March, 2010, he filed court documents in which he claimed Duffy had stolen US$1.5 million worth of his artwork, refused to give it back, and then “left town.”
A judge issued a decision allowing Duffy to stay on Hopper’s property and requiring him to provide their daughter Galen with spousal and child support of $12,000 per month. Despite Duffy’s request to be the only beneficiary of Hopper’s $1,000,000 life insurance policy, the judge rejected her request and set the amount of her claim at only 25% of the insurance. His estate was to receive the remaining US$750,000.
In 2010, it was revealed that Galen would receive the proceeds of 40% of Hopper’s estate, contrary to Duffy’s earlier claim in her court documents from February 2010 that Hopper was mentally incompetent and that his children had changed his estate plan to leave Duffy and her daughter, Hopper’s youngest child Galen, penniless.
