Easy Rider star passes away
Dennis Hopper loses his battle with cancer after a long career on the screenHollywood wild man Dennis Hopper, whose unpredictable career included an improbable hit with the 1969 American motorcycle movie Easy Rider, has passed away at the aged of 74.
Hopper's manager announced in October 2009 that the two-time Academy Award nominee had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, and he was honoured with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame just two months ago. He married five times, with his last divorce filed in January.
Hopper starred in the memorable Easy Rider alongside Peter Fonda, and was also the director (Fonda was the producer). It told the story of two drug-dealing bike riders travelling across the American south-west.
During their journey the pair befriended a wild young lawyer (Jack Nicholson), but were then murdered before they returned home.
"Easy Rider was never a motorcycle movie to me," Hopper said in 2009. "A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country."
Easy Rider went onto gross $47m internationally, and has since been listed on the American Film Institute's ranking of the top 100 American films.
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