I am Frank. I really understand this role. So he got off the phone and he told Isabella and Kyle MacLachlan and Laura - he said, my God, I just got off the phone with Dennis Hopper, and he said he was ...

Dennis Hopper, the menacing, laser-eyed actor and filmmaker who forced Hollywood to acknowledge the hippie generation with his 1969 film "Easy Rider," yet eventually became a clean-and-sober ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. We're going to continue our series Classic Films and Movie Icons with interviews from our archive with Dennis Hopper and Isabella Rossellini, two stars of the ...

Hopper, who died in 2010, became famous for the 1969 hippie biker road trip movie, Easy Rider. "There was a lot of smoking grass on that picture. ... I didn’t do it. But I drank," he said in 1990.