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 ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

In 1983 Dennis Hopper went to Rice University in Houston, Texas ostensibly to screen his latest film Out Of The Blue. But little known to anyone, other than Hopper and a handful of his buddies, he had ...

The erratic and irascible Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper, 74, died on Saturday from complications relating to prostate cancer, Reuters reported. Hopper died at his Venice, California home surrounded by ...

In Hollywood, a town that provided a lot of competition for shenanigans, he was one of the foremost cokies, alkies, crazies. At a Houston-area art event in the early 1980s, he nearly blew himself up ...

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.

While Hopper was still using drugs, he played a drug-addled photojournalist in "Apocalypse Now." Dennis Hopper died in 2010 of prostate cancer at the age of 74. We're going to hear excerpts of two ...