Dennis Hopper is seen in 1971, two years after the iconic hit movie ‘Easy Rider’ catapulted him to stardom. Dennis Hopper, son Henry Hopper and wife, Victoria Duffy-Hopper, arrive to the opening night ...

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.

In the year 2020, more than half a century after Edward Hopper died, social media has christened his paintings as the quintessence of our feelings in quarantine. The most popular example might be a ...

HOPPER: Well, I understood his sexual obsession, you know, and I - even though David wrote it as the stuff that he was sniffing as helium, I had always thought of it as some sort of drug, you know, ...

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 ...