Dennis Hopper: a life in pictures

American actor Dennis Hopper at the start of his lengthy movie career in 1955 Photograph: John Kobal Foundation/guardian.co.uk

Rebel Without A Cause, 1955, Dennis Hopper with Natalie Wood and James Dean Photograph: SNAP/guardian.co.uk

Dennis Hopper as Utah Kid and Clint Walker as Cheyenne in a scene from ABC's Cheyenne in 1956 Photograph: ABC Photo Archives/guardian.co.uk

Actor and director Dennis Hopper in a floral-patterned blazer in 1967 Photograph: Jack Robinson/guardian.co.uk

Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson in the film Easy Rider, 1977 Photograph: Cinetext/COLU/guardian.co.uk

Dennis Hopper, Feliciano, Peter Fonda, J. Jefferson and Jack Nicholson promoting Easy Rider at the Cannes Film Festival - 1969 Photograph: Everett Collection/guardian.co.uk

Dennis Hopper on The Last Movie, 1971 Photograph: SNAP/guardian.co.uk

Director-actor Dennis Hopper poses in Hollywood, California in 1971 Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Dennis Hopper In Mad Dog Morgan, 1976 Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Hopper in as Tom Ripley in The American Friend, 1977directed by Wim Wenders, Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now, 1979, directed by Francis Ford Coppola Photograph: Miramax/guardian.co.uk

Dennis Hopper at an an ICA screening of his film The Last Movie in London, 1982 Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Dennis Hopper playing Matt Dillon's father in Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish,1983 Photograph: SNAP/guardian.co.uk

Dennis Hopper and Isabella Rossellini in Blue Velvet, directed by David Lynch, 1986 Photograph: Cinetext/Warner Bros/guardian.co.uk

Director Dennis Hopper with cinematographer, Haskel Wexler, during the making of the film Colors in 1988 Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Dennis Hopper in the film True Romance, 1993, directed by Tony Scott Photograph: Cinetext/Warner Bros/guardian.co.uk

Dennis Hopper in the film Speed, 1994 Photograph: Cinetext/20 Century Fox/guardian.co.uk

Kevin Costner And Dennis Hopper in Waterworld, 1995 Photograph: Cinetext/Universal/guardian.co.uk

Stephen Dorff, Debi Mazar and Dennis Hopper in Space Truckers in 1996 Photograph: Cinetext/Goldcrest/guardian.co.uk

Dennis Hopper and Elizabeth Hurley in the film Samson And Delilah, 1996, directed By Nicolas Roeg Photograph: Cinetext/LUBE/guardian.co.uk

Dennis Hopper with David Bowie in Basquiat [ 1996] Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Dennis Hopper poses in front of one of his art-works ahead of a solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 2001 Photograph: Cor Mulder/guardian.co.uk

Dennis Hopper, actor and artist. In front of his art in Los Angeles, 2006 Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips and Dennis Hopper in Season 1 of 24, 2002 Photograph: 20 Century Fox/guardian.co.uk

Dennis Hopper at a photocall for Wim Wenders' film The Palermo Shooting at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 Photograph: Francois Guillot/guardian.co.uk

Dennis Hopper with his wife Victoria Duffy and his son Henry Hopper at the premiere of the film Blindness during the Cannes film festival, 2008 Photograph: Lionel Cironneau/guardian.co.uk

Actor Dennis Hopper in 2007 Photograph: guardian.co.uk