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Actor Dennis Hopper died yesterday from complications of prostate cancer. He was 74-years-old. Dennis Hopper always looked like he had fun playing villains. That playful twinkle in his eye made those ...

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 ...

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.

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