American Film History Signed Portrait of Actor and Director Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper

Manuscripts & Autographs

Hopper, Dennis. Signed profile portrait documents an influential figure in postwar American cinema whose work as an actor, writer, and director connected Hollywood filmmaking with the counterculture and the emergence of New Hollywood. Hopper directed, co-wrote, and appeared in Easy Rider (1969), whose commercial and critical reception helped establish a market for independently produced films concerned with rebellion, alienation, and social conflict. His later performances in Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet, and Hoosiers extended his association with volatile outsiders and morally unsettled characters. He also maintained substantial practices in photography and visual art alongside his film career.

Color photograph, undated. 8 by 10 inches. Half-length or head-and-shoulders profile portrait of Hopper, signed “Dennis Hopper.” The profile composition emphasizes Hopper’s recognizable screen presence and offers an autograph image associated with an actor whose performances frequently challenged conventional distinctions between protagonist, antagonist, and social outsider.

No defects are identified in the supplied description; near fine. Signed portrait connecting Hopper’s individual celebrity with the independent, countercultural, and psychologically confrontational traditions of late twentieth-century American film.

Item #7716

Price: $225.00