How about you? GROSS: That's Dennis Hopper in the film "Blue Velvet," which was directed by David Lynch, who described Hopper as sort of the perfect American dangerous hero. "Blue Velvet" was one of ...

Before Dennis Hopper was Frank, the PBR-swilling heavy in Blue Velvet, even before he embarked on Easy Rider, a project that defined an entire generation, he was a prolific photographer. In fact, he ...

Like everyone else, I first met Dennis Hopper through his work. He was one of the world’s all-time cool guys, and I think by the time he starred in those groundbreaking films of the ’60s, like Easy ...

David Lynch’s Blue Velvet comes to Blu-ray tomorrow with over 50 minutes of lost footage that will make its public debut in celebration of the film’s 25th anniversary. Blue Velvet earned Lynch an ...

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.

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 ...