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Dennis Hopper (May 17, 1936May 29, 2010; age 74) played Victor Drazen during Season 1 of 24.

Biography

Hopper was born on 1936 in Kansas. He showed interest in acting from an early age and started appearing on several shows when he was a teenager. His first television appearance was on Medic, followed by appearances on The Public Defender and Letter to Loretta. After this, he had a role in the film Rebel Without a Cause with James Dean. Hopper and Dean became good friends, and they starred together again on Dean's last film, Giant. In later years, he also directed numerous films including 1969's Easy Rider, for which he won the First Film Award at the Cannes film festival.

Other recent films in which Hopper has starred are Speed, Flashback (with Kiefer Sutherland), The Spreading Ground (with Leslie Hope), Hell Ride (with Eric Balfour and Francesco Quinn), Basquiat (with Vincent Laresca), True Romance, Nails (with John Hawkes), Bad City Blues (with Michael Massee), Boiling Point (with Tobin Bell), The Prophet's Game and Firestarter 2: Rekindled (with Skye McCole Bartusiak), The Heart of Justice (with Harris Yulin), Knockaround Guys, Hoboken Hollow (with C. Thomas Howell and Rudolf Martin), and Search and Destroy (with Vincent Angell). He often co-starred with "24" alum Michael Madsen.

Starting in 2005, Hopper starred in a series called E-Ring as Col. Eli McNulty. Fellow 24 performers Anil Kumar, Maurice Compte, Josh Wingate and Sarah Clarke co-starred. He also had one of the lead roles in the series Flatland alongside Phillip Rhys and 2008's Crash.

On May 29, 2010, Hopper passed away after suffering from prostate cancer. He was 74 years old.

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