Report: Dennis Hopper Rushed to Hospital

Today 11:20 AM PDT by Josh Grossberg

Dennis Hopper's reportedly taken an uneasy ride to an emergency room.

The iconoclastic star of Easy Rider, Hoosiers and Blue Velvet was taken by ambulance this afternoon to an unidentified New York hospital, per Entertainment Tonight.

Eyewitnesses were quoted saying the 73-year-old Hopper was brought into the E.R. wearing an oxygen mask.

No word yet on the nature of the veteran actor's ailment or his current condition. Hopper's rep was unavailable for comment.

Hopper made a name for himself writing, starring and directing in 1969's counterculture classic Easy Rider, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

After a psychedelic-infused turn in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Hopper nabbed a second Oscar nod for Best Supporting Actor for 1987's Hoosiers. He's also known for playing a series of memorable villains in such films as Blue Velvet and Speed and on the first season of 24

Film at 11...

Stars in CRASH also, God Speed Dennis.

Not even going to try and guess what's wrong.... hope it's not serious tho...

Heart attack?

Loved him in Blue Velvet and Apocalypse Now.

he was awesome as King Bowser in the super mario bros movie 🙂

Good luck to him, hope he is OK

I thought he got stabbed & died in True Grit.

He got better.

Waterworld villian - kind of funny, actually!

In Blue Velvet he had some great lines.. the movie itself freaked me out a couple times tho... only Dennis could have played Frank...

I always thought he would've been great in "The Shining".

".....Mommy...."

One of the creepiest scenes in a movie ever.

Interestingly, he was wearing an oxygen mask then as well....

^ actually I think he was doing Nitrous...

Yeah...ever do too much?

no... never too much.. didn't use a mask tho.. had a balloon..

I don't like to spread rumors or anything but it's like catnip for girls...the only thing that I've heard about it is a constant "wah-wah" effect on the hearing...especially music...especially a Zappa or Gilmore guitar solo.

So I heard.

just tried once for an hour or so... different but I wasn't really into it... had a friend that carried a bottle in his trunk tho.. I guess he liked it...