Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper has died following a prostate cancer. He was 74. Hopper died on Sunday surrounded by friends and family at his home in Venice, California. He was last seen in public in March when he was honoured with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Known for such cult classics as Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now and Blue Velvet, Hopper embodied the image of the Hollywood icon. Hopper directed the 1969 counter-culture road movie Easy Rider, which he co-wrote with and starred alongside Peter Fonda. The pair was nominated for a best screenplay Academy Award.