Hopper was also a prolific and acclaimed photographer, a profession he began in the 1960s.

He also did voice work in Pixar's A Bug's Life ( 1998 ) voicing the main antagonist Hopper, the leader of a vicious gang of grasshoppers.

It is also affiliated with 4 Gödel Prize winners, 4 Knuth Prize recipients, 10 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award winners, and about 15 Grace Murray Hopper Award winners for their work in the foundations of computer science.

He also advised his students, “ It isn ’ t the subject that counts but what you feel about it ” and “ Forget about art and paint pictures of what interests you in life .” In this manner, Henri influenced Hopper, as well as notable future artists George Bellows and Rockwell Kent.

Although he is best known for his oil paintings, Hopper initially achieved recognition for his watercolours and he also produced some commercially successful etchings.

The effective use of light and shadow to create mood is also central to Hopper ’ s methods.

Bright sunlight ( as an emblem of insight or revelation ), and the shadows it casts, also play symbolically powerful roles in Hopper paintings such as Early Sunday Morning ( 1930 ), Summertime ( 1943 ), Seven A. M. ( 1948 ), and Sun in an Empty Room ( 1963 ).

Urban architecture and cityscapes were also major subjects for Hopper.

Hopper also painted Portrait of Orleans ( 1950 ), a “ portrait ” of the Cape Cod town from its main street.

Charles Burchfield, whom Hopper admired and whom he was compared to, said of Hopper, “ he achieves such a complete verity that you can read into his interpretations of houses and conceptions of New York life any human implications you wish .” He also attributed Hopper ’ s success to his “ bold individualism … In him we have regained that sturdy American independence which Thomas Eakins gave us, but which for a time was lost .” Hopper considered this a high compliment since he considered Eakins the greatest American painter.

Hopper also rejected comparisons with Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton stating “ I think the American Scene painters caricatured America.

German director Wim Wenders also cites Hopper influence.

Canadian rock group The Weakerthans released their album Reunion Tour in 2007 featuring two songs inspired by and named after Hopper paintings, " Sun in an Empty Room ", and " Night Windows ", and have also referenced him in songs such as " Hospital Vespers ".

It also holds works by a wide range of influential European and American artists including Georges Braque, Marcel Duchamp, Walker Evans, Helen Frankenthaler, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Hans Hofmann, Edward Hopper, Paul Klee, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Dorothea Lange, Fernand Léger, Roy Lichtenstein, Morris Louis, René Magritte, Aristide Maillol, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Kenneth Noland, Georgia O ' Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Auguste Rodin, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Frank Stella, and hundreds of others.

He has also helped launch the careers of actors including Jack Nicholson, William Shatner, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Talia Shire and Robert De Niro.

Paris Trout, starring Dennis Hopper, was also primarily filmed in the county.

It has a number of other distinctions as well, as the first ship named after a ( future ) First Lady and one of the few active vessels in the U. S. Navy named in honor of a woman ( see also USS Hopper ).

He was the recipient of the 1990 Mephisto Award for his doctoral dissertation and also the 1991 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for his contributions in architecture and algorithms for chess machines.

The first release was by Factory stalwarts The Durutti Column, the other main acts on the label were Hopper and Space Monkeys, and the label also gave a UK release to the first album by Stephin Merritt's side project The 6ths, Wasps ' Nests.

Courbet's influence can also be seen in the work of Edward Hopper, whose Bridge in Paris ( 1906 ) and Approaching a City ( 1946 ) have been described as Freudian echoes of Courbet's The Source of the Loue and The Origin of the World.

Young strikers Tom Hopper and Harry Panayiotou also made their debuts in 2012, Harry Panayiotou dramatically scoring the final goal in a 2-1 win against Leeds United in the last game of the 2011-2012 season.

During the next 10 years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films.

* Paul Drake: private investigator played by William Hopper in Perry Mason.

It tells the story of two bikers ( played by Fonda and Hopper ) who travel through the American Southwest and South.

In the Super Mario Bros. film, his character was split into 2, the main villain played by the late Dennis Hopper called " King Koopa " who usurped the throne of the parallel-universe city of Dinohattan ( the film's version of the Mushroom Kingdom ) from the rightful " King Bowser " ( played by Lance Henriksen ) who he devolved into fungus for most of the film.

The film version of Bowser was met with significant criticism, even being mentioned by the actor who portrays him, Dennis Hopper, as the worst role he has ever played on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien.

The song " Misery Loves Company " was based on the Stephen King novel Misery, while " Now It's Dark " was inspired by the David Lynch film Blue Velvet, specifically the behavior of the sexually depraved, self-asphyxiating, murderous sociopath Frank Booth, as played by Dennis Hopper.

Dennis Hopper played the garrulous " Billy ".

He has played on and / or produced records by Aimee Mann, Edwyn Collins, Neneh Cherry, Tim Booth ( of James ), Duffy, Eddi Reader, Hopper, Roy Orbison, Bert Jansch, The Libertines, Heather Nova, Mark Owen, The Veils, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, The Cribs, Pretenders, The On-Off's, 1990s, The Mescalitas, Cut Off Your Hands, Cajun Dance Party, The View, Arkitekt, Sons and Daughters, Black Kids, Tricky, Sharleen Spiteri, Nerina Pallot and Natalie McCool.

Outside the U. K., however, the opera continued to be played regularly in Australasia by the J. C. Williamson Opera Company, and it was revived on Broadway in 1915 with DeWolf Hopper in the title role.

* Kansas, the main character played by Dennis Hopper in his 1971 film The Last Movie

Allen, Wyatt and future bassist Hugh Hopper had first played together in the Daevid Allen Trio in 1963, occasionally accompanied by Ratledge.

Robert Wyatt provided his eerie Wyattron in the poignant ' Cold Shoulder ', Phil Manzanera contributed to the brooding ' Brainstorm ', Hugh Hopper from Soft Machine played bass on the title track and Bridget St. John, a British Folk singer beloved of John Peel, duetted with Ayers on ' Baby Come Home ', the first time they had sung together since 1970 on Shooting at the Moon.

Fictional columnist J. J. Hunsecker, played by Burt Lancaster in the film Sweet Smell of Success, is said to have been inspired at least in part by Hedda Hopper.

Owing to the Turk's popularity and mystery, its construction inspired a number of inventions and imitations, including Ajeeb, or " The Egyptian ", an American imitation built by Charles Hopper that President Grover Cleveland played in 1885, and Mephisto, the self-described " most famous " machine, of which little is known.

Southern had originally written the character of the small-town lawyer ( played by Jack Nicholson ) with his friend Rip Torn in mind, but Torn dropped out of the project after an altercation with Hopper in a New York restaurant, in which the two actors almost came to blows.

In 1979, he played Doc Hopper, the main villain in The Muppet Movie.

He also played in a couple of cooperative bands alongside former Soft Machine saxophonist Elton Dean: Hopper / Dean / Tippett / Gallivan ( with pianist Keith Tippett and drummer Joe Gallivan ) and Soft Heap ( with keyboard-player Alan Gowen and drummer Pip Pyle ).

The Soviets are also holding two elderly American tourists named Jonathan and Martha Hopper captive, convinced they are secretly CIA spies, and they are constantly tortured by Commissar Alex Solzhenitsyn (" no relation ", played by Alexei Sayle ).

It centers on Cebe, a rebellious young girl, played by Linda Manz — interested only in Elvis Presley and punk rock music — as well as her ex-convict father Don Barnes ( Dennis Hopper ), and her high-strung mother Kathy ( Sharon Farrell ).

* Dennis Hopper played the title character in " The Emmett Lawton Story ," March 1963.

His unusual personality was part of the inspiration for the character of the journalist played by Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now.

Rhys, who costarred with Dennis Hopper, played the role of Quentin Mitchell ,' a reformed mob lawyer.

In the film, a murderous and morally bankrupt psychopath named Frank Booth ( played by Dennis Hopper ) is obsessed with the song and demands it be played over and over, calling it " Candy Colored Clown ".