Dennis Hopper Hated Peter Fonda so Much He Banned the Actor From His Funeral

Jan. 30 2024, Published 12:00 p.m. ET

Imagine hating somebody so much that you simply forbid them from attending your funeral. Well, that used to be how deep Dennis Hopper's hatred for his Easy Rider co-star Peter Fonda went.

Dennis, who gave up the ghost in 2010, sued Peter — however even settling that swimsuit did not settle the score for Dennis. Find out what went so unsuitable between the actors that Peter used to be even banned from entering the chapel at Dennis' memorial carrier.

So, why did Dennis Hopper hate Peter Fonda such a lot?

The decades-long feud between the Speed villain and Jane Fonda's brother began when they were making the iconic film Easy Rider in 1969. According to Dennis, he used to be in the long run cheated out of millions of bucks at the hands of Peter.

According to Express, Dennis sued Peter in 1992 over who penned the Academy Award nominated film. The lawsuit was reportedly settled out of court.

Then, in 1996, Dennis once more levied a suit over allegedly not receiving ok proceeds from the flick. That topic was once additionally settled, with the main points not being made public.

For his section, Peter denied having accomplished anything else mistaken in relation to the creation or rights for the film. He wrote about the scandal in his 1998 ebook entitled Don't Tell Dad.

“Dennis Hopper remains to be insisting that he on my own wrote the screenplay to Easy Rider, and has sued me for dishonest him out of ‘tens of millions and millions of greenbacks.' It blows my thoughts," the actor said in the book.

Despite his claims of innocence, Dennis never forgave Peter, who still said he supported all of his former co-star's work.

When the Cool Hand Luke alum passed away, Peter attempted to pay his respects to the star.

"The funeral carrier used to be in a chapel in Taos, New Mexico. I rented a private jet and flew in, but I used to be now not allowed in the chapel," Peter claimed.

He went on to live for another nine years, but passed away in 2019.

Dennis Hopper also had a feud with Rip Torn.

Easy Rider spawned more drama between Dennis and another potential co-star, Rip Torn.

The star was the first pick for the part that later went to Jack Nicholson.

As Dennis told Jay Leno during a visit to his show in the '90s, "Yeah, Rip and I had a little downside. Well, at dinner he pulled a knife on me."

"He thought I was cutting him out of the image — as he put it — prior to we have been simply writing. And he determined the script wasn't in reality proper," Dennis claimed.

According to Rip, it was Dennis who pulled the knife, and he later sued his would-be co-star for defamation.

Rip won that lawsuit to the tune of $475,000.

Apparently this incident further intensified Dennis' hatred for Peter. Dennis had hoped that Peter, who was also at the dinner, would "bail him out of that lawsuit," William Hayward, the associate producer of Easy Rider, told the The Wall Street Journal in 1996, adding that Dennis was "very frustrated and annoyed."

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