Birth Name: Dennis Lee Hopper
Date of Birth: May 17, 1936
Place of Birth: Dodge City, Kansas
Date of Death: May 29, 2010
Place of Death: Venice, California
Ethnicity: English (mostly), along with distant Scottish, Welsh, remote Italian
Dennis Hopper was an American actor. Most of his ancestry was English. He also had distant Scottish and Welsh roots, and remote Italian ancestry (Dennis was a descendant of Bartolomeo Taliaferro, an Italian, born c. 1562, in Venice, Italy, who moved to England and married an Englishwoman, Joane Lane).
Dennis’s paternal grandparents were James Clarence Hopper (the son of Francis Millard Hopper and Viola Victoria Lawson) and Elizabeth Bertie Bell (the daughter of Jay Mix Bell and Anna Louise Hopkins).
Dennis’s maternal grandparents were William Lonnie Davis (the son of John Crittenden Davis and Sophronia Ann Edwards) and Nellie Bly McInteer (the daughter of Porter Dethridge McInteer and Mattie Lee Masters).
Source: Genealogy of Dennis Hopper – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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