LOS ANGELES - FAMED US actor Dennis Hopper, who starred in such cinematic classics as Easy Rider and Apocalypse Now, is dying of cancer, his lawyer said in court documents out on Thursday.
Attorney Joseph Mannis said that Hopper was too weak to be questioned by his wife's attorney in a bitter ongoing divorce settlement, according to court documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday and obtained by KTLA television on Thursday.
However Hopper, 73, will still attend a ceremony in his honour for a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The court filing said his physician David Agus found that Hopper weighs less than 100 pounds (45 kg) as he battles prostate cancer.
The star of 1969's iconic 'Easy Rider' had been undergoing treatment at the University of Southern California, and cancelled public appearances late last year when his condition was announced.
Hopper has appeared in several classic films during a career spanning more than half a century. A notable early role came in the James Dean hit Rebel Without a Cause in 1955, later appearing in the 1979's Vietnam war film Apocalypse Now and director David Lynch's cult mystery movie Blue Velvet (1986). -- AFP
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