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Easy Rider is a 1969 American road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper.Fonda and Hopper play two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South, carrying the proceeds from a cocaine deal.
Robert Hudson Walker Jr. (April 15, 1940 – December 5, 2019) was an American actor who appeared in films including Easy Rider (1969) and was a familiar presence on television in the 1960s and early 1970s. He became less active in later decades.
The character's name was a pun on the movie Easy Rider. Fargo North, Decoder ( Skip Hinnant ): an Inspector Clouseau -type detective who decoded scrambled word messages and phrases for clients. His name was a pun based on Fargo, North Dakota .
He also took part in Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage (1999), a documentary about the making of Easy Rider, [9] and the 2003 documentary Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood. Askew sang Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Jimmy Reed songs at The Gaslight Cafe.
Following these roles, he had turns as a character actor in numerous subsequent films. The part of George Hanson in Easy Rider was written for Torn by Terry Southern, but according to Southern's biographer Lee Hill, Torn withdrew from the project after co-director Dennis Hopper and he got into a bitter argument in a New York restaurant.
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In addition to his bit part as a hippie in Easy Rider, he also assisted in building the motorcycles featured in the film. [4] Haggerty in The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. His experience with animals also brought him work as an animal trainer and handler in films produced by Walt Disney Studios.
Easy rider (slang), an American slang expression; EasyRider, a smartcard used for transportation in England; Easyriders, a motorcycle magazine "Easy Rider" , a television episode; Easy Rider: The Ride Back, 2012 purported sequel film.