Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson

Born: July 18, 1937
Died: February 20, 2005
in Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become central figures of their stories. He is known also for his unrepentant lifelong use of alcohol, LSD, mescaline, and cocaine (among other substances); his love of firearms; his inveterate hatred of Richard Nixon; and his iconoclastic contempt for authoritarianism. While suffering a bout of health problems, he committed suicide in 2005, at the age of 67.

Movies for Hunter S. Thompson...

Johnny Depp: The Love of the Bizarre
Title: Johnny Depp: The Love of the Bizarre
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 8, 2023
Type: Movie
Johnny Depp started off as a punk band guitarist, turning to acting to help pay the bills. But his dabbling catapulted him to global fame and there was no going back. Throughout his career, Depp has had fame and infamy in equal measure. His roles are often that of the isolated anti-hero: Edward Scissorhands, Donnie Brasco, Raoul Duke in Las Vegas Parano, and Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean. His poetic outsider characters reveal a critical view of American society.
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Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb
Title: Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 23, 2020
Type: Movie
Hunter S. Thompson went to the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago as a journalist and returned home disgusted, yet motivated by what he’d just seen: violently suppressed protests, riots, corrupt politicians, and abusive cops. Back in Aspen, he finds more of the same. The local police and sheriff’s departments are targeting young people, harassing and charging them with absurd crimes and trying to push them out of town. Hunter decides he has to do something to change the police brutality that has become the norm.
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Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
Title: Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 9, 2020
Type: Movie
This rockumentary-style presidential portrait shows how Jimmy Carter reinvigorated a post-Watergate America—with the music of the counterculture, including the Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Jimmy Buffett.
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TVTV: Video Revolutionaries
Title: TVTV: Video Revolutionaries
Character: Self
Released: October 19, 2018
Type: Movie
A documentary about Top Value Television (TVTV), a band of merry video makers who, from 1972 to 1977, took the then brand-new portable video camera and went out to document the world.
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For No Good Reason
Title: For No Good Reason
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 12, 2012
Type: Movie
For No Good Reason a film about Ralph Steadman. Johnny Depp guides the visually stunning journey, smashing narrative conventions, moving seamlessly from interview to animation and in the finest Gonzo tradition questions of witness and authenticity are challenged. Steadman's art is for the first time animated, including illustrations from Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vagas. Featuring Richard E Grant, Terry Gilliam, Bruce Robinson and with music from Slash, The All American Rejects, Jason Mraz, Crystal Castles, Ed Hardcourt and Beth Orton. A touching and at times funny film about honesty, friendship and the ambition driving an artist. This is a true record of the demise of the 20th Century counterculture and hipster dream with Ralph Steadman the last of the Gonzo visionaries.
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Animals, Whores & Dialogue: Breakfast with Hunter Vol. 2
Title: Animals, Whores & Dialogue: Breakfast with Hunter Vol. 2
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Animals, Whores & Dialogue is more than just a sequel to Wayne Ewing's 2003 Breakfast with Hunter which Variety declared to be a movie "that captures the essence of his [Hunter Thompson's] jazzy pop journalism." This new feature length documentary goes even deeper into Gonzo journalism with intimate scenes of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson at work writing, editing, and recounting the creation of classics like Hells Angels and Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. Animals, whores & dialogue were metaphors and an element Hunter almost always wove into his writing, and the words were emblazoned on his typewriter.
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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Title: Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 18, 2008
Type: Movie
Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lance, " goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a steel-eyed conviction for writing wrongs. Focusing on the good doctor's heyday, 1965 to 1975, the film includes clips of never-before-seen (nor heard) home movies, audiotapes, and passages from unpublished manuscripts.
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Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Title: Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 19, 2007
Type: Movie
An account of the professional and personal life of renowned American photographer Annie Leibovitz, from her early artistic endeavors to her international success as a photojournalist, war reporter, and pop culture chronicler.
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Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
Title: Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 12, 2006
Type: Movie
A personal, intimate look at journalist Hunter S. Thompson with a special emphasis on his Hollywood relationships. It captures the legacy and "gonzo" spirit of one of this century's most notorious figures - a man whose life and work regularly intersected with some of the biggest names in the world of film, politics, journalism and sports.
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Fuck
Title: Fuck
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 10, 2006
Type: Movie
A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use.
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Come on Down: Searching for the American Dream
Title: Come on Down: Searching for the American Dream
Character: Self
Released: September 22, 2005
Type: Movie
The director paints a car with the Canadian flag and embarks on a road trip through America in search of the meaning of the so-called American Dream, ultimately searching out Hunter S. Thompson to hear his wisdom.
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Breakfast with Hunter
Title: Breakfast with Hunter
Character: Self
Released: June 21, 2003
Type: Movie
Breakfast with Hunter is a feature length documentary starring the infamous outlaw journalist Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. Edited by director Wayne Ewing from cinema verite film and digital video that he shot over many years on the road with Dr. Thompson, Breakfast with Hunter follows several story lines in the trials (literally) and triumphs of this cultural icon who created his own genre of writing - Gonzo journalism.
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Hunter Goes to Hollywood
Title: Hunter Goes to Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Hunter Thompson visits the set of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
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Tripping
Title: Tripping
Character: Self
Released: August 7, 1999
Type: Movie
A look at the life and influence of acclaimed sixties writer Ken Kesey. Features archive footage of his 1964 Magic Bus Tour with The Merry Pranksters.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Title: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Character: Other Duke in Matrix Flashback (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1998
Type: Movie
Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.
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Anthem
Title: Anthem
Character: Self
Released: July 25, 1997
Type: Movie
When twenty-six-year-olds Shainee Gabel and Kristin Hahn quit their Hollywood jobs, packed up a borrowed car and hit the road, it was with the deeply felt conviction that somewhere, shrouded in the din of talk shows and tabloid headlines, they'd discover the real America, alive and well in all of its regions and demographics.
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Title: E! True Hollywood Story
Released: August 21, 1996
Type: TV
E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and also well-known public figures. Among the topics covered on the program include salacious re-tellings of Hollywood secrets, show-biz scandals, celebrity murders and mysteries, porn-star biographies, and "where-are-they-now?" investigations of former child stars. It frequently features in-depth interviews, actual courtroom footage, and dramatic reenactments. When aired on the E! network, episodes will be updated to reflect the current life or status of the subject.
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Title: Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 13, 1993
Type: TV
Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. The second incarnation of NBC's Late Night franchise, O'Brien's debuted in 1993 after David Letterman, who hosted the first incarnation of Late Night, moved to CBS to host Late Show opposite The Tonight Show. In 2004, as part of a deal to secure a new contract, NBC announced that O'Brien would leave Late Night in 2009 to succeed Jay Leno as the host of The Tonight Show. Jimmy Fallon began hosting his version of Late Night on March 2, 2009.
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Hunter S. Thompson: The Crazy Never Die
Title: Hunter S. Thompson: The Crazy Never Die
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Hunter S. Thompson speaks out on: the Iran/Contra affair, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Politicians and Lawyers, John McFarlaine, Oliver North, and Richard Nixon.
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Title: American Masters
Character: Self
Released: June 23, 1986
Type: TV
American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and others who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States.
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Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood
Title: Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: November 2, 1978
Type: Movie
Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood, also known as Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision, is a documentary film produced by BBC in 1978 on the subject of Hunter S. Thompson, directed by Nigel Finch. The road trip/film pairs Thompson with Finch's fellow Briton the illustrator Ralph Steadman. The party travel to Hollywood via Death Valley and Barstow from Las Vegas, scene of the pair's 1971 collaboration. It contains interviews with Thompson and Steadman, as well as some short excerpts from some of his work.