Harry Dean Stanton
Born: 1926-07-14 in West Irvine, Kentucky, USA
Died: 2017-09-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926 – September 15, 2017) was an American actor. In a career that spanned more than six decades, Stanton played supporting roles in films including Cool Hand Luke (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Dillinger (1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), Alien (1979), Escape from New York (1981), Christine (1983), Repo Man (1984), One Magic Christmas (1985), Pretty in Pink (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Wild at Heart (1990), The Straight Story (1999), The Green Mile (1999), The Man Who Cried (2000), Alpha Dog (2006), and Inland Empire (2006). He had rare lead roles in Paris, Texas (1984) and in Lucky (2017).
Filmography
2025
- Sinatra! Eternity as Sherif Lloyd
2022
2020
- Wim Wenders, Desperado as Self (archive footage)
- Frank and Ava as Sheriff Lloyd
2019
- Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Lucky as Lucky
- Sick of it All as Harry The News Reporter
2014
- Walking the Mile as Self (archive footage)
- Fishtail as Narrator
- Carlos Spills the Beans as Rhino
2013
- Getting On as Leonard Butler
- The Last Stand as Mr. Parson
- 9 Full Moons as Dimitri
- Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction as Self
2012
- The Avengers as Security Guard
- Seven Psychopaths as Man in Hat
- Char·ac·ter as Self
2011
- Rango as Balthazar (voice)
- This Must Be the Place as Robert Plath
- Mongo Wrestling Alliance
- Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
2010
- Athena as Bill
- On Holiday as Josh the Roommate's Dad
2009
- Alice as Caterpillar
- The Open Road as Amon
2007
- Chuck as Harry
- Being Michael Madsen as Self
- Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project as Self
- The Good Life as Gus
- Lynch 2 as Self
2006
- Big Love as Roman Grant
- Inland Empire as Freddie Howard
- Alpha Dog as Cosmo Gadabeeti
- You, Me and Dupree as Curly (uncredited)
- Alien Autopsy as Harvey
- Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride as Self
- Harry Zen Stanton as Himself
2005
- The Wendell Baker Story as Skip Summers
2004
- The Big Bounce as Bob Rogers, Sr.
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self
- Chrystal as Pa Da
- Dig! as Self
2003
- Two and a Half Men as Harry Dean Stanton
- Anger Management as Blind Man (uncredited)
- Ginostra as Del Piero
- Bukowski: Born Into This as Self
- The Beast Within: Making Alien as Self
- Return to 'Escape from New York' as Himself
- Hunter Goes to Hollywood as Himself
2002
- Sonny as Henry
- The Short Films of David Lynch as Self
2001
- The Animal as Hunter (uncredited)
- The Pledge as Floyd Cage
2000
- The Man Who Cried as Felix Perlman
- Sand as Leo
1999
- The Green Mile as Toot-Toot
- The Straight Story as Lyle
- Stephen King: Shining in the Dark as Self
- Ballad of the Nightingale as Jean-Paul
1998
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as Judge
- A Civil Action as Land Watcher (uncredited)
- The Mighty as Grim
1997
- Fire Down Below as Cotton Harry
- She's So Lovely as Tony 'Shorty' Russo
- Midnight Blue as Eric
1996
- Down Periscope as Lt. Howard
- Dead Man's Walk as Shadrach
- E! True Hollywood Story
- Playback as Ernie Fontenot
1995
- One Hundred and One Nights as Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
- Never Talk to Strangers as Max Cheski
1994
- Against the Wall as Hal
- Blue Tiger as Smith
1993
- Hotel Room as Moe Boca
- Warren Oates: Across the Border as Self
1992
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me as Carl Rodd
- Hostages as Frank Reed
- Man Trouble as Redmond Layls
- Cruise Control
1991
- Payoff as Hook
1990
- Twin Peaks as Carl Rodd
- Wild at Heart as Johnnie Farragut
- The Fourth War as Gen. Hackworth
- Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders as Self
- Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas' as Self
1989
- The Jim Henson Hour as Chancey Bellow
- Twister as Cleveland
- Dream a Little Dream as Ike Baker
- Monster Maker as Chancey Bellow
1988
- The Last Temptation of Christ as Paulus
- Mr. North as Henry Simmons
- Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night as Self - Audience Member
- Stars & Bars as Loomis Gage
- The French as Seen by… as (Segment "The Cowboy and the Frenchman")
- The Cowboy and the Frenchman as Slim
1987
- Slam Dance as Det. Benjamin Smiley
- Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle as Rip Van Winkle
1986
- Pretty in Pink as Jack Walsh
1985
- The Care Bears Movie as Brave Heart Lion (singing voice)
- One Magic Christmas as Gideon
- Fool for Love as Old Man
1984
- Paris, Texas as Travis
- Red Dawn as Mr. Eckert
- Repo Man as Bud
- UFOria as Brother Bud Sanders
- The Bear as Coach Thomas
1983
- Christine as Rudolph Junkins
- I Want to Live as Emmett Perkins
1982
- Faerie Tale Theatre as Rip Van Winkle
- Young Doctors in Love as Dr. Oliver Ludwig
- One from the Heart as Moe
1981
- Escape from New York as Harold 'Brain' Helman
1980
- Private Benjamin as Sgt. Jim Ballard
- Death Watch as Vincent Ferriman
- The Black Marble as Philo Skinner
- The Oldest Living Graduate as Mike
1979
- Alien as Brett
- The Rose as Billy Ray
- Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers as C.W. Douglas
- Wise Blood as Asa Hawks
- Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand as Pokey Tindle
1978
- Straight Time as Jerry Schue
- Renaldo and Clara as Lafkezio
1976
- Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman as Jake Walters
- Laverne & Shirley
- The Missouri Breaks as Calvin
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- Farewell, My Lovely as Billy Rolfe
- The Fortune as Prisoner in Holding Cell (uncredited)
- Rancho Deluxe as Curt
- 92 in the Shade as Carter
- Win, Place or Steal as Jack
- Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins as Billy Winston
- The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond as President Warren G. Harding
- The Ransom of Red Chief as Sam
1974
- The Godfather Part II as F.B.I. Man #1
- Cockfighter as Jack Burke
- Where the Lilies Bloom as Kiser Pease
- Zandy's Bride as Songer
1973
- Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as Luke
- Dillinger as Homer Van Meter
1972
- Cry for Me, Billy as Luke Todd
1971
- Cisco Pike as Jesse Dupre
- Two-Lane Blacktop as Oklahoma Hitchhiker
1970
- Kelly's Heroes as Pvt. Willard
- The Intruders as Whit Dykstra (as Dean Stanton)
- Rebel Rousers as Randolph Halverson
1969
- Lanton Mills as Lanton
1968
- Adam-12 as Harry Fletcher
- The Name of the Game as Joe Joe
- Day of the Evil Gun as Sergeant Parker
- The Mini-Skirt Mob as Spook
1967
- Mannix
- The High Chaparral as Johnny Faro
- The Guns of Will Sonnett
- Cimarron Strip as Luther Happ
- Cool Hand Luke as Tramp
- A Time for Killing as Sgt. Dan Way
- The Hostage as Eddie (as Dean Stanton)
1966
- Ride in the Whirlwind as Blind Dick
- The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones as Jelly
1965
- The Big Valley as Swain
1964
- Daniel Boone as Jeb Girty
1963
- The Fugitive as Randy
- Petticoat Junction
- The Man from the Diners' Club as Beatnik (uncredited)
1962
- Combat! as Pvt. Beecham
- Stoney Burke
- How the West Was Won as Gant Henchman
- Hero's Island as Dixey Gates
1961
- Cain's Hundred as Hood
- Gunslinger as Stacey
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as Proprietor
- Checkmate as The Singer
- The Roaring 20's
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Slave Catcher
- Escape to Sonoita as Lemon
1959
- Bonanza as Billy
- Rawhide as Jess Hobson
- Laramie
- Lock-Up
- Johnny Ringo as Frank Brogger
- The Lawless Years
- Pork Chop Hill as BAR Soldier (uncredited)
- The Jayhawkers! as Deputy Smallwood
- A Dog's Best Friend as Roy Janney
1958
- The Rifleman
- The Texan
- Bat Masterson as Jay Simms
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen as George Gilbert
- Man with a Camera
- The Proud Rebel as Jeb Burleigh
1957
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Suspicion as Bill
- The Walter Winchell File
- Tomahawk Trail as Pvt. Miller
- Revolt at Fort Laramie as Rinty
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Robert MacPherson
- The Wrong Man as Department of Corrections Employee (uncredited)
1955
- Gunsmoke as Alvy
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Lemon
- Playwrights '56