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
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
- Fishtail as Narrator
- Walking the Mile as Self (archive footage)
- Carlos Spills the Beans as Rhino
2013
- The Last Stand as Mr. Parson
- Getting On as Leonard Butler
- Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction as Self
- 9 Full Moons as Dimitri
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
- On Holiday as Josh the Roommate's Dad
- Athena as Bill
2009
- Alice as Caterpillar
- The Open Road as Amon
2007
- Chuck as Harry
- Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project as Self
- The Good Life as Gus
- Being Michael Madsen as Self
- Lynch 2 as Self
2006
- Big Love as Roman Grant
- Alpha Dog as Cosmo Gadabeeti
- Alien Autopsy as Harvey
- Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride as Self
- Inland Empire as Freddie Howard
- You, Me and Dupree as Curly (uncredited)
- Harry Zen Stanton as Himself
2005
- The Wendell Baker Story as Skip Summers
2004
- Dig! as Self
- Chrystal as Pa Da
- The Big Bounce as Bob Rogers, Sr.
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self
2003
- Two and a Half Men as Himself
- Ginostra as Del Piero
- Anger Management as Blind Man (uncredited)
- The Beast Within: Making Alien as Self
- Hunter Goes to Hollywood as Himself
- Bukowski: Born Into This as Self
2002
- Sonny as Henry
- The Short Films of David Lynch as Self
2001
- The Pledge as Floyd Cage
- The Animal as Hunter (uncredited)
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
- The Mighty as Grim
- A Civil Action as Land Watcher (uncredited)
1997
- Fire Down Below as Cotton Harry
- Midnight Blue as Eric
- She's So Lovely as Tony 'Shorty' Russo
1996
- Down Periscope as Lt. Howard
- Playback as Ernie Fontenot
- Dead Man's Walk as Shadrach
- E! True Hollywood Story
1995
- Never Talk to Strangers as Max Cheski
- One Hundred and One Nights as Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
1994
- Blue Tiger as Smith
- Against the Wall as Hal
1993
- Warren Oates: Across the Border as Self
- Hotel Room as Moe Boca
1992
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me as Carl Rodd
- Man Trouble as Redmond Layls
- Hostages as Frank Reed
- Cruise Control
1991
- Payoff as Hook
1990
- Twin Peaks as Carl Rodd
- Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas' as Self
- Wild at Heart as Johnnie Farragut
- The Fourth War as Gen. Hackworth
- Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders as Self
1989
- Monster Maker as Chancey Bellow
- Dream a Little Dream as Ike Baker
- Twister as Cleveland
1988
- Mr. North as Henry Simmons
- Stars & Bars as Loomis Gage
- The Last Temptation of Christ as Paulus
- The Cowboy and the Frenchman as Slim
- The French as Seen by… as (Segment "The Cowboy and the Frenchman")
- Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night as Self - Audience Member
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
- The Bear as Coach Thomas
- Paris, Texas as Travis
- UFOria as Brother Bud Sanders
- Red Dawn as Mr. Eckert
- Repo Man as Bud
1983
- Christine as Rudolph Junkins
- I Want to Live as Emmett Perkins
1982
- Faerie Tale Theatre as Rip Van Winkle
- One from the Heart as Moe
- Young Doctors in Love as Dr. Oliver Ludwig
1981
- Escape from New York as Harold 'Brain' Helman
1980
- Private Benjamin as Sgt. Jim Ballard
- The Black Marble as Philo Skinner
- Death Watch as Vincent Ferriman
- The Oldest Living Graduate as Mike
1979
- Alien as Brett
- The Rose as Billy Ray
- Wise Blood as Asa Hawks
- Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers as C.W. Douglas
- Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand as Pokey Tindle
1978
- Straight Time as Jerry Schue
- Renaldo and Clara as Lafkezio
1976
- Laverne & Shirley
- The Missouri Breaks as Calvin
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- Rancho Deluxe as Curt
- Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins as Billy Winston
- 92 in the Shade as Carter
- The Fortune as Prisoner in Holding Cell (uncredited)
- The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond as President Warren G. Harding
- Farewell, My Lovely as Billy Rolfe
- Win, Place or Steal as Jack
- The Ransom of Red Chief as Sam
1974
- The Godfather Part II as F.B.I. Man #1
- Where the Lilies Bloom as Kiser Pease
- Cockfighter as Jack Burke
- Zandy's Bride as Songer
1973
- Dillinger as Homer Van Meter
- Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as Luke
1972
- Cry for Me, Billy as Luke Todd
1971
- Cisco Pike as Jesse Dupre
- Two-Lane Blacktop as Oklahoma Hitchhiker
1970
- The Intruders as Whit Dykstra (as Dean Stanton)
- Kelly's Heroes as Pvt. Willard
- 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
- A Time for Killing as Sgt. Dan Way
- Cool Hand Luke as Tramp
- 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
- How the West Was Won as Gant Henchman (uncredited)
- Hero's Island as Dixey Gates
- Stoney Burke
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
- Johnny Ringo as Frank Brogger
- Lock-Up
- Pork Chop Hill as BAR Soldier (uncredited)
- The Lawless Years
- A Dog's Best Friend as Roy Janney
- The Jayhawkers! as Deputy Smallwood
1958
- The Rifleman
- Bat Masterson as Jay Simms
- The Texan
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- The Proud Rebel as Jeb Burleigh
- Man with a Camera
- The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen as George Gilbert
1957
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Tomahawk Trail as Pvt. Miller
- Revolt at Fort Laramie as Rinty
- Suspicion as Bill
- The Walter Winchell File
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