Harry Dean Stanton
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Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926 – September 15, 2017) was an American actor, musician, and singer.
In a career that spanned more than six decades, Stanton played supporting roles in the films 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), Pretty in Pink (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Wild at Heart (1990), The Straight Story (1999), The Green Mile (1999), Alpha Dog (2006) and Inland Empire (2006). He was given rare lead roles in Wim Wenders' classic Paris, Texas (1984) and Lucky (2017), his last film.
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Filmography
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Film
Title | Year | Role | Notes |
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The Wrong Man | 1956 | Department of Corrections Employee | Uncredited |
Tomahawk Trail | 1957 | Private Miller | Credited as Dean Stanton |
Revolt at Fort Laramie | 1957 | Rinty | Uncredited |
The Proud Rebel | 1958 | Jeb Burleigh | Credited as Dean Stanton |
Voice in the Mirror | 1958 | Hysterical Patient in Psychiatric Ward | Uncredited |
Pork Chop Hill | 1959 | U.S. Soldier with BAR | Uncredited |
The Jayhawkers! | 1959 | Deputy Smallwood | Uncredited |
A Dog's Best Friend | 1959 | Roy Janney | Credited as Dean Stanton |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | 1960 | Slave Catcher | Credited as Dean Stanton |
How the West Was Won | 1962 | Gant Henchman | Uncredited |
Hero's Island | 1962 | Dixey Gates | Credited as Dean Stanton |
The Man from the Diners' Club | 1963 | Poetry-reciting Beatnik | Uncredited |
Ride in the Whirlwind | 1966 | Blind Dick | Credited as Dean Stanton |
In the Heat of the Night | 1967 | Police officer | Credited as Dean Stanton |
The Hostage | 1967 | Eddie | Credited as Dean Stanton |
A Time for Killing | 1967 | Sgt. Dan Way | Credited as Dean Stanton |
Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | Tramp | Credited as Dean Stanton |
Day of the Evil Gun | 1968 | Sergeant Parker | Credited as Dean Stanton |
The Mini-Skirt Mob | 1968 | Spook | |
Lanton Mills | 1969 | Lanton | Short film |
The Rebel Rousers | 1970 | Randolph Halverson | Credited as Dean Stanton |
Kelly's Heroes | 1970 | Willard | Credited as Dean Stanton |
Two-Lane Blacktop | 1971 | Oklahoma Hitchhiker | Credited as H.D. Stanton |
What's the Matter with Helen? | 1971 | Malcolm Hays | |
Cisco Pike | 1972 | Jesse Dupre | Credited as H.D. Stanton |
Cry for Me, Billy | 1972 | Luke Todd | |
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | 1973 | Luke | |
Dillinger | 1973 | Homer Van Meter | |
Where the Lilies Bloom | 1974 | Kiser Pease | |
Zandy's Bride | 1974 | Songer | |
Cockfighter | 1974 | Jack Burke | |
Win, Place or Steal | 1974 | Jack | |
The Godfather Part II | 1974 | FBI Agent | |
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins | 1975 | Billy Winston | |
Rancho Deluxe | 1975 | Curt | |
Farewell, My Lovely | 1975 | Detective Billy Rolfe | |
The Fortune | 1975 | Prisoner in Holding Cell | Uncredited |
92 in the Shade | 1975 | Carter | |
The Missouri Breaks | 1976 | Cal | |
Renaldo and Clara | 1978 | Lafkezio | |
Straight Time | 1978 | Jerry Schue | |
Up in Smoke | 1978 | Police officer | Deleted scenes |
Alien | 1979 | Brett | |
Wise Blood | 1979 | Asa Hawks | |
The Rose | 1979 | Billy Ray | |
Death Watch | 1980 | Vincent Ferriman | |
The Black Marble | 1980 | Philo Skinner | |
Private Benjamin | 1980 | 1st Sergeant Jim Ballard | |
Escape from New York | 1981 | Harold "Brain" Hellman | |
One from the Heart | 1982 | Moe | |
Young Doctors in Love | 1982 | Dr. Oliver Ludwig | |
Christine | 1983 | Detective Rudolph "Rudy" Junkins | |
Repo Man | 1984 | Bud | |
Paris, Texas | 1984 | Travis Henderson | |
The Bear | 1984 | Coach Thomas | |
Red Dawn | 1984 | Tom Eckert | |
The Care Bears Movie | 1985 | Brave Heart Lion (voice) | |
UFOria | 1985 | Brother Bud Sanders | Completed in 1981 |
One Magic Christmas | 1985 | Gideon | |
Fool for Love | 1985 | Old Man | |
Pretty in Pink | 1986 | Jack Walsh | |
Slam Dance | 1987 | Detective Benjamin Smiley | |
Stars and Bars | 1988 | Loomis Gage | |
Mr. North | 1988 | Henry Simmons | |
The Last Temptation of Christ | 1988 | Saul/Paul of Tarsus | |
Dream a Little Dream | 1989 | Ike Baker | |
Twister | 1989 | Eugene Cleveland | |
The Fourth War | 1990 | General Hackworth | |
Wild at Heart | 1990 | Johnnie Farragut | |
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | 1992 | Carl Rodd | |
Man Trouble | 1992 | Redmond Layls | |
Cruise Control | 1992 | Roland | Short film |
Blue Tiger | 1994 | Smith | |
Never Talk to Strangers | 1995 | Max Cheski | |
One Hundred and One Nights | 1995 | Hollywood actor | Uncredited |
Down Periscope | 1996 | Howard | |
Playback | 1996 | Ernie Fontenot | |
She's So Lovely | 1997 | Tony "Shorty" Russo | |
Fire Down Below | 1997 | Cotton Harry | |
Midnight Blue | 1997 | Eric | |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | 1998 | The Judge | |
The Mighty | 1998 | Elton "Grim" Pinneman | |
A Civil Action | 1998 | Land Watcher | Uncredited |
Tobacco Blues | 1998 | Narrator | Documentary |
The Straight Story | 1999 | Lyle Straight | |
The Green Mile | 1999 | Toot-Toot | |
Sand | 2000 | Leo | |
The Man Who Cried | 2000 | Felix Perlman | |
The Pledge | 2001 | Floyd Cage | |
The Animal | 2001 | The Hunter | Uncredited |
Ginostra | 2002 | Del Piero | |
Sonny | 2002 | Henry | |
Anger Management | 2003 | Blind Man | Uncredited |
Chrystal | 2004 | Pa Da | |
The Big Bounce | 2004 | Bob Rogers, Sr. | |
Dig! | 2004 | Himself | Documentary |
The Wendell Baker Story | 2005 | Skip Summers | |
Alpha Dog | 2006 | Cosmo Gadabeeti | |
Alien Autopsy | 2006 | Harvey | |
You, Me and Dupree | 2006 | Curly | Uncredited |
Inland Empire | 2006 | Freddie Howard | |
The Good Life | 2007 | Gus | |
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project | 2007 | Private Willard | |
Being Michael Madsen | 2007 | Himself | |
The Open Road | 2009 | Amon | |
On Holiday | 2010 | Josh the Roommate's Dad | |
Rango | 2011 | Balthazar (voice) | |
This Must Be the Place | 2011 | Robert Plath | |
The Avengers | 2012 | Security Guard | |
Seven Psychopaths | 2012 | Quaker | |
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction | 2012 | Himself | Documentary |
The Last Stand | 2013 | Farmer Parsons | Uncredited |
9 Full Moons | 2013 | Dimitri | |
The Pimp and the Rose | 2014 | Harry | Short film |
Lucky | 2017 | Lucky |
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Television
Title | Year | Role | Notes |
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Inner Sanctum | 1954 | Andrew | Episode: "Hour of Darkness" |
Suspicion | 1957 | Bill | Episode: "Four O'Clock" |
The Walter Winchell File | 1957 | Country Boy | Episode: "Country Boy" |
The Court of Last Resort | 1958 | Unnamed character | Episode: "The Jacob Loveless Case" |
Panic! | 1958 | Jerry | Episode: "Patrol" |
Decision | 1958 | Simeon Dawson | Episode: "The Tall Man" |
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin | 1958 | Clint Dirkson | Episode: "Decision of Rin Tin Tin" |
Man with a Camera | 1958 | Jerry | Episode: "Six Faces of Satan" |
The Texan | 1958–1959 | Chad Bisbee / Frank Kaler | 2 episodes |
Rescue 8 | 1958–1959 | Landers / Skeets, Young Bum | 2 episodes |
Zane Grey Theater | 1958–1961 | Various | 4 episodes |
Walt Disney Presents | 1959 | Drew Griswold | Episode: "The Griswold Murder" |
Bat Masterson | 1959 | Jay Simms | Episode: "Deadline" |
The D.A.'s Man | 1959 | Barbo | Episode: "The Triangle" |
The Rifleman | 1959 | Clemmie Martin | Episode: "Tension" |
The Lineup | 1959 | Alfie | 2 episodes |
Lock-Up | 1959 | Tommy Fuller | Episode: "Writ of Terror" |
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | 1959 | Rafe Daniels / Gordon | 2 episodes |
The Lawless Years | 1959–1961 | Various | 4 episodes |
Have Gun – Will Travel | 1959–1962 | Slim Wilder / Stoneman | 2 episodes |
Laramie | 1959–1963 | Various | 4 episodes |
Rawhide | 1959–1965 | Various | 4 episodes |
Gunsmoke | 1959–1968 | Various | 8 episodes |
The Man from Blackhawk | 1960 | Sonny Blakey | Episode: "Diamond Cut Diamond" |
Johnny Ringo | 1960 | Frank Brogger | Episode: "The Gunslinger" |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents | 1960 | Lemon | Episode: "Escape to Sonoita" |
The Untouchables | 1960–1961 | Moxie / Picolo / Newspaper Seller | 3 episodes |
Gunslinger | 1961 | Stacey | Episode: "Zone" |
The Roaring 20's | 1961 | Fingers | Episode: "The Red Carpet" |
The Law and Mr. Jones | 1961 | Harry Walker | Episode: "The Enemy" |
Bonanza | 1961–1963 | Stiles / Billy | 2 episodes |
Cain's Hundred | 1962 | Hood #1 | Episode: "The Plush Jungle: Benjamin Riker" |
Checkmate | 1962 | The Singer | Episode: "The Heart Is a Handout" |
Stoney Burke | 1962 | Dell Tindall | Episode: "Point of Honor" |
Combat! | 1962 | Pvt. Beecham | Episode: "A Day in June" |
Big G | 1963 | Nick Crider | Episode: "Nobody Dies on Saturday" |
Daniel Boone | 1964–1969 | Crane / Jeb Girty | 2 episodes |
The Fugitive | 1965 | Randy | Episode: "Moon Child" |
A Man Called Shenandoah | 1965 | Quince Logan | Episode: "The Debt" |
The Big Valley | 1966 | Swain | Episode: "By Force and Violence" |
Vacation Playhouse | 1966 | Dayton Skagg | Episode: "Frank Merriwell" |
The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones | 1966 | Jelly | Television film |
The Wild Wild West | 1967 | Lucius Brand | Episode: "The Night of the Hangman" |
The Guns of Will Sonnett | 1967 | J.J. Kates | Episode: "Meeting at Devil's Fork" |
Cimarron Strip | 1967 | Luther Happ | Episode: "Till the End of Night" |
The Andy Griffith Show | 1967 | Proprietor | Episode: "Howard's New Life" |
The High Chaparral | 1968 | Johnny Faro | Episode: "Gold Is Where You Leave It" |
The Virginian | 1968 | Clint Daggert | Episode: "Ride to Misadventure" |
Mannix | 1968 | Dean Hill | Episode: "Who Will Dig the Graves?" |
The Name of the Game | 1968 | Joe Joe | Episode: "Pineapple Rose" |
Adam-12 | 1969 | Henry Fletcher | Episode: "Log 22:...So This Little Guy Goes Into a Bar, and..." |
Petticoat Junction | 1969 | Ringo | Episode: "One of Our Chickens Is Missing" |
The Intruders | 1970 | Whit Dykstra | Television film |
The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond | 1975 | President Warren G. Harding | Television film |
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman | 1976–1977 | Jake Walters | 4 episodes |
Flatbed Annie & Sweetiepie: Lady Truckers | 1979 | C.W. Douglas | Television film |
Young Maverick | 1979–1980 | Pokey Tindal | 2 episodes |
The Oldest Living Graduate | 1980 | Mike | Television film |
Laverne & Shirley | 1982 | Johnny Velvet | Episode: "Star Peepers" |
I Want to Live! | 1983 | Emmett Perkins | Television film |
Saturday Night Live | 1986 | Himself (host) | Episode: "Harry Dean Stanton/The Replacements" |
Faerie Tale Theatre | 1987 | Rip Van Winkle | Episode: "Rip Van Winkle" |
The Ransom of Red Chief | 1987 | Sam | Television film |
The French as Seen By... | 1988 | Slim | Television short |
The Jim Henson Hour | 1989 | Chancey Bellow | Episode: "Monster Maker" |
Payoff | 1991 | Hook | Television film |
Hostages | 1992 | Frank Reed | Television film |
Hotel Room | 1993 | Moe | Episode: "Tricks" |
Against the Wall | 1994 | Hal | Television film |
Dead Man's Walk | 1996 | Shadrach | 3 episodes |
Two and a Half Men | 2004 | Himself | Episode: "Back Off Mary Poppins" |
Big Love | 2006–2010 | Roman Grant | 37 episodes |
Alice | 2009 | Caterpillar | 2 episodes |
Chuck | 2010 | Harry | Episode: "Chuck Versus the Anniversary" |
Mongo Wrestling Alliance | 2011 | Baron Kleberkuh (voice) | 2 episodes |
Getting On | 2013–2015 | Leonard Butler | 3 episodes |
Twin Peaks | 2017 | Carl Rodd | 5 episodes |
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Video games
Title | Year | Role | Notes |
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Alien: Isolation | 2014 | Brett (voice) |
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Music videos
Title | Year | Performer(s) | Notes |
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"A Whiter Shade of Pale" | 1985 | Procol Harum | |
"Get Rhythm" | 1987 | Ry Cooder | |
"Stop" | 2003 | Black Rebel Motorcycle Club |
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