Harry Dean Stanton
July 14, 1926 (99 years old) in West Irvine, Kentucky, USA
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).
Known For
Credits
- 2022 · American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective as Self
- 2014 · Walking the Mile as Self (archive footage)
- 2011 · This Must Be the Place as Robert Plath
- 2010 · On Holiday as Josh the Roommate's Dad
- 2009 · Alice as Caterpillar
- 2007 · Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project as Self
- 2007 · Lynch 2 as Self
- 2006 · Inland Empire as Freddie Howard
- 2006 · You, Me and Dupree as Curly (uncredited)
- 2004 · Chrystal as Pa Da
- 2004 · The Big Bounce as Bob Rogers, Sr.
- 2003 · Ginostra as Del Piero
- 2002 · Sonny as Henry
- 2000 · The Man Who Cried as Felix Perlman
- 1997 · She's So Lovely as Tony 'Shorty' Russo
- 1997 · Midnight Blue as Eric
- 1996 · Playback as Ernie Fontenot
- 1992 · Hostages as Frank Reed
- 1992 · Man Trouble as Redmond Layls
- 1991 · Payoff as Hook
- 1990 · Wild at Heart as Johnnie Farragut
- 1990 · Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas' as Self
- 1989 · Twister as Cleveland
- 1988 · The Cowboy and the Frenchman as Slim
- 1988 · The Last Temptation of Christ as Paulus
- 1986 · Pretty in Pink as Jack Walsh
- 1985 · Fool for Love as Old Man
- 1985 · One Magic Christmas as Gideon
- 1984 · The Bear as Coach Thomas
- 1984 · Red Dawn as Mr. Eckert
- 1984 · UFOria as Brother Bud Sanders
- 1980 · Private Benjamin as Sgt. Jim Ballard
- 1979 · Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand as Pokey Tindle
- 1978 · Renaldo and Clara as Lafkezio
- 1975 · 92 in the Shade as Carter
- 1975 · Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins as Billy Winston
- 1974 · Where the Lilies Bloom as Kiser Pease
- 1973 · Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as Luke
- 1972 · Cry for Me, Billy as Luke Todd
- 1970 · The Intruders as Whit Dykstra (as Dean Stanton)
- 1970 · Kelly's Heroes as Pvt. Willard
- 1967 · Cool Hand Luke as Tramp
- 1967 · A Time for Killing as Sgt. Dan Way
- 1963 · The Man from the Diners' Club as Beatnik (uncredited)
- 1960 · The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Slave Catcher
- 1958 · Man with a Camera as
- 1958 · The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen as George Gilbert
- 1958 · The Proud Rebel as Jeb Burleigh
- 1957 · The Walter Winchell File as
- 1957 · Tomahawk Trail as Pvt. Miller
- 1956 · The Wrong Man as Department of Corrections Employee (uncredited)
- 1955 · Playwrights '56 as
- 1954 · Inner Sanctum as
- Future · Sinatra! Eternity as Sherif Lloyd
- 2020 · Frank and Ava as Sheriff Lloyd
- 2020 · Wim Wenders, Desperado as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · Lucky as Lucky
- 2017 · Sick of it All as Harry The News Reporter
- 2014 · Fishtail as Narrator
- 2014 · Carlos Spills the Beans as Rhino
- 2013 · Getting On as Leonard Butler
- 2013 · Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction as Self
- 2013 · 9 Full Moons as Dimitri
- 2013 · The Last Stand as Mr. Parson
- 2012 · Char·ac·ter as Self
- 2012 · Seven Psychopaths as Man in Hat
- 2012 · The Avengers as Security Guard
- 2011 · Rango as Balthazar (voice)
- 2011 · Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland as
- 2011 · Mongo Wrestling Alliance as
- 2010 · Athena as Bill
- 2009 · The Open Road as Amon
- 2007 · Being Michael Madsen as Self
- 2007 · Chuck as Harry
- 2007 · The Good Life as Gus
- 2006 · Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride as Self
- 2006 · Alien Autopsy as Harvey
- 2006 · Big Love as Roman Grant
- 2006 · Alpha Dog as Cosmo Gadabeeti
- 2006 · Harry Zen Stanton as Himself
- 2005 · The Wendell Baker Story as Skip Summers
- 2004 · Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self
- 2004 · Dig! as Self
- 2003 · The Beast Within: Making Alien as Self
- 2003 · Two and a Half Men as Himself
- 2003 · Anger Management as Blind Man (uncredited)
- 2003 · Hunter Goes to Hollywood as Himself
- 2003 · Bukowski: Born Into This as Self
- 2001 · The Animal as Hunter (uncredited)
- 2001 · The Pledge as Floyd Cage
- 2000 · Sand as Leo
- 1999 · The Green Mile as Toot-Toot
- 1999 · The Straight Story as Lyle
- 1999 · Stephen King: Shining in the Dark as Self
- 1999 · Ballad of the Nightingale as Jean-Paul
- 1998 · A Civil Action as Land Watcher (uncredited)
- 1998 · The Mighty as Grim
- 1998 · Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as Judge
- 1997 · Fire Down Below as Cotton Harry
- 1996 · E! True Hollywood Story as
- 1996 · Dead Man's Walk as Shadrach
- 1996 · Down Periscope as Lt. Howard
- 1995 · Never Talk to Strangers as Max Cheski
- 1995 · One Hundred and One Nights as Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
- 1994 · Blue Tiger as Smith
- 1994 · Against the Wall as Hal
- 1993 · Warren Oates: Across the Border as Self
- 1993 · Hotel Room as Moe Boca
- 1992 · Cruise Control as
- 1992 · Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me as Carl Rodd
- 1990 · Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders as Self
- 1990 · Twin Peaks as Carl Rodd
- 1990 · The Fourth War as Gen. Hackworth
- 1989 · Dream a Little Dream as Ike Baker
- 1989 · Monster Maker as Chancey Bellow
- 1988 · The French as Seen by… as (Segment "The Cowboy and the Frenchman")
- 1988 · Mr. North as Henry Simmons
- 1988 · Stars & Bars as Loomis Gage
- 1988 · Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night as Self - Audience Member
- 1987 · Slam Dance as Det. Benjamin Smiley
- 1987 · Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle as Rip Van Winkle
- 1985 · The Care Bears Movie as Brave Heart Lion (singing voice)
- 1984 · Paris, Texas as Travis
- 1984 · Repo Man as Bud
- 1983 · Christine as Rudolph Junkins
- 1983 · I Want to Live as Emmett Perkins
- 1982 · Faerie Tale Theatre as Rip Van Winkle
- 1982 · Young Doctors in Love as Dr. Oliver Ludwig
- 1982 · One from the Heart as Moe
- 1981 · Escape from New York as Harold 'Brain' Helman
- 1980 · The Oldest Living Graduate as Mike
- 1980 · The Black Marble as Philo Skinner
- 1980 · Death Watch as Vincent Ferriman
- 1979 · The Rose as Billy Ray
- 1979 · Wise Blood as Asa Hawks
- 1979 · Alien as Brett
- 1979 · Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers as C.W. Douglas
- 1978 · Straight Time as Jerry Schue
- 1976 · The Missouri Breaks as Calvin
- 1976 · Laverne & Shirley as
- 1975 · The Ransom of Red Chief as Sam
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1975 · Farewell, My Lovely as Billy Rolfe
- 1975 · The Fortune as Prisoner in Holding Cell (uncredited)
- 1975 · The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond as President Warren G. Harding
- 1975 · Rancho Deluxe as Curt
- 1975 · Win, Place or Steal as Jack
- 1974 · The Godfather Part II as F.B.I. Man #1
- 1974 · Cockfighter as Jack Burke
- 1974 · Zandy's Bride as Songer
- 1973 · Dillinger as Homer Van Meter
- 1971 · Cisco Pike as Jesse Dupre
- 1971 · Two-Lane Blacktop as Oklahoma Hitchhiker
- 1970 · Rebel Rousers as Randolph Halverson
- 1969 · Lanton Mills as Lanton
- 1968 · Adam-12 as Harry Fletcher
- 1968 · The Name of the Game as Joe Joe
- 1968 · The Mini-Skirt Mob as Spook
- 1968 · Day of the Evil Gun as Sergeant Parker
- 1967 · The Hostage as Eddie (as Dean Stanton)
- 1967 · Mannix as
- 1967 · The High Chaparral as Johnny Faro
- 1967 · The Guns of Will Sonnett as
- 1967 · Cimarron Strip as
- 1966 · The Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones as Jelly
- 1966 · Ride in the Whirlwind as Blind Dick
- 1965 · The Big Valley as Swain
- 1964 · Daniel Boone as Jeb Girty
- 1964 · Daniel Boone as Crane
- 1963 · Petticoat Junction as
- 1963 · The Fugitive as Randy
- 1962 · How the West Was Won as Gant Henchman (uncredited)
- 1962 · Combat! as Pvt. Beecham
- 1962 · Stoney Burke as
- 1962 · Hero's Island as Dixey Gates
- 1961 · Cain's Hundred as Hood
- 1960 · The Roaring 20's as
- 1960 · The Andy Griffith Show as Proprietor
- 1960 · Checkmate as The Singer
- 1960 · Escape to Sonoita as Lemon
- 1959 · A Dog's Best Friend as Roy Janney
- 1959 · The Jayhawkers! as Deputy Smallwood
- 1959 · Johnny Ringo as Frank Brogger
- 1959 · Lock-Up as
- 1959 · Laramie as
- 1959 · Bonanza as Billy
- 1959 · Bonanza as Stiles
- 1959 · Pork Chop Hill as BAR Soldier (uncredited)
- 1959 · The Lawless Years as
- 1959 · Rawhide as Jess Hobson
- 1959 · Rawhide as Dexter
- 1959 · Rawhide as Joe Spanish
- 1958 · Bat Masterson as Jay Simms
- 1958 · Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as
- 1958 · Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as Gordon
- 1958 · The Rifleman as
- 1958 · The Texan as
- 1957 · Suspicion as Bill
- 1957 · Have Gun, Will Travel as
- 1957 · Revolt at Fort Laramie as Rinty
- 1956 · Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Robert MacPherson
- 1956 · Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Toby - Ranch Hand
- 1956 · Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Fletcher
- 1955 · Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Lemon
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Alvy
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Harley
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Nate
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Leroy
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Young Man
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Leader
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Rainey
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Hodge
- 1954 · The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin as