
Harry Dean Stanton
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).
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Known For
Acting History
2022
American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective as Self
2020Frank and Ava as Sheriff Lloyd
2020Wim Wenders, Desperado as Self (archive footage)
2019Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice as Self (archive footage)
2017Lucky as Lucky
2017Sick of it All as Harry The News Reporter
2014Walking the Mile as Self (archive footage)
2014Fishtail as Narrator
2014Carlos Spills the Beans as Rhino
2013Getting On as Leonard Butler
2013Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction as Self
20139 Full Moons as Dimitri
2013The Last Stand as Mr. Parson
2012Char·ac·ter as Self
2012Seven Psychopaths as Man in Hat
2012The Avengers as Security Guard
2011This Must Be the Place as Robert Plath
2011Rango as Balthazar (voice)
2011Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
2011Mongo Wrestling Alliance
2010Athena as Bill
2010On Holiday as Josh the Roommate's Dad
2009Alice as Caterpillar
2009The Open Road as Amon
2007Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project as Self
2007Being Michael Madsen as Self
2007Chuck as Harry
2007Lynch 2 as Self
2007The Good Life as Gus
2006Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride as Self
2006Inland Empire as Freddie Howard
2006You, Me and Dupree as Curly (uncredited)
2006Alien Autopsy as Harvey
2006Big Love as Roman Grant
2006Alpha Dog as Cosmo Gadabeeti
2006Harry Zen Stanton as Himself
2005The Wendell Baker Story as Skip Summers
2004Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self
2004Dig! as Self
2004Chrystal as Pa Da
2004The Big Bounce as Bob Rogers, Sr.
2003Return to 'Escape from New York' as Himself
2003The Beast Within: Making Alien as Self
2003Two and a Half Men as Himself
2003Anger Management as Blind Man (uncredited)
2003Hunter Goes to Hollywood as Himself
2003Ginostra as Del Piero
2003Bukowski: Born Into This as Self
2002Sonny as Henry
2002The Short Films of David Lynch as Self
2001The Animal as Hunter (uncredited)
2001The Pledge as Floyd Cage
2000Sand as Leo
2000The Man Who Cried as Felix Perlman
1999The Green Mile as Toot-Toot
1999The Straight Story as Lyle
1999Stephen King: Shining in the Dark as Self
1999Ballad of the Nightingale as Jean-Paul
1998A Civil Action as Land Watcher (uncredited)
1998The Mighty as Grim
1998Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as Judge
1997Fire Down Below as Cotton Harry
1997She's So Lovely as Tony 'Shorty' Russo
1997Midnight Blue as Eric
1996Playback as Ernie Fontenot
1996E! True Hollywood Story
1996Dead Man's Walk as Shadrach
1996Down Periscope as Lt. Howard
1995Never Talk to Strangers as Max Cheski
1995One Hundred and One Nights as Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
1994Blue Tiger as Smith
1994Against the Wall as Hal
1993Warren Oates: Across the Border as Self
1993Hotel Room as Moe Boca
1992Cruise Control
1992Hostages as Frank Reed
1992Man Trouble as Redmond Layls
1992Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me as Carl Rodd
1991Payoff as Hook
1990Wild at Heart as Johnnie Farragut
1990Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas' as Self
1990Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders as Self
1990Twin Peaks as Carl Rodd
1990The Fourth War as Gen. Hackworth
1989Twister as Cleveland
1989Dream a Little Dream as Ike Baker
1989Monster Maker as Chancey Bellow
1988The Cowboy and the Frenchman as Slim
1988The French as Seen by… as (Segment "The Cowboy and the Frenchman")
1988Mr. North as Henry Simmons
1988The Last Temptation of Christ as Paulus
1988Stars & Bars as Loomis Gage
1988Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night as Self - Audience Member
1987Slam Dance as Det. Benjamin Smiley
1987Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle as Rip Van Winkle
1986Pretty in Pink as Jack Walsh
1985Fool for Love as Old Man
1985One Magic Christmas as Gideon
1985The Care Bears Movie as Brave Heart Lion (singing voice)
1984The Bear as Coach Thomas
1984Red Dawn as Mr. Eckert
1984Paris, Texas as Travis
1984UFOria as Brother Bud Sanders
1984Repo Man as Bud
1983Christine as Rudolph Junkins
1983I Want to Live as Emmett Perkins
1982Faerie Tale Theatre as Rip Van Winkle
1982Young Doctors in Love as Dr. Oliver Ludwig
1982One from the Heart as Moe
1981Escape from New York as Harold 'Brain' Helman
1980Private Benjamin as Sgt. Jim Ballard
1980The Oldest Living Graduate as Mike
1980The Black Marble as Philo Skinner
1980Death Watch as Vincent Ferriman
1979Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand as Pokey Tindle
1979The Rose as Billy Ray
1979Wise Blood as Asa Hawks
1979Alien as Brett
1979Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers as C.W. Douglas
1978Straight Time as Jerry Schue
1978Renaldo and Clara as Lafkezio
1976The Missouri Breaks as Calvin
1976Laverne & Shirley
1975The Ransom of Red Chief as Sam
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
197592 in the Shade as Carter
1975Farewell, My Lovely as Billy Rolfe
1975The Fortune as Prisoner in Holding Cell (uncredited)
1975The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond as President Warren G. Harding
1975Rancho Deluxe as Curt
1975Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins as Billy Winston
1975Win, Place or Steal as Jack
1974The Godfather Part II as F.B.I. Man #1
1974Cockfighter as Jack Burke
1974Zandy's Bride as Songer
1974Where the Lilies Bloom as Kiser Pease
1973Dillinger as Homer Van Meter
1973Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as Luke
1972Cry for Me, Billy as Luke Todd
1971Cisco Pike as Jesse Dupre
1971Two-Lane Blacktop as Oklahoma Hitchhiker
1970The Intruders as Whit Dykstra (as Dean Stanton)
1970Kelly's Heroes as Pvt. Willard
1970Rebel Rousers as Randolph Halverson
1969Lanton Mills as Lanton
1968Adam-12 as Harry Fletcher
1968The Name of the Game as Joe Joe
1968The Mini-Skirt Mob as Spook
1968Day of the Evil Gun as Sergeant Parker
1967Cool Hand Luke as Tramp
1967The Hostage as Eddie (as Dean Stanton)
1967Mannix
1967The High Chaparral as Johnny Faro
1967The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967Cimarron Strip
1967A Time for Killing as Sgt. Dan Way
1966The Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones as Jelly
1966Ride in the Whirlwind as Blind Dick
1965The Big Valley as Swain
1964Daniel Boone as Jeb Girty
1964Daniel Boone as Crane
1963Petticoat Junction
1963The Fugitive as Randy
1963The Man from the Diners' Club as Beatnik (uncredited)
1962How the West Was Won as Gant Henchman (uncredited)
1962Combat! as Pvt. Beecham
1962Stoney Burke
1962Hero's Island as Dixey Gates
1961Cain's Hundred as Hood
1961Gunslinger as Stacey
1960The Roaring 20's
1960The Andy Griffith Show as Proprietor
1960Checkmate as The Singer
1960The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Slave Catcher
1960Escape to Sonoita as Lemon
1959A Dog's Best Friend as Roy Janney
1959The Jayhawkers! as Deputy Smallwood
1959Johnny Ringo as Frank Brogger
1959Lock-Up
1959Laramie
1959Bonanza as Billy
1959Bonanza as Stiles
1959Pork Chop Hill as BAR Soldier (uncredited)
1959The Lawless Years
1959Rawhide as Jess Hobson
1959Rawhide as Dexter
1959Rawhide as Joe Spanish
1958Man with a Camera
1958Bat Masterson as Jay Simms
1958Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse as Gordon
1958The Rifleman
1958The Texan
1958The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen as George Gilbert
1958The Proud Rebel as Jeb Burleigh
1957The Walter Winchell File
1957Suspicion as Bill
1957Have Gun, Will Travel
1957Revolt at Fort Laramie as Rinty
1957Tomahawk Trail as Pvt. Miller
1956The Wrong Man as Department of Corrections Employee (uncredited)
1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Robert MacPherson
1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Toby - Ranch Hand
1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Fletcher
1955Playwrights '56
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Lemon
1955Gunsmoke as Alvy
1955Gunsmoke as Harley
1955Gunsmoke as Leroy
1955Gunsmoke as Nate
1955Gunsmoke as Young Man
1955Gunsmoke as Leader
1955Gunsmoke as Rainey
1955Gunsmoke as Hodge
1954The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1954Inner Sanctum
—Sinatra! Eternity as Sherif Lloyd








