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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-07-14 (98 years old)

Place of Birth

West Irvine, Kentucky, USA

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

2022

2020

Frank and Ava as Sheriff Lloyd
Wim Wenders, Desperado as Self (archive footage)

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)

2013

The Last Stand as Mr. Parson
9 Full Moons as Dimitri

2012

The Avengers as Security Guard
Seven Psychopaths as Man in Hat

2011

Rango as Balthazar (voice)
This Must Be the Place as Robert Plath

2010

Athena as Bill
On Holiday as Josh the Roommate's Dad

2009

Alice as Caterpillar

2007

Lynch 2 as Self
Chuck as Harry

2006

Inland Empire as Freddie Howard
Alpha Dog as Cosmo Gadabeeti
Alien Autopsy as Harvey
You, Me and Dupree as Curly (uncredited)
Big Love as Roman Grant

2005

The Wendell Baker Story as Skip Summers

2004

Dig! as Self
The Big Bounce as Bob Rogers, Sr.
Chrystal as Pa Da

2003

Anger Management as Blind Man (uncredited)
Ginostra as Del Piero

2002

Sonny as Henry

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

1998

The Mighty as Grim
A Civil Action as Land Watcher (uncredited)

1997

She's So Lovely as Tony 'Shorty' Russo
Fire Down Below as Cotton Harry

1996

Down Periscope as Lt. Howard
Playback as Ernie Fontenot
Dead Man's Walk as Shadrach

1995

One Hundred and One Nights as Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)

1994

Blue Tiger as Smith

1993

Hotel Room as Moe Boca

1992

Man Trouble as Redmond Layls
Hostages as Frank Reed

1991

Payoff as Hook

1990

Wild at Heart as Johnnie Farragut
The Fourth War as Gen. Hackworth
Twin Peaks as Carl Rodd

1989

Twister as Cleveland
Monster Maker as Chancey Bellow

1988

Mr. North as Henry Simmons
Stars & Bars as Loomis Gage
The French as Seen by… as (Segment "The Cowboy and the Frenchman")

1987

Slam Dance as Det. Benjamin Smiley
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)
Fool for Love as Old Man

1984

Paris, Texas as Travis
Red Dawn as Mr. Eckert
UFOria as Brother Bud Sanders
Repo Man as Bud
The Bear as Coach Thomas

1983

Christine as Rudolph Junkins
I Want to Live as Emmett Perkins

1982

Young Doctors in Love as Dr. Oliver Ludwig
Faerie Tale Theatre as Rip Van Winkle

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

1979

Wise Blood as Asa Hawks
The Rose as Billy Ray
Alien as Brett

1978

Straight Time as Jerry Schue
Renaldo and Clara as Lafkezio

1976

1975

Farewell, My Lovely as Billy Rolfe
92 in the Shade as Carter
The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond as President Warren G. Harding
The Fortune as Prisoner in Holding Cell (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live as Self - Host

1974

The Godfather Part II as F.B.I. Man #1
Cockfighter as Jack Burke
Zandy's Bride as Songer
Where the Lilies Bloom as Kiser Pease

1973

Dillinger as Homer Van Meter

1972

Cisco Pike as Jesse Dupre
Cry for Me, Billy as Luke Todd

1971

Two-Lane Blacktop as Oklahoma Hitchhiker

1970

Kelly's Heroes as Pvt. Willard
Rebel Rousers as Randolph Halverson
The Intruders as Whit Dykstra (as Dean Stanton)

1969

Lanton Mills as Lanton

1968

Day of the Evil Gun as Sergeant Parker
Adam-12 as Harry Fletcher

1967

The Hostage as Eddie (as Dean Stanton)
A Time for Killing as Sgt. Dan Way
The High Chaparral as Johnny Faro

1966

Ride in the Whirlwind as Blind Dick

1965

1964

Daniel Boone as Jeb Girty
Daniel Boone as Crane

1963

The Man from the Diners' Club as Beatnik (uncredited)
The Fugitive as Randy

1962

How the West Was Won as Gant Henchman (uncredited)
Hero's Island as Dixey Gates
Combat! as Pvt. Beecham

1961

1960

1959

Pork Chop Hill as BAR Soldier (uncredited)
A Dog's Best Friend as Roy Janney
The Jayhawkers! as Deputy Smallwood
Rawhide as Jess Hobson
Johnny Ringo as Frank Brogger
Rawhide as Dexter
Rawhide as Joe Spanish
Bonanza as Billy
Bonanza as Stiles

1958

The Proud Rebel as Jeb Burleigh
Bat Masterson as Jay Simms

1957

Tomahawk Trail as Pvt. Miller
Suspicion as Bill

1956

The Wrong Man as Department of Corrections Employee (uncredited)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Robert MacPherson
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Toby - Ranch Hand

1955

Gunsmoke as Alvy
Gunsmoke as Harley
Gunsmoke as Leroy
Gunsmoke as Nate
Gunsmoke as Young Man
Gunsmoke as Leader
Gunsmoke as Rainey
Gunsmoke as Hodge

1954