Harry Dean Stanton
ActingHarry 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
The Avengers
Security Guard
The Green Mile
Toot-Toot
The Godfather Part II
F.B.I. Man #1
Alien
Brett
Rango
Balthazar (voice)
Escape from New York
Harold 'Brain' Helman
Paris, Texas
Travis
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Carl Rodd
The Last Stand
Mr. Parson
Cool Hand Luke
Tramp
Filmography — Acting
The Avengers
Security Guard
The Green Mile
Toot-Toot
The Godfather Part II
F.B.I. Man #1
Alien
Brett
Rango
Balthazar (voice)
Escape from New York
Harold 'Brain' Helman
Paris, Texas
Travis
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Carl Rodd
The Last Stand
Mr. Parson
Cool Hand Luke
Tramp
Pretty in Pink
Jack Walsh
The Last Temptation of Christ
Paulus
Christine
Rudolph Junkins
Anger Management
Blind Man (uncredited)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Judge
Seven Psychopaths
Man in Hat
Alpha Dog
Cosmo Gadabeeti
Red Dawn
Mr. Eckert
Wild at Heart
Johnnie Farragut
Down Periscope
Lt. Howard
Inland Empire
Freddie Howard
The Straight Story
Lyle
The Pledge
Floyd Cage
Kelly's Heroes
Pvt. Willard
UFOria
Brother Bud Sanders
Repo Man
Bud
A Civil Action
Land Watcher (uncredited)
Twister
Cleveland
How the West Was Won
Gant Henchman (uncredited)
The Animal
Hunter (uncredited)
Fire Down Below
Cotton Harry
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Luke
The Mighty
Grim
Private Benjamin
Sgt. Jim Ballard
You, Me and Dupree
Curly (uncredited)
The Big Bounce
Bob Rogers, Sr.
Lucky
Lucky
The Rose
Billy Ray
Alien Autopsy
Harvey
Straight Time
Jerry Schue
The Missouri Breaks
Calvin
The Man Who Cried
Felix Perlman
The Wrong Man
Department of Corrections Employee (uncredited)
The Care Bears Movie
Brave Heart Lion (singing voice)
Sonny
Henry
One Magic Christmas
Gideon
Farewell, My Lovely
Billy Rolfe
Young Doctors in Love
Dr. Oliver Ludwig
Dillinger
Homer Van Meter
Blue Tiger
Smith
Never Talk to Strangers
Max Cheski
She's So Lovely
Tony 'Shorty' Russo
Pork Chop Hill
BAR Soldier (uncredited)
This Must Be the Place
Robert Plath
One from the Heart
Moe
The Open Road
Amon
Two-Lane Blacktop
Oklahoma Hitchhiker
Being Michael Madsen
Self
One Hundred and One Nights
Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
The Fortune
Prisoner in Holding Cell (uncredited)
The Proud Rebel
Jeb Burleigh
Ride in the Whirlwind
Blind Dick
Frank and Ava
Sheriff Lloyd
Against the Wall
Hal
Cockfighter
Jack Burke
Cisco Pike
Jesse Dupre
Dream a Little Dream
Ike Baker
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Self
Death Watch
Vincent Ferriman
Playback
Ernie Fontenot
Man Trouble
Redmond Layls
Ginostra
Del Piero
Payoff
Hook
A Time for Killing
Sgt. Dan Way
Slam Dance
Det. Benjamin Smiley
The Fourth War
Gen. Hackworth
The Black Marble
Philo Skinner
Sand
Leo
Rancho Deluxe
Curt
Chrystal
Pa Da
Hostages
Frank Reed
Stars & Bars
Loomis Gage
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
Self
I Want to Live
Emmett Perkins
The Oldest Living Graduate
Mike
9 Full Moons
Dimitri
Rebel Rousers
Randolph Halverson
The Beast Within: Making Alien
Self
Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle
Rip Van Winkle
Wise Blood
Asa Hawks
Walking the Mile
Self (archive footage)
Day of the Evil Gun
Sergeant Parker
The Good Life
Gus
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Slave Catcher
The Wendell Baker Story
Skip Summers
The Jayhawkers!
Deputy Smallwood
Dig!
Self
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self (archive footage)
Mr. North
Henry Simmons
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
Billy Winston
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
C.W. Douglas
The Man from the Diners' Club
Beatnik (uncredited)
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Self - Audience Member
The Hostage
Eddie (as Dean Stanton)
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Self
Where the Lilies Bloom
Kiser Pease
Ballad of the Nightingale
Jean-Paul
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
Self
Warren Oates: Across the Border
Self
Sinatra! Eternity
Sherif Lloyd
Revolt at Fort Laramie
Rinty
The Mini-Skirt Mob
Spook
The Bear
Coach Thomas
Fool for Love
Old Man
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
Self (archive footage)
Sick of it All
Harry The News Reporter
92 in the Shade
Carter
Hero's Island
Dixey Gates
Zandy's Bride
Songer
The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones
Jelly
Cruise Control
Midnight Blue
Eric
The Short Films of David Lynch
Self
Win, Place or Steal
Jack
The Intruders
Whit Dykstra (as Dean Stanton)
Bukowski: Born Into This
Self
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
Pokey Tindle
Lynch 2
Self
American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective
Self
Carlos Spills the Beans
Rhino
Cry for Me, Billy
Luke Todd
Renaldo and Clara
Lafkezio
Char·ac·ter
Self
Escape to Sonoita
Lemon
The Cowboy and the Frenchman
Slim
Monster Maker
Chancey Bellow
The Ransom of Red Chief
Sam
Tomahawk Trail
Pvt. Miller
The French as Seen by…
(Segment "The Cowboy and the Frenchman")
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
Athena
Bill
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
Self
Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'
Self
Return to 'Escape from New York'
Himself
Hunter Goes to Hollywood
Himself
On Holiday
Josh the Roommate's Dad
A Dog's Best Friend
Roy Janney
The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond
President Warren G. Harding
Fishtail
Narrator
Lanton Mills
Lanton
Harry Zen Stanton
Himself