Harry Dean Stanton
Known for Acting · 205 credits
- Born
- 1926-07-14
- Died
- 2017-09-15
- Place of birth
- West Irvine, Kentucky, USA
- Also known as
- Χάρι Ντιν Στάντον · Гарри Дин Стентон · Dean Stanton · هری دین استنتون
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).
Known For
TV Shows (53)
Two and a Half Men
2003
as Harry Dean Stanton
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
Mannix
1967
Bonanza
1959
as Billy / Stiles
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
as Proprietor
The Fugitive
1963
as Randy
Twin Peaks
1990
as Carl Rodd
The Rifleman
1958
Adam-12
1968
as Harry Fletcher
Petticoat Junction
1963
Chuck
2007
as Harry
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Combat!
1962
as Pvt. Beecham
Daniel Boone
1964
as Jeb Girty / Crane
The Big Valley
1965
as Swain
Rawhide
1959
as Jess Hobson / Dexter / Joe Spanish
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Robert MacPherson / Toby - Ranch Hand / Fletcher
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
1976
as Jake Walters
Big Love
2006
as Roman Grant
Laverne & Shirley
1976
Bat Masterson
1958
as Jay Simms
The Name of the Game
1968
as Joe Joe
The High Chaparral
1967
as Johnny Faro
Gunsmoke
1955
as Alvy / Harley / Nate / Leroy / Young Man / Leader / Rainey / Hodge
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Lemon
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as Rip Van Winkle
The Texan
1958
Checkmate
1960
as The Singer
Laramie
1959
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
as Gordon
Cain's Hundred
1961
as Hood
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
Lock-Up
1959
Suspicion
1957
as Bill
Stoney Burke
1962
Johnny Ringo
1959
as Frank Brogger
Cimarron Strip
1967
as Luther Happ
The Lawless Years
1959
Getting On
2013
as Leonard Butler
The Roaring 20's
1960
Man with a Camera
1958
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1954
Inner Sanctum
1954
Playwrights '56
1955
The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
1958
as George Gilbert
The Jim Henson Hour
1989
as Chancey Bellow
Gunslinger
1961
as Stacey
Alice
2009
as Caterpillar
The Walter Winchell File
1957
Dead Man's Walk
1996
as Shadrach
Hotel Room
1993
as Moe Boca
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Mongo Wrestling Alliance
2011
Movies (152)
The Avengers
2012
as Security Guard
The Green Mile
1999
as Toot-Toot
The Godfather Part II
1974
as F.B.I. Man #1
Alien
1979
as Brett
Rango
2011
as Balthazar (voice)
Christine
1983
as Rudolph Junkins
Paris, Texas
1984
as Travis
Kelly's Heroes
1970
as Pvt. Willard
Escape from New York
1981
as Harold 'Brain' Helman
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1992
as Carl Rodd
The Last Stand
2013
as Mr. Parson
Alpha Dog
2006
as Cosmo Gadabeeti
Wild at Heart
1990
as Johnnie Farragut
Cool Hand Luke
1967
as Tramp
Anger Management
2003
as Blind Man (uncredited)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998
as Judge
Pretty in Pink
1986
as Jack Walsh
Seven Psychopaths
2012
as Man in Hat
Down Periscope
1996
as Lt. Howard
Inland Empire
2006
as Freddie Howard
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
as Paulus
Red Dawn
1984
as Mr. Eckert
How the West Was Won
1962
as Gant Henchman
The Animal
2001
as Hunter (uncredited)
The Straight Story
1999
as Lyle
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
as Luke
Repo Man
1984
as Bud
Fire Down Below
1997
as Cotton Harry
The Pledge
2001
as Floyd Cage
Private Benjamin
1980
as Sgt. Jim Ballard
The Mighty
1998
as Grim
Farewell, My Lovely
1975
as Billy Rolfe
A Civil Action
1998
as Land Watcher (uncredited)
Pork Chop Hill
1959
as BAR Soldier (uncredited)
The Man Who Cried
2000
as Felix Perlman
The Big Bounce
2004
as Bob Rogers, Sr.
You, Me and Dupree
2006
as Curly (uncredited)
The Missouri Breaks
1976
as Calvin
One Hundred and One Nights
1995
as Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
Lucky
2017
as Lucky
Never Talk to Strangers
1995
as Max Cheski
Sonny
2002
as Henry
Alien Autopsy
2006
as Harvey
The Wrong Man
1956
as Department of Corrections Employee (uncredited)
Dillinger
1973
as Homer Van Meter
Straight Time
1978
as Jerry Schue
Cisco Pike
1972
as Jesse Dupre
Being Michael Madsen
2007
as Self
This Must Be the Place
2011
as Robert Plath
She's So Lovely
1997
as Tony 'Shorty' Russo
Twister
1989
as Cleveland
A Time for Killing
1967
as Sgt. Dan Way
The Rose
1979
as Billy Ray
Two-Lane Blacktop
1971
as Oklahoma Hitchhiker
Death Watch
1980
as Vincent Ferriman
Ride in the Whirlwind
1966
as Blind Dick
Young Doctors in Love
1982
as Dr. Oliver Ludwig
Walking the Mile
2014
as Self (archive footage)
UFOria
1984
as Brother Bud Sanders
Mr. North
1988
as Henry Simmons
Slam Dance
1987
as Det. Benjamin Smiley
Playback
1996
as Ernie Fontenot
Sand
2000
as Leo
The Jayhawkers!
1959
as Deputy Smallwood
The Wendell Baker Story
2005
as Skip Summers
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self
Blue Tiger
1994
as Smith
One from the Heart
1982
as Moe
Wise Blood
1979
as Asa Hawks
The Proud Rebel
1958
as Jeb Burleigh
The Intruders
1970
as Whit Dykstra (as Dean Stanton)
Payoff
1991
as Hook
One Magic Christmas
1985
as Gideon
92 in the Shade
1975
as Carter
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007
as Self
The Fortune
1975
as Prisoner in Holding Cell (uncredited)
Cockfighter
1974
as Jack Burke
Against the Wall
1994
as Hal
Chrystal
2004
as Pa Da
The Open Road
2009
as Amon
9 Full Moons
2013
as Dimitri
I Want to Live
1983
as Emmett Perkins
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
1988
as Self - Audience Member
Dream a Little Dream
1989
as Ike Baker
The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003
as Self
Rancho Deluxe
1975
as Curt
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1960
as Slave Catcher
Ballad of the Nightingale
1999
as Jean-Paul
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Hostages
1992
as Frank Reed
Day of the Evil Gun
1968
as Sergeant Parker
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
1999
as Self
Where the Lilies Bloom
1974
as Kiser Pease
The Care Bears Movie
1985
as Brave Heart Lion (singing voice)
Bukowski: Born Into This
2003
as Self
Dig!
2004
as Self
The Good Life
2007
as Gus
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
1979
as C.W. Douglas
Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle
1987
as Rip Van Winkle
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
2006
as Self
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
2019
as Self (archive footage)
American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective
2022
as Self
Stars & Bars
1988
as Loomis Gage
Win, Place or Steal
1975
as Jack
Man Trouble
1992
as Redmond Layls
Tomahawk Trail
1957
as Pvt. Miller
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
1975
as Billy Winston
Frank and Ava
2020
as Sheriff Lloyd
Ginostra
2003
as Del Piero
Char·ac·ter
2012
as Self
Zandy's Bride
1974
as Songer
The Fourth War
1990
as Gen. Hackworth
The Short Films of David Lynch
2002
as Self
Athena
2010
as Bill
Revolt at Fort Laramie
1957
as Rinty
Fool for Love
1985
as Old Man
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
as Self
The Cowboy and the Frenchman
1988
as Slim
Escape to Sonoita
1960
as Lemon
Warren Oates: Across the Border
1993
as Self
About Harry Dean Stanton
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 (2… With 205 credits spanning from 1954 to 2025, Harry Dean Stanton has appeared in 152 films and 53 TV shows.
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Most Popular Harry Dean Stanton Movies
- The Avengers (2012) — as Security Guard
- The Green Mile (1999) — as Toot-Toot
- The Godfather Part II (1974) — as F.B.I. Man #1
- Alien (1979) — as Brett
- Rango (2011) — as Balthazar (voice)
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