Harry Dean Stanton

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-07-14 (91 years old)

Deathday

2017-09-15

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). D...

Acting

1974

The Godfather Part II

as F.B.I. Man #1

1967

1990

Wild at Heart

as Johnnie Farragut

1999

The Green Mile

as Toot-Toot

1981

Escape from New York

as Harold 'Brain' Helman

1984

Paris, Texas

as Travis

2006

Inland Empire

as Freddie Howard

1985

The Care Bears Movie

as Brave Heart Lion (singing voice)

1975

Farewell, My Lovely

as Billy Rolfe

2007

Lynch 2

as Self

1984

Red Dawn

as Mr. Eckert

1980

Private Benjamin

as Sgt. Jim Ballard

1986

Pretty in Pink

as Jack Walsh

2001

The Pledge

as Floyd Cage

1970

Kelly's Heroes

as Pvt. Willard

2006

Alpha Dog

as Cosmo Gadabeeti

2007

1984

UFOria

as Brother Bud Sanders

1956

The Wrong Man

as Department of Corrections Employee (uncredited)

1978

Straight Time

as Jerry Schue

2012

The Avengers

as Security Guard

1962

How the West Was Won

as Gant Henchman (uncredited)

1983

Christine

as Rudolph Junkins

2005

1996

Down Periscope

as Lt. Howard

2006

Alien Autopsy

as Harvey

1968

Day of the Evil Gun

as Sergeant Parker

1998

The Mighty

as Grim

1971

Two-Lane Blacktop

as Oklahoma Hitchhiker

1974

Cockfighter

as Jack Burke

1985

2002

Sonny

as Henry

1973

Dillinger

as Homer Van Meter

1984

Repo Man

as Bud

1998

A Civil Action

as Land Watcher (uncredited)

1979

Wise Blood

as Asa Hawks

1976

1975

1970

Rebel Rousers

as Randolph Halverson

1966

2011

Rango

as Balthazar (voice)

1997

She's So Lovely

as Tony 'Shorty' Russo

1975

1979

The Rose

as Billy Ray

1982

Young Doctors in Love

as Dr. Oliver Ludwig

1990

The Fourth War

as Gen. Hackworth

1985

Fool for Love

as Old Man

1971

Cisco Pike

as Jesse Dupre

1980

The Black Marble

as Philo Skinner

2013

The Last Stand

as Mr. Parson

2011

This Must Be the Place

as Robert Plath

1988

Mr. North

as Henry Simmons

2012

Seven Psychopaths

as Man in Hat

1989

Twister

as Cleveland

1987

Slam Dance

as Det. Benjamin Smiley

1974

Zandy's Bride

as Songer

1967

The Hostage

as Eddie (as Dean Stanton)

1968

1958

The Proud Rebel

as Jeb Burleigh

1974

1988

Stars & Bars

as Loomis Gage

1989

Monster Maker

as Chancey Bellow

2013

9 Full Moons

as Dimitri

1962

Hero's Island

as Dixey Gates

1996

Playback

as Ernie Fontenot

1984

The Bear

as Coach Thomas

2014

Fishtail

as Narrator

2012

1978

1989

1994

Blue Tiger

as Smith

2004

Dig!

as Self

1972

Cry for Me, Billy

as Luke Todd

1995

1997

Fire Down Below

as Cotton Harry

1970

The Intruders

as Whit Dykstra (as Dean Stanton)

1992

Man Trouble

as Redmond Layls

1960

1967

A Time for Killing

as Sgt. Dan Way

2014

Walking the Mile

as Self (archive footage)

1988

The French as Seen by…

as (Segment "The Cowboy and the Frenchman")

1963

The Man from the Diners' Club

as Beatnik (uncredited)

1975

The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond

as President Warren G. Harding

1979

Alien

as Brett

1991

Payoff

as Hook

2009

2004

The Big Bounce

as Bob Rogers, Sr.

2017

Lucky

as Lucky

2017

Sick of it All

as Harry The News Reporter

2000

The Man Who Cried

as Felix Perlman

1997

1959

Pork Chop Hill

as BAR Soldier (uncredited)

1992

Hostages

as Frank Reed

2001

The Animal

as Hunter (uncredited)

2020

Frank and Ava

as Sheriff Lloyd

2004

Chrystal

as Pa Da

1959

A Dog's Best Friend

as Roy Janney

1957

Tomahawk Trail

as Pvt. Miller

1975

The Fortune

as Prisoner in Holding Cell (uncredited)

1959

The Jayhawkers!

as Deputy Smallwood

1969

Lanton Mills

as Lanton

1987

Rip Van Winkle

as Rip Van Winkle

2006

2000

Sand

as Leo

2003

Anger Management

as Blind Man (uncredited)

2019

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

as Self (archive footage)

2006

You, Me and Dupree

as Curly (uncredited)

2003

Ginostra

as Del Piero

1980

Death Watch

as Vincent Ferriman

2010

Athena

as Bill

2020

Wim Wenders, Desperado

as Self (archive footage)

1995

One Hundred and One Nights

as Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)

1983

I Want to Live

as Emmett Perkins

2010

On Holiday

as Josh the Roommate's Dad

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