Harry Dean Stanton
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Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
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
Credits
Christine (1983)
as Rudolph Junkins
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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)
Paris, Texas (1984)
as Travis
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
as Carl Rodd
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
as Billy Rolfe
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
as Judge
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
as Tramp
Escape from New York (1981)
as Harold 'Brain' Helman
The Last Stand (2013)
as Mr. Parson
Wild at Heart (1990)
as Johnnie Farragut
The Animal (2001)
as Hunter (uncredited)
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
as Pvt. Willard
Down Periscope (1996)
as Lt. Howard
How the West Was Won (1962)
as Gant Henchman
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
as Man in Hat
Anger Management (2003)
as Blind Man (uncredited)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
as Paulus
Fire Down Below (1997)
as Cotton Harry
Red Dawn (1984)
as Mr. Eckert
The Straight Story (1999)
as Lyle
Inland Empire (2006)
as Freddie Howard
You, Me and Dupree (2006)
as Curly (uncredited)
Alpha Dog (2006)
as Cosmo Gadabeeti
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
as Luke
Straight Time (1978)
as Jerry Schue
Lucky (2017)
as Lucky
Pretty in Pink (1986)
as Jack Walsh
Repo Man (1984)
as Bud
The Pledge (2001)
as Floyd Cage
Never Talk to Strangers (1995)
as Max Cheski
This Must Be the Place (2011)
as Robert Plath
Private Benjamin (1980)
as Sgt. Jim Ballard
The Missouri Breaks (1976)
as Calvin
The Wrong Man (1956)
as Department of Corrections Employee (uncredited)
Young Doctors in Love (1982)
as Dr. Oliver Ludwig
The Man Who Cried (2000)
as Felix Perlman
The French as Seen by… (1988)
as (Segment "The Cowboy and the Frenchman")
Dream a Little Dream (1989)
as Ike Baker
Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)
as Blind Dick
The Wendell Baker Story (2005)
as Skip Summers
The Care Bears Movie (1985)
as Brave Heart Lion (singing voice)
One Magic Christmas (1985)
as Gideon
A Civil Action (1998)
as Land Watcher (uncredited)
Mr. North (1988)
as Henry Simmons
Zandy's Bride (1974)
as Songer
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
as BAR Soldier (uncredited)
Against the Wall (1994)
as Hal
Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
as Sergeant Parker
The Mighty (1998)
as Grim
She's So Lovely (1997)
as Tony 'Shorty' Russo
One from the Heart (1982)
as Moe
The Big Bounce (2004)
as Bob Rogers, Sr.
A Time for Killing (1967)
as Sgt. Dan Way
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
as Oklahoma Hitchhiker
The Fortune (1975)
as Prisoner in Holding Cell (uncredited)
One Hundred and One Nights (1995)
as Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
Being Michael Madsen (2007)
as Self
The Black Marble (1980)
as Philo Skinner
Death Watch (1980)
as Vincent Ferriman
The Proud Rebel (1958)
as Jeb Burleigh
Alien Autopsy (2006)
as Harvey
Fishtail (2014)
as Narrator
Twister (1989)
as Cleveland
The Rose (1979)
as Billy Ray
Stars & Bars (1988)
as Loomis Gage
The Fourth War (1990)
as Gen. Hackworth
UFOria (1984)
as Brother Bud Sanders
Bukowski: Born Into This (2003)
as Self
The Open Road (2009)
as Amon
Revolt at Fort Laramie (1957)
as Rinty
9 Full Moons (2013)
as Dimitri
Walking the Mile (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
The Beast Within: Making Alien (2003)
as Self
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007)
as Self
Dig! (2004)
as Self
Where the Lilies Bloom (1974)
as Kiser Pease
The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988)
as Slim
Sonny (2002)
as Henry
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark (1999)
as Self
Cruise Control (1992)
Actor
Slam Dance (1987)
as Det. Benjamin Smiley
Lynch 2 (2007)
as Self
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)
as Slave Catcher
Playback (1996)
as Ernie Fontenot
Cisco Pike (1972)
as Jesse Dupre
Wise Blood (1979)
as Asa Hawks
I Want to Live (1983)
as Emmett Perkins
Man Trouble (1992)
as Redmond Layls
Fool for Love (1985)
as Old Man
Dillinger (1973)
as Homer Van Meter
Hunter Goes to Hollywood (2003)
as Himself
Wim Wenders, Desperado (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers (1979)
as C.W. Douglas
Escape to Sonoita (1960)
as Lemon
The Jayhawkers! (1959)
as Deputy Smallwood
Char·ac·ter (2012)
as Self
Sand (2000)
as Leo
Return to 'Escape from New York' (2003)
as Himself
The Man from the Diners' Club (1963)
as Beatnik (uncredited)
Frank and Ava (2020)
as Sheriff Lloyd
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975)
as Billy Winston
Sinatra! Eternity (2025)
as Sherif Lloyd
The Intruders (1970)
as Whit Dykstra (as Dean Stanton)
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride (2006)
as Self
The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968)
as Spook
The Good Life (2007)
as Gus
Rancho Deluxe (1975)
as Curt
Ginostra (2003)
as Del Piero
Blue Tiger (1994)
as Smith
The Short Films of David Lynch (2002)
as Self
Win, Place or Steal (1975)
as Jack
Ballad of the Nightingale (1999)
as Jean-Paul
Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle (1987)
as Rip Van Winkle
The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones (1966)
as Jelly
92 in the Shade (1975)
as Carter
Tomahawk Trail (1957)
as Pvt. Miller
Cockfighter (1974)
as Jack Burke
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2013)
as Self
Rebel Rousers (1970)
as Randolph Halverson
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland (2011)
Actor
Cry for Me, Billy (1972)
as Luke Todd
Monster Maker (1989)
as Chancey Bellow
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
as Self
Midnight Blue (1997)
as Eric
The Bear (1984)
as Coach Thomas
American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective (2022)
as Self
The Hostage (1967)
as Eddie (as Dean Stanton)
The Ransom of Red Chief (1975)
as Sam
Renaldo and Clara (1978)
as Lafkezio
Chrystal (2004)
as Pa Da
Athena (2010)
as Bill
Warren Oates: Across the Border (1993)
as Self
A Dog's Best Friend (1959)
as Roy Janney
Payoff (1991)
as Hook
Hero's Island (1962)
as Dixey Gates
Hostages (1992)
as Frank Reed
Carlos Spills the Beans (2014)
as Rhino
On Holiday (2010)
as Josh the Roommate's Dad
Lanton Mills (1969)
as Lanton
The Oldest Living Graduate (1980)
as Mike
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand (1979)
as Pokey Tindle
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night (1988)
as Self - Audience Member
Harry Zen Stanton (2006)
as Himself
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders (1990)
as Self
Sick of it All (2017)
as Harry The News Reporter
The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond (1975)
as President Warren G. Harding
Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas' (1990)
as Self