Harry Dean Stanton
Date of birth: 1926-07-14
Place of birth: West Irvine, Kentucky, USA
Known for: Acting
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).
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The Godfather Part II
1974-12-20
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in
Cool Hand Luke
1967-11-01
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play
The Straight Story
1999-10-15
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle
Wild at Heart
1990-08-17
Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s
The Green Mile
1999-12-10
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses
Escape from New York
1981-05-23
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison
Paris, Texas
1984-07-16
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his
Inland Empire
2006-12-06
When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surrea
The Care Bears Movie
1985-03-23
The Care Bears team up with a troubled brother and sister who just moved to a new town to help a neg
Lynch 2
2007-08-14
Follow up of the Lynch documentary on the making of Inland Empire. Released as an extra on the Inlan
Farewell, My Lovely
1975-08-08
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge d
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998-05-22
Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas
Red Dawn
1984-08-10
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defen
Private Benjamin
1980-10-06
A sheltered young high society woman joins the US Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficu
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988-05-28
Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutio
Being Michael Madsen
2007-09-28
Actor Michael Madsen turns the tables on notorious paparazzo, Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of docume
Pretty in Pink
1986-02-28
Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she wor
The Pledge
2001-01-19
A police chief, about to retire, pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer.
Kelly's Heroes
1970-06-22
A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
Alpha Dog
2006-01-27
Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug deale
The Good Life
2007-01-20
A movie about the travails of Jason (Mark Webber), a young gas station attendant and movie projectio
UFOria
1984-07-10
Sheldon Bart (Fred Ward) is a drifter, and a small-time con man. He meets his old friend, Brother Bu
The Wrong Man
1956-12-22
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mista
Straight Time
1978-03-18
After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by
Against the Wall
1994-03-26
In 1971, a warden at Attica Penitentiary is caught up in a hostage crisis when inmates take over the
The Avengers
2012-04-25
When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of th
How the West Was Won
1962-11-02
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the en
Christine
1983-12-09
Nerdy high schooler Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes ob
The Wendell Baker Story
2005-08-03
Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly resident
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
2006-12-12
A personal, intimate look at journalist Hunter S. Thompson with a special emphasis on his Hollywood
Down Periscope
1996-03-01
Maverick Navy Lieutenant Commander Tom Dodge will never be a textbook officer, but he's a brilliant
Alien Autopsy
2006-04-07
Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a
Day of the Evil Gun
1968-03-01
Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!
The Mighty
1998-06-01
Kevin, an intelligent guy helps out Maxwell to improve his reading skills. In return, Kevin wants Ma
Two-Lane Blacktop
1971-07-07
A driver and mechanic drag racing for money cross paths with a female hitchhiker and a drifter who c
Cockfighter
1974-08-01
A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship.
One Magic Christmas
1985-11-22
Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakabl
Sonny
2002-10-26
New Orleans, 1981. Sonny Phillips, just discharged from the Army, returns home. The only life he's k
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
1988-01-03
Recorded live at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, Roy is joined by an eclectic ensemble of rock and
Dillinger
1973-07-20
After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of th
Repo Man
1984-03-02
A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his ne
A Civil Action
1998-12-25
Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to 'get rid of' a case, only to find out it is pote
One from the Heart
1982-02-11
In a dazzling, dreamlike Las Vegas, longtime couple Hank and Frannie break up on their fifth anniver
Wise Blood
1979-10-24
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He
The Missouri Breaks
1976-05-19
When vigilante land baron David Braxton hangs one of the best friends of cattle rustler Tom Logan, L
Rancho Deluxe
1975-03-14
Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in contempo
Rebel Rousers
1970-04-01
In a small, US costal town with many Spanish speakers, a motorcycle gang arrives on holiday. Also in
Ride in the Whirlwind
1966-10-23
Three cowboys, mistaken for members of an outlaw gang, are relentlessly pursued by a posse.
Rango
2011-03-02
When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the l
She's So Lovely
1997-08-29
After being released from a psychiatric institution, a man tries to redeem himself in the eyes of hi
92 in the Shade
1975-08-22
A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter busi
The Rose
1979-11-07
Rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster's romantic relationships and mental health are continuously im
Young Doctors in Love
1982-07-16
An 'Airplane!'-style spoof of hospital soap operas—a brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight o
The Fourth War
1990-03-08
Cold War adversaries Col. Jack Knowles and his Russian counterpart, Col. Valachev, are stationed on
The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003-12-02
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew tra
Fool for Love
1985-12-06
A woman is waiting in a motel for her boyfriend, when an old flame turns up and tries to take her ba
Cisco Pike
1971-11-02
A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of con
The Black Marble
1980-03-07
When alcoholic homicide investigator Valnikov is transferred to a burglary case that seems to involv
The Last Stand
2013-01-12
Ray Owens is sheriff of the quiet US border town of Sommerton Junction after leaving the LAPD follow
This Must Be the Place
2011-08-24
A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
1979-02-10
This engaging made-for-television movie follows the adventures of Ginny "Sweetie Pie" LaRosa (Kim Da
Mr. North
1988-07-22
Mr. North, a stranger to a small, but wealthy, Rhode Island town, quickly has rumors started about h
Seven Psychopaths
2012-10-12
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld aft
Twister
1989-06-30
An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriar
Zandy's Bride
1974-05-19
Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respec
Slam Dance
1987-10-02
When framed for the murder of a sultry blonde, an underground cartoonist is drawn into a web of corr
The Hostage
1967-10-23
The Hostage is a 1967 Crown International low-budget motion picture starring Don O'Kelly, James Alma
The Mini-Skirt Mob
1968-05-23
Driven by jealousy, the jilted leader of a female motorcycle gang instigates a sadistic reign of ter
The Proud Rebel
1958-07-01
Searching for a doctor who can help him get his son to speak again--the boy hadn't uttered a word si
Revolt at Fort Laramie
1957-03-01
At the breaking of the Civil War the garrison of Fort Laramie splits between the sympathezers of the
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
1975-02-02
Hapless driving instructor and former Gunnery Sergeant Rafferty, living in squalor near Hollywood, C
Where the Lilies Bloom
1974-04-10
A family of children decide not to tell anyone their father has died, and to live on their own in th
Stars & Bars
1988-03-18
A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013-09-11
An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, fi
Monster Maker
1989-01-23
A young boy wants to work with a famous creature/fx man but gets more than he bargained when one of
9 Full Moons
2013-06-06
Frankie is an emotional train wreck, careening around the East Los Angeles music scene drinking and
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
1999-09-09
A documentary looking at the life and work of Stephen King.
Hero's Island
1962-09-16
A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates.
Playback
1996-09-21
Karen --a beautiful, ambitious, ruthless, senior executive-- is determined to take over this merger
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
2011-02-11
Fellow actors and musicians, film critics, and his Kentucky relatives tell the story of noted charac
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004-07-25
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist
The Bear
1984-09-28
Biopic about the great college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant of the University of Alabama
Cruise Control
1992-10-01
Cruise Control is a 1992 English language short film directed by Matt Palmieri, starring Ed Begley J
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
1979-12-26
Ben Maverick (Charles Frank) inherits the poker hand of a friend who died during a high stakes game.
Fishtail
2014-04-17
The iconic voice and noble philosophies proffered by Harry Dean Stanton punctuate this authentic loo
Char·ac·ter
2012-11-30
A raw and candid dialogue about the life and craft of acting between longtime colleagues and friends
Renaldo and Clara
1978-01-25
Filmed in the autumn of 1975 prior to and during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour – featuring
Dream a Little Dream
1989-03-03
Bobby Kellar has a crush on Lainie Diamond, girlfriend of school jerk Joel. Coleman is working on an
Blue Tiger
1994-04-03
Gena is a sweet and dedicated mother to her little son. One day, whilst shopping with him for a hall
Dig!
2004-05-14
A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy W
American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective
2022-08-15
An intimate, soul-baring new documentary covering the life and 40+ year career of actor and poet Mic
Cry for Me, Billy
1972-08-01
Drifter falls in love with Native American girl, with tragic results.
Never Talk to Strangers
1995-10-20
Sarah Taylor, a police psychologist, meets a mysterious and seductive young man, Tony Ramirez, and f
Fire Down Below
1997-09-05
When an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, EPA undercover agent Jack T
The Dangerous Days Of Kiowa Jones
1966-12-25
A dying marshal deputizes a drifter to deliver the two killers in his custody to prison. However, th
The Intruders
1970-11-10
The James and Younger outlaw gangs ride into town, and it is up to the local marshal, who has lost b
Man Trouble
1992-07-17
A sleazy but affable guard dog trainer is blackmailed to steal a manuscript for a tell-all book from
Escape to Sonoita
1960-06-26
Two kidnappers think they have made their escape when they hijack a tanker in the dry desert, leavin
The Cowboy and the Frenchman
1988-10-26
A grizzled, hard-of-hearing cowboy, Slim, and his two friends, Dusty and Pete, capture a mysterious,
A Time for Killing
1967-08-01
During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican borde
Walking the Mile
2014-12-09
Full-length documentary about the making of Frank Darabont's drama, The Green Mile, based on Stephen
The French as Seen by…
1988-10-26
In 1988, Figaro magazine asked a few famous directors to direct a series of short movies to celebrat
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973-05-23
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring d
The Man from the Diners' Club
1963-04-17
Meek credit card company clerk Ernest Klenk is feeling the pressure of demanding coworkers, new comp
The Oldest Living Graduate
1980-04-07
Henry Fonda stars as Col. J. C. Kincaid, crusty patriarch of a Texas family. Kincaid's weak-willed s
The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond
1975-03-27
The curse of the legendary blue Hope Diamond on all its owners is dramatized from the gem's discover
Carlos Spills the Beans
2014-01-03
What happens when you grow up in a rich, dysfunctional, white trash family that runs a restaurant th
Alien
1979-05-25
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a di
Payoff
1991-01-10
A kid unknowingly carries a bomb to his parents. When they get killed he is traumatized. Many hellis
The Open Road
2009-02-07
Minor leaguer Carlton Garret takes an unexpected road trip to track down his estranged father, legen
The Big Bounce
2004-01-30
A small-time con artist and a Hawaiian real estate developer's mischievous, enterprising mistress te
Lucky
2017-09-29
Follows the journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map
Sick of it All
2017-01-17
Antony, a stressed out, grown up, toy collector, has lost his youthful ways. Perhaps he lost his vig
Bukowski: Born Into This
2003-01-18
Director John Dullaghan’s biographical documentary about infamous poet Charles Bukowski, Bukowski: B
Ballad of the Nightingale
1999-05-07
A down-on-her luck prostitute embarks on a wild adventure that puts her in contact with the Mafia.
The Man Who Cried
2000-08-29
A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a
Midnight Blue
1997-04-21
Shortly before he moves from New York to Los Angeles a banker visits his Atlanta branch. One evening
Pork Chop Hill
1959-05-29
Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry
Hostages
1992-09-23
True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush er
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007-10-13
The documentary consists of tape of Don's show (never been filmed before), interviews with Don's con
The Animal
2001-06-01
When loser Marvin Mange is involved in a horrible car accident, he's brought back to life by a deran
Frank and Ava
2020-12-07
A destitute Frank Sinatra pursues sultry starlet Ava Gardner while campaigning for the lead in 'From
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1992-06-03
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while
Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'
1990-04-25
Documentary about the making of Wim Wenders' 1984 film, with interviews conducted in 1989.
Chrystal
2004-02-26
Many years after a devastating accident that took the life of his only son and permanently injured h
A Dog's Best Friend
1959-12-20
A young orphan rejects his foster parents and instead turns to a German shepherd whose master was re
Win, Place or Steal
1975-02-01
Three friends have two things in common: (1) they like to bet on the horses at the track, and (2) th
Lanton Mills
1969-11-03
Two cowboy desperados attempt to hold up a modern-day bank in this absurd western.
Tomahawk Trail
1957-02-01
Led by an incompetent Lieutenant, a troop of soldiers is on the Tomahawk Trail in Apache territory.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1960-07-21
From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone o
The Fortune
1975-05-20
A couple of bumbling 1920s hustlers attempt to obtain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop t
The Jayhawkers!
1959-10-15
Before the U.S. Civil War rebel leader Luke Darcy sees himself as leader of a new independent Republ
Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle
1987-03-23
Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Washington Irving’s classic tale about Rip Van Winkle, a carefr
Hunter Goes to Hollywood
2003-02-18
Hunter Thompson visits the set of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Harry Zen Stanton
2006-01-24
Iconoclastic character actor Harry Dean Stanton talks about his philosophy on both life and acting.
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
1990-04-25
Though very polite and British, this feature-length documentary about German filmmaker Wim Wenders o
Sand
2000-11-27
A young man tries running from his past by hiding from his two violent brothers, only to have them t
Anger Management
2003-04-11
After a small misunderstanding aboard an airplane escalates out of control, timid businessman Dave B
The Ransom of Red Chief
1975-11-01
Two con artists kidnap a young boy for ransom. The boy, who calls himself Red Chief, becomes a prob
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
2019-09-06
With one of the most memorably stunning voices that has ever hit the airwaves, Linda Ronstadt burst
You, Me and Dupree
2006-07-13
After standing in as best man for his longtime friend Carl Petersen, Randy Dupree loses his job, bec
Ginostra
2003-01-29
An FBI Agent from America and his bride and young child travel to the Sicilian island of Ginostra to
Death Watch
1980-01-23
In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the c
Athena
2010-04-21
Chuck, a loner who had better days, runs a Halliday store in the middle of Californian desert. Custo
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020-07-16
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wende
One Hundred and One Nights
1995-01-25
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he en
I Want to Live
1983-05-09
The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condem
On Holiday
2010-03-02
A young man named Peyton moves to Los Angeles with his girlfriend. Over the course of three years an
Warren Oates: Across the Border
1993-11-10
A retrospective of the work of the late actor Warren Oates, with clips from his films and interviews
Sinatra! Eternity
The movie Sinatra Eternity narrates the stormy relationship between Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner. T
The Short Films of David Lynch
2002-06-01
A collection of visionary director David Lynch's short films from the first 29 years of his career i
Return to 'Escape from New York'
2003-12-16
Retrospective documentary on the making of John Carpenter's science fiction cult classic "Escape fro