
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 · Dan 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).
Known For
TV Shows (53)

Two and a Half Men
2003
as Harry Dean Stanton

Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host

Bonanza
1959
as Billy / Stiles

The Andy Griffith Show
1960
as Proprietor

Twin Peaks
1990
as Carl Rodd

The Fugitive
1963
as Randy

Mannix
1967

Adam-12
1968
as Harry Fletcher

Chuck
2007
as Harry

The Rifleman
1958

Have Gun, Will Travel
1957

Petticoat Junction
1963

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
1976
as Jake Walters

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Robert MacPherson / Toby - Ranch Hand / Fletcher

Combat!
1962
as Pvt. Beecham

Rawhide
1959
as Jess Hobson / Dexter / Joe Spanish

Daniel Boone
1964
as Jeb Girty / Crane

The Big Valley
1965
as Swain

Big Love
2006
as Roman Grant

Laverne & Shirley
1976

The High Chaparral
1967
as Johnny Faro

The Name of the Game
1968
as Joe Joe

Gunsmoke
1955
as Alvy / Harley / Nate / Leroy / Young Man / Leader / Rainey / Hodge

Bat Masterson
1958
as Jay Simms

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Lemon

The Texan
1958

Laramie
1959

Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as Rip Van Winkle

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
as Gordon

Checkmate
1960
as The Singer

Lock-Up
1959

The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967

Cain's Hundred
1961
as Hood

Johnny Ringo
1959
as Frank Brogger

Stoney Burke
1962

Cimarron Strip
1967
as Luther Happ

Suspicion
1957
as Bill

The Roaring 20's
1960

Getting On
2013
as Leonard Butler

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1954

The Lawless Years
1959

The Jim Henson Hour
1989
as Chancey Bellow
Playwrights '56
1955

Inner Sanctum
1954

Man with a Camera
1958

The Walter Winchell File
1957

Gunslinger
1961
as Stacey

The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
1958
as George Gilbert

Alice
2009
as Caterpillar

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 Godfather Part II
1974
as F.B.I. Man #1

The Green Mile
1999
as Toot-Toot

Alien
1979
as Brett

Rango
2011
as Balthazar (voice)

Escape from New York
1981
as Harold 'Brain' Helman

Paris, Texas
1984
as Travis

Christine
1983
as Rudolph Junkins

Cool Hand Luke
1967
as Tramp

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1992
as Carl Rodd

Anger Management
2003
as Blind Man (uncredited)

The Last Stand
2013
as Mr. Parson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998
as Judge

Red Dawn
1984
as Mr. Eckert

Pretty in Pink
1986
as Jack Walsh

Down Periscope
1996
as Lt. Howard

Wild at Heart
1990
as Johnnie Farragut

Seven Psychopaths
2012
as Man in Hat

Inland Empire
2006
as Freddie Howard

The Animal
2001
as Hunter (uncredited)

Kelly's Heroes
1970
as Pvt. Willard

How the West Was Won
1962
as Gant Henchman

The Straight Story
1999
as Lyle

The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
as Paulus

The Pledge
2001
as Floyd Cage

Fire Down Below
1997
as Cotton Harry

Repo Man
1984
as Bud

Alpha Dog
2006
as Cosmo Gadabeeti

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
as Luke

This Must Be the Place
2011
as Robert Plath

Private Benjamin
1980
as Sgt. Jim Ballard

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self

Cisco Pike
1972
as Jesse Dupre

A Civil Action
1998
as Land Watcher (uncredited)

Farewell, My Lovely
1975
as Billy Rolfe

Dillinger
1973
as Homer Van Meter

Young Doctors in Love
1982
as Dr. Oliver Ludwig

The Mighty
1998
as Grim

Blue Tiger
1994
as Smith

Stars & Bars
1988
as Loomis Gage

You, Me and Dupree
2006
as Curly (uncredited)

UFOria
1984
as Brother Bud Sanders

Sand
2000
as Leo

One from the Heart
1982
as Moe

The Wendell Baker Story
2005
as Skip Summers

Straight Time
1978
as Jerry Schue

The Big Bounce
2004
as Bob Rogers, Sr.

The Jayhawkers!
1959
as Deputy Smallwood

Lucky
2017
as Lucky

The Proud Rebel
1958
as Jeb Burleigh

Dream a Little Dream
1989
as Ike Baker

The Wrong Man
1956
as Department of Corrections Employee (uncredited)

Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
1979
as C.W. Douglas

Dig!
2004
as Self

The Man Who Cried
2000
as Felix Perlman

Never Talk to Strangers
1995
as Max Cheski

The Care Bears Movie
1985
as Brave Heart Lion (singing voice)

She's So Lovely
1997
as Tony 'Shorty' Russo

Sonny
2002
as Henry

The Missouri Breaks
1976
as Calvin

Cockfighter
1974
as Jack Burke

One Hundred and One Nights
1995
as Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)

Playback
1996
as Ernie Fontenot

Chrystal
2004
as Pa Da

Being Michael Madsen
2007
as Self

The French as Seen by…
1988
as (Segment "The Cowboy and the Frenchman")

Man Trouble
1992
as Redmond Layls

Tomahawk Trail
1957
as Pvt. Miller

Death Watch
1980
as Vincent Ferriman

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
1988
as Self - Audience Member

Rancho Deluxe
1975
as Curt

One Magic Christmas
1985
as Gideon

Slam Dance
1987
as Det. Benjamin Smiley

Pork Chop Hill
1959
as BAR Soldier (uncredited)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1960
as Slave Catcher

The Rose
1979
as Billy Ray

Two-Lane Blacktop
1971
as Oklahoma Hitchhiker

Alien Autopsy
2006
as Harvey

The Hostage
1967
as Eddie (as Dean Stanton)

Where the Lilies Bloom
1974
as Kiser Pease

Rebel Rousers
1970
as Randolph Halverson

Payoff
1991
as Hook

Warren Oates: Across the Border
1993
as Self

The Fourth War
1990
as Gen. Hackworth

The Fortune
1975
as Prisoner in Holding Cell (uncredited)

Mr. North
1988
as Henry Simmons

The Intruders
1970
as Whit Dykstra (as Dean Stanton)

Revolt at Fort Laramie
1957
as Rinty

Twister
1989
as Cleveland

American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective
2022
as Self
Escape to Sonoita
1960
as Lemon

A Time for Killing
1967
as Sgt. Dan Way

Lanton Mills
1969
as Lanton

Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
1999
as Self

Ride in the Whirlwind
1966
as Blind Dick

9 Full Moons
2013
as Dimitri

Zandy's Bride
1974
as Songer

Hostages
1992
as Frank Reed

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007
as Self

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
2019
as Self (archive footage)

The Man from the Diners' Club
1963
as Beatnik (uncredited)

Wise Blood
1979
as Asa Hawks

The Open Road
2009
as Amon

The Good Life
2007
as Gus

Renaldo and Clara
1978
as Lafkezio

The Cowboy and the Frenchman
1988
as Slim

Against the Wall
1994
as Hal

Bukowski: Born Into This
2003
as Self

The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003
as Self

92 in the Shade
1975
as Carter

Walking the Mile
2014
as Self (archive footage)

The Black Marble
1980
as Philo Skinner

Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
as Self (archive footage)

On Holiday
2010
as Josh the Roommate's Dad

Day of the Evil Gun
1968
as Sergeant Parker

The Oldest Living Graduate
1980
as Mike

The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond
1975
as President Warren G. Harding

The Mini-Skirt Mob
1968
as Spook

Cruise Control
1992

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
2006
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 Godfather Part II (1974) — as F.B.I. Man #1
- The Green Mile (1999) — as Toot-Toot
- Alien (1979) — as Brett
- Rango (2011) — as Balthazar (voice)
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