Harry Dean Stanton

At 91 years old, Harry Dean Stanton has this physical status:

Career

Stanton appeared in indie and cult films (Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, Repo Man, Repo Man) as well as mainstream Hollywood films, including Cool Hand Luke, The Godfather Part II, Alien, Red Dawn, Alpha Dog, Stephen King's Christine, and The Green Mile. He was a favorite actor of the directors Sam Peckinpah, John Milius, David Lynch, Monte Hellman, and Monte Hellman, as well as Francis Ford Coppola and Jack Nicholson. In 1962, he was the best man at Nicholson's wedding.

In Inner Sanctum, he made his first television appearance in 1954. In the Have Gun – Will Travel 1959 episode "Major Trail," he appeared as Stoneman, who was credited under Dean Stanton. In 1957, he made his film debut in the Western Tomahawk Trail. At the start of Gregory Peck's 1959 film Pork Chop Hill, he appeared (uncredited) as a screaming BAR man. In 1962, then played a small part in How the West Was Won, portrayeding one of Charlie Gant's (Eli Wallach) gang. In The Man from the Diner's Club, he had a small part in a poetry-reciting beatnik for a year. Dean Stanton began his career as a young boy, avoiding confusion with actor Harry Stanton.

In Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas, his breakthrough role came as a lead actor. When both were at a film festival in that town, playwright Sam Shepard, who wrote the film's script, saw Stanton in a bar in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1983. The two people began to talk. In a 1986 interview, Stanton recalled, "I was telling him I was sick of the parts I was playing." "I told him I wanted to do something of a certain beauty or sensibility." I had no idea he was considering me for the lead in his film. "Shepard phoned Stanton in Los Angeles to ask him to stay largely silent... as a struggling, broken soul attempting to reunite with his estranged family after being exiled years earlier" after being "an actor who had vanished years before.

Stanton was a favorite of film critic Roger Ebert, who said that "no film starring Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role might be all wrong." However, Ebert later admitted that Dream a Little Dream (1989), in which Stanton appeared, was a "clear breach" of this rule.

Between 1958 and 1968, he appeared on Gunsmoke, four on the network's Rawhide, three on Bonanza, and three on The Rifleman. He appeared in Two and a Half Men after appearing in Pretty in Pink and with Charlie Sheen in Red Dawn. Stanton appeared on the HBO television series Big Love as Roman Grant, the manipulative leader/prophet of a polygamous sect.

Stanton has appeared in nightclubs as a singer and guitarist, as well as playing mainly country-inflected cover tunes. In a Ry Cooder video for "Get Rhythm," he portrayed a cantina owner and starred in Bob Dylan's "Dreamin' of You" and appeared in "Dwight Yokam's "Dear You Asked." Dylan, Art Garfunkel, and Kris Kristofferson were among them, and he appeared on The Call's 1989 album Let the Day Begin.

Stanton appeared in an episode of Chuck in 2010, reprising his role in the 1984 film Repo Man. Stanton was honored in the city where he spent a significant portion of his childhood in 2011. The Lexington Film League produced the Harry Dean Stanton Festival in 2011. He appeared in The Avengers for a brief period and was instrumental in the movie The Seven Psychopaths. He appeared in Arnold Schwarzenegger's adventure film The Last Stand (2013). Stanton was the star of a 2013 documentary film, Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction, directed by Sophie Huber and starring film clips, interviews with collaborators (including Wenders, Shepard, Kris Kristofferson, and David Lynch), as well as Stanton's singing.

He appeared in Twin Peaks: The Return, a sequel to David Lynch's 1990-91 television series, in 2017. Stanton reprised his role as Carl Rodd from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. In Lucky, his last on-screen appearances were as a sheriff and a starring role as a 90-year-old man named "Lucky" and his attempts to fight the creeping old age.

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