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).

Filmography

• 2025Sinatra! Eternity — Sherif Lloyd
• 2018Frank and Ava — Sheriff Lloyd
• 2017Lucky — Lucky
• 2017Sick of it All — Harry The News Reporter
• 2014Carlos Spills the Beans — Rhino
• 2014Fishtail — Narrator
• 20139 Full Moons — Dimitri
• Getting On — Leonard Butler
• 2013The Last Stand — Mr. Parson
• 2012Seven Psychopaths — Man in Hat
• 2012The Avengers — Security Guard
• 2011Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
• Mongo Wrestling Alliance — Baron Kleberkuh (voice)
• 2011Rango — Balthazar (voice)
• 2011This Must Be the Place — Robert Plath
• 2010Athena — Bill
• 2010On Holiday — Josh the Roommate's Dad
• Alice — Caterpillar
• 2009The Open Road — Amon
• Chuck — Harry
• 2007The Good Life — Gus
• 2006Alien Autopsy — Harvey
• 2006Alpha Dog — Cosmo Gadabeeti
• Big Love — Roman Grant
• 2006Inland Empire — Freddie Howard
• 2006You, Me and Dupree — Curly (uncredited)
• 2005The Wendell Baker Story — Skip Summers
• 2004Chrystal — Pa Da
• 2004The Big Bounce — Bob Rogers, Sr.
• 2003Anger Management — Blind Man (uncredited)
• 2003Ginostra — Del Piero
• Two and a Half Men — Harry Dean Stanton
• 2002Sonny — Henry
• 2001The Animal — Hunter (uncredited)
• 2001The Pledge — Floyd Cage
• 2000Sand — Leo
• 2000The Man Who Cried — Felix Perlman
• 1999Ballad of the Nightingale — Jean-Paul
• 1999The Green Mile — Toot-Toot
• 1999The Straight Story — Lyle
• 1998A Civil Action — Land Watcher (uncredited)
• 1998Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — Judge
• 1998The Mighty — Grim
• 1997Fire Down Below — Cotton Harry
• 1997Midnight Blue — Eric
• 1997She's So Lovely — Tony 'Shorty' Russo
• Dead Man's Walk — Shadrach
• 1996Down Periscope — Lt. Howard
• E! True Hollywood Story
• 1996Playback — Ernie Fontenot
• 1995Never Talk to Strangers — Max Cheski
• 1995One Hundred and One Nights — Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
• 1994Against the Wall — Hal
• 1994Blue Tiger — Smith
• Hotel Room — Moe Boca
• 1992Cruise Control
• 1992Hostages — Frank Reed
• 1992Man Trouble — Redmond Layls
• 1992Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me — Carl Rodd
• 1991Payoff — Hook
• 1990The Fourth War — Gen. Hackworth
• Twin Peaks — Carl Rodd
• 1990Wild at Heart — Johnnie Farragut
• 1989Dream a Little Dream — Ike Baker
• 1989Monster Maker — Chancey Bellow
• The Jim Henson Hour — Chancey Bellow
• 1989Twister — Cleveland
• 1988Mr. North — Henry Simmons
• 1988Stars & Bars — Loomis Gage
• 1988The Cowboy and the Frenchman — Slim
• 1988The French as Seen by… — (Segment "The Cowboy and the Frenchman")
• 1988The Last Temptation of Christ — Paulus
• 1987Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle — Rip Van Winkle
• 1987Slam Dance — Det. Benjamin Smiley
• 1986Pretty in Pink — Jack Walsh
• 1985Fool for Love — Old Man
• 1985One Magic Christmas — Gideon
• 1985The Care Bears Movie — Brave Heart Lion (singing voice)
• 1984Paris, Texas — Travis
• 1984Red Dawn — Mr. Eckert
• 1984Repo Man — Bud
• 1984The Bear — Coach Thomas
• 1984UFOria — Brother Bud Sanders
• 1983Christine — Rudolph Junkins
• 1983I Want to Live — Emmett Perkins
• Faerie Tale Theatre — Rip Van Winkle
• 1982One from the Heart — Moe
• 1982Young Doctors in Love — Dr. Oliver Ludwig
• 1981Escape from New York — Harold 'Brain' Helman
• 1980Death Watch — Vincent Ferriman
• 1980Private Benjamin — Sgt. Jim Ballard
• 1980The Black Marble — Philo Skinner
• 1980The Oldest Living Graduate — Mike
• 1979Alien — Brett
• 1979Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers — C.W. Douglas
• 1979The Rose — Billy Ray
• 1979Wise Blood — Asa Hawks
• 1979Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand — Pokey Tindle
• 1978Renaldo and Clara — Lafkezio
• 1978Straight Time — Jerry Schue
• Laverne & Shirley
• Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman — Jake Walters
• 1976The Missouri Breaks — Calvin
• 197592 in the Shade — Carter
• 1975Farewell, My Lovely — Billy Rolfe
• 1975Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins — Billy Winston
• 1975Rancho Deluxe — Curt
• 1975The Fortune — Prisoner in Holding Cell (uncredited)
• 1975The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond — President Warren G. Harding
• 1975The Ransom of Red Chief — Sam
• 1975Win, Place or Steal — Jack
• 1974Cockfighter — Jack Burke
• 1974The Godfather Part II — F.B.I. Man #1
• 1974Where the Lilies Bloom — Kiser Pease
• 1974Zandy's Bride — Songer
• 1973Dillinger — Homer Van Meter
• 1973Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid — Luke
• 1972Cisco Pike — Jesse Dupre
• 1972Cry for Me, Billy — Luke Todd
• 1971Two-Lane Blacktop — Oklahoma Hitchhiker
• 1970Kelly's Heroes — Pvt. Willard
• 1970Rebel Rousers — Randolph Halverson
• 1970The Intruders — Whit Dykstra (as Dean Stanton)
• 1969Lanton Mills — Lanton
• Adam-12 — Harry Fletcher
• 1968Day of the Evil Gun — Sergeant Parker
• 1968The Mini-Skirt Mob — Spook
• The Name of the Game — Joe Joe
• 1967A Time for Killing — Sgt. Dan Way
• Cimarron Strip — Luther Happ
• 1967Cool Hand Luke — Tramp
• Mannix
• The Guns of Will Sonnett
• The High Chaparral — Johnny Faro
• 1967The Hostage — Eddie (as Dean Stanton)
• 1966Ride in the Whirlwind — Blind Dick
• 1966The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones — Jelly
• The Big Valley — Swain
• Daniel Boone — Jeb Girty, Crane
• Petticoat Junction
• The Fugitive — Randy
• 1963The Man from the Diners' Club — Beatnik (uncredited)
• Combat! — Pvt. Beecham
• 1962Hero's Island — Dixey Gates
• 1962How the West Was Won — Gant Henchman
• Stoney Burke
• Cain's Hundred — Hood
• Gunslinger — Stacey
• Checkmate — The Singer
• 1960Escape to Sonoita — Lemon
• 1960The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Slave Catcher
• The Andy Griffith Show — Proprietor
• The Roaring 20's
• 1959A Dog's Best Friend — Roy Janney
• Bonanza — Billy, Stiles
• Johnny Ringo — Frank Brogger
• Laramie
• Lock-Up
• 1959Pork Chop Hill — BAR Soldier (uncredited)
• Rawhide — Jess Hobson, Dexter, Joe Spanish
• 1959The Jayhawkers! — Deputy Smallwood
• The Lawless Years
• Bat Masterson — Jay Simms
• Man with a Camera
• The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen — George Gilbert
• 1958The Proud Rebel — Jeb Burleigh
• The Rifleman
• The Texan
• Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse — Gordon
• Have Gun, Will Travel
• 1957Revolt at Fort Laramie — Rinty
• Suspicion — Bill
• The Walter Winchell File
• 1957Tomahawk Trail — Pvt. Miller
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Robert MacPherson, Toby - Ranch Hand, Fletcher
• 1956The Wrong Man — Department of Corrections Employee (uncredited)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Lemon
• Gunsmoke — Alvy, Harley, Leroy, Nate, Young Man, Leader, Rainey, Hodge
• Playwrights '56
• Inner Sanctum
• The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

Appearances as themselves (24)

• 2022American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective — Self
• 2020Wim Wenders, Desperado — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Walking the Mile — Self (archive footage)
• 2013Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction — Self
• 2012Char·ac·ter — Self
• 2007Being Michael Madsen — Self
• 2007Lynch 2 — Self
• 2007Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project — Self
• 2006Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride — Self
• 2006Harry Zen Stanton — Himself
• 2004Dig! — Self
• 2004Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade — Self
• 2003Bukowski: Born Into This — Self
• 2003Hunter Goes to Hollywood — Himself
• 2003Return to 'Escape from New York' — Himself
• 2003The Beast Within: Making Alien — Self
• 2002The Short Films of David Lynch — Self
• 1999Stephen King: Shining in the Dark — Self
• 1993Warren Oates: Across the Border — Self
• 1990Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders — Self
• 1990Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas' — Self
• 1988Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night — Self - Audience Member
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host