In 2010, Stanton appeared in an episode of the TV series Chuck, reprising his role from the 1984 film Repo Man. Harry Dean Stanton Repo Man l Repo Ran l Godfather 2 - YouTube September 15, 2017Los Angeles, California, U.S. Stanton died aged 91 on September 15, 2017, at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Iconic filmmaker David Lynch pays tribute to his friend Harry Dean at the Harry Dean Stanton Award Show on October 23, 2016. [8] He appeared in the Dwight Yoakam music video for "Sorry You Asked",[13] portrayed a cantina owner in a Ry Cooder video for "Get Rhythm",[13] and participated in the video for Bob Dylan's "Dreamin' of You". Stanton most recently starred as Carl Rodd in the 2017 mystery drama series Twin Peaks. Create New Account. He went to Lafayette High School and graduated from the University of Kentucky in Lexington in journalism and radio arts. Portrayed Stanton attended Lafayette High School[3] and the University of Kentucky in Lexington where he performed at the Guignol Theatre under the direction of British theater director Wallace Briggs,[4] and studied journalism and radio arts. He has more recently branched out in television with a recurring role in Big Love. Harry Dean Stanton, Actor: Alien. as F.B.I. He played Stoneman in the Have Gun – Will Travel 1959 episode "Treasure Trail", credited under Dean Stanton. He was a favorite actor of the directors Sam Peckinpah, John Milius, David Lynch, and Monte Hellman, and was also close friends with Francis Ford Coppola and Jack Nicholson. The Godfather Part II Baker died in 1981, aged 50. [2] He appeared (uncredited) as a complaining BAR man at the beginning of the 1959 film Pork Chop Hill starring Gregory Peck. [5] "I had to decide if I wanted to be a singer or an actor. [12], He had eight appearances between 1958 and 1968 on Gunsmoke, four on the network's Rawhide, three on The Untouchables, two on Bonanza, and an episode of The Rifleman. "I was telling him I was sick of the roles I was playing," Stanton recalled in a 1986 interview. Actor Harry Dean Stanton, who appeared in scores of classic films spanning more than 60 years, died Friday. The thieves then took off in the actor's car, but were soon apprehended after the car was traced by a tracking device. FBI Agent. Legendary character actor Harry Dean Stanton of "The Godfather: Part II" and "Pretty in Pink" has died. His family had a musical background. He appeared in many iconic films including Cool Hand Luke , The Godfather Part II and Alien before his breakout role as the protagonist of Paris, Texas. His agent said Friday that the legendary actor died in a Southern California hospital. He later had a cameo in Two and a Half Men (having previously appeared with Jon Cryer in Pretty in Pink and with Charlie Sheen in Red Dawn). [1] Stanton was the subject of a 2013 documentary, Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction, directed by Sophie Huber and featuring film clips, interviews with collaborators (including Wenders, Shepard, Kris Kristofferson, and David Lynch), and Stanton's singing. The Godfather Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. Sign Up. He had rare lead roles in Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas (1984) and Lucky (2017), his last film. Of those, only The Godfather: Part II (1974) won in the category. He made his film debut in 1957 in the Western Tomahawk Trail. In 2011, the Lexington Film League created an annual festival, the Harry Dean Stanton Fest, to honor Stanton in the city where he spent much of his adolescence. Harry Dean Stanton later co-starred in The Green Mile (1999), which has a character named Dean Stanton. He lived in Lexington, Kentucky and graduated from Lafayette Senior High School with the class of 1944. He studied at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California, where his classmates included his friends Tyler MacDuff and Dana Andrews. I had no inkling he was considering me for the lead in his movie. He also appeared in the Arnold Schwarzenegger action film The Last Stand (2013). He the… Stanton had two younger brothers, Archie, and Ralph, and a younger half-brother, Stan. David Baker (often referred to by his stage name James Murdock) was an American actor best known for his recurring role in the Western series Rawhide as Mushy. He was best man at Nicholson's wedding in 1962. [7][8], Stanton appeared in indie and cult films (Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, Escape from New York, Repo Man), as well as many mainstream Hollywood productions, including Cool Hand Luke, The Godfather Part II, Alien, Red Dawn, Alpha Dog, Pretty in Pink, Stephen King's Christine, and The Green Mile. He appeared in both starring and character roles in notable films such as ‘Repo Man,’ … Log In. The following year he had a minor role as a poetry-reciting beatnik in The Man from the Diner's Club. Character actor's movie and TV career spanned more than 60 years Character actor Harry Dean Stanton, who appeared in such films as "Cool Hand Luke," "Kelly's Heroes," "The … [21] Pop Will Eat Itself released a track titled "Harry Dean Stanton" on their album The Looks or the Lifestyle?. [2] His parents divorced when Stanton was in high school; both later remarried. Product Description The Godfather II ?Poster Hand-Signed by Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Diane Keaton, James Caan, Talia Shire, Robert Duvall, Harry Dean Stanton, Dominic Chianese, Lee Strasberg, Bruno Kirby, and Francis Ford Coppola Each piece is unique and individually Hand-Signed and may slightly vary from pictures shown or. He appeared in many iconic films including Cool Hand Luke, The Godfather Part II and Alien before his breakout role as the protagonist of Paris, Texas. Man #1 in The Godfather II (1974) Jump to. Paris, Texas. His lead role in the film Paris, Texas, was memorialized in Hayes Carll’s 2019 song "American Dream" with the lyrics, “like Harry Dean Stanton on a drive-in screen, a tumbleweed blowing through Paris, Texas, he fell down into the American dream.”[22], The first Harry Dean Stanton Fest was three days of film screenings including, "Lexington film festival honors Kentucky native Harry Dean Stanton", "Harry Dean Stanton, Character Actor Who Became a Star, Dies at 91", "Kentucky-born actor Harry Dean Stanton dies at 91", "Lexington Film League has a hit in the Harry Dean Stanton Festival", "Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland", "Harry Dean Stanton, cult American actor, dies aged 91", "Harry Dean Stanton, 'Big Love,' 'Twin Peaks' Star, Dies at 91", "Harry Dean Stanton's Best Musical Moments: From 'Cool Hand Luke' to a Telethon With Bob Dylan", "Harry Dean Stanton documentary to premiere at Kentucky Theatre | Neighbors", "Actor Crispin Glover to be guest speaker at Harry Dean Stanton festival", https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183431129/harry-dean-stanton, https://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/article.asp?xid=1224, Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry_Dean_Stanton&oldid=1013687461, United States Navy personnel of World War II, Short description is different from Wikidata, Turner Classic Movies person ID same as Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with multiple identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 22 March 2021, at 22:30. He made his film debut with ‘Tomahawk Trail’ in 1957. "I could have been a writer," he told an interviewer for a 2011 documentary, Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland, in which he sings and plays the harmonica. His rich body of work in show business, spanning more than six decades, established him as a prolific actor. https://godfather.fandom.com/wiki/Harry_Dean_Stanton?oldid=87129. FBI Agent Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926 – September 15, 2017) was an American actor and musician with a wide and varied career spanned over 60 years. Sections of this page. I was always singing. Briggs encouraged him to leave the university and become an actor. 5.Harry Dean Stanton appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar®: How the West Was Won (1962), The Godfather: Part II (1974) and The Green Mile (1999). The veteran actor, famed for his roles in Alien, The Godfather II and Twin Peaks, died 'peacefully' at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in … He is also known for his television role … Harry Dean Stanton (1926—2017) got his start in Hollywood in TV productions such as Zane Grey Theater and Gunsmoke.After a series of minor parts in forgettable westerns, he gradually began to get film roles that showcased his laid-back acting style, appearing in Cool Hand Luke (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), The Godfather: Part II (1974), and Alien (1979). [2] His last on-screen appearances are as a sheriff in Frank & Ava and a starring role as a 90-year-old man nicknamed "Lucky" and his struggles against encroaching old age in Lucky. [9], Stanton also occasionally toured nightclubs as a singer and guitarist, playing mostly country-inflected cover tunes. He is the eldest son of Ersel, a cook and Sheridan Harry Stanton, a tobacco farmer as well as a barber. Actor Harry Dean Stanton has died at the age of 91. Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926 – September 15, 2017) was an American actor, musician, and singer. Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926 – September 15, 2017) was an American actor and musician with a wide and varied career spanned over 60 years. 15 September 2017 (aged 91) Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926 – September 15, 2017) was an American actor, musician, and singer. Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926 – September 15, 2017) was an American actor and musician with a wide and varied career spanned over 60 years. The Godfather II and Pretty In Pink star passed away peacefully in hospital in Friday afternoon. Accessibility Help. Beginning in 2006, Stanton featured as Roman Grant, the manipulative leader/prophet of a polygamous sect on the HBO television series Big Love. "[11], Stanton was a favorite of film critic Roger Ebert, who said that "no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad." Early in his career he took the name Dean Stanton to avoid confusion with the actor Harry Stanton. "[10] Not long afterward, Shepard phoned him in Los Angeles to offer Stanton the part of the protagonist, Travis,[10] "a role that called for the actor to remain largely silent ... as a lost, broken soul trying to put his life back together and reunite with his estranged family after having vanished years earlier. I thought if I could be an actor, I could do all of it." A native of West Irvine, Stanton was born on July 14, 1926. Harry Dean Stanton stars as an FBI agent in the iconic senate hearing scene from Godfather part II Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) [3], Stanton had two younger brothers, Archie and Ralph, and a younger half-brother, Stanley McKnight. Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926 – September 15, 2017) was an American actor, musician, and singer. He played an FBI Agent alongside Harry Dean Stanton in The Godfather Part II. What caused our favorite villainous hero to die, of course, was the … ‘Inner Sanctum’ marked his television debut in 1954. See more of Harry Dean Stanton: Appreciation of 'Nothing' on Facebook. He appeared in many iconic films including Cool Hand Luke, The Godfather Part II and Alien before his breakout role as the protagonist of Paris, Texas. [6], During World War II, Stanton served in the United States Navy, including a stint as a cook aboard the USS LST-970, a Landing Ship, Tank, during the Battle of Okinawa. Stanton suffered only minor injuries. Then in 1962 he had a very small part in How the West Was Won, portraying one of Charlie Gant's (Eli Wallach) gang. Stanton was born in West Irvine, Kentucky, to Sheridan Harry Stanton, a tobacco farmer and barber and Ersel (née Moberly), a cook. Harry Dean Stanton has passed away at the age of 91. 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