HARRY DEAN STANTON
July 14, 1926 – September 15, 2017 (age 91)
Cause of Death: Natural Causes
Stanton was an actor that crossed genres. Horror, westerns, comedy, and drama, the man filled any shoes he needed to. The bigger movies he first appeared in were titles like “How The West Was Won” (1962), “In The Heat Of The Night” (1967), and “Cool Hand Luke” (1967) but the first films I would recognize him from would be “The Godfather Part II” (1974) and “Alien” (1979). Stanton is the second actor from “Alien” that we lost this year, with John Hurt passing away in January. He also worked alongside Bill Paxton, who also passed away this year, on the television series “Big Love.” Stanton worked with many great directors, including David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, and Ridley Scott. He would show up in two different adaptations of Stephen King novels, with his roles in “Christine” and “The Green Mile.” His final role would be on Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” earlier this year, reprising his role of Carl Rodd.
HARRY DEAN STANTON’S FILMOGRAPHY
| 1956 | The Wrong Man |
Department of Corrections Employee (uncredited) |
| 1957 | Tomahawk Trail |
Private Miller |
| 1957 | Revolt at Fort Laramie |
Rinty (uncredited) |
| 1958 | The Proud Rebel | Jeb Burleigh |
| 1958 | Voice in the Mirror |
Hysterical Patient in Psychiatric Ward (uncredited) |
| 1959 | Pork Chop Hill |
U.S. Soldier with BAR (uncredited) |
| 1959 | The Jayhawkers! |
Deputy Smallwood (uncredited) |
| 1959 | A Dog’s Best Friend |
Roy Janney |
| 1960 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Slave Catcher |
| 1962 | How the West Was Won |
Gant Henchman (uncredited) |
| 1962 | Hero’s Island | Dixey Gates |
| 1963 | The Man from the Diners’ Club |
Poetry-reciting Beatnik (uncredited) |
| 1966 | Ride in the Whirlwind |
Blind Dick |
| 1967 | In the Heat of the Night |
Police officer |
| 1967 | The Hostage |
Eddie |
| 1967 | A Time for Killing |
Sgt. Dan Way |
| 1967 | Cool Hand Luke |
Tramp |
| 1968 | Day of the Evil Gun |
Sergeant Parker |
| 1968 | The Mini-Skirt Mob |
Spook |
| 1969 | Lanton Mills (short) |
Lanton |
| 1970 | The Rebel Rousers |
Randolph Halverson |
| 1970 | Kelly’s Heroes |
Willard |
| 1971 | Two-Lane Blacktop | Oklahoma Hitchhiker |
| 1971 | What’s the Matter with Helen? |
Malcolm Hays |
| 1972 | Cisco Pike |
Jesse Dupre |
| 1972 | Cry for Me, Billy |
Luke Todd |
| 1973 | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid |
Luke |
| 1973 | Dillinger | Homer Van Meter |
| 1974 | Where the Lilies Bloom | Kiser Pease |
| 1974 | Zandy’s Bride | Songer |
| 1974 | Cockfighter |
Jack Burke |
| 1974 | Win, Place or Steal | Jack |
| 1974 | The Godfather Part II |
FBI Agent |
| 1975 | Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins |
Billy Winston |
| 1975 | Rancho Deluxe |
Curt |
| 1975 | Farewell, My Lovely |
Detective Billy Rolfe |
| 1975 | The Fortune | Prisoner in Holding Cell (uncredited) |
| 1975 | 92 in the Shade | Carter |
| 1976 | The Missouri Breaks | Cal |
| 1978 | Renaldo and Clara | Lafkezio |
| 1978 | Straight Time |
Jerry Schue |
| 1978 | Up in Smoke |
Police officer |
| 1979 | Alien |
Brett |
| 1979 | Wise Blood |
Asa Hawks |
| 1979 | The Rose |
Billy Ray |
| 1980 | Death Watch |
Vincent Ferriman |
| 1980 | The Black Marble | Philo Skinner |
| 1980 | Private Benjamin |
1st Sergeant Jim Ballard |
| 1981 | Escape from New York |
Harold “Brain” Hellman |
| 1982 | One from the Heart |
Moe |
| 1982 | Young Doctors in Love |
Dr. Oliver Ludwig |
| 1983 | Christine |
Detective Rudolph “Rudy” Junkins |
| 1984 | Repo Man |
Bud |
| 1984 | Paris, Texas | Travis Henderson |
| 1984 | The Bear | Coach Thomas |
| 1984 | Red Dawn | Tom Eckert |
| 1985 | The Care Bears Movie |
Brave Heart Lion (voice) |
| 1985 | UFOria | Brother Bud Sanders |
| 1985 | One Magic Christmas |
Gideon |
| 1985 | Fool for Love |
Old Man |
| 1986 | Pretty in Pink |
Jack Walsh |
| 1987 | Slam Dance | Detective Benjamin Smiley |
| 1988 | Stars and Bars |
Loomis Gage |
| 1988 | Mr. North | Henry Simmons |
| 1988 | The Last Temptation of Christ | Saul/Paul of Tarsus |
| 1989 | Dream a Little Dream | Ike Baker |
| 1989 | Twister | Eugene Cleveland |
| 1990 | The Fourth War | General Hackworth |
| 1990 | Wild at Heart |
Johnnie Farragut |
| 1992 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | Carl Rodd |
| 1992 | Man Trouble |
Redmond Layls |
| 1992 | Cruise Control (short) | Roland |
| 1994 | Blue Tiger |
Smith |
| 1995 | Never Talk to Strangers | Max Cheski |
| 1995 | One Hundred and One Nights |
Hollywood actor (uncredited) |
| 1996 | Down Periscope | Howard |
| 1996 | Playback |
Ernie Fontenot |
| 1997 | She’s So Lovely | Tony “Shorty” Russo |
| 1997 | Fire Down Below |
Cotton Harry |
| 1997 | Midnight Blue | Eric |
| 1998 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
The Judge |
| 1998 | The Mighty | Elton “Grim” Pinneman |
| 1998 | A Civil Action |
Land Watcher (uncredited) |
| 1998 | Tobacco Blues (documentary) | Narrator |
| 1999 | The Straight Story |
Lyle Straight |
| 1999 | The Green Mile | Toot-Toot |
| 2000 | Sand |
Leo |
| 2000 | The Man Who Cried | Felix Perlman |
| 2001 | The Pledge |
Floyd Cage |
| 2001 | The Animal | The Hunter (uncredited) |
| 2002 | Ginostra |
Del Piero |
| 2002 | Sonny | Henry |
| 2003 | Anger Management |
Blind Man (uncredited) |
| 2004 | Chrystal | Pa Da |
| 2004 | The Big Bounce |
Bob Rogers, Sr. |
| 2004 | Dig! (documentary) |
Himself |
| 2005 | The Wendell Baker Story |
Skip Summers |
| 2006 | Alpha Dog | Cosmo Gadabeeti |
| 2006 | Alien Autopsy |
Harvey |
| 2006 | You, Me and Dupree | Curly (uncredited) |
| 2006 | Inland Empire |
Freddie Howard |
| 2007 | The Good Life | Gus |
| 2007 | Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project |
Private Willard |
| 2007 | Being Michael Madsen | Himself |
| 2009 | The Open Road |
Amon |
| 2010 | On Holiday | Josh the Roommate’s Dad |
| 2011 | Rango |
Balthazar (voice) |
| 2011 | This Must Be the Place | Robert Plath |
| 2012 | The Avengers |
Security Guard |
| 2012 | Seven Psychopaths | Quaker |
| 2012 | Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (documentary) |
Himself |
| 2013 | The Last Stand |
Farmer Parsons (uncredited) |
| 2013 | 9 Full Moons |
Dimitri |
| 2014 | The Pimp and the Rose (short) |
Harry |
| 2017 | Lucky |
Lucky |
HARRY DEAN STANTON’S TELEVISION APPEARANCES
| 1954 | Inner Sanctum |
Andrew | Episode: “Hour of Darkness” |
| 1957 | Suspicion | Bill | Episode: “Four O’Clock” |
| 1957 | The Walter Winchell File | Country Boy | Episode: “Country Boy” |
| 1958 | The Court of Last Resort | Unnamed character | Episode: “The Jacob Loveless Case” |
| 1958 | Panic! | Jerry | Episode: “Patrol” |
| 1958 | Decision | Simeon Dawson | Episode: “The Tall Man” |
| 1958 | The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin | Clint Dirkson | Episode: “Decision of Rin Tin Tin” |
| 1958 | Man with a Camera | Jerry | Episode: “Six Faces of Satan” |
| 1958–1959 | The Texan | Chad Bisbee / Frank Kaler | 2 Episodes |
| 1958–1959 | Rescue 8 | Landers / Skeets, Young Bum | 2 Episodes |
| 1958–1961 | Zane Grey Theater | Various | 4 Episodes |
| 1959 | Walt Disney Presents | Drew Griswold | Episode: “The Griswold Murder” |
| 1959 | Bat Masterson | Jay Simms | Episode: “Deadline” |
| 1959 | The D.A.’s Man | Barbo | Episode: “The Triangle” |
| 1959 | The Rifleman | Clemmie Martin | Episode: “Tension” |
| 1959 | The Lineup | Alfie | 2 Episodes |
| 1959 | Lock-Up | Tommy Fuller | Episode: “Writ of Terror” |
| 1959 | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | Rafe Daniels / Gordon | 2 Episodes |
| 1959–1961 | The Lawless Years | Various | 4 Episodes |
| 1959–1962 | Have Gun – Will Travel | Slim Wilder / Stoneman | 2 Episodes |
| 1959–1963 | Laramie | Various | 4 Episodes |
| 1959–1965 | Rawhide | Various | 4 Episodes |
| 1959–1968 | Gunsmoke |
Various | 8 Episodes |
| 1960 | The Man from Blackhawk | Sonny Blakey | Episode: “Diamond Cut Diamond” |
| 1960 | Johnny Ringo | Frank Brogger | Episode: “The Gunslinger” |
| 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Lemon | Episode: “Escape to Sonoita” |
| 1960–1961 | The Untouchables | Moxie / Picolo / Newspaper Seller | 3 Episodes |
| 1961 | Gunslinger | Stacey | Episode: “Zone” |
| 1961 | The Roaring 20’s | Fingers | Episode: “The Red Carpet” |
| 1961 | The Law and Mr. Jones | Harry Walker | Episode: “The Enemy” |
| 1961–1963 | Bonanza | Stiles / Billy | 2 Episodes |
| 1962 | Cain’s Hundred |
Hood #1 | Episode: “The Plush Jungle: Benjamin Riker” |
| 1962 | Checkmate |
The Singer | Episode: “The Heart Is a Handout” |
| 1962 | Stoney Burke | Dell Tindall | Episode: “Point of Honor” |
| 1962 | Combat! | Pvt. Beecham | Episode: “A Day in June” |
| 1963 | Big G | Nick Crider | Episode: “Nobody Dies on Saturday” |
| 1964–1969 | Daniel Boone |
Crane / Jeb Girty | 2 Episodes |
| 1965 | The Fugitive | Randy | Episode: “Moon Child” |
| 1965 | A Man Called Shenandoah | Quince Logan | Episode: “The Debt” |
| 1966 | The Big Valley | Swain | Episode: “By Force and Violence” |
| 1966 | Vacation Playhouse |
Dayton Skagg | Episode: “Frank Merriwell” |
| 1966 | The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones |
Jelly | Television movie |
| 1967 | The Wild Wild West | Lucius Brand | Episode: “The Night of the Hangman” |
| 1967 | The Guns of Will Sonnett |
J.J. Kates | Episode: “Meeting at Devil’s Fork” |
| 1967 | Cimarron Strip |
Luther Happ | Episode: “Till the End of Night” |
| 1967 | The Andy Griffith Show | Proprietor | Episode: “Howard’s New Life” |
| 1968 | The High Chaparral | Johnny Faro | Episode: “Gold Is Where You Leave It” |
| 1968 | The Virginian |
Clint Daggert | Episode: “Ride to Misadventure” |
| 1968 | Mannix |
Dean Hill | Episode: “Who Will Dig the Graves?” |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game |
Joe Joe | Episode: “Pineapple Rose” |
| 1969 | Adam-12 |
Henry Fletcher | Episode: “Log 22:…So This Little Guy Goes Into a Bar, and…” |
| 1969 | Petticoat Junction | Ringo | Episode: “One of Our Chickens Is Missing” |
| 1970 | The Intruders | Whit Dykstra | Television movie |
| 1975 | The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond |
President Warren G. Harding | Television movie |
| 1976–1977 | Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman |
Jake Walters | 4 Episodes |
| 1979 | Flatbed Annie & Sweetiepie: Lady Truckers | C.W. Douglas | Television movie |
| 1979–1980 | Young Maverick | Pokey Tindal | 2 Episodes |
| 1980 | The Oldest Living Graduate | Mike | Television movie |
| 1982 | Laverne & Shirley |
Johnny Velvet | Episode: “Star Peepers” |
| 1983 | I Want to Live! |
Emmett Perkins | Television movie |
| 1986 | Saturday Night Live | Himself (host) | Episode: “Harry Dean Stanton/The Replacements” |
| 1987 | Faerie Tale Theatre | Rip Van Winkle | Episode: “Rip Van Winkle” |
| 1987 | The Ransom of Red Chief | Sam | Television movie |
| 1988 | The French as Seen By… |
Slim | Television short |
| 1989 | The Jim Henson Hour | Chancey Bellow |
Episode: “Monster Maker” |
| 1991 | Payoff | Hook | Television movie |
| 1992 | Hostages | Frank Reed | Television movie |
| 1993 | Hotel Room | Moe | Episode: “Tricks” |
| 1994 | Against the Wall |
Hal | Television movie |
| 1996 | Dead Man’s Walk |
Shadrach | 3 Episodes |
| 2004 | Two and a Half Men |
Himself | Episode: “Back Off Mary Poppins” |
| 2006–2010 | Big Love |
Roman Grant | 37 Episodes |
| 2009 | Alice | Caterpillar | 2 Episodes |
| 2010 | Chuck |
Harry | Episode: “Chuck Versus the Anniversary” |
| 2011 | Mongo Wrestling Alliance | Baron Kleberkuh (voice) | 2 Episodes |
| 2013–2015 | Getting On | Leonard Butler | 3 Episodes |
| 2017 | Twin Peaks |
Carl Rodd | 5 Episodes |
