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{{short description|American actor, musician, and singer (1926–2017)}}
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| death_place = [[Los Angeles, California]], U.S.
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| alma_mater = [[University of Kentucky]]<br>[[Pasadena Playhouse]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Kentucky]]<br>[[Pasadena Playhouse]]
| occupation = Actor, musician, singer
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1954–2017
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'''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 film)|Dillinger]]'' (1973), ''[[The Godfather Part II]]'' (1974), ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'' (1979), ''[[Escape from New York]]'' (1981), ''[[Christine (1983 film)|Christine]]'' (1983), ''[[Repo Man (film)|Repo Man]]'' (1984), ''[[One Magic Christmas]]'' (1985), ''[[Pretty in Pink]]'' (1986), ''[[The Last Temptation of Christ (film)|The Last Temptation of Christ]]'' (1988), ''[[Wild at Heart (film)|Wild at Heart]]'' (1990), ''[[The Straight Story]]'' (1999), ''[[The Green Mile (film)|The Green Mile]]'' (1999), ''[[The Man Who Cried]]'' (2000), ''[[Alpha Dog]]'' (2006), ''[[Inland Empire (film)|Inland Empire]]'' (2006), ''[[Rango (2011 film)|Rango]]'' (2011), ''[[The Avengers (2012 film)|The Avengers]]'' (2012), and ''[[Seven Psychopaths]]'' (2012). He had rare lead roles in ''[[Paris, Texas (film)|Paris, Texas]]'' (1984) and in ''[[Lucky (2017 American film)|Lucky]]'' (2017).
'''Harry Dean Stanton''' (July 14, 1926 – September 15, 2017) was an American actor, musician, and singer.<ref>{{cite news |last=Copley |first=Rich |title=Lexington film festival honors Kentucky native Harry Dean Stanton |url=http://www.kentucky.com/2011/01/30/1616646/lexington-film-festival-honors.html |work=[[Lexington Herald-Leader]] |access-date=January 31, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110202234839/http://www.kentucky.com/2011/01/30/1616646/lexington-film-festival-honors.html |archive-date=February 2, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
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 film)|Dillinger]]'' (1973), ''[[The Godfather Part II]]'' (1974), ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'' (1979), ''[[Escape from New York]]'' (1981), ''[[Christine (1983 film)|Christine]]'' (1983), ''[[Repo Man (film)|Repo Man]]'' (1984), ''[[One Magic Christmas]]'' (1985), ''[[Pretty in Pink]]'' (1986), ''[[The Last Temptation of Christ (film)|The Last Temptation of Christ]]'' (1988), ''[[Wild at Heart (film)|Wild at Heart]]'' (1990), ''[[The Straight Story]]'' (1999), ''[[The Green Mile (film)|The Green Mile]]'' (1999), ''[[The Man Who Cried]]'' (2000), ''[[Alpha Dog]]'' (2006), and ''[[Inland Empire (film)|Inland Empire]]'' (2006). He had rare lead roles in ''[[Paris, Texas (film)|Paris, Texas]]'' (1984) and in ''[[Lucky (2017 American film)|Lucky]]'' (2017).


==Early life==
==Early life==
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Stanton had two younger brothers and a younger half-brother. His family had a musical background. Stanton attended [[Lafayette High School (Lexington, Kentucky)|Lafayette High School]]<ref name="Kentucky"/> and the [[University of Kentucky]] in [[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]] where he performed at the [[Grand Guignol|Guignol Theatre]] under the direction of theater director Wallace Briggs,<ref name=KY01>Copley, Rich, [http://www.kentucky.com/2012/05/17/2191095/lexington-film-league-has-a-hit.html "Lexington Film League has a hit in the Harry Dean Stanton Festival"], ''Lexington Herald-Leader'', May 17, 2012. Retrieved September 20, 2013.</ref> and studied journalism and radio arts. "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.<ref>{{cite episode |url=https://www.ket.org/episode/KMUSE%20000402/ |series=Kentucky Muse |title=Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland |station=[[Kentucky Educational Television]] |date=February 15, 2011 |access-date=September 16, 2017}}</ref> "I had to decide if I wanted to be a singer or an actor. I was always singing. I thought if I could be an actor, I could do all of it." Briggs encouraged him to leave the university and become an actor. He studied at the [[Pasadena Playhouse]] in [[Pasadena, California|Pasadena]], California, where his classmates included his friends [[Tyler MacDuff]] and [[Dana Andrews]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/15/harry-dean-stanton-actor-dies-paris-texas-alien-repo-man| newspaper=The Guardian| location=[[London]]| title=Harry Dean Stanton, cult American actor, dies aged 91| first=Andrew| last=Pulver| date=16 September 2017}}</ref>
Stanton had two younger brothers and a younger half-brother. His family had a musical background. Stanton attended [[Lafayette High School (Lexington, Kentucky)|Lafayette High School]]<ref name="Kentucky"/> and the [[University of Kentucky]] in [[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]] where he performed at the [[Grand Guignol|Guignol Theatre]] under the direction of theater director Wallace Briggs,<ref name=KY01>Copley, Rich, [http://www.kentucky.com/2012/05/17/2191095/lexington-film-league-has-a-hit.html "Lexington Film League has a hit in the Harry Dean Stanton Festival"], ''Lexington Herald-Leader'', May 17, 2012. Retrieved September 20, 2013.</ref> and studied journalism and radio arts. "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.<ref>{{cite episode |url=https://www.ket.org/episode/KMUSE%20000402/ |series=Kentucky Muse |title=Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland |station=[[Kentucky Educational Television]] |date=February 15, 2011 |access-date=September 16, 2017}}</ref> "I had to decide if I wanted to be a singer or an actor. I was always singing. I thought if I could be an actor, I could do all of it." Briggs encouraged him to leave the university and become an actor. He studied at the [[Pasadena Playhouse]] in [[Pasadena, California|Pasadena]], California, where his classmates included his friends [[Tyler MacDuff]] and [[Dana Andrews]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/15/harry-dean-stanton-actor-dies-paris-texas-alien-repo-man| newspaper=The Guardian| location=[[London]]| title=Harry Dean Stanton, cult American actor, dies aged 91| first=Andrew| last=Pulver| date=16 September 2017}}</ref>


During [[World War II]], Stanton served in the [[United States Navy]], including a stint as a cook aboard the [[USS LST-970|USS ''LST-970'']], a [[tank landing ship]], during the [[Battle of Okinawa]].<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.fold3.com/image/309281018| title=Navy Muster Roll for USS LST-970| publisher=www.fold3.com| date=November 1945|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="ewvalby"/>
During [[World War II]], Stanton served in the [[United States Navy]], including a stint as a cook aboard the [[USS LST-970|USS ''LST-970'']], a [[Landing Ship, Tank]], during the [[Battle of Okinawa]].<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.fold3.com/image/309281018| title=Navy Muster Roll for USS LST-970| publisher=www.fold3.com| date=November 1945|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="ewvalby"/>


==Career==
==Career==
Stanton appeared in [[independent film|indie]] and [[cult film|cult]] films (''[[Two-Lane Blacktop]]'', ''[[Cockfighter]]'', ''[[Escape from New York]]'', ''Repo Man'') as well as 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 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]]. He was [[Groomsman|best man]] at Nicholson's wedding in 1962.<ref name="Varietyobit">{{cite news| url=https://variety.com/2017/film/news/harry-dean-stanton-dead-dies-big-love-twin-peaks-1202560703/| title=Harry Dean Stanton, 'Big Love,' 'Twin Peaks' Star, Dies at 91| newspaper=Variety| access-date=16 September 2017}}</ref>
Stanton appeared in [[independent film|indie]] and [[cult film|cult]] films (''[[Two-Lane Blacktop]]'', ''[[Cockfighter]]'', ''[[Escape from New York]]'', ''[[Repo Man (film)|Repo Man]]'') as well as mainstream Hollywood productions, including ''[[Cool Hand Luke]]'', ''[[The Godfather Part II]]'', ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'', ''[[Red Dawn]]'', ''[[Pretty in Pink]]'', ''[[Alpha Dog]]'', Stephen King's ''[[Christine (1983 film)|Christine]]'', and ''[[The Green Mile (film)|The Green Mile]]''. 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]]. He was [[Groomsman|best man]] at Nicholson's wedding in 1962.<ref name="Varietyobit">{{cite news| url=https://variety.com/2017/film/news/harry-dean-stanton-dead-dies-big-love-twin-peaks-1202560703/| title=Harry Dean Stanton, 'Big Love,' 'Twin Peaks' Star, Dies at 91| newspaper=Variety| access-date=16 September 2017}}</ref>


He made his first television appearance in 1954 in ''Inner Sanctum''. He played Stoneman in the ''[[Have Gun – Will Travel]]'' 1959 episode "Treasure Trail", credited under Dean Stanton. He made his film debut in 1957 in the Western ''[[Tomahawk Trail]]''.<ref name="nytobit"/> He appeared (uncredited) as a complaining [[M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle|BAR]] man at the beginning of the 1959 film ''[[Pork Chop Hill (film)|Pork Chop Hill]]'' starring [[Gregory Peck]]. Then in 1962, he had a very small part in ''[[How the West Was Won (film)|How the West Was Won]]'', portraying one of Charlie Gant's ([[Eli Wallach]]) gang. The following year he had a minor role as a poetry-reciting beatnik in ''[[The Man from the Diner's Club]]''. Early in his career, he took the name Dean Stanton to avoid confusion with the actor Harry Stanton.<ref name="nytobit"/>
He made his first television appearance in 1954 in ''Inner Sanctum''. He played Stoneman in the ''[[Have Gun – Will Travel]]'' 1959 episode "Treasure Trail", credited under Dean Stanton. He made his film debut in 1957 in the Western ''[[Tomahawk Trail]]''.<ref name="nytobit"/> He appeared (uncredited) as a complaining [[M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle|BAR]] man at the beginning of the 1959 film ''[[Pork Chop Hill (film)|Pork Chop Hill]]'' starring [[Gregory Peck]]. Then in 1962, he had a very small part in ''[[How the West Was Won (film)|How the West Was Won]]'', portraying one of Charlie Gant's ([[Eli Wallach]]) gang. The following year he had a minor role as a poetry-reciting beatnik in ''[[The Man from the Diner's Club]]''. Early in his career, he took the name Dean Stanton to avoid confusion with the actor Harry Stanton.<ref name="nytobit"/>
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He had eight appearances between 1958 and 1968 on ''[[Gunsmoke]]'', four on the network's ''[[Rawhide (TV series)|Rawhide]]'', three on ''[[The Untouchables (1959 TV series)|The Untouchables]]'', two on ''[[Bonanza]]'', and an episode of ''[[The Rifleman]]''.
He had eight appearances between 1958 and 1968 on ''[[Gunsmoke]]'', four on the network's ''[[Rawhide (TV series)|Rawhide]]'', three on ''[[The Untouchables (1959 TV series)|The Untouchables]]'', two on ''[[Bonanza]]'', and an episode of ''[[The Rifleman]]''.
He played the wrongly accused Lucius Brand (credited as Dean Stanton) in "The Wild Wild West" S3 E7 "The Night of the Hangman" (1967). 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''). Beginning in 2006, Stanton featured as [[Roman Grant]], the manipulative leader/prophet of a polygamous sect on the HBO television series ''[[Big Love]]''.<ref name="Varietyobit"/>
He played the wrongly accused Lucius Brand (credited as Dean Stanton) in "The Wild Wild West" S3 E7 "The Night of the Hangman" (1967). 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''). Beginning in 2006, Stanton featured as Roman Grant, the manipulative leader/prophet of a polygamous sect on the HBO television series ''[[Big Love]]''.<ref name="Varietyobit"/>


Stanton also occasionally toured nightclubs as a singer and guitarist, playing mostly country-inflected cover tunes.<ref name="ewvalby">{{cite magazine |url=http://ew.com/movies/2006/05/26/talking-harry-dean-stanton/ |title=Harry Dean Stanton is wild at heart |first=Karen |last=Valby |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=May 26, 2006 |issn=1049-0434}}</ref> He appeared in the [[Dwight Yoakam]] music video for "Sorry You Asked",<ref name="Geek"/> portrayed a cantina owner in a [[Ry Cooder]] video for "Get Rhythm",<ref name="Geek"/> and participated in the video for [[Bob Dylan]]'s "[[Dreamin' of You (Bob Dylan song)|Dreamin' of You]]".<ref name="Geek">{{cite journal |url=http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/harry-dean-stanton/267601/harry-dean-stanton-dies-at-91| title=Harry Dean Stanton dies at 91| journal=[[Dennis Publishing|Den of Geek]]| last=Sokol| first=Tony| access-date=16 September 2017}}</ref> He worked with a number of musical artists, Dylan, [[Art Garfunkel]], and [[Kris Kristofferson]]<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7965903/harry-dean-stanton-singing-music-best-moments| title=Harry Dean Stanton's Best Musical Moments: From 'Cool Hand Luke' to a Telethon With Bob Dylan| newspaper=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]| first=Ashley| last=Iasimone| date=15 September 2017| access-date=12 August 2018}}</ref> among them, and played harmonica on [[The Call (band)|The Call's]] 1989 album ''Let the Day Begin''.<ref>{{cite news| last=Hughes| first=Rob| date=13 October 2010| url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/oct/13/michael-been-obituary| title=Muchael Been Obituary| newspaper=The Guardian| access-date=12 August 2018}}</ref>
Stanton also occasionally toured nightclubs as a singer and guitarist, playing mostly country-inflected cover tunes.<ref name="ewvalby">{{cite magazine |url=http://ew.com/movies/2006/05/26/talking-harry-dean-stanton/ |title=Harry Dean Stanton is wild at heart |first=Karen |last=Valby |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=May 26, 2006 |issn=1049-0434}}</ref> He appeared in the [[Dwight Yoakam]] music video for "Sorry You Asked",<ref name="Geek"/> portrayed a cantina owner in a [[Ry Cooder]] video for "Get Rhythm",<ref name="Geek"/> and participated in the video for [[Bob Dylan]]'s "[[Dreamin' of You (Bob Dylan song)|Dreamin' of You]]".<ref name="Geek">{{cite journal |url=http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/harry-dean-stanton/267601/harry-dean-stanton-dies-at-91| title=Harry Dean Stanton dies at 91| journal=[[Dennis Publishing|Den of Geek]]| last=Sokol| first=Tony| access-date=16 September 2017}}</ref> He worked with a number of musical artists, Dylan, [[Art Garfunkel]], and [[Kris Kristofferson]]<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7965903/harry-dean-stanton-singing-music-best-moments| title=Harry Dean Stanton's Best Musical Moments: From 'Cool Hand Luke' to a Telethon With Bob Dylan| newspaper=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]| first=Ashley| last=Iasimone| date=15 September 2017| access-date=12 August 2018}}</ref> among them, and played harmonica on [[The Call (band)|The Call's]] 1989 album ''Let the Day Begin''.<ref>{{cite news| last=Hughes| first=Rob| date=13 October 2010| url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/oct/13/michael-been-obituary| title=Muchael Been Obituary| newspaper=The Guardian| access-date=12 August 2018}}</ref>
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[[File:Harry Dean Stanton signing portrait.jpg|thumb|right|Stanton signing autographs in 2015]]
[[File:Harry Dean Stanton signing portrait.jpg|thumb|right|Stanton signing autographs in 2015]]


In 2010, Stanton appeared in an episode of the TV series ''[[Chuck (TV series)|Chuck]]'', reprising his role in the 1984 film ''Repo Man''. 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.<ref name="Kentucky"/>{{refn|The first Harry Dean Stanton Fest was three days of film screenings including ''Paris, Texas'', ''Repo Man'', ''Cool Hand Luke'', and the premiere of a PBS documentary by director [[Tom Thurman]] entitled ''Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland''.<ref name=KY01/> All screenings were held at the historic [[Kentucky Theater (Lexington)|Kentucky Theater]]. [[Hunter Carson]], Stanton's co-star in ''Paris, Texas'', attended the festival and conducted a Q&A following the film.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lexingtonfilmleague.org/2011.html |title=Past Events: 2011 |publisher=Lexington Film League |access-date=July 13, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.kentucky.com/2011/01/26/1611675/briefs-harry-dean-stanton-documentary.html |title=Harry Dean Stanton documentary to premiere at Kentucky Theatre &#124; Neighbors |work=Lexington Herald-Leader |date=January 26, 2011 |access-date=July 13, 2014}}</ref> The second annual Harry Dean Stanton Fest was held over a weekend in May 2012 at the Kentucky Theater and other venues in downtown Lexington. Festival co-producer Lucy Jones<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lexingtonfilmleague.org/co-producers.html |title=Co-Producers |publisher=Lexington Film League |access-date=July 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714201311/http://www.lexingtonfilmleague.org/co-producers.html |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> visited with Stanton in California and brought back a filmed greeting for the festival, with introductions to the films and talk about films he was working on. The May 2013 Stanton festival in Lexington included an appearance by [[Crispin Glover]], a co-star with Stanton in ''Wild at Heart'', the 1989 comedy ''Twister'' and the Lynch-directed HBO original series ''[[Hotel Room]]'' in 1993; and a pre-release screening of the documentary ''Partly Fiction''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hannon |first=Blake |url=http://www.kentucky.com/2013/05/26/2654046/actor-crispin-glover-to-be-guest.html |title=Actor Crispin Glover to be guest speaker at Harry Dean Stanton festival |newspaper=Lexington Herald-Leader |date=May 26, 2013}}</ref><ref name=KY01/>|group=nb}} In 2012, he had a brief cameo in ''[[The Avengers (2012 film)|The Avengers]]'' and a key role in the action-comedy ''[[Seven Psychopaths]]''. He also appeared in the [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] action film ''[[The Last Stand (2013 film)|The Last Stand]]'' (2013). 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.
In 2010, Stanton appeared in an episode of the TV series ''[[Chuck (TV series)|Chuck]]'', reprising his role in the 1984 film ''[[Repo Man (film)|Repo Man]]''. 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.<ref name="Kentucky"/>{{refn|The first Harry Dean Stanton Fest was three days of film screenings including ''Paris, Texas'', ''Repo Man'', ''Cool Hand Luke'', and the premiere of a PBS documentary by director [[Tom Thurman]] entitled ''Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland''.<ref name=KY01/> All screenings were held at the historic [[Kentucky Theater (Lexington)|Kentucky Theater]]. [[Hunter Carson]], Stanton's co-star in ''Paris, Texas'', attended the festival and conducted a Q&A following the film.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lexingtonfilmleague.org/2011.html |title=Past Events: 2011 |publisher=Lexington Film League |access-date=July 13, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.kentucky.com/2011/01/26/1611675/briefs-harry-dean-stanton-documentary.html |title=Harry Dean Stanton documentary to premiere at Kentucky Theatre &#124; Neighbors |work=Lexington Herald-Leader |date=January 26, 2011 |access-date=July 13, 2014}}</ref> The second annual Harry Dean Stanton Fest was held over a weekend in May 2012 at the Kentucky Theater and other venues in downtown Lexington. Festival co-producer Lucy Jones<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lexingtonfilmleague.org/co-producers.html |title=Co-Producers |publisher=Lexington Film League |access-date=July 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714201311/http://www.lexingtonfilmleague.org/co-producers.html |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> visited with Stanton in California and brought back a filmed greeting for the festival, with introductions to the films and talk about films he was working on. The May 2013 Stanton festival in Lexington included an appearance by [[Crispin Glover]], a co-star with Stanton in ''Wild at Heart'', the 1989 comedy ''[[Twister (1989 film)|Twister]]'' and the Lynch-directed HBO original series ''[[Hotel Room]]'' in 1993; and a pre-release screening of the documentary ''Partly Fiction''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hannon |first=Blake |url=http://www.kentucky.com/2013/05/26/2654046/actor-crispin-glover-to-be-guest.html |title=Actor Crispin Glover to be guest speaker at Harry Dean Stanton festival |newspaper=Lexington Herald-Leader |date=May 26, 2013}}</ref><ref name=KY01/>|group=nb}} In 2012, he had a brief cameo in ''[[The Avengers (2012 film)|The Avengers]]'' and a key role in the action-comedy ''[[Seven Psychopaths]]''. He also appeared in the [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] action film ''[[The Last Stand (2013 film)|The Last Stand]]'' (2013). 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.


In 2017, he appeared in ''[[Twin Peaks (season 3)|Twin Peaks: The Return]]'', a continuation of David Lynch's 1990–91 television series.<ref name="nytobit"/> Stanton reprised his role as Carl Rodd from ''[[Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me]]''.<ref name="nytobit"/> 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 (2017 American film)|Lucky]]''.
In 2017, he appeared in ''[[Twin Peaks (season 3)|Twin Peaks: The Return]]'', a continuation of David Lynch's 1990–91 television series.<ref name="nytobit"/> Stanton reprised his role as Carl Rodd from ''[[Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me]]''.<ref name="nytobit"/> 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 (2017 American film)|Lucky]]''.


==Personal life==
==Personal life and death==
Stanton was never married, though he had a long relationship with actress [[Rebecca De Mornay]].<ref name=latimes>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-harry-dean-stanton-20170915-story.html |title= Harry Dean Stanton, character actor in ‘Twin Peaks, ‘Big Love’ and ‘Cool Hand Luke, dies at 91 |first=Josh |last=Rottenberg |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=September 15, 2017}}</ref> "I might have had two or three [kids] out of marriage," he once told the Associated Press. "But that's another story."<ref name=latimes/>
Stanton was never married, though he had a short relationship with actress [[Rebecca De Mornay]] in 1981–82.<ref name=latimes>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-harry-dean-stanton-20170915-story.html |title= Harry Dean Stanton, character actor in 'Twin Peaks,' 'Big Love' and 'Cool Hand Luke,' dies at 91 |first=Josh |last=Rottenberg |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=September 15, 2017}}</ref> "I might have had two or three [kids] out of marriage," he once told the [[Associated Press]]. "But that's another story."<ref name=latimes/>


Stanton died aged 91 on September 15, 2017, from heart failure, at the [[Cedars-Sinai Medical Center]] in [[Los Angeles]], California.<ref>[https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/harry-dean-stanton-lucky-death-1202003872/ Harry Dean Stanton Knew ‘Lucky’ Would Be the Last Film He Made Before Dying, Claims Longtime Friend: ‘He Was Really Scared’]</ref><ref name="nytobit">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/movies/harry-dean-stanton-dead-actor.html |title=Harry Dean Stanton, Character Actor Who Became a Star, Dies at 91 |first=Anita |last=Gates |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 15, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Varietyobit"/> A small marker containing his cremated remains was established in a cemetery in [[Nicholasville, Kentucky|Nicholasville]], Kentucky.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Atkins |first=Joseph B. |title=Harry Dean Stanton: Hollywood's Zen Rebel |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |year=2020 |isbn=978-0813180106 |pages=1 |doi=10.2307/j.ctv161f3jt}}</ref>
==Death==
Stanton died aged 91 on September 15, 2017, from heart failure, at the [[Cedars-Sinai Medical Center]] in [[Los Angeles]], California.<ref>[https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/harry-dean-stanton-lucky-death-1202003872/ Harry Dean Stanton Knew ‘Lucky’ Would Be the Last Film He Made Before Dying, Claims Longtime Friend: ‘He Was Really Scared’]</ref><ref name="nytobit">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/movies/harry-dean-stanton-dead-actor.html |title=Harry Dean Stanton, Character Actor Who Became a Star, Dies at 91 |first=Anita |last=Gates |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 15, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Varietyobit"/> His cremated remains were scattered in a cemetery in Nicholasville, Kentucky.{{Citation needed |date=May 2023}}


==In popular culture==
==In popular culture==
Stanton was celebrated in "[[I Want That Man]]", a 1989 song recorded by [[Debbie Harry|Deborah Harry]] which begins with the line "I want to dance with Harry Dean".<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/15/harry-dean-stanton-obituary| newspaper=The Guardian| location=[[London]]| title=Harry Dean Stanton obituary| first=Ronald| last=Bergan| date=16 September 2017}}</ref> In her memoir, Harry writes that Stanton heard the song and arranged to meet her at a club in London.
Stanton was celebrated in "[[I Want That Man]]", a 1989 song recorded by [[Debbie Harry|Deborah Harry]] which begins with the line "I want to dance with Harry Dean".<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/15/harry-dean-stanton-obituary| newspaper=The Guardian| location=[[London]]| title=Harry Dean Stanton obituary| first=Ronald| last=Bergan| date=16 September 2017}}</ref> In her memoir, Harry writes that Stanton heard the song and arranged to meet her at a club in London.

Stanton is mentioned in the 2013 song "[[Christmas in L.A.]]" by [[The Killers]]. The song's music video begins with a dialogue between the voices of [[Owen Wilson]] and Harry Dean Stanton.<ref name="Rolling Stone">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/the-killers-endure-a-lonely-christmas-in-l-a-premiere-20131202 |title=The Killers Endure a Lonely 'Christmas in L.A.' - Premiere |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |first=John |last=Gentile |date=December 2, 2013 |accessdate=December 2, 2013}}</ref>


[[Pop Will Eat Itself]] released a track titled "Harry Dean Stanton" on their album ''[[The Looks or the Lifestyle?#Track listing|The Looks or the Lifestyle?]]'' 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."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/article.asp?xid=1224|title=Carll tells it like it is – April&nbsp;2019|website=www.countrystandardtime.com}}</ref>
[[Pop Will Eat Itself]] released a track titled "Harry Dean Stanton" on their album ''[[The Looks or the Lifestyle?#Track listing|The Looks or the Lifestyle?]]'' 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."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/article.asp?xid=1224|title=Carll tells it like it is – April&nbsp;2019|website=www.countrystandardtime.com}}</ref>


[[Ian McNabb]] recorded the song "Harry Dean Stanton" on his album ''Utopian'', released in January 2021. McNabb noted the following about the track: "I didn't know too much about him and didn't really want to because I knew I had to write a song using his name as the title, so I wrote these lyrics for and around him - I imagined what it must be like to be him - while dropping some of my own experiences into the narrative. I was lurking around Dylan's [[Blind Willie McTell (song)|Blind Willie McTell]] and [[Lenny Bruce]] - I wanted that atmosphere. I've never claimed to be original."<ref>{{Cite web|last=McNabb|first=Ian|date=2021-01-17|title=Utopian Track Breakdown: 2) Harry Dean Stanton|url=http://www.ianmcnabb.com/post/utopian-track-breakdown-2-harry-dean-stanton|access-date=2022-01-26|website=Ian McNabb|language=en}}</ref>
[[Ian McNabb]] recorded the song "Harry Dean Stanton" on his album ''Utopian'', released in January 2021. McNabb noted the following about the track: "I didn't know too much about him and didn't really want to because I knew I had to write a song using his name as the title, so I wrote these lyrics for and around him - I imagined what it must be like to be him - while dropping some of my own experiences into the narrative. I was lurking around Dylan's "[[Blind Willie McTell (song)|Blind Willie McTell]]" and "[[Shot of Love|Lenny Bruce]]" - I wanted that atmosphere. I've never claimed to be original."<ref>{{Cite web|last=McNabb|first=Ian|date=2021-01-17|title=Utopian Track Breakdown: 2) Harry Dean Stanton|url=http://www.ianmcnabb.com/post/utopian-track-breakdown-2-harry-dean-stanton|access-date=2022-01-26|website=Ian McNabb|language=en}}</ref>


==Selected filmography==
==Selected filmography==
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* ''[[The Rose (film)|The Rose]]'' (1979)
* ''[[The Rose (film)|The Rose]]'' (1979)
* ''[[Wise Blood (film)|Wise Blood]]'' (1979)<ref name="bfi"/>
* ''[[Wise Blood (film)|Wise Blood]]'' (1979)<ref name="bfi"/>
* ''[[Private Benjamin (1980 film)|Private Benjamin]]'' (1980)
* ''[[Escape from New York]]'' (1981)<ref name="bfi"/>
* ''[[Escape from New York]]'' (1981)<ref name="bfi"/>
* ''[[Christine (1983 film)|Christine]]'' (1983)<ref name="bfi"/>
* ''[[Christine (1983 film)|Christine]]'' (1983)<ref name="bfi"/>
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* ''[[The Straight Story]]'' (1999)<ref name="bfi"/>
* ''[[The Man Who Cried]]'' (2000)
* ''[[The Man Who Cried]]'' (2000)
* ''[[The Pledge (film)|The Pledge]]'' (2001)
* ''[[The Wendell Baker Story]]'' (2005)
* ''[[The Wendell Baker Story]]'' (2005)
* ''[[Alpha Dog]]'' (2006)
* ''[[Alpha Dog]]'' (2006)
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* ''[[Rango (2011 film)|Rango]]'' (2011)<ref name="bfi"/>
* ''[[The Avengers (2012 film)|The Avengers]]'' (2012)<ref name="nytobit"/>
* ''[[The Avengers (2012 film)|The Avengers]]'' (2012)<ref name="nytobit"/>
* ''[[Seven Psychopaths]]'' (2012)
* ''[[The Last Stand (2013 film)|The Last Stand]]'' (2013)
* ''[[The Last Stand (2013 film)|The Last Stand]]'' (2013)
* ''[[Lucky (2017 American film)|Lucky]]'' (2017)<ref name="nytobit"/>
* ''[[Lucky (2017 American film)|Lucky]]'' (2017)<ref name="nytobit"/>
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|1958
| ''[[Decision (TV series)|Decision]]''
| Simeon Dawson
| Season 1, Episode 4 ("The Tall Man")
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|1960
| ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]''
| Lemon
| Season 5, Episode 37 ("Escape to Sonoita")
|-
|1968
|1968
| ''[[The Virginian (TV series)]]''
| ''[[The Virginian (TV series)|The Virginian]]''
| Clint Daggert
| Clint Daggert
|season 7 episode 08 ''(Ride to Misadventure)''
| Season 7, Episode 08 ("Ride to Misadventure")
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| 1969
| ''[[Petticoat Junction]]''
| Ringo
| S 7, Ep 4: "One of Our Chickens is Missing"(credited as Dean Stanton)
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| 1993
| 1993
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| Moe
| Moe
| Episode: "Tricks"
| Episode: "Tricks"
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|-Two And A Half Men 2004 himself s2e1
| 2004
| ''[[Two And A Half Men]]''
| Himself
| Season 2, Episode 1 ("Back Off, Mary Poppins")
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| 2006–2010
| 2006–2010
| ''[[Big Love]]''
| ''[[Big Love]]''
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* {{YouTube|G2-QZ35P_yY|"Harry Dean Stanton: ''Partly Fiction'' Official Trailer}}
* {{YouTube|G2-QZ35P_yY|"Harry Dean Stanton: ''Partly Fiction'' Official Trailer}}
* {{YouTube|5jhsJTqQ-GQ|"Actor Harry Dean Stanton dead at 91"}} (from [[NJ.com]])
* {{YouTube|5jhsJTqQ-GQ|"Actor Harry Dean Stanton dead at 91"}} (from [[NJ.com]])
* {{Find a Grave|183431129|Harry Dean Stanton}}

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Harry Dean Stanton
Stanton in 2006
Born(1926-07-14)July 14, 1926
DiedSeptember 15, 2017(2017-09-15) (aged 91)
Alma materUniversity of Kentucky
Pasadena Playhouse
OccupationActor
Years active1954–2017
Websiteharrydeanstanton.org

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), Inland Empire (2006), Rango (2011), The Avengers (2012), and Seven Psychopaths (2012). He had rare lead roles in Paris, Texas (1984) and in Lucky (2017).

Early life

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Stanton was born in West Irvine, Kentucky, to Sheridan Harry Stanton, a tobacco farmer and barber, and Ersel (née Moberly), a cook.[1] His parents divorced when Stanton was in high school; both later remarried.[2]

Stanton had two younger brothers and a younger half-brother. His family had a musical background. Stanton attended Lafayette High School[2] and the University of Kentucky in Lexington where he performed at the Guignol Theatre under the direction of theater director Wallace Briggs,[3] and studied journalism and radio arts. "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.[4] "I had to decide if I wanted to be a singer or an actor. I was always singing. I thought if I could be an actor, I could do all of it." Briggs encouraged him to leave the university and become an actor. He studied at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California, where his classmates included his friends Tyler MacDuff and Dana Andrews.[5]

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.[6][7]

Career

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Stanton appeared in indie and cult films (Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, Escape from New York, Repo Man) as well as mainstream Hollywood productions, including Cool Hand Luke, The Godfather Part II, Alien, Red Dawn, Pretty in Pink, Alpha Dog, Stephen King's Christine, and The Green Mile. 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. He was best man at Nicholson's wedding in 1962.[8]

He made his first television appearance in 1954 in Inner Sanctum. He played Stoneman in the Have Gun – Will Travel 1959 episode "Treasure Trail", credited under Dean Stanton. He made his film debut in 1957 in the Western Tomahawk Trail.[1] He appeared (uncredited) as a complaining BAR man at the beginning of the 1959 film Pork Chop Hill starring Gregory Peck. Then in 1962, he had a very small part in How the West Was Won, portraying one of Charlie Gant's (Eli Wallach) gang. The following year he had a minor role as a poetry-reciting beatnik in The Man from the Diner's Club. Early in his career, he took the name Dean Stanton to avoid confusion with the actor Harry Stanton.[1]

His breakthrough part[9] came with the lead role in Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas. Playwright Sam Shepard, who wrote the film's script, had spotted Stanton at a bar in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1983 while both were attending a film festival in that city. The two fell into conversation. "I was telling him I was sick of the roles I was playing," Stanton recalled in a 1986 interview. "I told him I wanted to play something of some beauty or sensitivity. I had no inkling he was considering me for the lead in his movie."[9] Not long afterward, Shepard phoned him in Los Angeles to offer Stanton the part of the protagonist, Travis,[9] "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."[10]

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." However, Ebert later admitted that Dream a Little Dream (1989), in which Stanton appeared, was a "clear violation" of this rule.[11]

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. He played the wrongly accused Lucius Brand (credited as Dean Stanton) in "The Wild Wild West" S3 E7 "The Night of the Hangman" (1967). 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). Beginning in 2006, Stanton featured as Roman Grant, the manipulative leader/prophet of a polygamous sect on the HBO television series Big Love.[8]

Stanton also occasionally toured nightclubs as a singer and guitarist, playing mostly country-inflected cover tunes.[7] He appeared in the Dwight Yoakam music video for "Sorry You Asked",[12] portrayed a cantina owner in a Ry Cooder video for "Get Rhythm",[12] and participated in the video for Bob Dylan's "Dreamin' of You".[12] He worked with a number of musical artists, Dylan, Art Garfunkel, and Kris Kristofferson[13] among them, and played harmonica on The Call's 1989 album Let the Day Begin.[14]

Stanton signing autographs in 2015

In 2010, Stanton appeared in an episode of the TV series Chuck, reprising his role in the 1984 film Repo Man. 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.[2][nb 1] In 2012, he had a brief cameo in The Avengers and a key role in the action-comedy Seven Psychopaths. He also appeared in the Arnold Schwarzenegger action film The Last Stand (2013). 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.

In 2017, he appeared in Twin Peaks: The Return, a continuation of David Lynch's 1990–91 television series.[1] Stanton reprised his role as Carl Rodd from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.[1] 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.

Personal life and death

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Stanton was never married, though he had a short relationship with actress Rebecca De Mornay in 1981–82.[19] "I might have had two or three [kids] out of marriage," he once told the Associated Press. "But that's another story."[19]

Stanton died aged 91 on September 15, 2017, from heart failure, at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.[20][1][8] A small marker containing his cremated remains was established in a cemetery in Nicholasville, Kentucky.[21]

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Stanton was celebrated in "I Want That Man", a 1989 song recorded by Deborah Harry which begins with the line "I want to dance with Harry Dean".[22] In her memoir, Harry writes that Stanton heard the song and arranged to meet her at a club in London.

Stanton is mentioned in the 2013 song "Christmas in L.A." by The Killers. The song's music video begins with a dialogue between the voices of Owen Wilson and Harry Dean Stanton.[23]

Pop Will Eat Itself released a track titled "Harry Dean Stanton" on their album The Looks or the Lifestyle? 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."[24]

Ian McNabb recorded the song "Harry Dean Stanton" on his album Utopian, released in January 2021. McNabb noted the following about the track: "I didn't know too much about him and didn't really want to because I knew I had to write a song using his name as the title, so I wrote these lyrics for and around him - I imagined what it must be like to be him - while dropping some of my own experiences into the narrative. I was lurking around Dylan's "Blind Willie McTell" and "Lenny Bruce" - I wanted that atmosphere. I've never claimed to be original."[25]

Selected filmography

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Selected television

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Year Title Role Notes
1958 Decision Simeon Dawson Season 1, Episode 4 ("The Tall Man")
1960 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Lemon Season 5, Episode 37 ("Escape to Sonoita")
1968 The Virginian Clint Daggert Season 7, Episode 08 ("Ride to Misadventure")
1969 Petticoat Junction Ringo S 7, Ep 4: "One of Our Chickens is Missing"(credited as Dean Stanton)
1993 Hotel Room Moe Episode: "Tricks"
2004 Two And A Half Men Himself Season 2, Episode 1 ("Back Off, Mary Poppins")
2006–2010 Big Love Roman Grant 37 episodes
2017 Twin Peaks Carl Rodd 5 episodes

Explanatory notes

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  1. ^ The first Harry Dean Stanton Fest was three days of film screenings including Paris, Texas, Repo Man, Cool Hand Luke, and the premiere of a PBS documentary by director Tom Thurman entitled Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland.[3] All screenings were held at the historic Kentucky Theater. Hunter Carson, Stanton's co-star in Paris, Texas, attended the festival and conducted a Q&A following the film.[15][16] The second annual Harry Dean Stanton Fest was held over a weekend in May 2012 at the Kentucky Theater and other venues in downtown Lexington. Festival co-producer Lucy Jones[17] visited with Stanton in California and brought back a filmed greeting for the festival, with introductions to the films and talk about films he was working on. The May 2013 Stanton festival in Lexington included an appearance by Crispin Glover, a co-star with Stanton in Wild at Heart, the 1989 comedy Twister and the Lynch-directed HBO original series Hotel Room in 1993; and a pre-release screening of the documentary Partly Fiction.[18][3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Gates, Anita (September 15, 2017). "Harry Dean Stanton, Character Actor Who Became a Star, Dies at 91". The New York Times.
  2. ^ a b c Brammer, Jack (September 15, 2007). "Kentucky-born actor Harry Dean Stanton dies at 91". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved August 12, 2018.
  3. ^ a b c Copley, Rich, "Lexington Film League has a hit in the Harry Dean Stanton Festival", Lexington Herald-Leader, May 17, 2012. Retrieved September 20, 2013.
  4. ^ "Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland". Kentucky Muse. February 15, 2011. Kentucky Educational Television. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  5. ^ Pulver, Andrew (September 16, 2017). "Harry Dean Stanton, cult American actor, dies aged 91". The Guardian. London.
  6. ^ "Navy Muster Roll for USS LST-970". www.fold3.com. November 1945.
  7. ^ a b Valby, Karen (May 26, 2006). "Harry Dean Stanton is wild at heart". Entertainment Weekly. ISSN 1049-0434.
  8. ^ a b c "Harry Dean Stanton, 'Big Love,' 'Twin Peaks' Star, Dies at 91". Variety. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  9. ^ a b c Oney, Steve (November 16, 1986). "A Character Actor Reaches Cult Status". The New York Times Magazine. p. 52.
  10. ^ "Overview for Harry Dean Stanton". Turner Classic Movies. July 14, 1926. Retrieved July 13, 2014.
  11. ^ Ebert, Roger (March 3, 1989). "Dream a Little Dream". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on September 10, 2012. Retrieved October 5, 2007.
  12. ^ a b c Sokol, Tony. "Harry Dean Stanton dies at 91". Den of Geek. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  13. ^ Iasimone, Ashley (September 15, 2017). "Harry Dean Stanton's Best Musical Moments: From 'Cool Hand Luke' to a Telethon With Bob Dylan". Billboard. Retrieved August 12, 2018.
  14. ^ Hughes, Rob (October 13, 2010). "Muchael Been Obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved August 12, 2018.
  15. ^ "Past Events: 2011". Lexington Film League. Retrieved July 13, 2014.
  16. ^ "Harry Dean Stanton documentary to premiere at Kentucky Theatre | Neighbors". Lexington Herald-Leader. January 26, 2011. Retrieved July 13, 2014.
  17. ^ "Co-Producers". Lexington Film League. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved July 13, 2014.
  18. ^ Hannon, Blake (May 26, 2013). "Actor Crispin Glover to be guest speaker at Harry Dean Stanton festival". Lexington Herald-Leader.
  19. ^ a b Rottenberg, Josh (September 15, 2017). "Harry Dean Stanton, character actor in 'Twin Peaks,' 'Big Love' and 'Cool Hand Luke,' dies at 91". Los Angeles Times.
  20. ^ Harry Dean Stanton Knew ‘Lucky’ Would Be the Last Film He Made Before Dying, Claims Longtime Friend: ‘He Was Really Scared’
  21. ^ Atkins, Joseph B. (2020). Harry Dean Stanton: Hollywood's Zen Rebel. University Press of Kentucky. p. 1. doi:10.2307/j.ctv161f3jt. ISBN 978-0813180106.
  22. ^ Bergan, Ronald (September 16, 2017). "Harry Dean Stanton obituary". The Guardian. London.
  23. ^ Gentile, John (December 2, 2013). "The Killers Endure a Lonely 'Christmas in L.A.' - Premiere". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
  24. ^ "Carll tells it like it is – April 2019". www.countrystandardtime.com.
  25. ^ McNabb, Ian (January 17, 2021). "Utopian Track Breakdown: 2) Harry Dean Stanton". Ian McNabb. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
  26. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae "Harry Dean Stanton". BFI. Archived from the original on February 19, 2016. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
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