I'm mostly making this thread out of noticing how much I really like him. Didn't plan on ever seeing Red Dawn...but turns out he was in it. And that sells my time to it. He was in The Avengers..and that was the biggest smile the film could get out of me..seeing him in a small role. I don't know why..but it just made me happy to see him again.




He's a guy that almost seems ageless..somehow always looking the same haggard age.

Alien
Kelly's Heroes
Paris, Texas
The Godfather Part II
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
and many more...

The guy always seems to sell his roles really well w/ that face and voice of his. His little mannerisms that give a lot inner detail to a character but not to point of pretentiousness but more like an earnest depiction of the inner workings for the character. Great character actor. Probably the one guy I saw the most of as a kid. Always randomly in a movie.

Have you seen him in Repo Man yet, Snake?

Stanton also did a helluva job as Saul and Paul in Last Temptation/Christ

^My most favorite scene of the movie, BTW.

Paris Texas. Wim Wenders. Harry Dean. Genius.


Nuff said.

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He was a regular on Big Love and appeared in my favorite movie from years gone by: Escape From New York.

One of his best performances was in CISCO PIKE (1971), one of the best of the end-of-the-'60s fin de siecle countercultural films of the era. He and Kris Kristofferson (in the title role) play former rockers who had a hit as a duo a few years earlier but then went off the rails, with Stanton becoming a heroin addict. Kristofferson and Stanton were both in PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID and then, decades later, in the Steven Seagal film, FIRE DOWN BELOW, although the two didn't share any scenes in that one.

Going back a-ways, Stanton was in PORK CHOP HILL (1959) and HOW THE WEST WAS WON (1963). IMDB says he was in Hitchcock's THE WRONG MAN (1956), but I'd have to see it again to see if I can spot him.

And, yeah, it was quite a thrill seeing him in THE AVENGERS.
And ditto on REPO MAN.

Just list the directors he's worked with and you've got an incredible, eclectic list:
Hitchcock, Lewis Milestone, Sam Peckinpah, Francis Coppola, Monte Hellman, John Milius, Arthur Penn, Ridley Scott, John Huston, John Carpenter, Wim Wenders, Alex Cox, John Hughes, Martin Scorsese, Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, and a bunch I've overlooked.

Under-rated Christmas gem--"One Magic Christmas" with Stanton as the guardian angel.

He had a great minor part in Twin Peaks Fire Walk with Me as Carl the trailer park manager too.

As Detective Rudolph Junkins in "Christine"

He's great in Repo Man. Been meaning to see Paris, Texas for so long that I am officially ashamed of myself now.

Even though I'm not sure I liked the film, Stanton was great in it. Wise Blood as the blind evangelist. That movie was weird. I'm still confused if I like it or have a great distaste about it. Something about the mood I think...I dunno.

I'll watch anything he's in. I have only seen a couple of episodes of Big Love so far.
He was great in "Pretty In Pink" and he sang in "Cool Hand Luke"

Johnnie Farragut in Wild at Heart

He's great in the small part he has in Two-Lane Blacktop.

I'm sorry let me rephrase that: Harry is great in (insert any movie he has ever been in).

He was an M figure in the 1977 scenes for A Fistful of Dollars.

TV-version, of course.

It cracked me up to see how long "Clint's" poncho was in that footage.

I still have never seen the ending of Repo Man.

Great thread. For reference:


The Wrong Man (uncredited) (1956)
Tomahawk Trail (as Dean Stanton) (1957)
The Proud Rebel (as Dean Stanton) (1958)
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1958), multiple episodes,
Man with a Camera (1958), one episode
Bat Masterson (1959), one episode
Pork Chop Hill (uncredited) (1959)
The Rifleman ("Tension", Clemmie Martin) (1959)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960), one episode
The Lawless Years (1961), multiple episodes, NBC
The Law and Mr. Jones (1961), as Harry Walker in the episode "The Enemy", ABC
How the West Was Won (uncredited) (1962)
Hero's Island, (Billed as Dean Stanton) (1962)
Daniel Boone (Crane) (1964)
Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)
The Hostage (1966)
Cool Hand Luke (Billed as Dean Stanton) (1967)
The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968)
Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
Daniel Boone (Jeb Girty) (Billed as Dean Stanton) (1969)
Kelly's Heroes (Billed as Dean Stanton) (1970)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Cisco Pike (Billed as H. D. Stanton) (1972)
Dillinger (1973)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Where the Lilies Bloom (1974)
Rancho Deluxe (1974)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Cockfighter (1974)
Farewell My Lovely (1975)
The Missouri Breaks (1976)
Renaldo and Clara (1978)
Up in Smoke (1978)
Straight Time (1978)
Wise Blood (1979)
The Rose (1979)
Alien (1979)
Deathwatch (La Mort en Direct) (1980)
The Black Marble (1980)
Private Benjamin (1980)
UFOria (1981)
Escape from New York (1981)
Young Doctors in Love (1982)
One From the Heart (1982)
Christine (1983)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Red Dawn (1984)
Repo Man (1984)
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
The Care Bears Movie (1985)
One Magic Christmas (1985)
Fool for Love (1985)
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Faerie Tale Theatre (1987)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Mr. North (1988)
Stars and Bars (1988)
Twister (1989)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Hotel Room (1992)
Never Talk to Strangers (1995)
The Band – The Authorized Video Biography (1995; as narrator)
Down Periscope (1996)
She's So Lovely (1997)
Fire Down Below (1997)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
The Mighty (1998)
The Straight Story (1999)
The Green Mile (1999)
The Pledge (2001)
The Man Who Cried (2001)
Sonny (2002)
Anger Management (2003)
Straight to Hell: The Alex Cox Collection (2003)
Chrystal (2004)
The Big Bounce (2004)
The Wendell Baker Story (2005)
Alien Autopsy (2006)
You, Me and Dupree (2006), (uncredited)
Inland Empire (2006)
Alpha Dog (2007)
The Good Life (2007)
The Open Road (2008)
Big Love (HBO TV series) (2008/2009)
Fourth War (1990)
Alice (2009)
Chuck (2010)
Mongo Wrestling Alliance (2011)
Rango (2011)
This Must Be the Place (2011)
The Avengers (2012)
Last Stand (2013)

Agreed... although I'll add that he was great in "Big Love" as well.

The guy is amazing and he is just everywhere.
I just saw an episode of Alfred Hitchcock presents that he was in with Burt Reynolds.
He was billed as Dean Stanton.

Just watched Hotel Room last night

I love seeing HDS in anything even if its a tiny roll.

Paris, Texas is in my top 10 movies of all time. I lost my father to cancer last Christmas and this is a movie we enjoyed watching together. Happy times.

I forgot all about UFOria (and that HDS was in it). Need to watch that again...it's been years.

Harry Dean is one of my all-time favorites. Check out Straight Time. Great Dustin Hoffman flick with another one of my favorite character actors, M. Emmet Walsh.