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Harry Dean Stanton
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Biography
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).
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Off the Map
From desert highways to dead-end towns, these eight films reroute the road movie into strange, funny, and surreal territory.
7 films
Full Throttle
From the neon-lit streets of Tokyo to the dusty backroads of America, this chain follows the adrenaline, the engineering, and the outlaws who live for the race.
8 films
When Studios Marry: Films Born of Corporate Chaos
From the ashes of mergers and acquisitions come some of cinema's most fascinating experiments. This chain traces how boardroom decisions shaped the art on scree...
8 films
The Art of Listening
From the whisper of a surveillance tape to the roar of a wartime beach, these eight films prove that sound is not just heard, it is felt. A chain of masterpiece...
7 films
Criminal Alliances
A chain tracing the anti-hero ensemble film from its war-movie origins through heist, western, and genre mutations to the modern comic-book iteration, examining...
8 films
From External Beast to Internal Trauma
Here is a five-film narrative chain that traces how the monster evolved from an exotic physical threat into a psychological mirror of society.
5 films
20 Home Video Releases Every Film Obsessive Should Own
There was a brief, glorious period in the late 1990s and early 2000s when buying a film on home video felt less like acquiring a product and more like being han...
20 films
The DVDs That Changed Everything
In the late 1990s, home video underwent a seismic shift driven by a double revolution: an unprecedented jump in technical quality, and an unprecedented access t...
10 films
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Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013 · Self
Seven Psychopaths
2012 · Man in Hat
Rango
2011 · Balthazar (voice)
Inland Empire
2006 · Freddie Howard
Alpha Dog
2006 · Cosmo Gadabeeti
The Pledge
2001 · Floyd Cage
The Green Mile
1999 · Toot-Toot
Down Periscope
1996 · Lt. Howard
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1992 · Carl Rodd
Wild at Heart
1990 · Johnnie Farragut
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
1988 · Self - Audience Member
Pretty in Pink
1986 · Jack Walsh
Red Dawn
1984 · Mr. Eckert
Paris, Texas
1984 · Travis
Christine
1983 · Rudolph Junkins
One from the Heart
1982 · Moe
Escape from New York
1981 · Harold 'Brain' Helman
Alien
1979 · Brett
Farewell, My Lovely
1975 · Billy Rolfe
Two-Lane Blacktop
1971 · Oklahoma Hitchhiker
Kelly's Heroes
1970 · Pvt. Willard
Cool Hand Luke
1967 · Tramp
Ride in the Whirlwind
1966 · Blind Dick
The Proud Rebel
1958 · Jeb Burleigh
The Wrong Man
1956 · Department of Corrections Employee (uncredited)