Harry Dean Stanton: S/D

Feel like he could be this generation's Is He Still Alive? actor, it used to be Alec Guinness.

no that was Abe Vigoda, whose death in 2016 really put a point on the surreal nature of so many celebrities & artists dying.

HDS doesn't fit either because he's still a working actor, I see him a lot: he was in the new Twin Peaks, & he's starring in a film called LUCKY opening soon. Pretty amazing for a chainsmoker in his 90s.

Man, you were the best.

RIP Harry :(

still WICKEDLY lolling at Alfred's post from last week tho!

Fuck

Reading the Ian Penman essay/profile for the first time in years, damn it's good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KrANPZhoFI

one of my best friends in college wanted to start a band just so she could call it Harry Dean Stanton

he was the fucking best

He's got a line in Straight Time that I count as one of the funniest of the '70s. Reunited with a just-paroled Hoffman, he's barbecuing in his yard and seemingly living a life of domestic bliss. His wife, after some gushy endearments, goes to fetch beer. Stanton, turning to Hoffman: "Get me out of here."

He served in the Pacific during World War Two and won a commendation for 'coolness under fire'.

I finished watching Alien literally half an hour ago, and goes to bed to read this. Shit.

So long, icon. Amazing run.

My favorite fact about him is that he was in the battle of Okinawa. How any actor can play so copacetic after something like that...

liked him a lot, but as i said to KJB during the Lucky trailer last weekend. "Lucky to be 90."

Travis :-(

Went through his filmography quickly and count 27 films of his that I've seen--probably missed a couple--going all the way back to Hitchcock's The Wrong Man. I'm sure some of you have seen more. A few cameos and small parts in some very famous films. Two Godfather II deaths in the same week; one from the sequel half, the other from the prequel half. I said on a thread I just started that Straight Time was his best film (i.e., my favourite); forgot about The Straight Story, might go with that instead.

is the entire chain gang from Cool Hand Luke dead now?

i love when his hitchhiker comes on to Warren Oates in Two Lane Blacktop.

I have about 19 DVDs out from the library, and I figured immediately he must be in one of them. He is: Farewell, My Lovely.

Make that two! Pork Chop Hill.

He's probably in all of them.

I literally just watched the scene with him playing guitar and singing at the trailer park about 10 minutes ago.

― Moodles, Friday, 15 September 2017 22:25 (yesterday) Permalink

rewatched that episode a few days back and wondered if that was meant to be a tip of the cap

You spend a little time in Irvine, KY where Harry Dean Stanton was from and his film persona will make total sense. You could easily see him fitting in perfect walking around with a milk jug filled with water along the side of the road there like he was in Paris, TX.

I used to have to go over to Irvine, KY every so often for work and dated a lady from there for a bit. It's different.

getting kinda choked up tonight looking back at all the movies he was in that i loved, that easy languid style & excellent accent

i know everyone has their time & he had a pretty impressive innings, but still...it's like, my whole life he was always there & now ... *poof* ...

veg <3

RIP Harry

Feel like he could be this generation's Is He Still Alive? actor, it used to be Alec Guinness.

― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 16:30 (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Dead within a fortnight. RIP HDS.

Played alongside Ant and Dec too..

This btw might be the best response I've ever gotten to a question. pic.twitter.com/v2IJcnhPgz

— Bilge Ebiri (@BilgeEbiri) September 15, 2017

Harry Dean....hung w u....stoned w u....played w u...acted w u...I'm a lucky guy. RIP. Say hi to Oates! Will miss you both forever. 😔

— Peter Henry Fonda (@iamfonda) September 16, 2017

:-(

Harry Dean Stanton photographed by Michael Tighe pic.twitter.com/bwSCHONk2m

— priscilla page (@BBW_BFF) September 15, 2017

Alas, no Kris Kristofferson Twitter account, except for some Russian guy.

What a face

love how he puts some Kentucky bible-thumpin' into Paul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaUuSJx-VDA

Can anyone find a still of his reported uncredited appearance in Hitchcock's The Wrong Man? I've had a quick GIS but no luck.

http://thisdistractedglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/harry-dean-stanton-the-untouchables-1961.jpg

in The Untouchables, 1961. He always looked like that!

Also in "Four O' Clock" according to this: https://thehitchcockreport.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/alfred-hitchcocks-two-tv-rarities/

"(As a side note, one of the thieves in Paul’s house is played by a young Harry Dean Stanton.)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5fQ8e_8KMs&t=19m57s

oh fuck it - go to youtube & then watch?v=b5fQ8e_8KMs&t=19m57s

he opens the door and HDS is there (he's always looked old, apparently) :-)

The Wrong Man: don't know, the only cop who kinda maybe looks like him is the one on the right here IMO, but he's not on screen more than half a second & not very clearly:

http://i68.tinypic.com/2j3law9.jpg

http://i68.tinypic.com/4tqdte.jpg

http://i65.tinypic.com/x3enmx.jpg

or maybe here, on the right? (man, this is hard)

http://i65.tinypic.com/21o33ft.jpg

Really like to know more about his politics,opinions, drug use and so on. Have you guys read any good articles about that sort of thing today?

I reckon that last one could be him. Thanks Stan.

My recollection is that when you watch the film, HDS is as recognizable as Ted Knight in Psycho.

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21740625_2009015472666130_3918933960182899799_n.jpg?oh=afc0568ed5ddd0fa6001be4425d5e66f&oe=5A5894CE

Mack Theater in Irvine, Ky. in HDS' hometown.

Tried to listen to the Doug loves movies episode with him on, struggled with it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/movies/harry-dean-stanton-dead-actor.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

There was no immediate information on his survivors.

Just wondering whether he kept this part really private or what? Can't remember the last obit I've read with that comment.

he's great in a small part as a racist, smug police detective in Farewell, My Lovely, sassing Mitchum as John Ireland's sidekick.

Mr. Stanton’s onetime roommate Jack Nicholson.

This possibly explains something I'd always thought was cool, which was HDS's name appearing as graffiti both in the jail cell in Easy Rider and on a site in Drive, He Said.

Not sure if this has been posted here yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTuu7r9imtw

obit roundup

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4929-the-daily-harry-dean-stanton-1926-2017

Lynch tribute entirely in character

Films that would have been enlivened by the presence of HDS:
The Thing
Badlands
Taxi Driver (in the role Scorsese took)
Any gangster film pretty much
In fact most films, bar any Tarantino

Allison Anders:

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4969-a-moment-with-harry

I only just barely skim any writing on a film I haven't yet seen--reviews, ILX--so I actually went to Lucky thinking I was going to see a documentary. Two minutes in I thought "This is really going to be conceptual," then another two minutes and it was "Um, this is not a documentary." I spent the next 10 minutes being mad at the film, because obviously it was the film's fault, not mine, but I slowly warmed to it after that. John Carroll Lynch seems to have been aiming for that short list of famous films about getting old--Tokyo Story, Umberto D, etc.--and I'm sure many people will be very affected by it. It has its moments, but I doubt I'll be thinking about it years later like I do The Straight Story (also with Harry Dean; its director has a good part in Lucky). Wouldn't be surprised if Tom Skerritt turns up all over year-end lists of supporting performances for his one scene.

thanks for sharing the Anders link, Morbs. Beautiful story.