Harry Dean Stanton: S/D

My dayjob is sending me to Paris, Texas, in mid-Feb

Paris, TX sucks, was there in December for just a week. Sucked for me, was not in the mood for a small town and it's issues. Maybe later I'll end up there and like it. Rusty's Tacos had really yummy tacos. The Mexican restaurants in town though...meh at best.

Harry Dean Stanton has a cameo in The Last Stand. He plays a crusty old man.

was legit afraid this thread getting bumped meant he died

Some friends my ex knew/knows manage to get him in their small films. Twink Caplan too...
Carlos Spills the Beans
9 Full Moons
On Holiday

Best damn thing about him I've read in years.

http://bitterempire.com/drove-one-thousand-miles-see-harry-dean-stanton-sing-twenty-minutes/

phew! whenever this gets revived i worry that the guy has died.

Same here.

just saw him in an early '60s Hitchcock TV ep, teaming up with Murray Hamilton to menace Burt Reynolds.

http://images.tvrage.com/screencaps/13/2534/4601.jpg

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<3

wish i could find clips of his lines in inland empire

HDS is cool but damn that is some overwrought nonsense about road trips

agreed, i couldn't get through it

I'm afraid so..

Then again..

http://en.mediamass.net/people/harry-dean-stanton/deathhoax.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YurR6xZeBCk

Really looking forward to this, super awesome he's getting another lead picture this late in life. Turn on Twin Peaks the other week was a good reminder that his talent outweighs his legacy. Lynch in an acting role is always appreciated as well.

yup tup

yup

directed by John Carroll Lynch (!), one of those character actors most people would recognize but couldn't name (I had to look him up). recently he played LBJ in Jackie and one of the McDonald brothers in The Founder. hope this comes to theaters and isn't some straight to streaming thing

& he was in twin peaks too, maybe/prob not same days as hds

o scratch that :|

I caught his breakthrough role in Cisco Pike (1972) last month, where he plays a junkie musician friend of Kristofferson's. Slept-on movie, maybe cuz it's hard to find these days.

great film

21-film retro in NYC

https://quadcinema.com/program/also-starring-harry-dean-stanton/

He's predictably solid in Paris, Texas, which I saw again for the first time since the mid '90s. It's still not a great film.

What- yes it is!

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

Everyone with taste is aware he's still alive.

How many people have taste?

None, they're all dead now.

They died while watching Paris, Texas.

Tom - he appeared in more episodes of Twin Peaks: The Return than most of the original series cast members, and plays the titular lead in a current release film out now, so awareness probably higher than usual right this minute

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.

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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.