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
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 September 2017 23:45 (seven years ago) link
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."
― clemenza, Friday, 15 September 2017 23:47 (seven years ago) link
He served in the Pacific during World War Two and won a commendation for 'coolness under fire'.
― streeps of range (wins), Friday, 15 September 2017 23:48 (seven years ago) link
I finished watching Alien literally half an hour ago, and goes to bed to read this. Shit.
So long, icon. Amazing run.
― Mule, Friday, 15 September 2017 23:48 (seven years ago) link
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...
― rb (soda), Friday, 15 September 2017 23:53 (seven years ago) link
liked him a lot, but as i said to KJB during the Lucky trailer last weekend. "Lucky to be 90."
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 16 September 2017 01:08 (seven years ago) link
Travis :-(
― StanM, Saturday, 16 September 2017 01:19 (seven years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Saturday, 16 September 2017 01:27 (seven years ago) link
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.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 16 September 2017 02:03 (seven years ago) link
Make that two! Pork Chop Hill.
He's probably in all of them.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 16 September 2017 02:06 (seven years ago) link
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
― 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
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 16 September 2017 02:58 (seven years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Saturday, 16 September 2017 05:56 (seven years ago) link
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* ...
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 September 2017 06:20 (seven years ago) link
veg <3
RIP Harry
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 16 September 2017 06:23 (seven years ago) link
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.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 September 2017 07:02 (seven years ago) link
Played alongside Ant and Dec too..
― Mark G, Saturday, 16 September 2017 08:09 (seven years ago) link
This btw might be the best response I've ever gotten to a question. pic.twitter.com/v2IJcnhPgz— Bilge Ebiri (@BilgeEbiri) September 15, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 16 September 2017 08:34 (seven years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 September 2017 13:50 (seven years ago) link
:-(
Harry Dean Stanton photographed by Michael Tighe pic.twitter.com/bwSCHONk2m— priscilla page (@BBW_BFF) September 15, 2017
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 16 September 2017 14:04 (seven years ago) link
Alas, no Kris Kristofferson Twitter account, except for some Russian guy.
― clemenza, Saturday, 16 September 2017 14:05 (seven years ago) link
What a face
― streeps of range (wins), Saturday, 16 September 2017 14:06 (seven years ago) link
love how he puts some Kentucky bible-thumpin' into Paul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaUuSJx-VDA
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 16 September 2017 14:26 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Alba, Saturday, 16 September 2017 16:09 (seven years ago) link
http://thisdistractedglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/harry-dean-stanton-the-untouchables-1961.jpg
in The Untouchables, 1961. He always looked like that!
― nomar, Saturday, 16 September 2017 17:07 (seven years ago) link
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.)"
― StanM, Saturday, 16 September 2017 17:08 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5fQ8e_8KMs&t=19m57s
― StanM, Saturday, 16 September 2017 17:12 (seven years ago) link
oh fuck it - go to youtube & then watch?v=b5fQ8e_8KMs&t=19m57s
― StanM, Saturday, 16 September 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
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
― StanM, Saturday, 16 September 2017 18:00 (seven years ago) link
or maybe here, on the right? (man, this is hard)
http://i65.tinypic.com/21o33ft.jpg
― StanM, Saturday, 16 September 2017 18:08 (seven years ago) link
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?
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 16 September 2017 18:56 (seven years ago) link
I reckon that last one could be him. Thanks Stan.
― Alba, Saturday, 16 September 2017 19:00 (seven years ago) link
My recollection is that when you watch the film, HDS is as recognizable as Ted Knight in Psycho.
― clemenza, Saturday, 16 September 2017 19:22 (seven years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Sunday, 17 September 2017 05:14 (seven years ago) link
Tried to listen to the Doug loves movies episode with him on, struggled with it.
― Ste, Sunday, 17 September 2017 09:24 (seven years ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 17 September 2017 11:06 (seven years ago) link
he's great in a small part as a racist, smug police detective in Farewell, My Lovely, sassing Mitchum as John Ireland's sidekick.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 September 2017 14:18 (seven years ago) link
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.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 17 September 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
Not sure if this has been posted here yet:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTuu7r9imtw
― Star Star City Slang (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 September 2017 15:42 (seven years ago) link
obit roundup
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4929-the-daily-harry-dean-stanton-1926-2017
Lynch tribute entirely in character
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 21:47 (seven years ago) link
Films that would have been enlivened by the presence of HDS:The ThingBadlandsTaxi Driver (in the role Scorsese took)Any gangster film pretty muchIn fact most films, bar any Tarantino
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 23:28 (seven years ago) link
Allison Anders:
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4969-a-moment-with-harry
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 September 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 02:17 (six years ago) link
thanks for sharing the Anders link, Morbs. Beautiful story.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 02:29 (six years ago) link
ha that is awesome clemenza, i can see going into Lucky thinking it's a doc. i've seen the trailer 2-3 times & it definitely seems like everyone is just playing themselves
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 05:18 (six years ago) link
This is what I thought I was going to see three weeks ago:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2372776/
I must have seen it on a rental shelf at some point and got them confused. Partly Fiction's playing somewhere here tomorrow night, but I've got to choose between it and a Richard Avedon documentary in the morning--can't drive downtown twice.
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 November 2017 22:04 (six years ago) link
Wow, I just saw a young(-ish) HDS playing a singing hobo on an ep of Checkmate, an early sixties detective show w/Sebastian Cabot they were rerunning today on the Decades channel.
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 08:53 (six years ago) link
From an April 13, 1975 Louisville Courier-Journal piece; Harry Dean Stanton explains how the death of his father led to his at-long-last career breakthrough. Wise words! pic.twitter.com/4V8VxRWwJY— 💜💜🇺🇸ƈօɛɖ ռǟӄɛɖ ƈɨռɛքɦɨʟɨǟ🇺🇸💜💜 (@NickPinkerton) July 21, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 July 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
Just rewatched Alien and decided to google Harry Dean Stanton because I knew I recognized him from 'Wild At Heart' and something else and WTF. He was in so much. Seriously crazy this guy's career. I saw there's a doc about him, I think I need to watch it.
― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 01:46 (two years ago) link
i've only seen a fraction of the things he's been in, but wasn't he in Bonanza and stuff like that early on? so fucking cool
― just staying (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 9 November 2021 01:47 (two years ago) link