Harry Dean Stanton: S/D

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

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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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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.

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

i saw the last film he was in, Lucky, when it was in theaters. as mesmerizing as ever. i enjoy watching him just be himself. he was a fucking legend imo

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His first IMDB credit is 1954--and he was already 28. I think Paris, Texas was something of a breakthrough in terms of name recognition, after which he was everywhere for the next few years. (He was everywhere in the '70s, too, but he was just "that guy.")

Or maybe Repo Man was the breakthrough the year before.

Straight Time may have been the first HARRY DEAN STANTON role.

I dunno, cases could be made for Rancho Deluxe or Dillinger, or even Cisco Pike.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBQl0hCmV5I

what's awesome about that SNL Replacements clip is that it was the legendary performance that got them banned from SNL (and effectively, tv) for years afterward, and HDS was drinking with them backstage beforehand, according to the Trouble Boys bio