Harry Dean Stanton

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Harry Dean Stanton (born July 14, 1926 in West Irvine , Kentucky - † September 15, 2017 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor and musician . He was considered one of the most versatile supporting actors in American film.

Life

Harry Dean Stanton was born in Kentucky to a tobacco farmer and cook. He served in the United States Navy during World War II , then studied at the University of Kentucky , where he appeared in a performance of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion . He went to California to the renowned Pasadena Playhouse . He was first seen on television in 1954 and two years later he played one of his first film roles in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller The Wrong Man . He was then often used in smaller roles in westerns as a villain. He made a name for himself as a reliable supporting actor with distinctive facial features. From the 1990s, Stanton was widely considered an icon of American cinema.

In 1984 Stanton got one of his few leading roles, directed by Wim Wenders in his film Paris, Texas . In it he played a man with a memory loss who gets back together with his family years later. Otherwise, too, he mostly played solitary, mysterious characters. The influential US film critic Roger Ebert formulated the "Stanton-Walsh Rule" according to which a film in which Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh play a supporting role cannot be completely bad.

In mostly short, but concise supporting roles, he was noticed in well-known films, such as in Ridley Scott's science fiction film Alien (1979), Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) or in Frank Darabont's Stephen-King -The Green Mile (1999). Stanton filmed several times with David Lynch , the first time in Wild at Heart (1990), where he played a private detective . He appeared in Lynch's TV series Twin Peaks in 1990 and 1991 and again in the new edition in 2017 as the quirky owner of a caravan site. Stanton worked as an actor practically until his death. In John Carroll Lynch's directorial debut Lucky (2017), he played his last leading role as a very old atheist who has to grapple with his mortality.

In addition to acting, Stanton was an avid singer and guitarist . The "Harry Dean Stanton Band" played together for more than a decade. She made regular appearances in Los Angeles with a mix of country , pop , jazz , Tex-Mex and mariachi music. In some of his films, for example in The Rose , Stanton was allowed to prove his musical talent.

Since 1979 he has been spoken a total of nineteen times by Friedrich G. Beckhaus in the German dubbed version of the films in which he participated .

Harry Dean Stanton, who was never married, died on September 15, 2017 at the age of 91 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Filmography (selection)

Discography

Awards

Web links

Commons : Harry Dean Stanton  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New York Times: Harry Dean Stanton, Character Actor Who Became a Star, Dies at 91
  2. ↑ Harry Dean Stanton at Allmovie
  3. ↑ Harry Dean Stanton at Allmovie
  4. ^ Obituary for Harry Dean Stanton at the Guardian
  5. ^ The Late Harry Dean Stanton on Life and Lucky , His Upcoming Film , Los Angeles Weekly
  6. ↑ Harry Dean Stanton, 'Big Love,' 'Twin Peaks' Star, Dies at 91 on variety.com (September 16, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Stanton, Harry Dean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stanton, Dean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH West Irvine , Kentucky , USA
DATE OF DEATH 15th September 2017
Place of death Los Angeles , California , USA