Harry Dean Stanton

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Filmography (All Films)

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Rebel Rousers (1967): Dir. Martin B Cohen
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Harry Dean Stanton…; An utterly shameless fistful of 60s exploitation, this has a biker gang tearing up a quiet little town and having races for winner's 'trophy' Diane…
Rancho Deluxe (1974): Dir. Frank Perry
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Harry Dean Stanton; An admired oddball comedy with a young Jeff Bridges as one of a pair of drifters whose disdain for the establishment leads them to trouble with an…
Cockfighter, The (1974): Dir. Monte Hellman
Feat. Warren Oates, Harry Dean Stanton, Patricia Pearcy…; A typically raw–boned performance by Warren Oates centres this cult gem of 1970s American cinema, playing a cockfighting specialist who refuses…
92 In the Shade (1975): Dir. Thomas McGuane
Feat. Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Margot Kidder…; Drama based on director's novel of the same name, about a young man who opens a charter fishing business in the swampy rot of Key West, Florida,…
Missouri Breaks, The (1976): Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Harry Dean Stanton…; Startling 70s Western, pairs regulator Marlon Brando and horse rustler Jack Nicholson for a brutal, yet often comic game of…
Straight Time (1978): Dir. Ulu Grosbard
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, M. Emmet Walsh, Harry Dean Stanton…; Dustin Hoffman is brilliantly convincing as a convicted felon fighting a losing battle to go straight after a six year jail term, as are most aspects…
Alien (1979): Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt…; One of the best films of modern cinema, this classic combines nail–shredding suspense with H.R. Giger's awesome production design. This film…
Deathwatch (1980): Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton; Cerebral drama set in the future about a media group who attempt to film the deaths of the terminally ill for public consumption.
Uforia (1980): Dir. John Binder
Feat. Harry Dean Stanton, Fred Ward; Quirky comedy about a kooky check–out operator who believes that aliens are about to dock on their doorstep. Harry Dean Stanton and Fred Ward…
Private Benjamin (1980): Dir. Howard Zieff
Feat. Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante…; Well–fashioned vehicle for Hawn's natural comic talents, she here plays a swanky socialite who joins the army on the spur of the…
Escape from New York (1981): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine…; 1997 New York is a huge maximum–security prison where the President's plane just happens to crash! Futuristic actioner notable for its sardonic…
Repo Man (1984): Dir. Alex Cox
Feat. Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton; Young punk Emilio Estevez unwittingly becomes involved in the car re–possession business in this curious cocktail of action, sci–fi and…
Paris, Texas (1984): Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski; The German director takes his enigmatic, dilatory style Stateside for this intoxicating work about a mysterious mute loner in search of his missing…
Red Dawn (1984): Dir. John Milius
Feat. Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Harry Dean Stanton…; Playing out the US fear/fantasy of Commie invasion, this sees a high–school football team (led by Patrick Swayze) make for the hills and wage…
Fool for Love (1985): Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Harry Dean Stanton…; One of dir. Altman's ambitious stageplay adaptations, this largely succeeds in bringing Sam Shepard's brand of 'surreal Americana' to life. This…
Pretty in Pink (1986): Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton; Molly Ringwald faces some tricky teenage dilemmas in John Hughes' quintessentially '80s rite–of–passage.
Slamdance (1987): Dir. Wayne Wang
Feat. Tom Hulce, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Virginia Madsen…; Quirky, stylishly–shot thriller, with graphic artist Tom Hulce framed for murder.
Twister (1988): Dir. Michael Almereyda
Feat. Harry Dean Stanton, Crispin Glover, Suzy Amis…; Minor cult item about bizzare family headed by Harry Dean Stanton.a
Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988): Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey…; Brave, earnest film controversial for its assumption that Christ suffered from mortal doubt when chosen to carry God's message. Willem Dafoe plays…
Wild at Heart (1990): Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd…; Disturbing, provocative and always stylish, the director parodies himself and many other great film–makers in this mother of all road movies.…
Fourth War, The (1990): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Roy Scheider, Jurgen Prochnow, Harry Dean Stanton; Cold War thriller set during the early days of detente has Scheider and Prochnow as two border commanders whose friendly rivalry on the…
Against the Wall (1994): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Samuel L. Jackson, Frederic Forrest…; Gruelling true story of the uprising at Attica Prison in 1971 in which a new recruit to the prison service, along with several of his colleagues get…
Pledge, The (2000): Dir. Sean Penn
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Robin Wright, Helen Mirren…; Sean Penn as director's pledge to the stuff of raw drama pays off with a thriller/parable centred round a powerhouse turn from Jack Nicholson. As…
Sonny (2002): Dir. Nicolas Cage
Feat. James Franco, Brenda Blethyn, Harry Dean Stanton…; Brave directorial debut for Nicolas Cage, proffering the tale of a dischargee from the army (Franco) who has been handraised as a gigolo by his…
Big Bounce, The (2003): Dir. George Armitage
Feat. Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman, Charlie Sheen…; Adapted from a cheerily hardboiled novel by Elmore Leonard, this sees petty–crim Wilson washing up in Hawaii, when a tempting swindle lands in…
Inland Empire (2006): Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux…; Warped and optically haunting suspense starring Lynch regular Laura Dern as a focused actress ecstatic about receiving a part in a new film, until…
Good Life, The (2007): Dir. Stephen Berra
Feat. Bill Paxton, Chris Klein, Zooey Deschanel…; Professional skateboarder Stephen Berra directs this gloomy indie drama centering on a young outsider who finds solace in old movies while living in…
Open Road, The (2009): Dir. Michael Meredith
Feat. Justin Timberlake, Jeff Bridges, Ted Danson…; Pleasant road movie finds Justin Timberlake looking inward as an out–of–form minor–leaguer resigned to seeking out his estranged…
Alice (TV Mini-Series) (2009): Dir. Nick Willing
Feat. Caterina Scorsone, Andrew Lee Potts, Matt Frewer…; Modernist re–imagining of the Lewis Carroll classic with wonderland portrayed as a dystopian netherworld that sucks the emotions from the 'real…
This Must Be the Place (2011): Dir. Paolo Sorrentino
Feat. Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch…; Sean Penn is all affectation as a retired, depressed glam rocker who sets off on an American road trip in search of a Nazi war criminal in this…

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Filmography (All Films)