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And with good reason. During that period he also appeared in such memorable films as How the West Was Won, Cool Hand Luke, Kelly’s Heroes, The Godfather Part II, Alien, The Rose, Private Benjamin and Escape from New York – a name on the credits below such screen legends as Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, Clint Eastwood and Stanton’s lifelong friend Jack Nicholson. Lucky, Stanton’s final starring role and a swan song of sorts to the actor – who plays a semi-fictionalized version of himself in the film – opens in theaters September 29th following its SXSW premiere. Updated September 15, 2017 7:26 pm. In addition to his movie career, Stanton also had a lifelong love of music, frequently playing in Los Angeles with his Harry Stanton Band. In the 2000s, the actor had a reoccurring role as the bigamist patriarch Roman Grant in the HBO series Big Love. In Partly Fiction, Lynch asked his friend Stanton how he hoped his legacy would be remembered. A native of Kentucky and a veteran of the Battle of Okinawa, Stanton spent the early part of his career churning out bit parts in TV Westerns and small but vital roles in films like Cool Hand Luke, In the Heat of the Night and Kelly’s Heroes. Stanton died of natural causes in Los Angeles, Variety reports, with TMZ adding that the actor died peacefully Friday afternoon at the city’s Cedars-Sinai Hospital. Get a roundup of the most important and intriguing national stories delivered to your inbox every weekday. Most recently, Stanton recurred on HBO’s Getting On, had a voice role in the toon feature Rango and had a small role in The Avengers.
Goodbye, Harry Dean. But his friendship with Sam Shepard and appearances in two films penned by the actor-writer – Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas and Robert Altman’s Fool for Love – captured Stanton’s iconoclastic essence as loner, outsider and avatar of controlled rage. “He’s got a great inner peace. Stanton’s film career picked up in the mid-1980s, when he was in his early 60s. Harry Dean Stanton, whose long career ranged from 1950s Westerns to this year's Twin Peaks and Lucky, died today in Los Angeles. “The whole thing was an organic kind of thing,” Stanton said of the Paris, Texas role. More recently he reunited with director David Lynch on Showtime’s “Twin Peaks: The Return” where he reprised his role as the cranky trailer park owner Carl from “Fire Walk With Me.” He also stars with Lynch in the upcoming film “Lucky,” the directorial debut of actor John Carroll Lynch, which has been described as a love letter to Stanton’s life and career.
Want more Rolling Stone? I could have made it as a singer, but I went with acting, surrendered to it, in a way.”, Stanton often portrayed memorable characters that walked the fringes of society, like a blind preacher on skid row in Wise Blood, “Brain” in Escape From New York, the mysterious Old Man in Fool for Love and, most memorably, Bud in Repo Man, where Stanton plays a grizzled, speed-snorting repo man who takes Emilio Estevez’s character under his wing. “[Nicholson said] ‘Harry, I’ve written this part… I want you to play a gangster, he wears a derby and an eyepatch,” Stanton recounted. Alfred Hitchcock was great.”, READ MORE: Don Williams, ‘gentle giant’ of country music, dead at 78, He said he could have been a director himself but “it was too much work.”. David Lynch is paying tribute to his longtime collaborator and friend Harry Dean Stanton, after the Twin Peaks actor passed away at age 91. Subscribe to Deadline Breaking News Alerts and keep your inbox happy. Rest in peace,” wrote director John Carpenter, whose Christine and Escape From New York featured Stanton in supporting roles. In this Feb. 4, 2008, file photo, actor Harry Dean Stanton arrives at a celebration for actress Marion Cotillard in West Hollywood, Calif. Harry Dean Stanton attends Vidiots Foundation Presents The Harry Dean Stanton Award at The Theatre at Ace Hotel on October 23, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. Having outlived and out-smoked all his contemporaries, the fiercely independent Lucky finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration, leading toward that which is so often unattainable: enlightenment. Harry Dean Stanton, the legendary character actor and offbeat leading man who starred in Repo Man, Paris, Texas, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and Big Love in … “Repo Man,” released that same year, became another signature film: Stanton starred as the world-weary boss of an auto repossession firm who instructs Estevez in the tricks of the hazardous trade. Never mistaken for a leading man, Stanton was an unforgettable presence to moviegoers, fellow actors and directors, who recognized that his quirky characterizations could lift even the most ordinary script. Sign up for our newsletter. We want to hear from you! Stanton’s most acclaimed role came in 1984 with Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas, where the actor played an amnesiac slowly piecing his life together following a traumatic experience. “Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Harry Dean Stanton, actor from ‘Twin Peaks,’ ‘Repo Man,’ dead at age 91. We want to hear from you! Send us a tip using our annonymous form. Nicholson so liked Stanton’s name that he would find a way to work his initials, HDS, into a camera shot. An exception was Chattahoochee, starring Walsh. “Sam [Shepard, Paris, Texas‘ screenwriter] and I got drunk, we were drinking tequila listening to a Mexican singer in Santa Fe, and we were talking and [I said] ‘I would like to do something with some beauty to it. In 1986, John Hughes cast Stanton against type as Molly Ringwold’s working-class suburban dad in Pretty in Pink. Loads of love to where you are now!!!”. From the 1950s into the ’80s, he guested on such classic TV series as The Rifleman, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Untouchables, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Adam-12, The Fugitive and Laverne & Shirley. His heartbreakingly stoic delivery of a monologue of repentance to his wife, played by Nastassja Kinski, through a one-way mirror has become the defining moment in his career, in a role he said was his favourite. He toplines the upcoming film Lucky. He was a great actor (actually beyond great) – and a great human being – so great to be around him!!! As a musician, he can sing so beautifully tears just flow out of your eyes. The film won the Palme d’or at Cannes Film Festival and further jettisoned Stanton’s career, with the actor cast in more commercial films like Red Dawn, Pretty in Pink and Dream a Little Dream. Determined to make it in Hollywood, he picked tobacco to earn his fare west. Later, he used music as an escape from his parents’ quarreling and the sometimes brutal treatment he was subjected to by his father. Harry Dean Stanton: 10 Essential Movies From ‘Alien’ to ‘Twin Peaks’ – our picks for the late character actor’s greatest onscreen moments Harry Dean Stanton, the legendary character actor and offbeat leading man who starred in 'Repo Man' and 'Paris, Texas,' has died at the age of 91. 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After Navy service in the Pacific during World War II, he spent three years at the University of Kentucky and appeared in several plays. Stanton died of natural causes at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his agent, John S. Kelly, told The Associated Press. “I might have had two or three (kids) out of marriage,” he once recalled. “Harry Dean Stanton was a wonderful man, kind and full of humor. Posted September 15, 2017 7:23 pm .
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