RIP Harry Dean Stanton (No Harry Dean Stanton? He left for the great desert in the sky...)*

The weirdest "supergroup" ever:
Bob Dylan Peter Himmelman and Harry Dean Stanton at the 25th Chabad Telethon - Watch or Download | downvids.net

 

Damn, guy was awesome

 

I liked him.

Rest in peace.

 

as " Norma Desmond said---We had faces!"
one of those that just added that bit of off kilter. Wow 91! I did not know.....
from a different area, Slim Pickens, same deal

 

He was great.
I remember him as the hitchhiker awkwardly coming onto Warren Oates in Two Lane Blacktop.

 

Rest easy, Mr. Stanton.

He's great as the narrator on this cd:

 

and Grant Hart.
it's...too depressing

 

Great actor with a long, awesome career.
Rest well.

 

Right.

RIP Harry Dean.

--Geoff

 

Just watched Ry Cooders Get Rythm video again.
I always think of Harry Dean Stanton when I hear this song.
RIP

 

Everybody's Talkin'

 

Up to the late 1960's, Mr. Stanton was mostly credited as Dean Stanton. The reason why can be found in S07E04 (Oct. 18, 1969) of Petticoat Junction, "One of Our Chickens Is Missing," in which he played one of two chicken-stealing bikers, Ringo. In the same episode was an older, more established character actor, Harry Stanton (who was the reason in question), who played a sheriff on their trail.

(He was hardly the only quirky actor who was in vogue from the '80's on, to have done that show; in its first season, a pre-Easy Rider Dennis Hopper appeared in one episode. Which would appear that that show had something of a "six degrees of Jack Nicholson" going on there.)

 

Doug Benson put up the old "Doug Loves Movies" episode featuring Mr. Stanton.
Harry Dean Stanton, Paul F. Tompkins and Jen Kirkman guest
He name on of his 'games', "Last Man Stanton" after him!

 

A great screen presence. RIP in that great void.

 

Oh man, Harry was one of those guys that seemed like he would always be around. He has been staring at me from the Partly Fiction CD lying here on my desk for the last couple of weeks.

We would joke about how "Repo Man" was in every piece of film ever shot. Hundreds of film and TV credits, courtside at a Lakers game with Jack, Roy Orbison's Black and White Night concert, in music videos with Linda, Dolly and Emmylou and Dwight Yoakam. For my money, Harry was the greatest character actor ever. We've said it a lot recently, but there will never be another like him. Adios, my friend. R.I.P.

 

"I had that dog since I was 10 years old. He shot it for sticking it's tongue on a pad of butter."
RIP HDS

 

I note that Sam Shepard is in that documentary, and he passed away less than two months ago. Two actors who will be greatly missed! They just don't make characters (in more ways than one) like them anymore!

 

The story goes that he and Nicholson used to run around a lot in Hollywood in the late sixties/early seventies and HDS would get Jack's "leftovers" among the groupies; I understand that Nicholson used to marvel at HDS's ability to drink/smoke/fornicate/do drugs and still keep going. C'mon kid, let's go get a drink!

 

I love that movie---him, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, a very young Richard Dreyfuss as Baby Face Nelson......just wish the DVD had a director's commentary. I'd love to hear John Milius talking about that film!

 

No Milius, but a great upgrade anyway : Dillinger Blu-ray

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OMG, I had no idea! Thanks for that, MYKE! Something new to buy today! And another thank you for turning me on to the website, which I hadn't seen before. A two-fer of goodness!

 

See ya, Harry.
I'll always love your stuff.

 

Me too...

 

RIP Harry. One of my favorite character actors of all time.


I'll admit that I did chuckle a bit after watching that TMZ vid. Ron Jeremy and H.D.S. were friends? Who knew?

 

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