Harry Dean Stanton

Harry Dean Stanton is, for me, the patron saint of the character actor. Across six decades and a staggering run of films from Alien to The Godfather Part II to Repo Man, he never needed top billing to leave a mark, his weathered Kentucky face anchoring whole scenes with a glance. He was a singer and musician too, and I suspect that lived-in soulfulness fed his acting. He passed in 2017, but the quiet, melancholy authenticity he brought endures. I have endless respect for performers who understand that presence beats flash, and Stanton understood it better than almost anyone.

Name (English)

Harry Dean Stanton

Name (Japanese)

ハリー・ディーン・スタントン

Reading

はりー・でぃーん・すたんとん

Born

July 14, 1926 – September 15, 2017

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Tiger

Origin

Irvine, Kentucky, United States

Occupation

film actor / television actor / singer / musician / character actor

High school

Lafayette High School

University

University of Kentucky

• Official sitehttp://www.harrydeanstanton.org
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Dean%20Stanton
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314290

Tags

• Kentucky
• film actor
• television actor
• singer

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.