Harry Dean Stanton Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Harry Dean Stanton Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926 â€" September 15, 2017) was an

American actor, musician, and singer. In a career that spanned more

than six decades, Stanton played supporting roles in films such as

Cool Hand Luke (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Dillinger (1973), The

Godfather Part II (1974), Alien (1979), Escape from New York (1981),

Christine (1983), Repo Man (1984), Pretty in Pink (1986), The Last

Temptation of Christ (1988), Wild at Heart (1990), The Straight Story

(1999), The Green Mile (1999), Alpha Dog (2006) and Inland Empire

(2006). He had rare lead roles in Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas (1984) and

Lucky (2017), his last film.Stanton was born in West Irvine, Kentucky,

to Sheridan Harry Stanton, a tobacco farmer and barber and Ersel (née

Moberly), a cook. His parents divorced when Stanton was in high

school; both later remarried.Stanton had two younger brothers, Archie

and Ralph, and a younger half-brother, Stanley McKnight. His family

had a musical background. Stanton attended Lafayette High School and

the University of Kentucky in Lexington where he performed at the

Guignol Theatre under the direction of British theater director

Wallace Briggs, and studied journalism and radio arts. "I could have

been a writer," he told an interviewer for a 2011 documentary, Harry

Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland, in which he sings and plays the

harmonica. "I had to decide if I wanted to be a singer or an actor. I

was always singing. I thought if I could be an actor, I could do all

of it." Briggs encouraged him to leave the university and become an

actor. He studied at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California,

where his classmates included his friends Tyler MacDuff and Dana

Andrews.
Harry Dean Stanton Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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