{"id":47719,"date":"2017-09-16T14:02:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T04:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=47719"},"modified":"2017-09-16T14:03:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T04:33:27","slug":"vale-harry-dean-stanton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2017\/09\/16\/vale-harry-dean-stanton\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale – Harry Dean Stanton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Acclaimed American actor Harry Dean Stanton, best known for his roles in Alien, Paris Texas<\/em> and The Green Mile<\/em>, has passed away.<\/p>\n

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Yaphet Kotto, Harry Dean Stanton, Sigourney Weaver in ALIEN (1979)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A native of Kentucky, Mr Stanton began his career in the 1950’s, playing a number of smaller supporting and cameo roles, including 1957’s Tomahawk Trail, A Dog’s Best Friend<\/em> (1959) and as a slave catcher in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/em> in 1960. Prestige films followed in the 1960’s, including an uncredited role in How The West Was Won<\/em> (a Cinerama film that released to considerable plaudits) as well as\u00a0In The Heat of The Night, The Hostage<\/em> and Cool Hand Luke<\/em>, all of which released in 1967. He played Willard in 1970’s Kelly’s Heroes<\/em> alongside Clint Eastwood, Luke in Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garret & Billy The Kid<\/em> (1973), and an FBI agent in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part 2<\/em>, in 1974.<\/p>\n

Stanton’s most famous role to movie fans is obviously that of Brett, the Nostromo engineering tech who meets an timely end chasing a cat in Ridley Scott’s 1979’s sci-fi classic, Alien<\/em>, although many will have forgotten his supporting roles \u00a0in Goldie Hawn’s Private Benjamin<\/em> and Kurt Russel’s Escape From New York<\/em> to kick off the 1980’s. His most critically acclaimed performance came with 1984’s Paris Texas<\/em>, in which he played an amnesiac looking to reconnect with his family. The film was directed by Wim Wenders from a screenplay by Sam Shepard, and would garner Stanton and the cast considerable acclaim.<\/p>\n

Other mainstream films in which Stanton appeared include Pretty In Pink<\/em> and Red Dawn<\/em> in the 1980’s, Wild At Heart, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, The Green Mile<\/em> and Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas<\/em> in the 1990’s, and post-Y2K appeared \u00a0in a number of films including Anger Management, You Me And Dupree, Rango, The Avengers<\/em> and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s The Last Stand<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n

Lengthy television credits include Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Laverne & Shirley, Two And A Half Men<\/em> and Twin Peaks<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Harry Dean Stanton passed away on September 15th, aged 91.<\/p>\n

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Stanton in 1984’s PARIS TEXAS.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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