I first saw Stanton in Alien. He was one of those character actors whose name in the credits ensures that the movie is probably worth watching.
I like him especially in:
The Black Marble The Straight Story Farewell, My Lovely The Godfather Part II Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins Wise Blood One From the Heart and, of course, Paris, Texas.
Harry Dean Stanton was a close friend of Warren Oates—both men were country people from Kentucky—and guested in his films (see Two-Lane Blacktop, Dillinger, Cockfighter). He appeared in countless episodic television series starting from the 1950's. I remembered Harry Dean Stanton in two parts: Escape from New York (1981) Repo Man (1984)
One of the all time great character actors, and who doesn't remember the scene in "Alien" where he tries to get Ripley's cat and says "Here, kitty" before getting bumped off by the alien? R.I.P. Harry Dean Stanton.
I think the towering mountain that is Harry Dean Stanton's tv and film career is a mountain Bob DiMucci cannot climb via his poster retrospectives (unless he's still at work on it).
Not that I blame him; that's a ton of work to go over and comment on in detail.
