Cast: Harry Dean Stanton

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Harry Dean Stanton. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

1998 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Terry Gilliam

Cast Johnny Depp · Benicio del Toro · Craig Bierko · Tobey Maguire

Plot An adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's novel of the same name. The film details a whacky search for the "American Dream", by Thompson and his crazed, Samoan lawyer. Fueled by...

6.8

56K votes

6.8

56K votes

Two-Lane Blacktop

1971 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Monte Hellman

Cast James Taylor · Warren Oates · Laurie Bird · Dennis Wilson

Plot The Driver and The Mechanic are two car freaks driving a 1955 Chevy throughout the southwestern U.S. looking for other cars to race. They are totally dedicated to The Car...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

1992 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction David Lynch

Cast Sheryl Lee · Ray Wise · Moira Kelly · Chris Isaak

Plot David Lynch's prequel to his cult television series "Twin Peaks" concerns the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer, whose plastic-wrapped corpse, found floating in a river, was...

6.8

12K votes

6.8

12K votes

Death Watch

1980 · Movie · 128 min. · France

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Romy Schneider · Harvey Keitel · Harry Dean Stanton · Max von Sydow

Plot Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will...

6.7

840 votes

6.7

840 votes

Straight Time

1978 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Ulu Grosbard

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Theresa Russell · Gary Busey · Harry Dean Stanton

Plot After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the...

6.7

928 votes

6.7

928 votes

Dillinger

1973 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction John Milius

Cast Warren Oates · Ben Johnson · Cloris Leachman · Michelle Phillips

Plot After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law...

6.7

780 votes

6.7

780 votes

The Short Films of David Lynch

2002 · Documentary · 97 min. · United States

Direction David Lynch

Cast Richard White · Virginia Maitland · Dorothy McGinnis · Robert Chadwick

Plot Short films included in the DVD: Six Figures Getting Sick (1966) The Alphabet (1968) The Grandmother (1970) The Amputee (1974) "Français vus par, Les" (1988) Lumière et compagnie (1995)

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

Cockfighter

1974 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Monte Hellman

Cast Warren Oates · Richard B. Shull · Harry Dean Stanton · Ed Begley Jr.

Plot Frank Mansfield has wanted to win the Cockfighter of the Year medal for ages. Frank never speaks. After shooting his mouth off one too many times then losing a champion...

6.6

228 votes

6.6

228 votes

Big Love (TV Series)

2006 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Mark V. Olsen · Will Scheffer · Daniel Attias · David Petrarca

Cast Bill Paxton · Jeanne Tripplehorn · Chloë Sevigny · Ginnifer Goodwin

Plot TV Series (2006-2011). 5 seasons. 53 episodes. Think having three wives is a dream come true? Meet Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton), a modern-day Utah polygamist who lives in suburban Salt...

Max

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Hotel Room (TV Miniseries)

1993 · Series · 90 min. · United States

Direction David Lynch · Monty Montgomery

Cast Glenne Headly · Freddie Jones · Harry Dean Stanton · Clark Heathcliffe Brolly

Plot TV Mini-series. The lives of several people spanning from 1936 to 1993 are chronicled during their overnight stay at a New York City hotel room. The hotel room undergoes minor...

6.4

208 votes

6.4

208 votes

One From the Heart

1981 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Cast Teri Garr · Frederic Forrest · Raul Julia · Nastassja Kinski

Plot Francis Ford Coppola directed this experimental musical about love in Las Vegas. Shot entirely at Coppola’s Zoetrope Studios, the film stars Frederic Forrest (Hank) and Teri Garr (Frannie) as an...

6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K votes

Wise Blood

1979 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Brad Dourif · John Huston · Dan Shor · Harry Dean Stanton

Plot A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his...

Max

6.4

690 votes

6.4

690 votes

Inland Empire

2006 · Movie · 176 min. · United States

Direction David Lynch

Cast Laura Dern · Justin Theroux · Harry Dean Stanton · Grace Zabriskie

Plot An actress's (Laura Dern) perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star (Justin Theroux) in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was...

Max

6.4

12K votes

6.4

12K votes

Alpha Dog

2006 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Nick Cassavetes

Cast Emile Hirsch · Justin Timberlake · Anton Yelchin · Ben Foster

Plot When a young drug dealer by the name of Johnny Truelove (Emile Hirsch) kidnaps Zack Mazurka (Anton Yelchin), the 15-year-old brother of a man in debt to him, things don't...

6.3

12K votes

6.3

12K votes

The Proud Rebel

1958 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Alan Ladd · Olivia de Havilland · Dean Jagger · David Ladd

Plot Just after the Civil War, proud rebel Alan Ladd doggedly wanders the land looking for a doctor who can cure his mute son. The warmth of a father's love and...

6.3

610 votes

6.3

610 votes

Seven Psychopaths

2012 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Martin McDonagh

Cast Colin Farrell · Sam Rockwell · Christopher Walken · Woody Harrelson

Plot The comedy Seven Psychopaths follows a struggling screenwriter ('Colin Farrell' ) who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell)...

6.3

21K votes

6.3

21K votes

The Pledge

2001 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction Sean Penn

Cast Jack Nicholson · Aaron Eckhart · Robin Wright · Helen Mirren

Plot Detective Jarry Black (Nicholson) is just retiring from his long years on duty. But on his final case, he is determined to find the killer of a mother's (Wright-Penn) young...

6.2

9K votes

6.2

9K votes

The Rose

1979 · Movie · 134 min. · United States

Direction Mark Rydell

Cast Bette Midler · Alan Bates · Frederic Forrest · Harry Dean Stanton

Plot Bette Midler stars as Rose in this somber drama loosely based on the life of the late Janis Joplin. She plays an ill-fated singer who succumbs to the pressures of...

6.2

816 votes

6.2

816 votes

The Mighty

1998 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

6.1

2K votes

6.1

2K votes

Getting On (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Mark V. Olsen · Will Scheffer · Miguel Arteta · Howard Deutch

Cast Laurie Metcalf · Alex Borstein · Niecy Nash · Mark Harelik

Plot TV Series (2013-2015). 3 Seasons. 18 Episodes. Set in a geriatric extended care wing of a down-at-the-heels hospital, Getting On follows put-upon nurses, anxious doctors and administrators as they struggle...

Max

6.1

172 votes

6.1

172 votes