ACTOR

Harry Dean Stanton

1926 - 2017

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Harry Dean Stanton (July 14, 1926 – September 15, 2017) was an American actor. In a career that spanned more than six decades, Stanton played supporting roles in films including 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), One Magic Christmas (1985), Pretty in Pink (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Wild at Heart (1990), The Straight Story (1999), The Green Mile (1999), The Man Who Cried (2000), Alpha Dog (2006), Inland Empire (2006), Rango (2011), The Avengers (2012), and Seven Psychopaths (2012). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harry Dean Stanton has received more than 8,320,085 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Harry Dean Stanton is the 510th most popular actor (up from 594th in 2019), the 937th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,106th in 2019) and the 251st most popular American Actor.

Harry Dean Stanton was a prolific actor, and is most famous for his roles in the films "The Godfather Part II," "Cool Hand Luke," "Pretty in Pink," and "Alien."

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.3M

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  • 63.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Harry Dean Stanton ranks 510 out of 13,578. Before him are Rod Steiger, Charles Laughton, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Baxter, Edward Norton, and Faten Hamama. After him are Jürgen Prochnow, Lucia Bosè, James Earl Jones, Billy Bob Thornton, Franco Columbu, and Jonathan Banks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Harry Dean Stanton ranks 53. Before him are Neal Cassady, David Attenborough, Vivian Maier, Ingrid Thulin, Clifford Geertz, and Richard Crenna. After him are Ingeborg Bachmann, George Martin, Henry Way Kendall, Tony Bennett, Maria Schell, and Shohei Imamura. Among people deceased in 2017, Harry Dean Stanton ranks 46. Before him are Adnan Khashoggi, Liu Xiaobo, Malcolm Young, Powers Boothe, George A. Romero, and Ryke Geerd Hamer. After him are Kenneth Arrow, Oliver Smithies, Jonathan Demme, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, and Al Jarreau.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harry Dean Stanton ranks 937 out of 20,380. Before him are Ben Bernanke (1953), Anne Baxter (1923), Keith Jarrett (1945), Edward Norton (1969), Dickinson W. Richards (1895), and Jody Williams (1950). After him are Kenneth Arrow (1921), Edgar Cayce (1877), Estée Lauder (1906), Kobe Bryant (1978), Leon M. Lederman (1922), and James Earl Jones (1931).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Harry Dean Stanton ranks 251. Before him are Larry Hagman (1931), Jennifer Connelly (1970), Richard Crenna (1926), Rod Steiger (1925), Anne Baxter (1923), and Edward Norton (1969). After him are James Earl Jones (1931), Billy Bob Thornton (1955), Jonathan Banks (1947), Jane Wyman (1917), Melanie Griffith (1957), and Geena Davis (1956).

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Television and Movie Roles

Alien
Brett
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
May 25th 19798.2 / 10
Paris, Texas
Travis
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Jul 16th 19848.1 / 10
The Green Mile
Toot-Toot
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
Dec 10th 19998.506 / 10