The Hollywood Reporter offers
a piece on the life and work of Harry Dean Stanton, one of my favorite
character actors, who has died.
Harry Dean Stanton, the
character actor with the world-weary face who carved out an exceptional career
playing grizzled loners and colorful, offbeat characters in such films as
Paris, Texas and Repo Man, has died. He was 91.
Stanton, who also was
memorable in Cool Hand Luke (1967), Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), Ridley Scott’s
Alien (1979), John Carpenter’s Escape From New York (1981) and John Hughes’
Pretty in Pink (1986) — in fact, what wasn’t he memorable in? — died Friday afternoon
of natural causes at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his agent,
John Kelly, told The Hollywood Reporter.
You can read the rest of the
piece via the below link:
Note: Below is a link to a brief
video clip from Repo Man, where Harry Dean Stanton offers his view of “ordinary
people.” Classic:
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