Harry Dean Stanton Biography

Fast Facts

• Served in the U
• S
• Navy during WWII
• Sang in a barbershop quartet while in high school and later toured the U
• S
• with a Baptist choir
• Studied theater at the Pasadena Playhouse
• An early acting job was on the first episode of the show Suspicion titled "Four O'Clock" directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1957
• Roomed with Jack Nicholson for two and a half years in the Hollywood Hills during the 1960s
• Breakout role came in 1984 at age 58 as a mostly silent drifter in director Wim Wender's Paris, Texas
• An accomplished musician who led his own group, the Harry Dean Stanton Band, originally known as Harry Dean Stanton and the Repo Men
• To help maintain its secrecy, learned of the demise of his character Roman Grant on the HBO show Big Love shortly before filming
• Voiced the part of a prairie dog in Rango (2011)