Starring Harry Dean Stanton

Starring Harry Dean Stanton

19 Episodes

With his lean, hangdog face and sunken, soul-weary eyes, Harry Dean Stanton—born one hundred years ago this month—was one of the all-time great character actors. He inhabited the cinematic margins for more than six decades, imbuing his portrayals of drifters, down-and-outers, mystics, and all-American eccentrics with a singular gravity and offbeat charisma. From his indelible supporting turns in films like COOL HAND LUKE, STRAIGHT TIME, and WISE BLOOD to his breakthrough roles (in his late fifties) in PARIS, TEXAS and REPO MAN, Stanton remained a sui generis, unfailingly authentic presence whose merest glance or gesture hinted at profound existential depths.

Starring Harry Dean Stanton
  • Starring Harry Dean Stanton Teaser

    Episode 1

  • Ride in the Whirlwind

    Episode 2

    Directed by Monte Hellman • 1966 • United States
    Starring Jack Nicholson, Cameron Mitchell, Harry Dean Stanton

    Working from a thoughtful script by Jack Nicholson, Monte Hellman fashioned this moody and tense western about a trio of cowhands who are mistaken for robbers and must outrun and hide f...

  • Cool Hand Luke

    Episode 3

    Directed by Stuart Rosenberg • 1967 • United States
    Starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Luke Askew

    “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” Paul Newman delivers one of his most celebrated performances as a man who will not surrender to authority—even at the cost of his life. When Luke ...

  • Where the Lilies Bloom

    Episode 4

    Directed by William A. Graham • 1974 • United States
    Starring Julie Gholson, Jan Smithers, Harry Dean Stanton

    A young woman struggles to keep her family together against all odds in this deeply felt drama. Mary Call (Julie Gholson) lives happily with her father and three siblings in the remote S...

  • Farewell, My Lovely

    Episode 5

    Directed by Dick Richards • 1975 • United States
    Starring Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland

    The immortal Robert Mitchum, a veteran of the original noir era, stars as Raymond Chandler’s legendary detective Philip Marlowe in this complex neonoir mystery. The hard-boiled Marlowe’s la...

  • Straight Time

    Episode 6

    Directed by Ulu Grosbard • 1978 • United States
    Starring Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Harry Dean Stanton

    Dustin Hoffman gives one of his most electrifying performances in this riveting story of an ex-con battling for a new life and love in the glare and tension of the big city. After years b...

  • Wise Blood

    Episode 7

    Directed by John Huston • 1979 • United States
    Starring Brad Dourif, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton

    In this acclaimed adaptation of the first novel by legendary Southern writer Flannery O’Connor, John Huston vividly brings to life her poetic world of American eccentricity. Brad Dourif, in an imp...

  • Escape from New York

    Episode 8

    Directed by John Carpenter • 1981 • United States
    Starring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Isaac Hayes

    It’s the year 1997 and the dystopian hellscape of Manhattan has been turned into a maximum security prison. When the U.S. president’s plane is hijacked and crash lands on the island, it’s up to ha...

  • Christine

    Episode 9

    Directed by John Carpenter • 1983 • United States
    Starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul

    A high-school nerd’s (Keith Gordon) possessive and possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury unleashes its jealousy in a diabolical killing rampage in this sleek horror joyride from genre master John Carpe...

  • Paris, Texas

    Episode 10

    Directed by Wim Wenders • 1984 • France, West Germany
    Starring Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Nastassja Kinski

    New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders (WINGS OF DESIRE) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in PARIS, TEXAS, a profoundly moving character study written by ...

  • Repo Man

    Episode 11

    Directed by Alex Cox • 1984 • United States
    Starring Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter

    A quintessential cult film of the 1980s, Alex Cox’s singular sci-fi comedy stars the always captivating Harry Dean Stanton as a weathered repo man in a desolate Los Angeles, and Emilio Estevez ...

  • The Last Temptation of Christ

    Episode 12

    Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1988 • United States
    Starring Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey

    THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, by Martin Scorsese, is a towering achievement. Though it initially engendered enormous controversy, the film can now be viewed as the remarkable, profoundly per...

  • Wild at Heart

    Episode 13

    Directed by David Lynch • 1990 • United States
    Starring Laura Dern, Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe

    David Lynch throws pulp melodrama, THE WIZARD OF OZ, surreal-kinky violence, and Elvis into a cauldron and brews this nightmarish soap opera in which outlaw lovers Sailor (Nicolas Cage) and Lula (Laura...

  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    Episode 14

    Directed by David Lynch • 1992 • United States

    In the town of Twin Peaks, everybody has their secrets, but no one more than Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, fo...

  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    Episode 15

    Directed by Terry Gilliam • 1998 • United States
    Starring Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Ellen Barkin

    It is 1971, and journalist Raoul Duke barrels toward Las Vegas—accompanied by a trunkful of contraband and his slightly unhinged Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo—to cover a motorcycle race. What shoul...

  • The Straight Story

    Episode 16

    Directed by David Lynch • 1999 • United States
    Starring Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Harry Dean Stanton

    In between the dark, florid surrealism of the LA-set neonoirs LOST HIGHWAY and MULHOLLAND DR., director David Lynch took a detour to America’s heartland for this surprisingly down-to-eart...

  • Inland Empire

    Episode 17

    Directed by David Lynch • 2006 • United States
    Starring Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux

    “Strange, what love does.” The role of a lifetime, a Hollywood mystery, a woman in trouble . . . David Lynch’s first digitally shot feature makes visionary use of the medium to weave a vast meditatio...

  • Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

    Episode 18

    Directed by Sophie Huber • 2012 • United States, Switzerland

    HARRY DEAN STANTON: PARTLY FICTION remembers the legendary actor in his intimate moments, with film clips from some of his astounding films and his own heartbreaking renditions of American folk songs. Featuring David Lynch, Wim Wenders...

  • Lucky

    Episode 19

    Directed by John Carroll Lynch • 2017 • United States
    Starring Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston

    LUCKY follows the spiritual journey of a ninety-year-old atheist and the eccentric characters who inhabit his off-the-map desert town. Having outlived and out outsmoked all of his conte...