Harry Dean Stanton: movies and TV shows
Harry Dean Stanton has 219 credits in the archive: 152 films and 67 TV series, from 1954 to 2025. Highest rated: The Jim Henson Hour (8.9/10).
Career timeline
1954 – 2025 · busiest year: 1959 (12 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Sinatra! Eternity | Sherif Lloyd | Film | — | 98 |
| 2022 | American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective | Self | Film | 4.8 | 95 |
| 2020 | Frank and Ava | Sheriff Lloyd | Film | 4.9 | 93 |
| 2020 | Wim Wenders, Desperado | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.7 | 93 |
| 2019 | Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.6 | 92 |
| 2017 | Lucky | Lucky | Film | 7.3 | 90 |
| 2017 | Sick of it All | Harry The News Reporter | Film | 2.0 | 90 |
| 2014 | Fishtail | Narrator | Film | 4.5 | 87 |
| 2014 | Walking the Mile | Self (archive footage) | Film | 5.0 | 87 |
| 2014 | Carlos Spills the Beans | Rhino | Film | — | 87 |
| 2013 | The Last Stand | Mr. Parson | Film | 6.1 | 86 |
| 2013 | Getting On | Leonard Butler | TV | 6.3 | 86 |
| 2013 | 9 Full Moons | Dimitri | Film | 4.2 | 86 |
| 2013 | Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction | Self | Film | 6.9 | 86 |
| 2012 | The Avengers | Security Guard | Film | 8.1 | 85 |
| 2012 | Seven Psychopaths | Man in Hat | Film | 6.8 | 85 |
| 2012 | Char·ac·ter | Self | Film | 4.0 | 85 |
| 2011 | Rango | Balthazar (voice) | Film | 6.9 | 84 |
| 2011 | This Must Be the Place | Robert Plath | Film | 7.0 | 84 |
| 2011 | Mongo Wrestling Alliance | TV | 10.0 | 84 | |
| 2011 | Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland | Film | — | 84 | |
| 2010 | Athena | Bill | Film | — | 83 |
| 2010 | On Holiday | Josh the Roommate's Dad | Film | 2.7 | 83 |
| 2009 | Alice | Caterpillar | TV | 6.7 | 82 |
| 2009 | The Open Road | Amon | Film | 5.2 | 82 |
| 2007 | Chuck | Harry | TV | 7.7 | 80 |
| 2007 | Being Michael Madsen | Self | Film | 5.8 | 80 |
| 2007 | Lynch 2 | Self | Film | — | 80 |
| 2007 | Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project | Self | Film | 6.8 | 80 |
| 2007 | The Good Life | Gus | Film | 6.5 | 80 |
| 2006 | Big Love | Roman Grant | TV | 6.9 | 79 |
| 2006 | Alpha Dog | Cosmo Gadabeeti | Film | 6.6 | 79 |
| 2006 | You, Me and Dupree | Curly (uncredited) | Film | 5.6 | 79 |
| 2006 | Inland Empire | Freddie Howard | Film | 7.0 | 79 |
| 2006 | Alien Autopsy | Harvey | Film | 5.7 | 79 |
| 2006 | Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride | Self | Film | 7.2 | 79 |
| 2006 | Harry Zen Stanton | Himself | Film | — | 79 |
| 2005 | The Wendell Baker Story | Skip Summers | Film | 5.1 | 78 |
| 2004 | Dig! | Self | Film | 6.7 | 77 |
| 2004 | The Big Bounce | Bob Rogers, Sr. | Film | 5.0 | 77 |
| 2004 | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self | Film | 8.0 | 77 |
| 2004 | Chrystal | Pa Da | Film | 5.8 | 77 |
| 2003 | Two and a Half Men | Harry Dean Stanton | TV | 7.5 | 76 |
| 2003 | Anger Management | Blind Man (uncredited) | Film | 6.2 | 76 |
| 2003 | The Beast Within: Making Alien | Self | Film | 8.2 | 76 |
| 2003 | Hunter Goes to Hollywood | Himself | Film | 7.5 | 76 |
| 2003 | Return to 'Escape from New York' | Himself | Film | 8.0 | 76 |
| 2003 | Bukowski: Born Into This | Self | Film | 6.8 | 76 |
| 2003 | Ginostra | Del Piero | Film | 4.4 | 76 |
| 2002 | Sonny | Henry | Film | 5.2 | 75 |
| 2002 | The Short Films of David Lynch | Self | Film | 5.8 | 75 |
| 2001 | The Animal | Hunter (uncredited) | Film | 5.1 | 74 |
| 2001 | The Pledge | Floyd Cage | Film | 6.6 | 74 |
| 2000 | The Man Who Cried | Felix Perlman | Film | 6.1 | 73 |
| 2000 | Sand | Leo | Film | 3.4 | 73 |
| 1999 | The Green Mile | Toot-Toot | Film | 8.5 | 72 |
| 1999 | The Straight Story | Lyle | Film | 7.7 | 72 |
| 1999 | Stephen King: Shining in the Dark | Self | Film | 6.8 | 72 |
| 1999 | Ballad of the Nightingale | Jean-Paul | Film | 4.2 | 72 |
| 1998 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Judge | Film | 7.2 | 71 |
| 1998 | A Civil Action | Land Watcher (uncredited) | Film | 6.5 | 71 |
| 1998 | The Mighty | Grim | Film | 7.3 | 71 |
| 1997 | Fire Down Below | Cotton Harry | Film | 5.8 | 70 |
| 1997 | She's So Lovely | Tony 'Shorty' Russo | Film | 5.9 | 70 |
| 1997 | Midnight Blue | Eric | Film | 5.3 | 70 |
| 1996 | Down Periscope | Lt. Howard | Film | 6.4 | 69 |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story | TV | 8.2 | 69 | |
| 1996 | Playback | Ernie Fontenot | Film | 5.6 | 69 |
| 1996 | Dead Man's Walk | Shadrach | TV | 6.0 | 69 |
| 1995 | One Hundred and One Nights | Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited) | Film | 6.1 | 68 |
| 1995 | Never Talk to Strangers | Max Cheski | Film | 5.3 | 68 |
| 1994 | Against the Wall | Hal | Film | 6.1 | 67 |
| 1994 | Blue Tiger | Smith | Film | 5.2 | 67 |
| 1993 | Hotel Room | Moe Boca | TV | 6.2 | 66 |
| 1993 | Warren Oates: Across the Border | Self | Film | 6.5 | 66 |
| 1992 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | Carl Rodd | Film | 7.4 | 65 |
| 1992 | Cruise Control | Film | 5.5 | 65 | |
| 1992 | Hostages | Frank Reed | Film | 6.1 | 65 |
| 1992 | Man Trouble | Redmond Layls | Film | 4.9 | 65 |
| 1991 | Payoff | Hook | Film | 4.3 | 64 |
| 1990 | Twin Peaks | Carl Rodd | TV | 8.3 | 63 |
| 1990 | Wild at Heart | Johnnie Farragut | Film | 7.0 | 63 |
| 1990 | The Fourth War | Gen. Hackworth | Film | 5.3 | 63 |
| 1990 | Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas' | Self | Film | — | 63 |
| 1990 | Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders | Self | Film | 8.0 | 63 |
| 1989 | The Jim Henson Hour | Chancey Bellow | TV | 8.9 | 62 |
| 1989 | Twister | Cleveland | Film | 5.6 | 62 |
| 1989 | Dream a Little Dream | Ike Baker | Film | 5.8 | 62 |
| 1989 | Monster Maker | Chancey Bellow | Film | 6.7 | 62 |
| 1988 | Mr. North | Henry Simmons | Film | 5.4 | 61 |
| 1988 | The Last Temptation of Christ | Paulus | Film | 7.2 | 61 |
| 1988 | The French as Seen by… | (Segment "The Cowboy and the Frenchman") | Film | 6.9 | 61 |
| 1988 | Stars & Bars | Loomis Gage | Film | 4.4 | 61 |
| 1988 | The Cowboy and the Frenchman | Slim | Film | 6.0 | 61 |
| 1988 | Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night | Self - Audience Member | Film | 7.6 | 61 |
| 1987 | Slam Dance | Det. Benjamin Smiley | Film | 4.8 | 60 |
| 1987 | Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle | Rip Van Winkle | Film | 6.5 | 60 |
| 1986 | Pretty in Pink | Jack Walsh | Film | 6.7 | 59 |
| 1985 | Fool for Love | Old Man | Film | 5.6 | 58 |
| 1985 | The Care Bears Movie | Brave Heart Lion (singing voice) | Film | 6.1 | 58 |
| 1985 | One Magic Christmas | Gideon | Film | 5.9 | 58 |
| 1984 | Paris, Texas | Travis | Film | 8.1 | 57 |
| 1984 | Red Dawn | Mr. Eckert | Film | 6.3 | 57 |
| 1984 | Repo Man | Bud | Film | 6.7 | 57 |
| 1984 | UFOria | Brother Bud Sanders | Film | 5.8 | 57 |
| 1984 | The Bear | Coach Thomas | Film | 7.1 | 57 |
| 1983 | Christine | Rudolph Junkins | Film | 6.9 | 56 |
| 1983 | I Want to Live | Emmett Perkins | Film | 4.8 | 56 |
| 1982 | Faerie Tale Theatre | Rip Van Winkle | TV | 8.1 | 55 |
| 1982 | Young Doctors in Love | Dr. Oliver Ludwig | Film | 5.3 | 55 |
| 1982 | One from the Heart | Moe | Film | 6.0 | 55 |
| 1981 | Escape from New York | Harold 'Brain' Helman | Film | 7.1 | 54 |
| 1980 | The Black Marble | Philo Skinner | Film | 4.9 | 53 |
| 1980 | Private Benjamin | Sgt. Jim Ballard | Film | 6.0 | 53 |
| 1980 | Death Watch | Vincent Ferriman | Film | 6.3 | 53 |
| 1980 | The Oldest Living Graduate | Mike | Film | 4.0 | 53 |
| 1979 | Alien | Brett | Film | 8.2 | 52 |
| 1979 | Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers | C.W. Douglas | Film | 5.2 | 52 |
| 1979 | The Rose | Billy Ray | Film | 6.7 | 52 |
| 1979 | Wise Blood | Asa Hawks | Film | 6.4 | 52 |
| 1979 | Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand | Pokey Tindle | Film | — | 52 |
| 1978 | Straight Time | Jerry Schue | Film | 7.2 | 51 |
| 1978 | Renaldo and Clara | Lafkezio | Film | 7.9 | 51 |
| 1976 | Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman | Jake Walters | TV | 7.3 | 49 |
| 1976 | Laverne & Shirley | TV | 7.1 | 49 | |
| 1976 | The Missouri Breaks | Calvin | Film | 6.5 | 49 |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | TV | 6.9 | 48 |
| 1975 | Farewell, My Lovely | Billy Rolfe | Film | 6.6 | 48 |
| 1975 | The Fortune | Prisoner in Holding Cell (uncredited) | Film | 5.4 | 48 |
| 1975 | Win, Place or Steal | Jack | Film | 8.0 | 48 |
| 1975 | Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins | Billy Winston | Film | 6.3 | 48 |
| 1975 | Rancho Deluxe | Curt | Film | 5.4 | 48 |
| 1975 | The Ransom of Red Chief | Sam | Film | — | 48 |
| 1975 | 92 in the Shade | Carter | Film | 5.8 | 48 |
| 1975 | The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond | President Warren G. Harding | Film | 7.0 | 48 |
| 1974 | The Godfather Part II | F.B.I. Man #1 | Film | 8.6 | 47 |
| 1974 | Zandy's Bride | Songer | Film | 6.3 | 47 |
| 1974 | Where the Lilies Bloom | Kiser Pease | Film | 5.9 | 47 |
| 1974 | Cockfighter | Jack Burke | Film | 6.0 | 47 |
| 1973 | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | Luke | Film | 7.2 | 46 |
| 1973 | Dillinger | Homer Van Meter | Film | 6.6 | 46 |
| 1972 | Cry for Me, Billy | Luke Todd | Film | 4.8 | 45 |
| 1972 | Cisco Pike | Jesse Dupre | Film | 5.6 | 45 |
| 1971 | Two-Lane Blacktop | Oklahoma Hitchhiker | Film | 6.9 | 44 |
| 1970 | Kelly's Heroes | Pvt. Willard | Film | 7.4 | 43 |
| 1970 | The Intruders | Whit Dykstra (as Dean Stanton) | Film | 5.0 | 43 |
| 1970 | Rebel Rousers | Randolph Halverson | Film | 4.2 | 43 |
| 1969 | Lanton Mills | Lanton | Film | 8.0 | 42 |
| 1968 | Adam-12 | Harry Fletcher | TV | 7.1 | 41 |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game | Joe Joe | TV | 7.0 | 41 |
| 1968 | Day of the Evil Gun | Sergeant Parker | Film | 6.2 | 41 |
| 1968 | The Mini-Skirt Mob | Spook | Film | 4.8 | 41 |
| 1967 | Mannix | TV | 6.8 | 40 | |
| 1967 | The High Chaparral | Johnny Faro | TV | 6.8 | 40 |
| 1967 | Cool Hand Luke | Tramp | Film | 7.7 | 40 |
| 1967 | The Guns of Will Sonnett | TV | 6.3 | 40 | |
| 1967 | Cimarron Strip | Luther Happ | TV | 5.7 | 40 |
| 1967 | A Time for Killing | Sgt. Dan Way | Film | 4.6 | 40 |
| 1967 | The Hostage | Eddie (as Dean Stanton) | Film | 5.2 | 40 |
| 1966 | Ride in the Whirlwind | Blind Dick | Film | 6.2 | 39 |
| 1966 | The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones | Jelly | Film | 8.0 | 39 |
| 1965 | The Big Valley | Swain | TV | 6.2 | 38 |
| 1964 | Daniel Boone | Jeb Girty | TV | 7.0 | 37 |
| 1964 | Daniel Boone | Crane | TV | 7.0 | 37 |
| 1963 | The Fugitive | Randy | TV | 7.3 | 36 |
| 1963 | Petticoat Junction | TV | 5.8 | 36 | |
| 1963 | The Man from the Diners' Club | Beatnik (uncredited) | Film | 5.9 | 36 |
| 1962 | Combat! | Pvt. Beecham | TV | 7.8 | 35 |
| 1962 | Stoney Burke | TV | 6.8 | 35 | |
| 1962 | How the West Was Won | Gant Henchman | Film | 7.0 | 35 |
| 1962 | Hero's Island | Dixey Gates | Film | 5.6 | 35 |
| 1961 | Cain's Hundred | Hood | TV | 5.3 | 34 |
| 1961 | Gunslinger | Stacey | TV | 6.3 | 34 |
| 1960 | The Andy Griffith Show | Proprietor | TV | 7.6 | 33 |
| 1960 | Checkmate | The Singer | TV | 4.8 | 33 |
| 1960 | The Roaring 20's | TV | — | 33 | |
| 1960 | Escape to Sonoita | Lemon | Film | 7.3 | 33 |
| 1960 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Slave Catcher | Film | 5.8 | 33 |
| 1959 | Bonanza | Billy | TV | 7.5 | 32 |
| 1959 | Bonanza | Stiles | TV | 7.5 | 32 |
| 1959 | Rawhide | Jess Hobson | TV | 7.2 | 32 |
| 1959 | Rawhide | Dexter | TV | 7.2 | 32 |
| 1959 | Rawhide | Joe Spanish | TV | 7.2 | 32 |
| 1959 | Laramie | TV | 6.7 | 32 | |
| 1959 | Lock-Up | TV | 6.4 | 32 | |
| 1959 | Johnny Ringo | Frank Brogger | TV | 5.9 | 32 |
| 1959 | The Lawless Years | TV | 7.0 | 32 | |
| 1959 | Pork Chop Hill | BAR Soldier (uncredited) | Film | 6.7 | 32 |
| 1959 | A Dog's Best Friend | Roy Janney | Film | 6.3 | 32 |
| 1959 | The Jayhawkers! | Deputy Smallwood | Film | 6.1 | 32 |
| 1958 | The Rifleman | TV | 7.1 | 31 | |
| 1958 | Bat Masterson | Jay Simms | TV | 6.1 | 31 |
| 1958 | The Texan | TV | 6.0 | 31 | |
| 1958 | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | TV | 6.3 | 31 | |
| 1958 | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | Gordon | TV | 6.3 | 31 |
| 1958 | The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen | George Gilbert | TV | 9.0 | 31 |
| 1958 | Man with a Camera | TV | 5.5 | 31 | |
| 1958 | The Proud Rebel | Jeb Burleigh | Film | 6.1 | 31 |
| 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel | TV | 7.3 | 30 | |
| 1957 | Suspicion | Bill | TV | 6.2 | 30 |
| 1957 | The Walter Winchell File | TV | 7.5 | 30 | |
| 1957 | Tomahawk Trail | Pvt. Miller | Film | 6.0 | 30 |
| 1957 | Revolt at Fort Laramie | Rinty | Film | 6.6 | 30 |
| 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Robert MacPherson | TV | 6.2 | 29 |
| 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Toby - Ranch Hand | TV | 6.2 | 29 |
| 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Fletcher | TV | 6.2 | 29 |
| 1956 | The Wrong Man | Department of Corrections Employee (uncredited) | Film | 7.1 | 29 |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Alvy | TV | 6.7 | 28 |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Harley | TV | 6.7 | 28 |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Leroy | TV | 6.7 | 28 |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Nate | TV | 6.7 | 28 |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Young Man | TV | 6.7 | 28 |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Leader | TV | 6.7 | 28 |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Rainey | TV | 6.7 | 28 |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Hodge | TV | 6.7 | 28 |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Lemon | TV | 7.8 | 28 |
| 1955 | Playwrights '56 | TV | 6.3 | 28 | |
| 1954 | Inner Sanctum | TV | 8.0 | 27 | |
| 1954 | The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin | TV | 7.0 | 27 |