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Harry Dean Stanton passed away Friday at 91. (Reuters)

Harry Dean Stanton dead at 91

Character actor Harry Dean Stanton, who appeared in such films as "Cool Hand Luke," "Kelly's Heroes," "The Godfather Part II" and "Alien," has died at age 91, Fox News confirmed Friday.

Stanton passed away from natural causes at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles.

Before finding fame in Hollywood, the Kentucky native previously served in the Navy during World War II and fought in the Battle of Okinawa. After his service, Stanton pursued acting on-stage in a University of Kentucky production of "Pygmalion."

Once Stanton moved to Los Angeles to further pursue his craft, he appeared in his first film, “Tomahawk Trail,” in 1957.

Stanton later landed roles in numerous hit films, including “Cool Hand Luke,” “The Godfather: Part II,” and “The Missouri Breaks,” which featured his lifelong friend Jack Nicholson.

Stanton’s film career continued to flourish in the ‘80s with classics, such as “Escape from New York,” “Paris, Texas,” and “Pretty in Pink.”

In 1990, he played an ill-fated private investigator in “Wild at Heart,” which was directed by David Lynch. The filmmaker went on to cast Stanton again in “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me” in 1992 and “The Straight Story” in 1999.

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begins 1:44 forget the early part. The last song is Paradise. Some great country music even if that's not your thing.

Here's Paradise but nothing to do with Harry except this song was sung in the movie 'Fire Down Below' where he played a decent sized part:

 
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He was one of my favorites!
As even the majority of my female friends were always positive in watching his work in film(take note on what the above statement implies, you single guyso_O)
I've always thought the opening scene of " Paris Texas" was so factual in the fact he's stumbling around with a quarter plastic milk jug of water!
( I've seen hundreds of illegal 'migrants' cashed-out and completely knackered in the platoon level of size, and the only one able to remain standing was always leaned up against a tree holding a plastic jug half full of what looked like urine o_O
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trying to remember the movie where he played an angel. Mary Steenburgen was in it. Just loved his performance even though he only had a few lines. One f those rare actors who often could say more with gestures and postures and expression then words.
 
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The thing about actors like Stanton is that they are like tiny threads woven into your life.

Not incredibly important of course, but there is a small sense of comfort or memory associated with them. I'm a movie aficionado and could write a lot more about how we are often returned to a 'special' subconscious, feel-good state whenever their movies are played.

Suffice it to say RIP.
 
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I guess his final acting gig was the series that just ended a week or so ago that I watched all Summer after waiting 25 years for it to come back: Twin Peaks: The Return.

RIP.
 
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Cool Rolling Stones write up on the Twin Peaks series just ended, in which they show Harry some love, just days before he died... :eek:

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/new...he-most-groundbreaking-tv-series-ever-w501073



Why 'Twin Peaks: The Return' Was the Most Groundbreaking TV Series Ever

David Lynch and Mark Frost's 25-years-later murder mystery was not only a masterpiece – it may have permanently changed the medium

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'Twin Peaks' Season 3 isn't just a masterpiece; David Lynch's 25-years-later return to his murder mystery may be the most groundbreaking TV show ever.
By Sean T. Collins
September 4, 2017

When some phrases pass through the prism of Twin Peaks, you can never hear them the same way again. "Damn good coffee" is one; "Gotta light?" is another. We'll submit a third candidate, one that the just-concluded third season of David Lynch and Mark Frost's supernatural murder-mystery masterpiece has marked for permanent retirement from the critical vocabulary: "Like nothing else on television." The TV landscape remains full of singular, spectacular shows, Peak TV fatigue be damned. But just as the original Twin Peaks inspired visionary showrunners from David Chase to Damon Lindelof to create the New Golden Age, the show's revived third season may have leapfrogged them all. What we just witnessed was unmatched in the medium's history.



<snip!>




To backtrack a bit ("What year is it?"), The Straight Story may be the anomaly in Lynch's past quarter-century of work, in terms of narrative flow, tone and his usual interest in horror and sex. Yet in a roundabout way it too provides a key to understanding what made Twin Peaks Season Three so strong. Its story of an elderly farmer who travels by tractor on a multi-state odyssey to reconnect with his dying brother shares with several Lynch-pins with the series, namely a love of the road, western America's scenic beauty and Harry Dean Stanton.

Most importantly, the film is about aging, and the vast gulfs of space and time we don't realize we've traveled until circumstances force us to confront them. That description fits The Return like a magic ring. Both in the story and behind the scenes, the people of Twin Peaks have grown old; the men in particular, from Bobby Briggs to Deputy Hawk to Big Ed Hurley, have grayed and weathered like stone. And the litany of cast members who died between then and now is long and heartbreaking: Miguel Ferrer, Catherine E. Coulson, Warren Frost, Michael Parks, Frances Bay, Don S. Davis, Jack Nance, Frank Silva and, of course, David Bowie. (The Thin White Duke would probably be delighted to discover his character Philip Jeffries spending eternity as a gigantic steampunk teapot.)


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Phoenix said:
Cool Rolling Stones write up on the Twin Peaks series just ended, in which they show Harry some love, just days before he died... :eek:

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/new...he-most-groundbreaking-tv-series-ever-w501073



Why 'Twin Peaks: The Return' Was the Most Groundbreaking TV Series Ever

David Lynch and Mark Frost's 25-years-later murder mystery was not only a masterpiece – it may have permanently changed the medium

rr-20022r-40114c0e-70b1-4212-b647-1a241c330a87.jpg

'Twin Peaks' Season 3 isn't just a masterpiece; David Lynch's 25-years-later return to his murder mystery may be the most groundbreaking TV show ever.
By Sean T. Collins
September 4, 2017

When some phrases pass through the prism of Twin Peaks, you can never hear them the same way again. "Damn good coffee" is one; "Gotta light?" is another. We'll submit a third candidate, one that the just-concluded third season of David Lynch and Mark Frost's supernatural murder-mystery masterpiece has marked for permanent retirement from the critical vocabulary: "Like nothing else on television." The TV landscape remains full of singular, spectacular shows, Peak TV fatigue be damned. But just as the original Twin Peaks inspired visionary showrunners from David Chase to Damon Lindelof to create the New Golden Age, the show's revived third season may have leapfrogged them all. What we just witnessed was unmatched in the medium's history.



<snip!>




To backtrack a bit ("What year is it?"), The Straight Story may be the anomaly in Lynch's past quarter-century of work, in terms of narrative flow, tone and his usual interest in horror and sex. Yet in a roundabout way it too provides a key to understanding what made Twin Peaks Season Three so strong. Its story of an elderly farmer who travels by tractor on a multi-state odyssey to reconnect with his dying brother shares with several Lynch-pins with the series, namely a love of the road, western America's scenic beauty and Harry Dean Stanton.

Most importantly, the film is about aging, and the vast gulfs of space and time we don't realize we've traveled until circumstances force us to confront them. That description fits The Return like a magic ring. Both in the story and behind the scenes, the people of Twin Peaks have grown old; the men in particular, from Bobby Briggs to Deputy Hawk to Big Ed Hurley, have grayed and weathered like stone. And the litany of cast members who died between then and now is long and heartbreaking: Miguel Ferrer, Catherine E. Coulson, Warren Frost, Michael Parks, Frances Bay, Don S. Davis, Jack Nance, Frank Silva and, of course, David Bowie. (The Thin White Duke would probably be delighted to discover his character Philip Jeffries spending eternity as a gigantic steampunk teapot.)


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+6 points awarded by the mention of: Miguel Ferrer:thumbup:
(And the rest! but that
" wrong turn at Tahoe " was a turning point in my fandom of the Man:yourock:)
 
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