# Harry Dean Stanton - Dead at 91 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [September 15, 2017, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432 "2017-09-15T22:58:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432/1 "2017-09-15T22:58:14Z")
[Link](https://io9.gizmodo.com/legendary-actor-harry-dean-stanton-dies-at-91-1817163624) RIP you crazy bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432/2 "2017-09-15T22:59:50Z")
From another thread: > [@Celebrity Death Pool 2017](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2017/773517/1683): > > One of the greatest actors of the modern era, IMO. RIP Mr. Stanton; you done good. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432/3 "2017-09-15T23:03:22Z")
I hope this doesn’t come off the wrong way but he was one of those actors who you’d think would never die. And his career went back a long time. I remember spotting him in a 50s western with Alan Ladd (the title escapes me but I know it wasn’t **Shane** ). ---
**Author:** ![irritant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@irritant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irritant)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432/4 "2017-09-15T23:08:04Z")
The death of a repo man is always intense… > [@NDP](#): > > I hope this doesn’t come off the wrong way but he was one of those actors who you’d think would never die. And his career went back a long time. I remember spotting him in a 50s western with Alan Ladd (the title escapes me but I know it wasn’t **Shane** ). [The Proud Rebel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Proud_Rebel)? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432/5 "2017-09-15T23:11:06Z")
Natural causes, the best way to go. RIP. :o ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432/6 "2017-09-15T23:11:06Z")
Repo Man was a favorite. I can’t believe he was that old since I think of him from the 80s and 90s! Nothing existed before I started paying attention to it. :smack: heh. Alan Ladd. Sometime around 2000, my mom exclaimed “Alan Ladd is dead? Why wasn’t I informed?!” Um, he died in 1964. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432/7 "2017-09-15T23:13:55Z")
> [@irritant](#): > > The death of a repo man is always intense… > > [The Proud Rebel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Proud_Rebel)? That’s it. He was also in a score of TV westerns from the late 50s and early 60s. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432/8 "2017-09-15T23:15:21Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xcJXT5lc1Bg/maxresdefault.jpg "The Repo Code - Repo Man (4/10) Movie CLIP (1984) HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcJXT5lc1Bg) ETA: Bud schools Otto. ---
**Author:** ![RadioWave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RadioWave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadioWave)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432/9 "2017-09-15T23:20:34Z")
Dang. One night long ago, a buddy and I were sitting in a dive bar by the beach listening to some guy play the blues. I looked over my shoulder and saw a man next to me who wasn’t just sitting in the shadows, more like he was part of the darkness itself, like a part of the wall that had been there since the place was first built. As I looked at him, he took a drag off his cigarette and it lit up every crag and crevice in his face like the last of the sun shining on a cliff. He leaned forward and asked me the time. We spoke a little more about the band and local bars then he went up on stage and played harmonica for a while. Fantastic life he led. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432/10 "2017-09-15T23:21:51Z")
☹ ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432/11 "2017-09-15T23:55:53Z")
He was in a movie called _Fishtail_. Not _Moby Dick._ ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432/12 "2017-09-15T23:57:54Z")
He had a nice (if small) role in the huge ensemble cast of _Twin Peaks: The Return_; I hadn’t realized that he had to be 90 (or close to it) when that was filmed. What a career! RIP. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432/13 "2017-09-16T00:06:12Z")
“Castration! DOUBLE castration!” 🙂 I had no idea he was that old. RIP bro. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432/14 "2017-09-16T00:07:39Z")
He was the consummate professional and my favorite character actor. We will miss him. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432/15 "2017-09-16T00:11:33Z")
I loved his portrayal of himself on “Two and a Half Man.” “Is that?” “It used to be.” ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432/16 "2017-09-16T00:14:01Z")
He was in _everything_, just about. One of all time favorite character actors and more than capable of captivating in wider roles such as _Paris, Texas_. A good, long life, mostly well-lived it seems. Still…a loss. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432/17 "2017-09-16T00:16:12Z")
Goodbye, Harry. We’ll always have Paris. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432/18 "2017-09-16T00:25:43Z")
[I knew these people.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eP7SFH4mtg) ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432/19 "2017-09-16T00:26:36Z")
Damn! And just as Twin Peaks finished. He’ll be sorely missed, such a great and unique actor. Lynch especially, besides Stanton’s relatives, must be feeling the pain. He’s lost so many dear friends and long-time collaborators: Margaret Lanterman, Miguel Ferrer, Frank Silva, Jack Nance and now Stanton. BTW to see Stanton in one of his finest roles check out Lynch’s short film The Frenchman and the Cowboy. Stanton is absolutely hilarious in it. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432/20 "2017-09-16T00:43:04Z")
“Ordinary fuckin’ people. I hate 'em.” One of my favoritest movie lines ever. RIP Bud. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-dean-stanton-dead-at-91/796432.md?page=2)