Harry Dean Stanton Movies

Want to know the best Harry Dean Stanton movies?  How about the worst Harry Dean Stanton movies?  Curious about Harry Dean Stanton box office grosses or which Harry Dean Stanton movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Harry Dean Stanton movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Harry Dean Stanton (1926-2017) was an American actor, musician, and singer.  Stanton was a beloved character actor (by audiences and his fellow thespians) whose career lasted 6 decades.    During his long career he appeared in many classic movies:  1967’s Cool Hand Luke, 1974’s The Godfather: Part II, 1979’s Alien, 1981’s Escape From New York, 1999’s The Green Mile and 2012’s The Avengers.  His IMDb page shows 203 acting credits from 1954 to 2018.   This page will rank Harry Dean Stanton movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos, uncredited roles and movies that were not released in North American were not included in the rankings.

1967’s Cool Hand Luke

Harry Dean Stanton Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Harry Dean Stanton Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Harry Dean Stanton movies by his co-stars
  • Sort Harry Dean Stanton movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Harry Dean Stanton movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Harry Dean Stanton movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Harry Dean Stanton movie received.
  • Sort Harry Dean Stanton movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
David Lynch and Harry Dean Stanton in 2017’s Lucky…one of Harry’s last roles and one of his few leading man roles.

Best IMDb trivia on Harry Dean Stanton

  1. Harry Dean Stanton was born in West Irvine, Kentucky in 1926.

2.  Harry Dean Stanton was drafted into the Navy, he served as a cook in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and was on board an LST during the Battle of Okinawa.

3.  Critic Roger Ebert so admires him that he created the “Stanton-Walsh Rule,” which states that “no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.” Ebert later admitted that Dream a Little Dream (1989), in which Stanton appeared, was a “clear violation” of this rule.

4. Harry Dean Stanton occasionally toured nightclubs as a singer and guitarist, playing mostly country-inflected cover tunes.

5.Harry Dean Stanton appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar®: How the West Was Won (1962), The Godfather: Part II (1974) and The Green Mile (1999). Of those, only The Godfather: Part II (1974) won in the category.

Check out Harry Dean Stanton’s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

Academy Award® and Oscar® are the registered trademarks of the Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences. Golden Globes® are the registered trademark and service mark of the Hollywood Foreign Press. Emmy® is a registered trademark.

(Visited 1 times)

10 thoughts on “Harry Dean Stanton Movies”

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.