Stanton, Harry Dean 1926-

Overview

Works:	261 works in 720 publications in 9 languages and 29,477 library holdings
Roles:	Actor, Interviewee, Performer, Other, Creator, Singer, Costume designer
Classifications:	pn1997, 791.4372

Publication Timeline

1950 |

|2020

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Publications about Harry Dean Stanton

Publications by Harry Dean Stanton

Most widely held works about Harry Dean Stanton

Paris, Texas ( Visual )
Larry McMurtry's Dead man's walk ( Book )

Most widely held works by Harry Dean Stanton

The green mile ( Visual )
10 editions published between 2000 and 2009 in English and held by 1,495 libraries worldwide
Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.

Pretty in pink ( Visual )
14 editions published between 1986 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,271 libraries worldwide
She's a high school girl from the wrong side of town. He's the wealthy heart-throb who asks her to the prom. But as fast as their romance builds, it's threatened by the painful reality of peer pressure.

Rango ( Visual )
3 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 1,069 libraries worldwide
Rango is a lizard who imagines himself an actor who literally breaks the fourth wall of his terrarium when the hatchback car in which he is riding swerves and sends him careening. Abandoned in the desert amid the shards of his former home, Rango makes his way to the nearby town of Dirt, which is experiencing a mysterious water shortage. The actor in Rango seizes the opportunity to invent a grandiloquent new image for himself, and as in many a Western, the stranger in town is suddenly promoted to the rank of sheriff. Along the way to solving the mystery of the vanishing water supply, he must survive highway crossings, giant hawks, an army of bat-riding prairie dogs, and a gun slinging rattlesnake.

The last temptation of Christ ( Visual )
15 editions published between 1988 and 2007 in English and held by 1,044 libraries worldwide
In this controversial movie, Jesus, as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones.

Alien ( Visual )
26 editions published between 1979 and 2010 in English and Spanish and held by 953 libraries worldwide
Terror begins when the crew of a spaceship investigates a transmission from a desolate planet and discovers a life form that is perfectly evolved to annihilate mankind. Each crew member is slain until only Ripley is left.

Paris, Texas ( Visual )
82 editions published between 1984 and 2010 in 7 languages and held by 875 libraries worldwide
After having been missing for four years and presumed dead, Travis emerges from the desert near the Texas-Mexico border and collapses at a gas station. His younger brother, Walt, a billboard artist, takes him to Walt's Los Angeles home where Travis' son, Hunter, has lived with Walt and Walt's wife, Anne, since Travis and his wife, Jane, disappeared. Travis reestablishes a relationship with Hunter, finds Jane and brings about a reunion between Jane and Hunter before leaving again. Loosely based on Sam Shepard's Motel Chronicles.

The Straight story ( Visual )
3 editions published between 1999 and 2007 in English and held by 731 libraries worldwide
Based on a true story about 73-year-old Alvin Straight who embarks on a dangerous and emotional journey to make amends with his 75-year-old brother Lyle before his brother dies. Alvin can no longer drive a car because of his eyesight and has to walk with 2 canes, but he climbs aboard his 1966 John Deere lawnmower and drives the 260-mile course from Laurens, Iowa to Mt. Zion, Wis.

Big love. The complete first season ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 694 libraries worldwide
A polygamist and independent businessman lives in Salt Lake City with his three wives and seven children. He faces many challenges in meeting the emotional, romantic, and financial needs of his wives.

Alien ( Visual )
7 editions published between 1992 and 2011 in English and held by 641 libraries worldwide
A mindless, savage, and merciless alien is attacking the crew of an intergalactic freighter and it must be stopped before they are all killed.

The Straight story ( Visual )
21 editions published between 1999 and 2009 in English and German and held by 627 libraries worldwide
Based on a true story about 73-year-old Alvin Straight who embarks on a dangerous and emotional journey to make amends with his 75-year-old brother Lyle before his brother dies. Alvin can no longer drive a car because of his eyesight and has to walk with 2 canes, but he climbs aboard his 1966 John Deere lawnmower and drives the 260-mile course from Laurens, Iowa to Mt. Zion, Wis.

Big love. The complete second season ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 610 libraries worldwide
"Season two ... finds the modern-day polygamist Bill Henrickson and his three wives struggling to pick up the pieces after first wife Barb's outing at the Beehive Mother of the Year Ceremony. Second wife Nicki, learning that it was her father, Roman Grant, Prophet of the Fundamentalist Juniper Creek compound, who betrayed them, battles conflicting family loyalties. And third wife Margene, newly pregnant, fights for a bigger piece of the family pie with an eye toward bringing a new wife and confidante into the fold. All of this domestic drama plays out against the backdrop of Bill's new, visionary business plans--which put him into direct conflict with his father-in-law and some rather unexpected and unsavory antagonists."--Container.

Red dawn ( Visual )
4 editions published between 1992 and 2007 in English and held by 599 libraries worldwide
From the windows of a high school classroom, students see paratroopers land on the varsity football field. The invasion of the United States has begun. As their town is overrun by foreign nationals, eight teenagers escape to the mountains. Taking the name of their high school football team, the Wolverines, they wage an unremitting guerrilla action in defense of their parents, their friends and their country.

Rip Van Winkle ( Visual )
16 editions published between 1985 and 2004 in English and held by 585 libraries worldwide
A man who sleeps for 20 years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.

Big love. The complete third season ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 580 libraries worldwide
Bill Henrickson is the enterprising suburban polygamist who has more than his hands full with three wives, a potential fourth, a growing brood of eight children, and a struggling gaming business meant to safeguard his family should they be 'outed' and his Home Plus superstores left vulnerable.

Private Benjamin ( Visual )
1 edition published in 1997 in English and held by 576 libraries worldwide
A pampered, spoiled upper-middle class widow joins the army. The army will never be the same.

Larry McMurtry's Dead man's walk ( Visual )
5 editions published between 1997 and 2010 in English and held by 553 libraries worldwide
The prequel to Lonesome Dove is set in the Texas Republic in the early 1840s, a time when Anglo, Hispanic, and Commanche cultures were in fierce conflict. Shows Gus and Call on a deadly trail to Santa Fe facing the rigors of nature and the elements, as well as outlaws, bandits, and the notorious Commanche warrior Buffalo Hump.

The green mile ( Visual )
2 editions published between 2000 and 2007 in English and held by 488 libraries worldwide
A death row inmate in a Southern prison possesses the unusual gift of healing. A guard discovers the inmate's miraculous power and begins to question the man's guilt.

Two-lane blacktop ( Visual )
3 editions published between 1999 and 2007 in English and held by 486 libraries worldwide
The Driver and The Mechanic roam the country in a tricked-out 1955 Chevy, drag racing for money and thrills. While stopped at a diner, The Girl climbs into their car and plants herself in the backseat. Drifting across the Southwest, they keep being buzzed by a snazzy 1970 Pontiac. GTO chats up a storm, bending the ears of the hitchhikers he regularly picks up off the side of the road. Like modern day cowboys, they just keep moving--no roots, no responsibilities--the only real threat the loss or destruction of the vehicle itself. These three men, one woman, and two cars end up in a race to Washington D.C., yet they keep stopping to help each other, and winning seems far from their thoughts. The road is itself a place to live, is home, not just a way to move.

One magic Christmas ( Visual )
9 editions published between 1985 and 2005 in English and held by 455 libraries worldwide
A young mother rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter, Abbie, and Gideon, the mother's very own guardian angel.

Repo man ( Visual )
22 editions published between 1984 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 435 libraries worldwide
Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez, as ace "Repo Men," are out to beat ruthless government agents, UFO cultists, hired thugs, a lobotomized nuclear scientist and the infamous Rodriguez Brothers to an incredible valuable '64 Chevy containing a secret that can change the course of civilization overnight.