RIP Harry Dean Stanton, 91...

He was a great actor, which didn't get much recognition, because he was not a "leading man." I always enjoyed his work.

Pretty in Pink


And, in contrast, Repo Man

I can't believe this guy was 91.
What a prolific character actor and reputed crazy party boy in the 70s!

Rest well, HDS.

Repo Man . . . I was trying to think of the name of that movie, and was having a senior moment. That was a great movie, and Stanton did a first class job.

People who don't watch many sit coms may have missed him in this role

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/movies/actor-harry-dean-stanton-known-repo-man-others-dies-91-n801871

A little bit about HDS.

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He was widely loved around Hollywood, a drinker and smoker and straight talker with a million stories who palled around with Jack Nicholson and Kris Kristofferson among others and was a hero to such younger stars and brothers-in-partying as Rob Lowe and Emilio Estevez. "I don't act like their father, I act like their friend," he once told New York magazine.

Nicholson so liked Stanton's name that he would find a way to work his initials, HDS, into a camera shot.

Almost always cast as a crook, a codger, an eccentric or a loser, he appeared in more than 200 movies and TV shows in a career dating to the mid-1950s. A cult-favorite since the '70s with roles in "Cockfighter," ''Two-Lane Blacktop" and "Cisco Pike," his more famous credits ranged from the Oscar-winning epic "The Godfather Part II" to the sci-fi classic "Alien" to the teen flick "Pretty in Pink," in which he played Molly Ringwald's father. He also guest starred on such TV shows as "Laverne & Shirley," ''Adam-12" and "Gunsmoke." He had a cameo on "Two and a Half Men," which featured "Pretty in Pink" star Jon Cryer, and appeared in such movies as "The Avengers" and "The Last Stand."

Fitting for a character actor, he only became famous in late middle age. In Wim Wenders' 1984 rural drama "Paris, Texas," he earned acclaim for his subtle and affecting portrayal of a man so deeply haunted by something in his past that he abandons his young son and society to wander silently in the desert.

Wiry and sad, Stanton's near-wordless performance is laced with moments of humor and poignancy. His heartbreakingly stoic delivery of a monologue of repentance to his wife, played by Nastassja Kinski, through a one-way mirror has become the defining moment in his career.

And voice acting, notably for the Care Bears.

What an incredibly varied career.

I read that Roger Ebert said that a film with either Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh could not be all bad.

I saw that particular film more times than I would care to mention, the only thing I remember about it though was Harry Dean Stanton's name screaming out in the end credits.