FrameThrower · Actors · Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton
16 films · 1,088 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1966–2011
Born 14 July 1926 · West Irvine, Kentucky, USA · died 15 September 2017
Harry Dean Stanton was an American actor. In a career that spanned more than six decades, Stanton played supporting roles in films including Cool Hand Luke (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Dillinger (1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), Alien (1979), Escape from New York (1981), Christine (1983), Repo Man (1984), One Magic Christmas (1985), Pretty in Pink (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Wild at Heart (1990), The Straight Story (1999), The Green Mile (1999), The Man Who Cried (2000), Alpha Dog (2006), and Inland Empire (2006). He had rare lead roles in Paris, Texas (1984) and in Lucky (2017).
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,088 frames from the 16 films we hold. This is the look of the work Harry takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 16 films we hold, 50% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Harry takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Paris, Texas
1984 · Travis
Repo Man
1984 · Bud
Cockfighter
1974 · Jack Burke
Rango
2011 · Balthazar (voice)
Inland Empire
2006 · Freddie Howard
Inland Empire
2006 · Freddie Howard
The Man Who Cried
2000 · Felix Perlman
Against the Wall
1994 · Hal
Wild At Heart
1990 · Johnnie Farragut
One From The Heart
1982 · Moe
Escape From New York
1981 · Harold 'Brain' Helman
Alien
1979 · Brett
Straight Time
1978 · Jerry Schue
Two Lane Blacktop
1971 · Oklahoma Hitchhiker
Cool Hand Luke
1967 · Tramp
Ride In The Whirlwind
1966 · Blind Dick
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 1,088 frames from Harry Dean Stanton's 16 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.