Harry Dean Stanton Day

 
“A character actor who briefly became a star in 1984, appearing in leading roles in Paris, Texas and Repo Man, Harry Dean Stanton (born in Kentucky in 1926) was also part of what made the seventies such a great decade for film, a time when character actors had the heft of leading parts but happened to play on the margins of a movie rather than at its centre. In Sophie Huber’s Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction, writer and actor Sam Shepard talks of the actor’s reservations about playing the main role in Paris, Texas. Yet Shepard couldn’t see any reason why Stanton couldn’t master the role: it is just a character actor getting a bigger part. Shepard has a point but maybe for many actors this wouldn’t have been so, since film often practices a variation on what the novelist EM Forster calls round and flat characters. ...”

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