{"id":8654,"date":"2017-09-17T20:15:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T03:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8654"},"modified":"2017-10-07T20:22:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T03:22:03","slug":"harry-dean-stanton-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/17\/harry-dean-stanton-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Dean Stanton Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2017\/09\/15\/character-actor-harry-dean-stanton-who-appeared-in-such-films-as-cool-hand-luke-kellys-heroes-godfather-part-ii-and-alien-has-died-at-age-91-fox-news-confirms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from Fox News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\">Harry Dean Stanton dead at 91<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xcJXT5lc1Bg\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Character actor Harry Dean Stanton, who appeared in such films as &#8220;Cool Hand Luke,&#8221; &#8220;Kelly&#8217;s Heroes,&#8221; &#8220;The Godfather Part II&#8221; and &#8220;Alien,&#8221; has died at age 91, Fox News confirmed Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Stanton passed away from natural causes at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Before finding fame in Hollywood, the Kentucky native previously served in the Navy during World War II and fought in the Battle of Okinawa. After his service, Stanton pursued acting on-stage in a University of Kentucky production of &#8220;Pygmalion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Once Stanton moved to Los Angeles to further pursue his craft, he appeared in his first film, \u201cTomahawk Trail,\u201d in 1957.<\/p>\n<p>Stanton later landed roles in numerous hit films, including \u201cCool Hand Luke,\u201d \u201cThe Godfather: Part II,\u201d and \u201cThe Missouri Breaks,\u201d which featured his lifelong friend Jack Nicholson.<\/p>\n<p>Stanton\u2019s film career continued to flourish in the \u201880s with classics, such as \u201cEscape from New York,\u201d \u201cParis, Texas,\u201d and \u201cPretty in Pink.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1990, he played an ill-fated private investigator in \u201cWild at Heart,\u201d which was directed by David Lynch. The filmmaker went on to cast Stanton again in \u201cTwin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me\u201d in 1992 and \u201cThe Straight Story\u201d in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2017\/09\/15\/character-actor-harry-dean-stanton-who-appeared-in-such-films-as-cool-hand-luke-kellys-heroes-godfather-part-ii-and-alien-has-died-at-age-91-fox-news-confirms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Fox News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Fox News Harry Dean Stanton dead at 91 Character actor Harry Dean Stanton, who appeared in such films as &#8220;Cool Hand Luke,&#8221; &#8220;Kelly&#8217;s Heroes,&#8221; &#8220;The Godfather Part II&#8221; and &#8220;Alien,&#8221; has died at age 91, Fox News confirmed Friday. Stanton passed away from natural causes at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles. Before finding fame [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}