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Harry Dean Stanton (born July 14, 1926) is an American actor, musician, and singer. Stanton's career has spanned over fifty years, which has seen him star in such films as Paris, Texas, Kelly's Heroes, Dillinger, Alien, Repo Man, Pretty In Pink, The Last Temptation of Christ, Wild at Heart, The Green Mile and The Pledge. In the late 2000s, he played a recurring role in the HBO television series Big Love. In 2012, he had a brief cameo in the superhero blockbuster The Avengers.
Stanton was born in West Irvine, Kentucky, the son of Ersel (née Moberly), a hair dresser, and Sheridan Harry Stanton, a tobacco farmer and barber. His parents divorced when Stanton was in high school and later remarried.[citation needed] He has two younger brothers, Archie and Ralph, and a younger half-brother, Stan.[citation needed] Stanton attended the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, where he studied journalism and radio arts.[citation needed] He also studied at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California, where his classmates included his friends Tyler MacDuff and Dana Andrews.[citation needed]
In 1991 got glassed,
Cousin got murdered, friend got attacked,
House next door to ours got ransacked again...
But seeing is believing,
Hearing is receiving-
Deaf and blind world, I don't believe in,
Blinded by light, flattened by sound,
Over and out-underground.
Down here, talk to us,
We'll here, the future is here,
Walk with us fromhere-
In 1993 I will be three "O" years inside this body,
I don't know what's going on outside me...
But seeing is believing,
Hearing is receiving-
A deaf and blind world, I don't believe in,
Blinded by light, flattened by sound,
Over and out-underground.
Down here, talk to us,
We'll hear, the future will heal,
Walk with us from here.