highest rated
acting
- Sinatra! Eternity → Sherif Lloyd
- American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective → Self
- Wim Wenders, Desperado → Self (archive footage)
- Frank and Ava → Sheriff Lloyd
- Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice → Self (archive footage)
- Lucky → Lucky
- Sick of it All → Harry The News Reporter
- Walking the Mile → Self (archive footage)
- Carlos Spills the Beans → Rhino
- Fishtail → Narrator
- Getting On (TV) → Leonard Butler
- The Last Stand → Mr. Parson
- 9 Full Moons → Dimitri
- Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction → Self
- The Avengers → Security Guard
- Seven Psychopaths → Man in Hat
- Char·ac·ter → Self
- Rango → Balthazar (voice)
- This Must Be the Place → Robert Plath
- Mongo Wrestling Alliance (TV)
- Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
- Athena → Bill
- On Holiday → Josh the Roommate's Dad
- Alice (TV) → Caterpillar
- The Open Road → Amon
- Chuck (TV) → Harry
- Being Michael Madsen → Self
- The Good Life → Gus
- Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project → Self
- Lynch 2 → Self
- Big Love (TV) → Roman Grant
- Inland Empire → Freddie Howard
- Alpha Dog → Cosmo Gadabeeti
- You, Me and Dupree → Curly (uncredited)
- Alien Autopsy → Harvey
- Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride → Self
- Harry Zen Stanton → Himself
- The Wendell Baker Story → Skip Summers
- The Big Bounce → Bob Rogers, Sr.
- Chrystal → Pa Da
- Dig! → Self
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade → Self
- Two and a Half Men (TV) → Harry Dean Stanton
- Anger Management → Blind Man (uncredited)
- The Beast Within: Making Alien → Self
- Ginostra → Del Piero
- Bukowski: Born Into This → Self
- Return to 'Escape from New York' → Himself
- Hunter Goes to Hollywood → Himself
- Sonny → Henry
- The Short Films of David Lynch → Self
- The Animal → Hunter (uncredited)
- The Pledge → Floyd Cage
- The Man Who Cried → Felix Perlman
- Sand → Leo
- The Green Mile → Toot-Toot
- The Straight Story → Lyle
- Ballad of the Nightingale → Jean-Paul
- Stephen King: Shining in the Dark → Self
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas → Judge
- A Civil Action → Land Watcher (uncredited)
- The Mighty → Grim
- Fire Down Below → Cotton Harry
- She's So Lovely → Tony 'Shorty' Russo
- Midnight Blue → Eric
- Down Periscope → Lt. Howard
- Dead Man's Walk (TV) → Shadrach
- E! True Hollywood Story (TV)
- Playback → Ernie Fontenot
- Never Talk to Strangers → Max Cheski
- One Hundred and One Nights → Mute Actor in Hollywood (uncredited)
- Against the Wall → Hal
- Blue Tiger → Smith
- Hotel Room (TV) → Moe Boca
- Warren Oates: Across the Border → Self
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me → Carl Rodd
- Man Trouble → Redmond Layls
- Hostages → Frank Reed
- Cruise Control
- Payoff → Hook
- Twin Peaks (TV) → Carl Rodd
- Wild at Heart → Johnnie Farragut
- The Fourth War → Gen. Hackworth
- Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas' → Self
- Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders → Self
- Twister → Cleveland
- Dream a Little Dream → Ike Baker
- Monster Maker → Chancey Bellow
- The Last Temptation of Christ → Paulus
- Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night → Self - Audience Member
- Stars & Bars → Loomis Gage
- Mr. North → Henry Simmons
- The Cowboy and the Frenchman → Slim
- The French as Seen by… → (Segment "The Cowboy and the Frenchman")
- Slam Dance → Det. Benjamin Smiley
- Faerie Tale Theatre: Rip Van Winkle → Rip Van Winkle
- Pretty in Pink → Jack Walsh
- The Care Bears Movie → Brave Heart Lion (singing voice)
- One Magic Christmas → Gideon
- Fool for Love → Old Man
- Paris, Texas → Travis
- Red Dawn → Mr. Eckert
- Repo Man → Bud
- UFOria → Brother Bud Sanders
- The Bear → Coach Thomas
- Christine → Rudolph Junkins
- I Want to Live → Emmett Perkins
- Faerie Tale Theatre (TV) → Rip Van Winkle
- One from the Heart → Moe
- Young Doctors in Love → Dr. Oliver Ludwig
- Escape from New York → Harold 'Brain' Helman
- Private Benjamin → Sgt. Jim Ballard
- Death Watch → Vincent Ferriman
- The Black Marble → Philo Skinner
- The Oldest Living Graduate → Mike
- Alien → Brett
- The Rose → Billy Ray
- Wise Blood → Asa Hawks
- Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers → C.W. Douglas
- Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand → Pokey Tindle
- Straight Time → Jerry Schue
- Renaldo and Clara → Lafkezio
- Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (TV) → Jake Walters
- Laverne & Shirley (TV)
- The Missouri Breaks → Calvin
- Saturday Night Live (TV) → Self - Host
- Farewell, My Lovely → Billy Rolfe
- The Fortune → Prisoner in Holding Cell (uncredited)
- Rancho Deluxe → Curt
- Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins → Billy Winston
- 92 in the Shade → Carter
- Win, Place or Steal → Jack
- The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond → President Warren G. Harding
- The Ransom of Red Chief → Sam
- The Godfather Part II → F.B.I. Man #1
- Cockfighter → Jack Burke
- Zandy's Bride → Songer
- Where the Lilies Bloom → Kiser Pease
- Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid → Luke
- Dillinger → Homer Van Meter
- Cry for Me, Billy → Luke Todd
- Two-Lane Blacktop → Oklahoma Hitchhiker
- Cisco Pike → Jesse Dupre
- Kelly's Heroes → Pvt. Willard
- The Intruders → Whit Dykstra (as Dean Stanton)
- Rebel Rousers → Randolph Halverson
- Lanton Mills → Lanton
- Adam-12 (TV) → Harry Fletcher
- The Name of the Game (TV) → Joe Joe
- Day of the Evil Gun → Sergeant Parker
- The Mini-Skirt Mob → Spook
- Mannix (TV)
- The High Chaparral (TV) → Johnny Faro
- Cimarron Strip (TV) → Luther Happ
- The Guns of Will Sonnett (TV)
- Cool Hand Luke → Tramp
- A Time for Killing → Sgt. Dan Way
- The Hostage → Eddie (as Dean Stanton)
- Ride in the Whirlwind → Blind Dick
- The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones → Jelly
- The Big Valley (TV) → Swain
- Daniel Boone (TV) → Jeb Girty
- Daniel Boone (TV) → Crane
- The Fugitive (TV) → Randy
- Petticoat Junction (TV)
- The Man from the Diners' Club → Beatnik (uncredited)
- Combat! (TV) → Pvt. Beecham
- Stoney Burke (TV)
- How the West Was Won → Gant Henchman
- Hero's Island → Dixey Gates
- Cain's Hundred (TV) → Hood
- Gunslinger (TV) → Stacey
- The Andy Griffith Show (TV) → Proprietor
- Checkmate (TV) → The Singer
- The Roaring 20's (TV)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn → Slave Catcher
- Escape to Sonoita → Lemon
- Bonanza (TV) → Billy
- Bonanza (TV) → Stiles
- Rawhide (TV) → Jess Hobson
- Rawhide (TV) → Dexter
- Rawhide (TV) → Joe Spanish
- Lock-Up (TV)
- Laramie (TV)
- Johnny Ringo (TV) → Frank Brogger
- The Lawless Years (TV)
- Pork Chop Hill → BAR Soldier (uncredited)
- The Jayhawkers! → Deputy Smallwood
- A Dog's Best Friend → Roy Janney
- The Rifleman (TV)
- Bat Masterson (TV) → Jay Simms
- The Texan (TV)
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (TV)
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (TV) → Gordon
- Man with a Camera (TV)
- The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen (TV) → George Gilbert
- The Proud Rebel → Jeb Burleigh
- Have Gun, Will Travel (TV)
- Suspicion (TV) → Bill
- The Walter Winchell File (TV)
- Revolt at Fort Laramie → Rinty
- Tomahawk Trail → Pvt. Miller
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (TV) → Robert MacPherson
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (TV) → Toby - Ranch Hand
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (TV) → Fletcher
- The Wrong Man → Department of Corrections Employee (uncredited)
- Gunsmoke (TV) → Alvy
- Gunsmoke (TV) → Harley
- Gunsmoke (TV) → Leroy
- Gunsmoke (TV) → Nate
- Gunsmoke (TV) → Young Man
- Gunsmoke (TV) → Leader
- Gunsmoke (TV) → Rainey
- Gunsmoke (TV) → Hodge
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV) → Lemon
- Playwrights '56 (TV)
- Inner Sanctum (TV)
- The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (TV)