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Harry Dean Stanton fronts a band called "The Harry Dean Stanton Band" which regularly performs in the Los Angeles area. He sings and plays guitar. The band plays a mix of jazz, pop, and tex-mex styles. The band often plays in Hollywood at 'Jack's Sugar Shack'.
Prior to 1971, he was credited in films and on TV as Dean Stanton so as to avoid any confusion with character actor Harry Stanton (I), both of whom would appear together in a 1969 episode of "Petticoat Junction" (1963).
The name of his musical group was originally "Harry Dean Stanton and the Repo Men".
(20 January 1996) Was tied up and pistol-whipped at his home in L.A. after a robbery. The thieves then took off in the actors car, but were soon apprehended after the car was traced by a tracking device. Stanton suffered only minor injuries.
Lived in Lexington, Kentucky and graduated from Lafayette Senior High School with the class of 1944.
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