Harry Stanton

Cast as Roman Grant, the prophet of the Juniper Creek compound in the HBO series, "Big Love"

Reteamed with director David Lynch to star in "Inland Empire"

Appeared in "The Wendell Baker Story" for Andrew and Luke Wilson

Played opposite Jack Nicholson in "The Pledge" for director Sean Penn

Cast in "The Green Mile" for director Frank Darabont

Appeared in the feature adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" for Terry Gilliam

Co-starred in ABC miniseries "Larry McMurtry's 'Dead Man's Walk'"

Starred David Lynch's "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me"

Played a soft-hearted, but ill-fated, private investigator in David Lynch's "Wild at Heart"

Played Saul (Paul) in "The Last Temptation of Christ"

Played Molly Ringwald's father in "Pretty in Pink"

Cast in the quirky cult film "Repo Man," by indie director Alex Cox

Had first screen lead in "Paris, Texas" directed by Wim Wenders

Cast in Ridley Scott's sci-fi thriller, "Alien"

Made TV-movie debut in "Flatbed Annie & Sweetpie: Lady Truckers"

Cast in Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather, Part II," as an FBI agent protecting Michael V Gazzo

Played a convict who sings gospel tunes to Paul Newman in "Cool Hand Luke"

Made unsold CBS pilot

Played villain opposite Alan Ladd in "The Proud Rebel"

Moved to Hollywood and made screen debut in "Tomahawk Trail"

Decided to pursue acting career after starring in college production of "Pygmalion"

Joined the American Male Chorus

Moved to New York; joined Strawbridge Children's Theatre

Moved to Pasadena, CA, to study acting

Raised in Kentucky

Roomed with Jack Nicholson in the late 1960s

Served in the Navy during WWII