Stanley Uris: Actors, Story and Fate in the IT Movies

Stanley Uris is a member of the Losers Club, the group of outcast kids in Derry, Maine who stand up to Pennywise, the clown that preys on the town's children. In It (2017), directed by Andy Muschietti, he is introduced as one of the wisecracking friends of Bill Denbrough, alongside Richie Tozier and Eddie Kaspbrak. The three of them are already looking for clues about Georgie Denbrough's disappearance when the story properly begins in the summer of 1989.

Two actors play him. Wyatt Oleff is credited as Stanley Uris in It (2017), and appears again as Young Stanley Uris in It Chapter Two (2019), which cuts back to the childhood summer. Andy Bean plays the adult Stanley in the sequel. The credits therefore list him under two names, Stanley Uris and Young Stanley Uris, which is a useful thing to know if you are searching a cast list and cannot find him.

The films adapt Stephen King's novel, and the gap between the book and the screen versions of the Losers is covered in the IT book vs movie comparison. For the full group, including the other six members, see the Losers Club page. If you want every member of the ensemble in one place, the IT characters index lists them all.

Stanley's closest ties are to the other members of the Losers Club, and It (2017) places him first among the friends who search for Georgie with Bill, Richie and Eddie. Those four form the first core of the group, before they team up with Ben, Beverly and Mike after clashes with the bully Henry Bowers and his gang. Bowers is the human menace of the story, and Stanley, like the rest of the Losers, is one of the outcasts he picks on.

Bill Denbrough is the leader and the reason the group exists, since his refusal to accept that Georgie is dead keeps the search going. Richie and Eddie are the other two of the original friends, and in the sequel Richie Tozier and Eddie Kaspbrak return as adults alongside Bill. Ben Hanscom, Beverly and Mike round out the seven.

Mike is the relationship that matters most to Stanley's ending. In the sequel Mike phones each friend and calls them home, and the news of Stanley's death reaches the group at the reunion dinner. The HBO series IT: Welcome to Derry (2025) is television rather than a film, so it sits outside the two movies.

To see the whole group at once, the IT cast page lists every actor across both films.

In my opinion, Stanley's best moments are the quietest ones, and they come from the choices the two films let him make rather than from any set piece. The first is the group's refusal in the sewers of It (2017). When Pennywise grabs Bill and offers to let the others go if they leave him behind, the Losers refuse and fight together. Stanley is one of the friends standing there, and it is the clearest picture of why the group works: nobody trades a friend for a clean exit.

The second is the blood oath at the end of the summer. The seven cut their palms and promise to return if the clown comes back. It is the film's gentlest scene, and it matters more in the sequel because Stanley's choice is measured against it. It could be argued that the sequel only lands its tragedy because the oath felt sincere the first time.

The third is the dinner reunion in It Chapter Two (2019). The news of Stanley's death arrives at a dinner that quickly turns frightening, and it is where the surviving Losers first learn he is gone.

The last is the letter. Bill reads what Stanley left for the group, and it closes on the line that they are Losers and always will be. That being said, I would pick this over Eddie's death or the sewers fight as the emotional end of the saga, because it is the one moment where a character who sat out the final battle still gets the last word.

If you are new to the series and want to see these scenes in context, start with the IT movies in order guide, then read the IT timeline for how the 1989 and 2016 stories fit together.