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Dominique Ellen Dunne (November 23, 1959 – November 4, 1982) was an American actress. [1] Born and raised in Santa Monica, California, she made her on-screen debut with the television film Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker (1979) and played recurring roles in the drama series Family (1980) and the comedy series Breaking Away (1980–1981).
Heather Michele O'Rourke (December 27, 1975 – February 1, 1988) was an American child actress.She had her breakthrough starring as Carol Anne Freeling in the supernatural horror film Poltergeist (1982), which received critical acclaim and established her as an influential figure in the genre.
Louis Byron Perryman (August 15, 1941 – April 1, 2009), also known as Lou Perry, was an American character actor. He acted in a number of small roles both on television and in films such as The Blues Brothers, Poltergeist, Boys Don't Cry and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. He was a film crew member on the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre film.
The young actress gained fame after starring in 1982's Poltergeist. However, her career was cut short after her ex-boyfriend, John Sweeney, killed her on Oct. 30, 1982.
Headstone of Dunne's grave. Dominique Dunne, an American actress, was strangled by her ex-boyfriend, John Thomas Sweeney, and fell into a coma and died on November 4, 1982. . In a court case that gained significant media coverage, Sweeney was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in Dunne's death, and served three and a half years in pris
Netflix's Monsters reexamined Dominique Dunne's brutal murder while exploring her father Dominick Dunne's connection to the Menéndez brothers’ infamous case. During the seventh episode, which ...
Zelda May Rubinstein [1] (May 28, 1933 [2] – January 27, 2010) was an American actress and human rights activist, known as eccentric medium Tangina Barrons in the Poltergeist film series. [3] Playing "Ginny", she was a regular on David E. Kelley 's Emmy Award -winning television series Picket Fences for two seasons.
"Tobe directed me in all my scenes," he says of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre auteur, who died in 2017."Steven was there every day and wrote the original screenplay, so it was from his heart. Tobe ...