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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.
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).
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. ... a month before she died ...
Julian Beck (May 31, 1925 – September 14, 1985) was an American actor, stage director, poet, and painter. He is best known for co-founding and directing the Living Theatre, as well as his role as Reverend Henry Kane, the malevolent preacher in the supernatural horror film Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
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.
Poltergeist has been haunting ’80s kids — and their descendants — for 40 years.But the 1982 blockbuster, directed by Tobe Hooper and produced by Steven Spielberg, has been haunted itself by ...
The "Poltergeist curse" is a rumored curse attached to the Poltergeist trilogy and its crew, derived from the deaths of two young cast members in the six years between the releases of the first and third films. [3] [20] The rumor and the surrounding deaths were explored in a 2002 episode of E! True Hollywood Story titled "Curse of Poltergeist ...
Some TV characters are sacred to the actors who play them. ... She wrote: “Though she died without much fanfare (like, ‘Oh well, Anya’s dead, later!’), her courage, her legacy, her ...