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Melinda Ruth Dillon (October 13, 1939 – January 9, 2023) was an American actress. She received a 1963 Tony Award nomination for her Broadway debut in the original production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Absence of Malice (1981).
Slap Shot is a 1977 American sports comedy film directed by George Roy Hill, written by Nancy Dowd, ... Melinda Dillon as Suzanne Hanrahan; M. Emmet Walsh as Dickie Dunn;
Melinda Dillon is snapped by the paparazzi in December 1988 in Hollywood, Calif. (Photo: Ron Galella, ... Slap Shot; The Prince of Tides; To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything!
Steven Spielberg (director/screenplay); Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, François Truffaut, Bob Balaban, Roberts Blossom, Cary Guffey, Lance Henriksen, George DiCenzo, Gene Dynarski, Josef Sommer, Carl Weathers, J. Patrick McNamara, Warren Kemmerling, Philip Dodds, Merrill Connally 18 The Mouse and His Child: Murakami-Wolf-Swenson ...
Melinda Dillon, the actor best known for roles in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and A Christmas Story, has died at the age of 83. The news was announced by her family, with no cause of death ...
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The two had met during the production on Slap Shot. [19] John Lahr writes in his book Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles that when Mamet married Crouse in 1977, he "married into show business aristocracy". Lahr also writes that Mamet received his first screenwriting assignment through Crouse.
Oscar and Tony-nominated actor Melinda Dillon, who played Mother Parker in “A Christmas Story,” and appeared in “Magnolia” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” died Jan. 9.