Dominique Dunne

Birth Name:

Dominique Ellen Dunne

Birth Date:

November 23, 1959

Birth Place:

Santa Monica, California

Death Date:

November 4, 1982

Place of Death:

8723 Rangely Avenue, West Hollywood, California

Age:

Cause of Death:

Strangulation

Cemetery Name:

Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary

Claim to Fame:

Show Business

Dominique Dunne was an American actress who first appeared in the 1979 television film Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker which she parlayed into supporting roles in popular 1980s television series such as Lou Grant, Hart to Hart and Fame and Breaking Away. In 1981, she was cast in her first and only feature film, Poltergeist, produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Tobe Hooper. Shortly after the release of the hit movie she was strangled to death in the driveway of her West Hollywood home by ex-boyfriend and psychopath John Sweeney who served less that 4 years in prison for his crime.

Fun Fact

Dominique Dunne has quite the pedigree:

Her mother was Ellen Beatriz “Lenny” (née Griffin), a ranching heiress
Her father was fabled writer, producer, actor and investigative journalist Dominick Dunne
She was the niece of married novelists John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion
Her godparents were Maria Cooper-Janis, daughter of actors Gary Cooper and Veronica “Rocky” Cooper, and producer Martin Manulis

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary

1218 Glendon Avenue

Los Angeles, California, 90024

USA

North America

Map:

Grave Location:

Section D, Lot 193

Grave Location Description

As you drive into the cemetery entrance, go straight and park at the chapel. Miss Dunne’s final resting place can be found in the 3rd row of the center lawn section, directly across the street from the entrance to the chapel.

Grave Location GPS

34.058217, -118441079

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Videos Featuring Dominique Dunne:

Dominique Dunne Poltergeist scenes

Poltergeist (1982) - The Beast Tries To Take The Children

Dominique Dunne in "Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker"

Dominick Dunne on writing about his daughter's murder trial

Dominique Dunne Love Gone Wrong

Hollywood True Crime: The terrifying case of actress Dominique Dunne

Dominique Ellen Dunne - Her Killer Served Less Than 4 Years

Did Dominick Dunne stalk John Sweeney

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popular name: Bette Davis

date_of_death: October 6, 1989

age: 81

cause_of_death: Metastasized breast cancer

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Bette Davis was an American actress of film, television, and theater. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history, she was noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic, sardonic characters and was known for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, although her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas. In 101 feature films and TV movies, she created Hollywood’s first and finest portrait of the thoroughly modern woman: her independence born in neurosis, her strength forged in professional and domestic combat, her man of the moment an irrelevance or a desperate burden. ”I either have to hold him off/ Or have to hold him up,” she sang in Thank Your Lucky Stars. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, was the first person to accrue ten Academy Award nominations (and one write-in) for acting, and was the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. In 1999, Davis was placed second on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema. In 1983, after filming the pilot episode for the television series Hotel, Davis was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy. Within two weeks of her surgery, she had four strokes which caused paralysis in the left side of her face and in her left arm, and left her with slurred speech. Davis collapsed during the American Cinema Awards in 1989, and later discovered that her cancer had returned. Too weak to make the long journey back to the U.S., she traveled to France, where she died of metastasized breast cancer on October 6, 1989, at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Davis was 81 years old.