Posted on 08/09/2013 12:54:04 PM PDT by massmike
Karen Black, the prolific actress who appeared in more than 100 movies and was featured in such counterculture favorites as "Easy Rider," ''Five Easy Pieces" and "Nashville," has died in Los Angeles.
Known for her full lips and thick, wavy hair that seemed to change color from film to film, Black often portrayed women who were quirky, troubled or threatened. Her breakthrough was as a prostitute who takes LSD with Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in 1969's "Easy Rider," the hippie classic that helped get her the role of Rayette Dipesto, a waitress who dates — and is mistreated by — an upper-class dropout played by Jack Nicholson in 1970's "Five Easy Pieces."
In 1971, Black starred with Nicholson again in "Drive, He Said," which Nicholson also directed. Over the next few years, she worked with such top actors and directors as Richard Benjamin ("Portnoy's Complaint"), Robert Redford and Mia Farrow ("The Great Gatsby") and Charlton Heston ("Airport 1975").
Black also starred as a jewel thief in Alfred Hitchcock's last movie, "Family Plot," released in 1976.
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I can see the Davis comparison. Paula Prentiss, maybe.
Me too.
Unfortunately, it's not on Netflix and I haven't seen it since I was a teenager.
Still occasionally have nightmares about that little, knife-wielding witchdoctor dude.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs-KEsse0Jk
I haven't watched the whole thing yet, but it sure looks like you can watch the whole movie (Trilogy of Terror) on youtube.
Thanks you I will watch. LOL what a pissa.
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