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Dominick Dunne
American writer and journalist (1925-2009) · United States · Directors · Died at 83
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Something wrong?Dominick John Dunne was an American writer, investigative journalist, and producer. He began his career in film and television as a producer of the pioneering gay film The Boys in the Band (1970) and as the producer of the drama film The Panic in Needle Park (1971). He turned to writing in the early 1970s.
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Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert MapplethorpeFilm2006
Bernard and DorisFilm, Board Member2005
The CloserSeries
The Last MogulFilm, 20052002
Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and JusticeSeries, Host1998
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, BurnFilm1997
RubySeries1996
A Season in PurgatorySeries, Writer1995
919 Fifth AvenueFilm, Writer, Producer1993
FrasierSeries, Jeff (voice)The Big StorySeries1991
An Inconvenient WomanSeries, Writer1990
People Like UsFilm, Writer1987
The Two Mrs. GrenvillesSeries, Writer1978
The UsersFilm, Writer, Producer1973
Ash WednesdayFilm, Producer1972
Play It as It LaysFilm, Producer1971Bad Marien's Last YearFilm, Guest1970
The Boys in the BandFilm, Producer1967
OmnibusSeries1959
Adventures in ParadiseSeries, Producer1925Born29 October 1925Also in Deutsch
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Dominick John Dunne was an American writer, investigative journalist, and producer. He began his career in film and television as a producer of the pioneering gay film The Boys in the Band (1970) and as the producer of the drama film The Panic in Needle Park (1971). He turned to writing in the early 1970s. After the 1982 murder of his daughter Dominique, an actress who had her breakthrough role in the film Poltergeist that year, he began to write about the interaction of wealth and high society with the judicial system. Dunne was a frequent contributor to Vanity Fair, and, beginning in the 1980s, often appeared on television discussing crime.
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