Dominick Dunne
- Acting
- October 29, 1925 · Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
- August 26, 2009
Biography
Dominick John Dunne (October 29, 1925 – August 26, 2009) was an American writer, investigative journalist, and producer. He began his career as a producer in film and television, noted for involvement with the pioneering gay film The Boys in the Band (1970) and the award-winning drug film The Panic in Needle Park (1971). He turned to writing in the early 1970s. After the 1982 murder of his daughter Dominique, he came to focus on the ways in which wealth and high society interacts with the judicial system. A frequent contributor to Vanity Fair, Dunne, from the 1980s, also appeared regularly on television discussing crime. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dominick Dunne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth · Self
- Making the Boys · Self
- Celebrity: Dominick Dunne — A Journalist in the Age of Celebrity · Self
- Changeling · Man on Jury (uncredited)
- Dominick Dunne: After the Party · Self
- Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe · Self
- Bernard and Doris · Board Member
- The Last Mogul · Self
- The Closer · Self
- Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice · Host
- An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn · Self
- The View · Self
- Addicted to Love · Matheson
- Ruby · Self
- E! True Hollywood Story
- A Season in Purgatory · Novel
- 919 Fifth Avenue · Executive producer, Writer
- Frasier · Jeff (Voice)
- The Big Story
- An Inconvenient Woman · Novel
- People Like Us · Novel
- The Two Mrs. Grenvilles · Novel
- The Users · Writer, Producer
- Ash Wednesday · Producer
- Play It as It Lays · Producer
- The Panic in Needle Park · Producer
- Bad Marien's Last Year · Guest
- The Boys in the Band · Executive producer
- Omnibus · Self
- Adventures in Paradise · Producer
- Portrait of a Murderer · Production Assistant
- Our Town · Assistant Director