Karen Black
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Karen Black (July 1, 1939 – August 8, 2013) was an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter. She is noted for appearing in such films as Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Great Gatsby, Rhinoceros, The Day of the Locust, Nashville, Airport 1975, and Alfred Hitchcock's final film, Family Plot. Over the course of her career, she won two Golden Globe Awards (out of three nominations), and an Academy Award nomination in 1970 for Best Supporting Actress, among numerous other honors.
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- You're a Big Boy Now (1966)
- Hard Contract (1969)
- Easy Rider (1969)
- Five Easy Pieces (1970)
- Drive, He Said (1971)
- A Gunfight (1971)
- Born to Win (1971)
- Cisco Pike (1972)
- Portnoy's Complaint (1972)
- The Pyx (1973)
- The Outfit (1973)
- Rhinoceros (1974)
- The Great Gatsby (1974)
- Law and Disorder (1974)
- Airport 1975 (1974)
- Trilogy of Terror (1975)
- The Day of the Locust (1975)
- Nashville (1975)
- Family Plot (1976)
- Burnt Offerings (1976)
- Capricorn One (1978)
- In Praise of Older Women (1978)
- The Squeeze (1978)
- Mr. Horn (1979)
- Killer Fish (1979)
- Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop (1980)
- Chanel Solitaire (1981)
- Killing Heat (1981)
- Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)
- Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983)
- Bad Manners (aka: Growing Pains) (1984)
- The Blue Man (1985)
- Savage Dawn (1985)
- Invaders from Mars (1986)
- The Invisible Kid (1988)
- Out of the Dark (1989)
- Homer and Eddie (1989)
- Mirror, Mirror (1990)
- The Children (1990)
- Club Fed (1990 film) (1990)
- Zapped Again! (1990)
- The Roller Blade Seven (1991)
- Rubin and Ed (1991)
- Children of the Night (1991)
- Return of the Roller Blade Seven (1992)
- The Double 0 Kid (1992)
- Dark Blood (1993) (completed in 2012)
- Plan 10 from Outer Space (1994)
- Crimetime (1996)
- Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996)
- Dogtown (1997)
- Conceiving Ada (1997)
- Fallen Arches (1998)
- Charades (1998)
- The Underground Comedy Movie (1999)
- Red Dirt (2000)
- Gypsy 83 (2001)
- Teknolust (2002)
- Buttleman (2002)
- Summer Solstice (2003)
- Curse of the Forty-Niner (2003)
- House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
- Firecracker (2005)
- My Suicidal Sweetheart (2005)
- Hollywood Dreams (2006)
- Suffering Man's Charity (2007)
- Watercolors (2008)
- A Single Woman (2009)
- Double Duty (2009)
- Irene in Time (2009)
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