Dominick Dunne
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Dunne in 1999
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| Born |
Dominick John Dunne October 29, 1925 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | August 26, 2009 (aged 83) Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Bladder cancer |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Williams College |
| Spouse(s) | Ellen Beatriz Griffin (1954-1969) (divorced) (5 children) |
| Children |
Griffin Dunne Alexander Dunne Dominique Dunne |
Dominick John Dunne (October 29, 1925 – August 26, 2009) was an American producer, writer and investigative journalist.
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 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 also appeared regularly on television discussing crime from the 1980s to the end of his life.
Dunne, the second of six children, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of Dorothy Frances (née Burns) and Richard Edwin Dunne, a hospital chief of staff and prominent heart surgeon. His Irish Catholic family was wealthy; his maternal grandfather, Dominick Francis Burns, founded the Park Street Trust Company. However, from his earliest days, Dunne recalled feeling like an outsider in the predominantly "WASPish" West Hartford.
He was the older brother of writer John Gregory Dunne; they had two sisters, Harriet and Virginia, and two brothers, Richard Jr. and Stephen. John Dunne became a screenwriter and critic, marrying journalist Joan Didion, who also wrote novels. They collaborated on a column for The Saturday Evening Post and on several screenplays, including The Panic in Needle Park. Dominick Dunne produced this film, starring Al Pacino in his first leading role.
As a boy, he was known as Nicky. After attending the Kingswood School and Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut, he attended Williams College. He served in World War II where he received the Bronze Star for heroism during the Battle of Metz.
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