{"id":31742,"date":"2023-02-03T20:57:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T01:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31742"},"modified":"2023-02-03T20:57:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T01:57:41","slug":"rip-melinda-dillon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31742","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Melinda Dillon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Melinda Dillon’s family has announced that Ms. Dillon died on January 9, 2023 at the age of 83.\u00a0 No cause of death was given.\u00a0 Melinda Dillion was a two-time Academy Award Best Supporting Actress Award<\/em> nominee (for Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/em> and Absence of Malice<\/em>).<\/p>\n

It’s hard to determine what role Melinda Dillon was best known for because she played in many fan favorite films.\u00a0 Prior to acting on television and in movies, Melinda Dillon was a stage actress.\u00a0 She was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play<\/em> for her first major role on Broadway.\u00a0 The play was Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe<\/em>.\u00a0 Ms. Dillon’s television career began in 1963, in an episode of The Defenders<\/em>.\u00a0 She went on to act on both television and in feature films for the rest of her career.<\/p>\n

Some of Melinda Dillon’s television appearances include: The Defenders; Bonanza; The Jeffersons; The Twilight Zone; The Shadow Box; Fallen Angel; Right of Way<\/em> and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Some of Melinda Dillon’s feature film appearances include: Bound for Glory; Slap Shot; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; F.I.S.T.; The Muppet Movie; Absence of Malice; A Christmas Story; Harry and the Hendersons<\/em> and The Prince of Tides.<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s hard to pick a favorite Melinda Dillon role.\u00a0 If push came to shove my favorites include her work in F.I.S.T. <\/em>and A Christmas Story<\/em>.\u00a0 I was excited when I learned Ms. Dillon would play Sly Stallone’s love interest in F.I.S.T.. (s<\/em>he was coming off a Academy Award Best Supporting Actress nomination).\u00a0 Her role in A Christmas Story<\/em> provides a great counterpoint to Ralphie’s dad (and in doing so make him more loveable). She was excellent in both.<\/p>\n

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Melinda Dillon’s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Melinda Dillon’s family has announced that Ms. Dillon died on January 9, 2023 at the age of 83.\u00a0 No cause<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31743,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31742\/revisions\/31743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}