Alfred Sole Dies: ‘Alice, Sweet Alice’ Horror Film Director, Prolific TV Production Designer Was 78
deadline.comAlfred Sole, the prolific television production designer of Veronica Mars, Castle and MacGyver who had achieved cult-horror status with his 1976 film Alice, Sweet Alice featuring a 10-year-old Brooke Shields in a supporting role, died Feb.
14 at his home in Salt Lake City. He was 78.His death was announced in a Facebook post by his cousin, filmmaker Dante Tomaselli.
A cause of death was not specified.Sole had already written and directed the 1972 sexually explicit, low-budget film Deep Sleep when several years later – and after the first film had been pulled from theaters on charges of obscenity – he turned to the horror genre.
Originally titled Communion, Sole’s second movie premiered at the Chicago Film Festival in 1976 and was released by Allied Artists the following year as Alice, Sweet Alice, a name change disliked by Sole.Inspired in part by Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 moody thriller Don’t Look Now, Sole’s Alice, Sweet Alice (which he co-wrote with Rosemary Ritvo) starred Linda Miller, Paula Sheppard and Shields in a twisted tale of child murder at a Catholic girls school.
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