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Marilyn Eastman Dies: ‘Night of the Living Dead’ Actress & Producer Was 87

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Marilyn Eastman, an actress who played key roles in the production of George A. Romero’s 1968 zombie classic Night of the Living Dead, has died.

Her son John Eastman announced the news on Facebook. She was 87.As Helen Cooper, Eastman is trapped in a farmhouse by the film’s titular ghouls, then killed with a masonry trowel before herself reanimating.

Eastman also did makeup on the horror classic and played a zombie seen eating an insect.But more importantly, Eastman was vice president of a Pittsburgh-based industrial film firm called Hardman Associates, Inc.

and one of the two executives Romero approached about producing his film. She became part of a production company called Image Ten which also included Romero and Karl Hardman.

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