Duane Jones

Birth : 1936-02-02, New York City, New York, USA

Death : 1988-07-22

History

Duane L. Jones (February 2, 1936 – July 22, 1988) was an American actor, best known for his role as Ben in the 1968 horror film Night of the Living Dead. He was director of the Maguire Theater at the State University of New York at Old Westbury. He was the artistic director of the Richard Allen Center for Culture and Art in Manhattan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Duane Jones, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Movies

Another Night of the Living Dead

(archive footage)

Director Alan Smithee takes us on an irreverent (and unauthorized) romp through George A. Romero's classic Night of the Living Dead, the film that spawned the modern zombie craze and a thousand "of the living dead" remakes and rip-offs.

Autopsy of the Dead

Himself (archival footage)

Board up the windows and doors! More than 40 years after filming the 1968 horror masterpiece Night of the Living Dead, the 'dead' return in the all-new documentary Autopsy of the Dead. Packed with extensive cast & crew interviews, never-before-seen color photos and behind the scenes footage, visits to the original filming locations and other surprises, get ready for the most in-depth visual document on the making of the great American horror film that won t stay dead.

Fright House

Charles Harmon

Everyone in town knows the old Vincent place is haunted, but when the local Frat inherits it, we find out if the rumors are true. Two stories about witches getting ready to meet with the Devil, and a schoolteacher who never ages

To Die For

Simon Little

L.A. real estate agent Kate Wooten gets a new lease on life when she learns that her new client, a mysterious and handsome man named Vlad, is looking for a house isolated in the Hollywood Hills where he wants to live and doesn't want to be disturbed. It doesn't take long for Kate to fall in love with her new client and to learn that he's a real vampire.

Vampires

Dr. Charles Harmon

The students at a private girls' school are unaware that the school's doctor is secretly using a machine to extract the energy from the young girls.

Beat Street

Robert

An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.

Losing Ground

Duke

Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship.

Ganja & Hess

Dr. Hess Green

After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.

Night of the Living Dead

Ben

A disparate group of individuals takes refuge in an abandoned house when corpses begin to leave the graveyard in search of fresh human bodies to devour. The pragmatic Ben does his best to control the situation, but when the murderous zombies surround the house, the other survivors begin to panic.

Noite de Terror no Planalto

Ben (archive footage)

On the night of January 8th, in Brasilia, some people need to take refuge inside the place that is about to be attacked by a horde that lives a parallel reality and is ready to destroy everything in its path.