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Black, Karen, 1939-2013

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Personal name headingBlack, Karen, 1939-2013
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Variant(s)Ziegeler, Karen, 1939-2013
Ziegler, Karen Blanche, 1939-2013
Birth date1939-07-01
Death date2013-08-08
Place of birthPark Ridge (Ill.)
Place of deathLos Angeles (Calif.)
Field of activityActing Motion picture authorship Music Composition (Music)
Profession or occupationActors Actresses Motion picture actors and actresses Screenwriters Film composers Composers
Found inFive easy pieces [MP] 1970: credits (co-starring Karen Black)
Halliwell's filmgoer's comp., 1988 (Black, Karen; b. 1942; AKA Karen Ziegeler)
New York times (online), viewed Aug. 9 (in obituary published Aug. 8: Karen Black; b. Karen Blanche Ziegler, July 1, 1939, Park Ridge, Ill.; d. Thursday [Aug. 8, 2013], Los Angeles, aged 74; actress whose roles in several signature films of the late 1960s and '70s included a prostitute who shared an LSD trip with the bikers played by Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in Easy rider, and a waitress unhappily devoted to the alienated musician played by Jack Nicholson in Five easy pieces)
IMDb, June 5, 2023: (Karen Black; actress, writer, composer)
Associated languageeng