From Fangoria.com
- Rudy Ricci, one of the team behind NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, died March 8 (sadly, following the passing of NIGHT’s Bill Hinzman by a month). According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Ricci died following a fall likely exacerbated by health problems, at age 72. He helped come up with the original idea for NIGHT, which was written in the apartment he shared with his wife Mary Jane, and also played a zombie in the film. “We just had a wonderful time. He and his family were very welcoming,” Romero recalled of Ricci. “He was a wonderful writer…and we had a good time working together. In those days, we didn’t know that we would ever make films professionally. We just had the desire.” NIGHT producer/co-star Russell Streiner said, “His command of the language, coupled with how he thought about things, really made him a very rich and textual writer.”
RIP Rudy Ricci (1940-2012) | AwesomeBMovies.com
Actor/Writer/Filmmaker Rudy Ricci (The Booby Hatch). This guy may not be very well known in today’s Hollywood but for you B Movie/Horror fans, you might know him from his major contributions to George A. Romero’s Dead …
Publish Date: 04/04/2012 1:03
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