Occupation Actress Years active 1969-1991 | Name Dianne Hull Role Actress | |
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Born November 24, 1949 (age 74) ( 1949-11-24 ) Movies Christmas Evil, Aloha - Bobby and Rose, The Fifth Floor, The New Adventures of Pippi L, The Onion Field Similar People Floyd Mutrux, Ken Annakin, Harold Becker, Edward L Montoro | ||
Dianne Hull fights for Medicaid
Dianne Hull (born November 24, 1949) is an actress whose film career began in 1969 and ended in the early 1990s. The films she has acted in include Aloha, Bobby and Rose, The Arrangement, Christmas Evil, The Onion Field and The Fifth Floor.
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Biography
Hull is the daughter of model and actress Lorrie Hull and her first husband. Along with her mother, she has had an interest in cryonics and has attended the local cryonics group meetings and gatherings. Hull became a method acting teacher.
Career
Hull studied acting in California with Lee Strasberg, where she was discovered by Elia Kazan, who cast her in his 1969 film The Arrangement. In this, her film debut, she played the role of "Ellen Anderson," daughter of the main character "Eddie Anderson" played by Kirk Douglas.
In 1975, she co-starred with Paul Le Mat in the Floyd Mutrux-directed Aloha, Bobby and Rose, a drama about a motor mechanic and a divorced single mother who accidentally cause the death of a store clerk during a fake robbery prank. Made on a budget of $60,000, Aloha, Bobby and Rose grossed $35 million in the United States during its theatrical run.
In 1978, Hull appeared in The Fifth Floor, playing the part of a disco dancer who collapses on a dance floor, is misdiagnosed and sent to a psychiatric ward, where she attracts the attention of an unbalanced orderly played by Bo Hopkins.
In 1980, she appeared in a low-budget horror film directed by Lewis Jackson, You Better Watch Out (also known as Christmas Evil), involving a twisted toymaker who dresses up as Santa Claus and goes on a murderous rampage. One of her last roles was in 1991, when she appeared in the made-for-television film Murder 101 that starred Pierce Brosnan.
Coaching
As of 2009, Hull was working as an acting coach, giving lessons to working stage and film actors. She was also teaching classes. Her mother Lorrie Hull who Dianne has worked alongside, spent 12 years on the faculty of the Lee Strasberg Institute, and is the author of Strasberg's Method As Taught by Lorrie Hull.