Griffin Dunne
Life and achievements
The father of Griffin Dunne, Dominick Dunne (1925-2009), was a film producer and journalist, his uncle was the author John Gregory Dunne. Griffin Dunne grew up in Los Angeles and in Colorado, at the end of the 1970s he returned to New York. With an in film history rather unique role in the cult film An American Werewolf he obtained in 1981 under heavy makeup, a reputation that is not faded to this day. In the comedy Let's get out, he played a starring role. For the lead role in the thriller After Hours by Martin Scorsese in 1986 he won the Independent Spirit Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. In the comedy Who's That Girl? he played a starring role alongside Madonna in the film, he joined A charming disgust on opposite Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter. For his role in one of the episodes of the TV series Frasier, he was nominated in 1996 for an Emmy Award.
As a director, Dunne led, among other directed the films Addicted to Love with Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick and Practical Magic (1998) starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. For the director and the script of the short film Duke of Groove with Tobey Maguire, Kiefer Sutherland and Uma Thurman, he was nominated in 1996 for an Oscar.
His younger sister Dominique Dunne, an aspiring actress, gained notoriety by the fact that she was murdered shortly after her film success with the horror film Poltergeist 1982.