Hollywood’s Dorothy Tristan has passed away aged 88.
The American movie actress had died at home in her sleep on Sunday (January 8), confirmed her husband of 48 years, director John D Hancock.
Dorothy, known for her roles in big-screen productions of Klute and End Of The Road, had been battling Alzheimer’s disease for 10 years and passed away surrounded by her husband and her caretaker, Marcia Brodhacker.
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Dorothy made her film acting debut in 1970’s X-rated movie End of the Road before starring alongside Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland in the Oscar-nominated movie Klute the next year.
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She also co-wrote and starred in the 2015 drama The Looking Glass, which was her final role.
In the production, she starred as a woman with dementia symptoms who cared for a troubled teen granddaughter.
Her husband was the director of the film, which was set at the couple’s home in Indiana.
Dorothy shifted to working behind the camera for a time, assisting her husband on films like Prancer, A Piece of Eden, Suspended Animation and Girls of Summer.
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She continued acting for most of her life, appearing in a series of independent films later in her career.
Other productions on her resume included Frank Perry’s Man on a Swing in 1974 and A Place Without Parents from the same year.
She also starred in Swashbuckler in 1976, Rollercoaster in 1977 and Down and Out in Beverly Hills in 1986.
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Following the news of her death, fans took to social media to pay their respects.
On Twitter, one user penned a tribute which simply read: “#RIP Dorothy Tristan.”
Mike Barnes wrote: “#RIP Dorothy Tristan; did great work in End of the Road, Klute and Scarecrow in the ’70s, then returned after nearly 3 decades away to star as a woman battling Alzheimer’s in The Looking Glass. Condolences to her husband, director John D. Hancock.”
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