{"id":37843,"date":"2021-08-24T03:35:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T22:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/marilyn-eastman-night-of-the-living-dead-star-dead-at-87\/"},"modified":"2021-08-24T03:35:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T22:05:26","slug":"marilyn-eastman-night-of-the-living-dead-star-dead-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/marilyn-eastman-night-of-the-living-dead-star-dead-at-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Marilyn Eastman, ‘Night of the Living Dead’ Star, Dead at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"
Actress Marilyn Eastman has passed away, fans learned on Monday. Eastman was best known to modern audiences for playing Helen Cooper in the 1968 Night of the Living Dead<\/em>. Her death was announced by the George A. Romero Foundation on social media.<\/p>\n “It is with great sadness that we can confirm the passing of Marilyn Eastman on 8\/22\/21,” the foundation’s official Twitter account posted. Please join us in wishing her family peace at this painful time.” Eastman was 87 years old, and is survived by her two sons John and Michael, as well as five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. John Eastman posted more details on Facebook<\/a>, revealing that his mother had passed away peacefully in her sleep on Sunday at her home in Tampa, Florida.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n It is with great sadness that we can confirm the passing of Marilyn Eastman on 8\/22\/21. Please join us in wishing her family peace at this painful time.
“Marilyn was a stage, television and radio performer as well as a writer and producer,” he wrote. “More importantly, she was a hard-working single mother who raised my brother and I on her own. I cannot overstate how much she enjoyed the affection and attention shown to her by countless NOLD <\/em>fans, and up until several weeks ago [she] was planning personal appearances.”<\/p>\n Eastman was born in Iowa in 1933 and moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the 1960s, according to The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>. She was married to Karl Hardman, and together they ran an industrial film production company called Hardman Associates, which partnered with Romero on Night of the Living Dead<\/em>, giving Eastman her big break.<\/p>\n “Godspeed, Marilyn. Give our love to Karl,” read another tweet from the Romero Foundation. Hardman passed away in 2007.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n A sweetheart! \u2764\ufe0f pic.twitter.com\/jNYjMkKCZA<\/a><\/p>\n
Godspeed, Marilyn. Give our love to Karl. \ud83d\udc94 pic.twitter.com\/qBidxsEIW3<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2014 The George A. Romero Foundation (@theGARFofficial) August 23, 2021<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n