Dominick John Dunne (October 29, 1925 – August 26, 2009) was an American writer, investigative journalist, and producer. He began his career as a producer in film and television, noted for involvement with the pioneering gay film The Boys in the Band (1970) and the award-winning drug film The Panic in Needle Park (1971). He turned to writing in the early 1970s. After the 1982 murder of his daughter Dominique, he came to focus on the ways in which wealth and high society interacts with the judicial system. A frequent contributor to Vanity Fair, Dunne, from the 1980s, also appeared regularly on television discussing crime. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dominick Dunne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2008Changeling — Man on Jury (uncredited)
• 2006Bernard and Doris — Board Member
• Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice — Host
• 1997Addicted to Love — Matheson
• A Season in Purgatory — Novel
• E! True Hollywood Story
• 1995919 Fifth Avenue — Executive Producer, Writer
• Frasier — Jeff (voice)
• The Big Story
• An Inconvenient Woman — Novel
• 1990People Like Us — Novel
• The Two Mrs. Grenvilles — Novel
• 1978The Users — Writer, Producer
• 1973Ash Wednesday — Producer
• 1972Play It as It Lays — Producer
• 1971Bad Marien's Last Year — Guest
• 1971The Panic in Needle Park — Producer
• 1970The Boys in the Band — Executive Producer
• Adventures in Paradise — Producer
• 1958Portrait of a Murderer — Production Assistant
• 1955Our Town — Assistant Director

Appearances as themselves (11)

• 2020Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth — Self
• 2011Making the Boys — Self
• 2008Celebrity: Dominick Dunne — A Journalist in the Age of Celebrity — Self
• 2008Dominick Dunne: After the Party — Self
• 2007Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe — Self (archive footage)
• The Closer — Self
• 2005The Last Mogul — Self
• 1998An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn — Self
• Ruby — Self
• The View — Self
• Omnibus — Self