{"id":64900,"date":"2024-01-29T18:25:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T23:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=64900"},"modified":"2024-01-29T18:28:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T23:28:36","slug":"david-emge-star-of-horror-classic-dawn-of-the-dead-dies-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/29\/david-emge-star-of-horror-classic-dawn-of-the-dead-dies-at-77\/","title":{"rendered":"David Emge, star of horror classic &#8220;Dawn of the Dead,&#8221; dies at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64901\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/dawn-of-the-dead.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/dawn-of-the-dead.webp 666w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/dawn-of-the-dead-300x168.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/>David Emge, whose brief acting career included a performance that would become iconic to horror fans \u2013 he played the doomed pilot-turned-zombie in George Romero\u2019s 1978 <em>Dawn of the Dead<\/em> \u2013 died January 20 at the West River Health Campus in Evansville, Indiana. He was 77.<\/p>\n<p>Emge studied drama at the University of Evansville where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and during that time, he served for the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. After starting his acting career with on-stage work in the early 1970s, Emge would make his feature film debut in the movie <em>The Booby Hatch<\/em>, a comedy released in 1975. He&#8217;s also had roles in the films <em>The Liberation of Cherry Janowski<\/em> and <em>The Devil and Sam Silverstein<\/em>, both of which were released in 1978.<\/p><div id=\"morty-3610968774\" class=\"morty-content morty-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>After his role in<em> The Booby Hatch<\/em>, David Emge was working as a chef in New York when he happened to meet legendary horror filmmaker George A. Romero. At the time, Romero was looking to make a sequel to his classic film <em>Night of the Living Dead<\/em>, which is credited as the grandfather of modern zombie horror films. Romero wound up casting Emge in the role of traffic reporter Stephen Andrews, aka &#8220;Flyboy,&#8221; one of the film&#8217;s main characters.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Romero\u2019s 1978 sequel to his 1968 classic <em>Night of the Living Dead<\/em>, Emge appeared in such other films as <em>The Devil and Sam Silverstein<\/em> (1976), <em>The Liberation of Cherry Janowski<\/em> (1976), <em>Basket Case 2<\/em> (1990) and <em>Hellmaster<\/em> (1992).<\/p>\n<p>His death was announced by his family to the Evansville Courier &amp; Press. A cause of death was not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0amtYGDgqBo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Emge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More About David Emge<\/a><\/p><div id=\"morty-1188070936\" class=\"morty-content_2 morty-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Emge, whose brief acting career included a performance that would become iconic to horror fans \u2013 he played the doomed pilot-turned-zombie in George Romero\u2019s 1978 Dawn of the Dead \u2013 died January 20 at the West River Health Campus in Evansville, Indiana. 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