Bill Hinzman, the actor who helped usher in a revolutionary new era in horror with a key role in the seminal 1968 zombie film Night of the Living Dead, has died. He was 75. According to reports, Hinzman died of cancer at his Pennsylvania home on Sunday night. His daughter, Heidi Hinzman, said that her father asked to be cremated: "He always joked if he got buried he would come back." Hinzman was revered by horror aficionados for his memorable turn in George A. Romero's touchstone horror flick, in which he played the first zombie audiences see during the film's opening moments. In the scene, Hinzman's undead stalker attacks two siblings at a graveyard, killing one and...
- 2/7/2012
- E! Online
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