The actor played a doomed helicopter pilot in George Romero’s zombie film.
Emges other film credits included the 1976 comedyThe Booby Hatchand 1990sBasket Case 2.
“I loved that movie,” Emge said in a 1979 interview withThe Burlington Free Press.
Actor David Emge.Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images
“It was filmed outside of Pittsburgh in a nine-week shooting schedule with two weeks off for Christmas.
A cold spooky show…Half of it was shot inside the shopping mall.
We worked from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. and had free run of the place.”
David Emge in ‘Dawn of the Dead’.United Film Distribution
United Film Distribution
By the end of Romero’s movie, Stephen has become one of the undead.
“I sat there for weeks and weeks watching all of these people coming up with ‘their’ zombie.
And I’m thinking, what am I gonna do?
The film became something of an obsession for me.
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