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Actress - filmography

Poltergeist III (1988) …. Carol Anne Freeling
… aka Poltergeist III: The Final Chapter (Australia)
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986) …. Carol Anne Freeling
… aka Poltergeist II (USA: short title)
Surviving (1985) (TV) …. Sarah Brogan
… aka Surviving: A Family In Crisis
… aka Tragedy (USA: video title)
“Happy Days” (1974) TV Series …. Heather Pfister (1982-1983)
… aka Happy Days Again (USA: syndication title)
Massarati and the Brain (1982) (TV) …. Skye Henry
Poltergeist (1982) …. Carol Anne Freeling

Herself - filmography

Believe You Can… And You Can! (1983) (TV) …. Herself
The Making of ‘Poltergeist’ (1982) (TV) (uncredited) …. Herself

Archive Footage

Curse of Poltergeist: The E! True Hollywood Story (2002) (TV) …. Herself
The 61st Annual Academy Awards (1989) (TV) …. Herself (Memorial Tribute)
Terror in the Aisles (1984) …. Carol Anne Freeling (Poltergeist)

Notable TV Guest Appearances

“Our House” playing “Dana” in episode: “A Point of View”
…(episode # 1.15) 11 January 1987
“Still the Beaver” playing “Heather Montgomery”
…in episode: “Material Girl” (episode # 2.24) 1987
…in episode: “Bad Poetry” (episode # 2.11) 1986
“Finder of Lost Loves” playing “Jillian Marsh”
…in episode: “Yesterday’s Child” (episode # 1.2) 29 September 1984
“Webster” playing “Melanie”
…in episode: “Travis” (episode # 1.8) 11 November 1983
…in episode: “Second Time Around” (episode # 1.7) 4 November 1983
…in episode: “Katherine’s Swan Song” (episode # 1.4) 7 October 1983
“Matt Houston” playing “Sunny Kimbal”
…in episode: “The Woman in White” (episode # 2.2) 16 September 1983
“The Merv Griffin Show” playing “Herself” 9 August 1983
“CHiPs” playing “Lindsey”
…in episode: “Fun House” (episode # 6.19) 13 March 1983
“Fantasy Island” playing “Liz Blake Aged 5″
…in episode: “Elizabeth’s Baby/The Artist and the Lady” (episode # 4.11) 17 January 1981

Television Commercials
“Strawberry Short Cake: Blow-kiss Baby” in 1984 with Judith Barsi
Long John Silver (1980/1981)
McDonald’s (two consecutive years, circa 1983)
Rainbow Brite (1983-1986)

Other
Did a Jerry Lewis MDA telethon in September 1984; was part of a child actors’ panel that answered phones to take viewers’ donations.

Co-starred in a TV pilot, “Here to Stay”, which never aired, in late 1986; episode was called “Wheeler Dealer”.


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Born in San Diego, California on December 27th, 1975, Heather O’Rourke grew up in the nearby town of Santee, where from an early age, she displayed a natural talent for performing. As a 3-year-old, Heather had already won a local “Little Miss” pageant, and was singing and dancing on stage both alone and with her 7-year-old sister Tammy, who was an accomplished tap dancer and budding young performer herself

When she turned four, the photogenic Heather became an ad model for Mattel Toys and by age five, barely after starting kindergarten, she made her first television acting appearance in a 1981 episode of ABC’s “Fantasy Island”, and began appearing in "McDonald's" restaurant commercials.

Her official "discovery" however, took place during the previous summer of 1980, when Heather's sister Tammy had gotten a part as a dancer in the MGM movie "Pennies From Heaven". During the daily breaks between rehearsals and filming, the two O'Rourke sisters and their mother would usually go to the legendary MGM Studios Commissary for lunch where, on one of their outings, Heather was noticed by future "superdirector" Steven Spielberg.

Spielberg, on a chance visit to MGM, had decided to go to the commissary for lunch that day and when he saw the tiny, angelic, and blonde-haired Heather sitting alone at a nearby table, he just had to find out who she was. Heather's first words to her future director were said to have been: "I'm not allowed to talk to strangers". An interview and a “scream test” later, Spielberg knew that he had found his leading (little) lady for one of his next films and so with his direction, and Heather’s now famous words: “They’re heeeeere”, together they made horror movie history. The film was of course, “Poltergeist".

After “Poltergeist”, Heather went on to television appearing in many popular prime time and syndicated shows of the 1980's including “Happy Days”, “CHiPs”, and “Webster”, as well as commercials, TV movies and specials, and a Jerry Lewis MDA telethon. She also filmed two TV pilot episodes and had other non-acting appearances on various AM and PM talk shows.

The two “Poltergeist” sequels were also a major part of Heather’s "filmography" and it was shortly before pre-production of “Poltergeist III” in 1987 that she began to show the first signs of the illnesses that would contribute to her untimely death at age 12 less than a year later.

On the morning of Feb. 1st, 1988, Heather awakened for school as usual but at breakfast her mother noticed that she did not look well and became concerned that Heather had not yet recovered from the apparent flu that she had over the past weekend. When Heather’s symptoms suddenly became worse and she collapsed, an ambulance was summoned. On the way to a local hospital, Heather went into shock and lost consciousness, followed by cardiac arrest.

She was resuscitated and airlifted to Children’s Hospital and Health Center in San Diego where an exploratory operation revealed that Heather had developed an intestinal obstruction that had eventually caused part of her small intestine to burst, allowing an infection to form and spread. Emergency surgery was immediately performed to correct the problem, and Heather survived the procedure, but she never regained consciousness, and her body could not seem to recover from the overwhelming infection and septic shock that had followed. As complications set in, her condition worsened and later that afternoon, she died peacefully at 2:43 p.m.

On February 5th 1988, Heather was taken to a small cemetery in the heart of the historic Westwood Village district of Los Angeles where, after a short memorial service, she was laid to rest among other well-loved and famous celebrities. The plaque that marks her resting place reads: Heather O'Rourke - Beloved Daughter - Sister - "Carol Anne" - Poltergeist I, II, III.

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Born Heather Michele O'Rourke in San Diego, California, she was discovered at the age of five by Steven Spielberg while having lunch at the MGM Studios Commissary with her mother and older sister Tammy O'Rourke, a dancer in the film Pennies From Heaven. Spielberg, who was preparing to film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, was also looking for a child to play the role of Carol-Anne Freeling in his upcoming production of Poltergeist and when he approached Heather inquiring if she had any acting experience, she advised him that she was not allowed to talk to strangers. Despite her initial shyness, an interview soon followed and she was cast in the part.

Poltergeist was released in June 1982, and Heather's line, "They're he-eere!" entered American pop culture. Her success in Poltergeist immediately led to television work, and in 1982–83 she was a regular on the sitcom Happy Days, playing the daughter of Fonzie's girlfriend.

In between Heather's numerous television appearances, Poltergeist II was filmed and released in 1986 and once again, she delivered another pop culture phrase, "They're ba-aaack!".

When production of Poltergeist III began in early 1987, Heather had been ill for several months with what was eventually diagnosed as Crohn's disease, and subsequently underwent medical treatment during parts of the filming, which took place in Chicago, Illinois. Principal photography lasted between April and June of that year, with June 1988 as its scheduled release date, and by all accounts Heather finished her work on the film. After a family vacation, she returned home to California, her illness apparently in remission.

Heather remained healthy and symptom-free until January 31, 1988, when she again began to show signs of illness. The following morning her condition worsened and while being taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital, Heather suffered cardiac-arrest. She was successfully resuscitated and immediately airlifted by "Life Flight" helicopter to the PICU at Children's Hospital in San Diego where it was discovered that she had developed an acute bowel obstruction. Despite surviving emergency surgery, she died of complications caused primarily by septic shock resulting from the obstruction and ensuing infection. She had only recently turned 12.

MGM decided to re-shoot the ending of Poltergeist III in March 1988 using a body double stand-in. The director of the film, Gary Sherman, claims the ending was not a re-shoot, and that Heather died "before they could film the original ending." However, his claim is unsubstantiated, as the finished film was rated "PG" by the MPAA in November 1987, before Heather died. [1]

Heather was interred in a niche on the outer wall of the "Sanctuary Of Tenderness" mausoleum at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Her tomb is close to that of the late Dominique Dunne, who played her sister in Poltergeist.

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