Anissa Jones
Mary Anissa Jones (born March 11, 1958 in West Lafayette , Indiana , USA ; † August 28, 1976 in Oceanside , California , USA) was an American film actress . She died of a drug overdose at the age of 18.
Life
Anissa - the name comes from Arabic and means "good friend" - grew up in Playa Del Rey , California , and attended the Paseo Del Rey Grammar School , the Orville Wright Junior High School and most recently Westchester High School .
In 1966 she was discovered for one of the leading roles in the television series Dear Uncle Bill . The character of Elizabeth "Buffy" Patterson-Davis would be played by Jones until 1971.
After a supporting role in Trouble with the Girls (1969) alongside Elvis Presley , she applied for the role of Regan in The Exorcist (1973), but was outdone by the younger Linda Blair .
Shortly afterwards she started working in a donut shop in Playa Del Rey and came into increasing contact with drugs .
On August 28, 1976, after a night of partying in her boyfriend's house, she sat down the so-called Golden Shot . The coroner of San Diego County posed a deadly combination of in their blood cocaine , phencyclidine , methadone and phenobarbital firmly. According to him, it was the worst substance abuse he had ever seen. It is still not certain whether Anissa Jones is inadvertently passed to the drugs or suicide committed.
Her body was cremated and the ashes scattered in the Pacific on September 1, 1976 .
The Diodes , a Canadian music band of the 1970s, dedicated the song Child Star to Jones , which also appeared as a single in record stores.
In 1984, 8 years after her death, Jones' younger brother Paul also died of a drug overdose.
Web links
- Anissa Jones at the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Jones, Anissa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jones, Mary Anissa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | West Lafayette , Indiana , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1976 |
| Place of death | Oceanside , California , USA |