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ELLEN BURSTYN as Christhe mother: MissBurstynmade JASON MILLER as Father Karras: Jason Miller is the an everlasting impressionon the motion picture world author of Broadway's triple-crown winner, "That with her performance in "The Last Picture Show." She Championship Season." His play won the New York won an Academy Award nomination tor it, and was Drama Critics' Best Play award in 1972 and a Tony also cited by the New York Film Critics as the best Award as BestPlay of 1973:and it won him the Pulitzer supporfing actress of the year. Also on the screen she Prize for Drama. Ever since he entered a regional played Donald Sutherland's wife in "Alex in W:mder- playwriting contest during high school in Scranton, land." Her interestsare wide-ranging and include the Po.. Miller has moved back and forfh between act- occult, intemational politics, the status of women ing and writing, After completing his role in "The and photography. Exorcist," Miller began work on the screenplay of "That Championship Season," to be filmed by War- MAX VON SYDOW as Father Merrin the Exorcist:Von ner Bros. Sydow arrived at international stardom through the films of Ingmar Bergman. In Sweden he isrecognized LINDA BLAIR as Regan the child: Linda isa junior high as one of the great men of the contemporary theater. school student from Connecticut who won the Presi- He has starred on the stage as Peer Gynt and Faust dent's Physical FitnessAward in 1972.Hermain interest and as Brick in "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof' and George is horseback riding. Sheowns her own horse and has in "Who's Afraid of Virginia \'\bolf?" He recently demonstrated her skill in every major horse show and starred with Liv Ullmann in Jan Troell's epic film county fair in the Norfheast This is her first dramatic double-header "The Emigrants"and "TheNewLand." role. When she grows up, she says, she wants to be either a jockey or a veterinarian. LEEJ. COBB as Detective Kinderman: In a career that has spanned more than 40 years, Lee Cobb has left WILLIAM PETER BLATTY, the author and producer: His his mark on films, television and the theater. His scholarly and intellectual interest in the phenomenon award-winning porfrayal of Willy Loman in the orig- of possession led Blafty to write what became a 55- inal production of "Death of a Salesman" isa mem- week best-selling novel When the book was acquired orable point in the American theater. The 50s were for films, Blafty wrote the screenplay and functioned his big film years: he was seen in "On the Waterfront," as producer. He has written other novels, "John Gold- "12 Angry Men." "The Brothers Karamazov" and farb, Please Come Home" and "Twinkle,Twinkle,'Kil- "Exodus." He lives in \'\bodland Hills,a suburb of Los ler Kane," as well as screenplays, including "A Shot Angeles, with his wife and family, and goes sailing in the Dark" and "What Did You Do in the War, on Sundays. Daddy?" Recently he received the Silver Medal for Literature from the Commonwealth ClubofCalifomia KITTY WINN as Sharon: The daughter of an Army offi- for "The Exorcist" cer, Kifty Winn was born in Washington, DC and spent much of her childhood in China, India and WILLIAM FRIEDKIN, the director: In a time of young film Japan. She began acting while a student at Boston directors, none is more gifted than William Friedkin. University, and joined the American Conservotorv Hislast motion picture, "The French Connection," won Theatre in San Francisco. She made her Broadway five major Academy Awards. Before that, hisfeature debut in "The Three Sisters"in 1969,and that same film work inciuded "The Boys in the Band," "The Birfh- year played Emily in a production of "Our Town"star- day Party" and "The Night They Raided Minsky's." ring Henry Fonda, She won the Golden Palm at the He started as a TV mailroom messenger in Chicago, 1971Cannes Film Festival for her performance of the graduated into production, and eventually became junkie in "Panic in Needle Park." a television producer-director. "The Exorcist" has now become Friedkin's most challenging and imag- JACK MacGOWRAN as Dennings the director: Jack inative film enterprise. MacGowran, who came out of the Golden Age of the IrishTheatre, was a close friend of Samuel Beck- ett. He assembled a one-man show called "Mac- Gowran in the Work of Beckett." It won him an Obie Award for the BestPerformance by an Actor in 1970- 71. On the screen he was seen in "Tom Jones," "Dr. Zhivago" and 'lord Jim." Shorfly after oompleting "The Exorcist" he opened in a revival of "The Plough and the Stars."His untimely death occurred shorfly after, Printed in U.S.A. From Warner Bros 0A Warner Communications Company ----...,....--------------------=--------------~----------------- -- Warner Bros. A Warner Communications Company presents WILLIAM PETERBLATTY'S THE EXORCIST Directed by WILLIAM FRIEDKIN Ellen Burstyn Chris MacNeil Max von Sydow ·..·..·.. ··· Father Merrin Lee J. Cobb Lt. Kinderman Kitty Winn .Shoron Jack MacGowran ·· · ·.. ·· ·· ..·.. ··· Burke Dennings Jason Miller Father Karras Linda Blair ·..· ··· ·..·..·· ···· ..·..·..·..·Regan Rev.Wm. O'Malley, S.J Father Dyer Barton Heyman · ··· .. ············· Dr.Klein Peter Masterson ···· ·.. ··· .C1inicDirector Rudolf SchUndler Karl Gina Petrushka ··· · ·..···· ..·..··Willie Robert Symonds ·..· Dr.Tanney Arthur Storch ·..·..·· ·..·..··· .Psychiatrist Rev.T. Bermingham. S.J President of University Vasiliki Maliaros Karras' Mother TitosVandis Karras' Uncle Wallace Rooney Bishop Ron Faber ·.. ·..·..·..· Assistant Director Produced by William Peter Blatty • Executive Producer Noel Marshall· Directed by William Friedkin • Screenplay by William Peter Blatty, based on his novel. Director of Photography Owen Roizman • Production Design Bill Malley· Supervising Film Ed. J. Leondopoulos • Film Eds.: Evan Lottman, Norman Gay· Sound Chris Newman· Set Decorator Jerry Wunderlich· Special Effects Marcel Vercoutere • Costume Designer Joseph Fretwell· Makeup Artist Dick Smith· Associate Producer David Salven Iraq Sequence: Dir. of Photog. Billy Williams. Prod. Mgr. William Kaplan • Film Ed. Bud Smith • SCund Jean-Louis Ducarme Photographic Equipment by Pcnovlson" • Technical Advisors: Rev.John Nicola, S.J.• Rev.Thos.Bermingham, S.J.• Rev.William O'Malley, S.J.Norman E. Chase. MD .. Prof. Radiology N.Y.UniversityMedical Center· Herbert E. Walker. MD .• Arthur i. Snyder. MD .• 1stAsst. Director Terence A. Donnelly. 2nd Asst. Director Alan Green· Publicist Howard Newman· A Hoya Production Running time 121minutes· Rating: R..