Zelda Rubinstein | 'Poltergeist' psychic, 76
Zelda Rubinstein, 76, the diminutive character actress with the childlike voice who was best known as the psychic called in to rid a suburban home of demonic forces in the 1982 horror movie Poltergeist , died Wednesday at a Los Angeles hospital. She was hospitalized about two months ago after a heart attack.
Zelda Rubinstein, 76, the diminutive character actress with the childlike voice who was best known as the psychic called in to rid a suburban home of demonic forces in the 1982 horror movie
Poltergeist
, died Wednesday at a Los Angeles hospital. She was hospitalized about two months ago after a heart attack.
A medical lab technician before launching her acting career in her 40s, the 4-foot-3 Ms. Rubinstein made her film debut as one of the little people in the 1981 Chevy Chase comedy Under the Rainbow.
Among her other credits are Frances, Sixteen Candles, Teen Witch, Anguish, and Southland Tales, and the TV series Picket Fences, on which she was a regular. - Los Angeles Times