Burke Dennings
The hard-drinking director of Chris MacNeil's film, the possessed Regan's first victim.
Burke Dennings is a film director and a friend of Chris MacNeil, directing the movie she is shooting in Georgetown in William Peter Blatty's novel The Exorcist and the 1973 film. Jack MacGowran plays him in the film.
Quick Facts
- Occupation
- Film director
- Portrayed by
- Jack MacGowran
- Fate
- Killed below Regan's window
Facts from the source article.
Background
Dennings has a reputation as a drinker; at Chris's party he gets drunk, insults guests and abuses her manservant Karl. One night he is left with Regan while the house is otherwise empty, and he is found dead at the bottom of the public stairs below her window, his head turned backwards. The police treat it as an accident, assuming he fell while drunk, but Detective Kinderman tells Chris that the only plausible explanation is that he was pushed from Regan's window. Soon after, the possessed Regan speaks in Dennings's voice.
Source
Text adapted from Burke Dennings on The Exorcist Wiki (Fandom, CC BY-SA 3.0). Page history: contributors. Codexery summarised the page, and this entry is shared under the same licence.
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