Dorothy Tristan, who had memorable turns in Finish of the Highway, Klute and Scarecrow within the early Nineteen Seventies earlier than demonstrating outstanding resolve by co-writing and starring within the 2015 impartial drama The Trying Glass, has died. She was 88.

Tristan died Sunday at her residence close to Le Porte, Indiana, after a 10-year battle with Alzheimer’s illness, her husband of 48 years, director John D. Hancock (Bang the Drum Slowly), introduced.

After an onscreen hiatus of almost three a long time, Tristan returned in The Trying Glass as a girl caring for her troubled 13-year-old granddaughter (Grace Tarnow) as signs of her dementia seem. Her husband directed the movie, set within the couple’s real-life, longtime residence in La Porte.

Tristan struggled with remembering the phrases she’d written however improvised and used cue playing cards to recall the dialogue.

In his THR overview of the movie, Frank Schenk known as her efficiency excellent and highlighted “a sentimental second that may be simply forgiven [when Hancock] pays tribute to his longtime spouse and collaborator by way of a collection of images wherein her luminous magnificence is abundantly displayed.”

Born on Might 9, 1934, and raised within the Yorkville part of Manhattan, Tristan attended Washington Irving Excessive Faculty and the Faculty of Industrial Arts in New York. She began out as a mannequin who traveled to Europe and located herself on covers of Life journal and Vogue.

Tristan made her movie debut within the X-rated cult basic Finish of the Highway (1970), the place her and Stacy Keach’s characters have an affair.

In his New York Instances overview, John Simon wrote that Tristan “could make her nice however unremarkable face right into a dozen completely different faces: lovely, ache‐riddled, childlike, wizened, otherworldly, furibund, ethereal, earth‐motherish, you title it —and even unnamable.

“Now she is the prototypical dowdy school spouse, now a blazing maenad unleashed on our libido; now a China shepherdess so fragile her personal respiration may shatter her, now a goddess capturing up excessive above any mere man within the immensity of her love or wrath.”

Tristan subsequent performed the drug-addled prostitute Arlyn Web page reverse Oscar winner Jane Fonda in Alan J. Pakula’s Klute (1971) and Coley, who with Ann Wedgeworth‘s Frenchy entertains Gene Hackman and Al Pacino’s characters as they cross by city, in Jerry Schatzberg’s Scarecrow (1971).

Tristan adopted with performances in Frank Perry’s Man on a Swing (1974), A Place With out Dad and mom (1974), Swashbuckler (1976), Rollercoaster (1977) and Paul Mazursky‘s Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), her final onscreen look till The Trying Glass.

She additionally labored behind the scenes together with her husband on the Sam Elliott-starring Prancer (1989), A Piece of Eden (2000), Suspended Animation (2001) and Ladies of Summer season (2020), all of which he helmed.

Survivors embody her kids, Alex, a photojournalist, and Tristan, a musician; her grandchildren, Sebastian, Chloe and Aram; and her great-grandson, Elijah.

Her first husband was director Aram A. Avakian; they have been married from 1957 till their 1972 divorce.