Lee Fierro, gone at 91, Actress from "Jaws"

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Lee Fierro, a drama teacher on Martha's Vineyard who was an extra in the 1975 movie 'Jaws" (she played Mrs Kitner, the mother who loses her boy at the beach) succumbed to the COVID 19 virus in her nursing home in Ohio. She was 91. This was an iconic scene with her and Roy Scheider. May she rest in peace.....

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[Westerly Wood]

one of my favorite movies of all time. great scene too.

 

[Bill Ashton]

I was a teenager on Martha's Vineyard when they were making that movie...you know, I've never seen it in full. Rest in peace, Mrs Fierro

 

[walrus]

This movie still scares me. I was never comfortable in the ocean after I saw it in high school.

walrus

 

[Westerly Wood]

just some great acting period in this movie: this clip alone is some of the greatest acting in american film history:



so for the whole filming, Dreyfus constantly begged speilberg to put him in Close encounters, that started shooting right after Jaws. Speilberg relented and dreyfuss was then a household name as the lead in Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind.