Known for Acting
Linda Manz made her feature film debut at age 15 in Terrence Malick's period drama Days of Heaven (1978), playing an adolescent girl growing up in rural Texas in 1916. She followed this with a supporting role in The Wanderers (1979). Manz earned critical acclaim for her portrayal of a troubled teenage girl from a dysfunctional family in Dennis Hopper's drama film Out of the Blue (1980). Manz stepped away from her acting profession in the mid-1980s and relocated to Southern California, where she lived outside the public eye and focused on raising her three children. She returned to acting in 1997 with small roles in Harmony Korine's film Gummo and David Fincher's thriller The Game. She developed a strong cult following than began in the 1990s.
Born
August 20, 1961
Died
August 14, 2020 (age 58)
Birthplace
New York, New York, U.S.A.
Filmography
13 films, 1 show


Along for the Ride
2016 · 1h 40m
country: Unknown
A documentary chronicling the filmmaking career of Dennis Hopper.


Buddy Boy
2000 · 1h 45m
country: United States
An introvert relieves the tedium of caring for his invalid mother by spying on his neighbor.


Gummo
1997 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Teenagers Solomon and Tummler kill time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.


The Game
1997 · 2h 9m
country: United States
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.


The Snow Queen
1985 · 1h
country: Unknown
Kay and Gerda are best friends. A wicked goblin who likes to cause trouble casts a spell on Kay to separate them. The Snow Queen snatches him away to her castle. Gerda must go find him. Will she ever do so? Is the Snow Queen helping him or is she freezing his heart forever?


Mir reicht's - ich steig aus
1983
country: Spain
The intelligent Linda, daughter of Joseph and Jane, takes a critical view of her parents' marriage. Her father's dominant behavior and her mother's indifference become so unbearable to her that she decides to run away. She manages to persuade Jane to accompany her.


Out of the Blue
1981 · 1h 34m
country: United States
A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.


Longshot
1981 · 1h 40m
country: United States
When one of the foosball team members is injured, a 14-year-old girl takes the champion's place.


Orphan Train
1979 · 2h 23m
country: United States
A dedicated social worker organizes a train trip for a group of slum orphans in 1894, taking them from New York City to the Midwest in search of new families and new lives.


Boardwalk
1979 · 1h 38m
country: United States
In this drama, David Rosen and his wife Becky have lived in the same Coney Island neighborhood for nearly all their married life. But the area is not what it used to be, and a gang leader named Strut has decided to make Coney Island his new turf. Strut begins shaking down the merchants in the area, demanding payment for "protection" and using violence to deal with anyone who gets in his way. David refuses to give Strut protection money for the restaurant he owns, and as a result his diner is soon firebombed, while many of his neighbors are attacked and his synagogue is desecrated.


The Wanderers
1979 · 1h 57m
country: United States
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’


King of the Gypsies
1978 · 1h 52m
country: United States
Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandson, Dave, leading to infighting between Dave and his father.


Days of Heaven
1978 · 1h 34m
country: United States
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.