Karen Black, the prolific actress who appeared in more than 100 movies and was featured in such counterculture favorites as “Easy Rider,” “Five Easy Pieces” (pictured) and “Nashville,” has died. Black’s husband, Stephen Eckelberry, says the actress died Wednesday from complications from cancer. She was 74. ()
Karen Black had a small part in Dennis Hopper’s groundbreaking 1969 counterculture movie “Easy Rider.” (TRIO Popular Arts Television)
Karen Black and Jack Nicholson at the New York premiere of “Five Easy Pieces.” Black played the clingy, ultimately abandoned girlfriend, while Nicholson portrayed a brooding dropout from an upper-class life who becomes an oilfield roughneck. (AP)
Kris Kristofferson as songwriter and ex-drug dealer Cisco Pike and Karen Black as his girlfriend Sue in the movie “Cisco Pike.” (UCLA Film and Television Archive)
Karen Black as a fantasy-ridden film extra and Billy Barty feisty and mean-spirited dwarf in Paramount Pictures “The Day of the Locust.” (Paramount Pictures)
Sandy Dennis, left, Cher and Karen Black in “Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.” (UCLA Film amp Television Archive)
“Five and Dime” director Robert Altman, right, poses with actresses, from left, Karen Black, Sandy Dennis and Cher in New York City. (Marty Lederhandler / AP)
Black as Mother Firefly in Rob Zombie’s “House of 1000 Corpses.” (Lions Gate Films)
Karen Black in the Blank Theatre Company’s 2007 production of the play “Missouri Waltz.” (Blank Theatre Company)
Karen Black attends the Los Angeles premiere of the film “Irene in Time,” in which she appeared. (Chris Pizzello / Invision / AP)
