'Lethal Weapon' actress Mary Ellen Trainor dies at 62 (UPDATED)

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Source: AP

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Character actress and philanthropist Mary Ellen Trainor, who appeared in "The Goonies" and "Lethal Weapon" films, has died.

Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy confirmed on Monday that Trainor, a longtime friend, passed away at home in Montecito, California, on May 20. She was 62.

Trainor got her start in the film business as a producer's assistant on a number of movies including the 1979 Steven Spielberg film "1941," which her eventual husband, director Robert Zemeckis, wrote. After the couple married in 1980, Zemeckis cast Trainor in her first film, "Romancing the Stone," as the kidnapped sister of Kathleen Turner's character.

In addition to a number of cameos in Zemeckis' films, including "Forrest Gump" and "Back to the Future," Trainor became a regular fixture in some of the biggest films of the 1980s. She played a police psychiatrist in "Lethal Weapon" and its sequels, a television reporter in "Die Hard" and the mother of two main characters in "The Goonies." She also had a part in "Ghostbusters II."

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FILE - In this July 8, 1997 file photo, film director Robert Zemeckis, poses with his wife, Mary Ellen, and his son, Alex, 11, next to a cement plaque which bears his signature, hands and footprints outside Mann's Chinese Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Actress Mary Ellen Trainor, who appeared in the "Lethal Weapon" films and "The Goonies," has died. Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy confirmed on Monday, June 8, 2015, that Trainor, a longtime friend, passed away at home in Montecito, California, on May 20. Trainor was married to Zemeckis for 20 years (they divorced in 2000). (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

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[shenmue]

1. Rest in peace

[GGJohn]

2. I love that movie, Goonies.

RIP Mary

[LovingA2andMI]

3. She Died of Pancreatic Cancer

One of the deadest. painful and least supported by Medical Research Cancers period. My Sister passed of the same disease last October.

Learn more and support the efforts of the Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Foundation at www.PanCan.org.

A Purple Ribbon in Mary Ellen's Memory....

[Psephos]

4. A truly terrible way to go. RIP. n/t

[davidpdx]

5. RIP

I saw many of the movies listed in the article. She was a good actress and died way too young.