Griffin Dunne Fan Page

🎺 A GRIFFIN DUNNE FAN PAGE EXCLUSIVE 🎺

For years, I've been trying to find Dunne's early TV appearance on the 1975 drama MEDICAL STORY. A couple of episodes have been uploaded on YouTube, but not the one featuring Griffin, titled "Us Against The World" and also starring actress Linda Purl.

In my research I learned that the Moving Image Research Center, which is part of the Library of Congress, had every episode of the series, which only ran for one season.

I filled out an email form on the LoC website, and got a response back from a woman named Dorinda Hartmann confirming that, yes indeed, they had the episode, but viewing it was appointment-only.

I told Dorinda that I wouldn't be able to make any viewing appointments, but asked if she could possibly get some screenshots of Griffin. I told her that I run a fan page and have done archival research in the past.

Amazingly, she said she could, and I just got these screenshots today. Her message read:

"I viewed both hours of that "Medical Story" episode, and I can confirm that Griffin Dunne appears in it. He's in one sequence, in the first half of the show: he plays a young doctor who calls one of the main characters while she's at a party, to tell her her patient (a young girl with cancer) has taken a downturn, and then we see him in the hospital room administering treatment.

I took some snapshots of him-sorry everything looks reddish, partly that's from a little dye fading in our film print, and also it's just not easy to get a good photo off of our film viewing tables.

Also sorry that he never gives a straight-on full face to the camera! We see him briefly on the phone as in the first picture, and then the rest of his scene is in a hospital room, where he's always busy looking down at something or hurrying around doing something for the patient.

He's not listed in the credits, but I'm sure it's him, he's very distinctive."

I am beyond ecstatic for having these images and being able to share it with all of you here.