He is best known for his role as Kane, the malevolent preacher in the 1986 movie Poltergeist II: The Other Side. Also Read: POLTERGEIST is Getting Another Remake, Russo Brothers to Helm Beck was ...

But if you thought the poltergeist who inspired the film was ... Actor Julian Beck, 60, who played preacher Henry Kane in the second movie, died of stomach cancer as the film was released and ...

Three years later, Julian Beck - famous for his role as preacher Henry Kane in Poltergeist II - died of stomach cancer, while in 1987 co-star Will Sampson suffered kidney failure aged 53.

So striking was he that the official Poltergeist III website reports we ... a healer (like an exorcist), a good-looking man who was a preacher who had fallen and was going to go to California ...

The sinister curse seemingly grew after 60-year-old actor Julian Beck, who played insane preacher Henry Kane in Poltergeist II, died of stomach cancer in 1985 and Will Sampson who played Taylor ...

and a black preacher hat as she ran errands in LA. If it wasn't for her quilted Chanel handbag, the star could have easily been mistaken for the evil Reverend Henry Kane from Poltergeist II ...