Where Are They Now: Back to Earth with Sci-Fi Kids
By Brett SingerNow: Robins’ post-Poltergeist projects have mostly been behind the camera, although he did appear onscreen in Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) and Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986). Most recently he wrote You’ve Got a Friend for the Hallmark Channel, a story about an orphaned boy who joins forces with a Vietnam vet (played by John Schneider—remember Dukes of Hazzard?) to win the soapbox derby. Robins is the only surviving Poltergeist child actor. Dominique Dunne (Dana Freeling)—daughter of famed journalist Dominick Dunne—was strangled to death by ex-boyfriend John Thomas Sweeney shortly after Poltergeist came out, and Heather O’Rourke (Carol Anne Freeling) died during an intestinal surgery in 1988.