Lonnie Elamb | |
Aliases: | Lonnie Elam |
Continuity: | Halloween film series |
Notability: | Minor character |
Type: | Student |
Gender: | Male |
Race: | Human |
Location: | Haddonfield Elementary School, Haddonfield, Illinois |
Relatives: | Cameron Elamb |
Status: | Dead [1] Alive [2] |
Born: | Late 1960s |
First: | Halloween (1978) |
Actor: | Brent Le Page Robert Longstreet Tristian Eggerling |
Lonnie Elamb is a fictional child, and am minor character featured in the Halloween film series. Played by actor Brent Le Page, he made a brief appearance in the 1978 film, Halloween by director John Carpenter.
Biography[]
Lonnie Elamb lived in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois and attended Haddonfield Elementary School. He was friends with a boy named Richie Castle, and another boy named Keith. Lonnie was a bully, who enjoyed antagonizing smaller students like Tommy Doyle. Along with Richie and Keith, Lonnie tormented poor Tommy on October 31st, 1978. They made fun of the fact that Tommy was carrying a pumpkin around and tried to scare him with taunts of the "Boogey Man", chanting, "He's going to get you!"
That night, Lonnie, Richie and Keith journeyed around town looking to get into some trouble. They decided to poke around the old Myers house, which was the former home of mental patient Michael Myers. Michael's psychiatrist, Doctor Sam Loomis, was in the nearby bushes and hoarsely shouted at them to leave to scare them off. The trick worked, and Loomis was quite pleased with himself. [3]
As a teenager, Lonnie Elamb became friends with Ray Nelson. Ray would later talk about how Lonnie and he would have some wild times, often experimenting with psychedelic drugs. [4]
Lonnie Elamb eventually married and had a child named Cameron, who was born circa 2001. Cameron would end up dating Ray's daughter, Allyson Nelson. Coincidentally, Allyson was the granddaughter of Laurie Strode, who use to babysit Lonnie's victim, Tommy Doyle, when he was a child. [5]
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Lonnie Elamb was created by writer and director John Carpenter.
- Scenes of Lonnie, Richie and Keith skulking about the Myers house was edited into the Terror in the Aisles film documentary in 1984.
- Of the three bullies who antagonized Tommy Doyle, Lonnie was the tallest.
- Lonnie's life following the events of Halloween were chronicled in the comic book one-shot Halloween II #1 by Chaos Comics.
- Playing the role of Lonnie Elamb is actor Brent Le Page's only known work in film.
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References[]
- ↑ Original expanded universe timeline.
- ↑ New canonical timeline.
- ↑ Halloween (1978)
- ↑ Halloween (2018)
- ↑ Halloween (2018)