<Li> In Play Misty For Me (1971), a disc jockey (Clint Eastwood) has a one - night stand with a fan (Jessica Walter) but gets more than he bargained for when she begins trying to insert herself into his life and violently attacks anyone who gets in her way . </Li> <Li> Robert De Niro starred in Taxi Driver (1976), a film about troubled cab driver Travis Bickle, who is attracted to a pretty political campaign worker (Cybill Shepherd), who spurns his attentions after he takes her to a risque film; Bickle then stalks and plans to assassinate the senator she is campaigning for . </Li> <Li> In the made - for - TV movie Mad Bull (1977), Alex Karras--himself a sometime professional wrestler after his football career--played a "heel" wrestler trying to shed his kayfabe bad - guy image--only to be relentlessly stalked by a crazed fan mistaking the scripted and staged dramatics he saw in the ring to be reality and trying to kill the "evil" "Mad Bull". </Li> <Li> The Fan (1981) stars Lauren Bacall as a movie star being stalked by a deranged young man who considers himself a fan of hers but who is angered and turns violent when she ignores his impassioned love letters . The movie was released five months after John Lennon was murdered by obsessed fan Mark David Chapman outside The Dakota, the famous New York City apartment building--coincidentally, also the real - life home of Lauren Bacall . </Li>

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