Rocky Dennis, aka Roy Lee, was born with a strange condition known as Craniodiaphyseal Dysplasia.
His head was twisted and twice bigger than the normal size because of excessive calcium buildup in the skull.
Dennis exercised his body and studied at Ben Lomond Elementary School despite his health status.
Rocky suffered from a rare disease. Photo: Rocky DennisSource: Instagram
Is Rocky Dennis still alive?
The teen’s story is touching.
The adolescent’s unusual death inspired the production of a movie namedMaskin 1985.
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Actors Eric Stoltz and Cher were featured in the film as Dennis and his mother, respectively.
The doctors diagnosed him with Craniodiaphyseal Dysplasia (CDD) when he was four years old.
It is a condition that occurs approximately once in every 22 million births.
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The disease is incurable, and medical history has recorded less than 20 cases.
How long did Rocky Dennis live?
The doctors gave him less than four years to live, but Dennis lived for 16 years.
Rocky’s life inspired children with impairments. Photo: ptp_ronSource: Instagram
His mother, Florence Tullis, encouraged him to press on in life.
Who was Rocky Dennis’s father?
Although his birth father separated from his mother, he fulfilled his fatherly responsibilities.
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His step-father, Roy Dennis, and grandmother also significantly contributed to raising him.
Roy’s brother,Joshua, was gay.
Their mother persuaded him to donate his sperms to a sperm bank in vain.
He died of AIDS in 1987 at the age of 32 years.
Florence passed away on 11th November 2006 when she was 70 years old.
She encountered a road accident that caused health complications in her body.
Rocky Dennis movies
Peter Bogdanovich directed the Rocky Dennis movie while Anna Hamilton Phelan wrote the script.
He did not have a girlfriend, but Rocky Dennis girlfriend in the film was named Diana Adams.
Rocky’s real voice when reciting poems during English lessons was used in one of the film’s scenes.
Later, Rocky DennisFamily Guycartoon movie was released.
Dennis experienced severe cerebral pains that forced him to use a wheelchair in September 1978 before he passed away.
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