Peter Bogdanovich's 1985 drama film
Mask drew public attention to the case of
Roy Lee "Rocky" Dennis, an
American boy with this disorder who died at the age of 16, in 1978. In the American
medical drama ''
Grey's Anatomy'' episode "
Yesterday",
Jesse Plemons plays a teenage boy with lionitis. The main character of the two-issue comic book miniseries
Friday the 13th: How I Spent My Summer Vacation by
Wildstorm Productions is a 13-year-old boy with the disorder. In the anthology television series
American Horror Story season 1, Beauregard, the brother of Tate and Adelaide, has lionitis. ==See also==