Last shot: actors who died on set (47 photos)

26 July 2017

In the history of cinema there are many tragic cases involving the death of actors. We invite you to take a look at the latest footage of famous domestic and foreign actors who died on film sets.

Bruce Lee.

On July 20, 1973, the actor was working in Hong Kong on the film Game of Death when he suddenly fell on the pavilion of the Golden Harvest film studio.

Bruce was immediately taken to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with cerebral edema.

According to one version, Bruce Lee took a headache pill containing aspirin and meprobamate, which led to fatal consequences.

No tests were taken, casting doubt on whether he died from the pill. After his death, rumors began to spread that another master had killed him, but they were not confirmed.

Bruce Lee's funeral turned into citywide mourning. Friends and thousands of fans came to pay their last respects to him. Bruce Lee's body was then flown to Seattle, where his family said goodbye and where he was buried.

Brandon Lee.

Hong Kong and American actor, martial artist, and son of Bruce Lee, who died on the set at the age of 28.

Finally, the actor's star status was to be cemented by the film "The Raven" - an adaptation of comic books on the themes of honor and retribution, immersed in a gloomy, "Gothic" atmosphere.

On March 31, at one o'clock in the morning, while filming one of the final scenes, where the main character is shot with a pistol, Brandon was wounded in the stomach. Actor Michael Massey, who played one of the villains, fired from a .44 caliber revolver.

The plug stuck in the barrel was not noticed by members of the film crew and flew out when fired with a blank cartridge. As a result, the foreign body pierced Brandon's abdomen and became lodged in his spine, causing extensive blood loss.

He died 12 hours later at a hospital in Wilmington, North Carolina. Doctors pronounced Brandon Lee dead on March 31, 1993, at 1:30 p.m., from persistent hemorrhage.

Brandon died seventeen days before his own wedding. He and Eliza Hutton were already engaged and were due to marry immediately after filming ended.

The footage of the murder was not included in the film; the film was destroyed, and the scene was re-shot with the participation of a double. A private funeral took place on April 3, 1993. Brandon Lee was buried next to his father in Seattle at Lake View Cemetery on the shores of Lake Washington in the place that Linda, his mother, had originally reserved for herself.

John-Erik Hexam.

John-Erik was a famous actor, a sought-after model and the dream of many women.

The tragedy occurred in 1984, on the set of the series “The Hidden Fact,” when he carelessly put a 44-caliber Magnum loaded with blank cartridges to his temple and pulled the trigger.

Such cartridges are covered with a metal shell - this is necessary so that the sound of the shot is loud and resonant, and human bones, naturally, are very fragile.

As a result, the bullet destroyed part of the actor's skull, causing extensive bleeding.

Tyrone Power

The American actor, best known for his romantic roles in classic Hollywood films from the 1930s to the 1950s, starred in Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.

Power, 44, was acting in a duel scene when he suffered a heart attack. The actor died before arriving at the hospital.

Martha Mansfield

At the same time, she was an actress who played in vaudeville and a star of American silent films.

In November 1923, while filming The Warrens of Virginia, Mansfield was sitting in her car when a passerby, lighting a cigarette, carelessly threw a match into the car.

Mansfield's dress immediately caught fire, and the actress suffered severe burns all over her body. She was immediately taken to the hospital, but she died from her burns a day later.

John Ritter

The actor is best known for his role as Jack Tripper in the film Three's Company. He also played bit parts in such TV series and films as “The Bob Newhart Show,” “The Cosby Show,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Scrubs.”

While performing a scene for the series on September 11, 2003, Ritter suddenly complained of nausea and chest pain. He was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with a heart attack and died during surgery.

Vic Morrow.

The actor is widely known for his roles in such films as “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry,” “Horrible Bears,” and the television series “Charlie’s Angels.”

During the filming of The Twilight Zone in 1982, Morrow and two other actors portrayed Vietnamese fleeing an American helicopter during the war. Suddenly the helicopter exploded and all three died on the spot.

Roy Kinnear.

The British comedian played Veruca Salt's father in 1971's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, followed by Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers and two sequels, The Four Musketeers and Return of the Musketeers.

During the filming of The Return of the Musketeers, Kinnear fell from his horse, resulting in a fractured pelvis and heavy internal bleeding. He was hospitalized, but died of a heart attack the next day.

Jean Harlow.

One of the sexiest actresses of the 1930s felt unwell during the filming of the film Saratoga in 1937.

Jean began to complain of fatigue, nausea and abdominal pain. When filming the scene where her character suffered from a fever, she herself felt much worse than the heroine.

A few days later it became known that her kidneys were failing, she was urgently hospitalized, but the actress fell into a coma and died on June 7, 1937.

Eric Fleming.

While filming a TV movie about the jungle in 1966, the actor sailed in a canoe with his colleague Nico Minardos.

The canoe capsized and both actors fell into the Huallaga River. Minardos managed to get out, but Fleming was carried away by the current and drowned. His body was torn to pieces by piranhas.

Steve Irwin

A well-known Australian TV presenter known as the "crocodile hunter" because he specialized in programs about dangerous animals has died while reporting live.

On September 4, 2006, while filming underwater in the Great Barrier Reef, he was hit in the chest by a spiny-tailed stingray.

Steve's death was watched by millions of viewers around the world. Irwin was 44 years old and left behind two children, Bindi Sue and Bob Clarence.

Redd Foxx.

The American actor-comedian died during rehearsals for the television show “The Royal Family.”

The heart attack scene was Sanford's signature number, and the actor often played it to amuse the audience.

Therefore, when he grabbed his heart and then fell, no one understood what really happened. When those around him got their bearings, they could do nothing to help Sanford; he died instantly.

Evgeny Urbansky.

The star and sex symbol of Soviet cinema, actor Yevgeny Urbansky, died on the set of the film "Director". The actor wanted to act himself, without resorting to the help of a stuntman, in an important but dangerous episode.

In the shot, the car driven by the main character, as if on a springboard, was supposed to fly over the dune and fall to the ground. The first take was shot successfully, but the actor didn’t like it - he insisted on a second take.

The car fell on the roof. Urbansky was let down by the lack of necessary experience - he broke a cervical vertebra and died a few hours later in the hospital.

The last words the actor said in his life were: “Lord, how painful it is!” Evgeniy Urbansky was only 33 years old, two and a half months later his wife, actress Dzidra Ritenberg, gave birth to a daughter, who was named Evgenia.

Inna Burduchenko.

A student at the Kyiv Theater Institute named after I.K. Karpenko-Kary died on the set of a film with the working title “Nobody Loved Like That,” later renamed “Flower on a Stone.”

In one of the scenes, the actress playing a Komsomol member had to save a banner from a burning house. The director forced Burduchenko to run into the gasoline-drenched and blazing barracks again and again, and during the third take the building collapsed.

Inna, whose heel was stuck in a crack in the floor, did not have time to run out. At the last moment, like a true woman and actress, she covered her face with her hands.