Being an actor isn’t all Hollywood glitz and
glam. In fact, sometimes it can be downright
dangerous. Take these 10 Hollywood stars , for
example. They all have one morbid thing in
common: they died from incidents that
occurred while on the set of the show or movie
they were filming. Though there are plenty of
other famous actors , like Heath Ledger, who
died before finishing a project, not all of them
died from something on set. Some of these
deaths were the result of natural causes, while
others met a more gruesome end. Here’s a
look at 10 actors whose lives ended before
they finished filming their projects.
1. Jon-Erik Hexum
An unintentional gunshot wound to the head on
the set of the CBS adventure series Cover Up
killed Hexum in 1984, writes Access Atlanta. He
played Mac Harper, the Green Beret-turned-
model in the TV show that delved into
international mystery and fashion photography.
According to Entertainment Weekly , Hexum had
been napping on October 12, 1984, during
delays in filming. When he learned there would
be more delays, he jokingly picked up a .44
Magnum pistol loaded with blanks, said ”Can
you believe this crap?” and pulled the trigger.
The blast’s impact fractured his skull, which
drove a bone fragment the size of a quarter
into his brain, causing massive bleeding. He
was rushed to the hospital where surgery was
performed, however, he remained comatose
and was then pronounced brain dead on
October 18, writes Entertainment Weekly .
Cover Up, a show about a fashion photographer
and veteran special forces soldier who went on
missions around the world, continued
production with a new actor, but never made it
past the first season.

2. Vic Morrow
During the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie ,
Morrow was killed on set in July 1982, along
with two child actors, Myca Dinh Le and Renee
Chen, says How Stuff Works. The Twilight Zone
script called for the use of both a helicopter
and pyrotechnics, a deadly combination in this
case. During a scene in which Morrow was
being attacked by American Soldiers in Vietnam,
the pyrotechnics exploded, severing the
helicopter’s tail, which caused it to crash,
decapitating Morrow and killing the two child
actors as well, per Ranker.
Later, it came out that the children who died
were going to be paid illegally under the table.
Allegedly, the director was trying to avoid
California’s laws against kids working at night,
as well as working around the potentially
dangerous combination of a helicopter and
pyrotechnics, per How Stuff Works. In fact,
director John Landis and four others were later
charged with two counts of involuntary
manslaughter due to the illegal hiring of the
children. According to Ranker, the jury decided
Landis wasn’t expecting the scene to be
dangerous and found the defendants not guilty.
Twilight Zone: The Movie continued on, and the
movie was released in June 1983, performing
poorly at the box office.