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10 Actors Who Died During Production by PeetaBishop(m): 11:09pm On Sep 13, 2014 |
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.
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Re: 10 Actors Who Died During Production by PeetaBishop(m): 10:48am On Sep 15, 2014 |
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. |
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