Died during filming. Soviet actors who tragically died during filming (14 photos)
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10 Actors Who Died While Filming
The death of a beloved actor is always a surprise, shock and tragedy. Once we turn the page of a newspaper or magazine, click on the news link - here they are, sad headlines that report the passing of a great man. Can you imagine a situation when an actor literally gives his life for the sake of his beloved work? That is, the director, writers and the entire film crew are trying to realize what happened when the ambulance takes the body of the actor, who just played the planned scene.
Often, writers have to rewrite the storyline so that the character of the deceased actor can be carefully "removed" from some of the planned scenes. That's just a man will forever remain in the hearts of fans and spectators, who remain with sorrow to participate in the funeral procession. Those fans who are far from the place of farewell to the star, have to be content with the final TV show or biopic.
Consider the reasons why 10 famous actors left this world prematurely, devoting themselves to art for the last time.
10. Harry L. O'Conner
The actor did not have time to pave his own path in the film business, and he could not, because he played the role "in the backyard" - an understudy for Vin Diesel. Yes, yes, this bald man with biceps and powerful cheekbones did not perform dangerous stunts himself - stuntman Harry L. O'Conner was hired for this. Instead of the main character, he had to, being on the cable of the bridge, jump down to the submarine. Harry, unfortunately, jumped off too quickly and crashed to death on the bridge, which was recorded by the operator's camera. Sad footage from this episode was added to the final cut of XXX.
9. Brandon Lee
The talented heir to Bruce Lee, by the will of fate, also died at work at the age of only 28 years. The young Hollywood and Hong Kong actor was just starring in the gothic and rather dark film The Crow, the script of which was written based on comics. In the process of filming one of the final takes, where the main villain shoots the avenger "The Crow", Brandon was actually shot in the stomach. A fatal shot from a revolver pierced the peritoneum with a blank cartridge, which then stuck in the vertebrae and caused severe bleeding. Brandon died 12 hours later at the clinic from a hemorrhage. The sad event happened 17 days before the actor's scheduled wedding. Frames with a real shot did not get into the film, and the scene was re-shot with an understudy. After a closed funeral, the son was laid next to the famous father.
8. Paul Mantz
The brave pilot-racer, part-time stuntman for Hollywood films, served in the Air Force and even received a “colonel”. While working on the famous film "Flight of the Phoenix", the plane piloted by the actor crashed into a hill. It happened in July 1965. The aircraft fell apart in a crash into 2 parts, and Paul, at the age of 61, died on the spot. The co-pilot of the vehicle was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. Unfortunately, alcohol, found by the commission in the blood of stuntman Mantz, served as the root cause of the plane crash.
7. Marilyn Monroe
Norma Jean Mortenson, who conquered the world, was so imbued with the life of her heroine that she even died during filming. It happened on the set of the film with the prophetic title "Something's Got to Happen" in 1962. The woman abused drugs, which led to an overdose and subsequent death. The film was never completed. The seductive blonde, who had an affair with President Kennedy and even starred for Playboy, could not restrain her vices. Rumor has it that the abuse of antidepressants and drugs developed against the backdrop of a strong inferiority complex, which, in theory, should not have formed at all with an actress of such magnitude and popularity.
6. John Eric Hexum
The attractive actor drove many fans crazy, thanks in large part to his modeling career. On the set of the popular series Hidden Fact, fate played a sad joke on John. When he inadvertently directed a firearm to his temple and pulled the trigger, he fired a blank cartridge, which was previously covered with a metal sheath. The fragile bones of the skull were pierced, due to which the actor died from extensive bleeding. An unexpected tragedy for everyone happened in 1984, and its "culprit" was a charged "magnum" 44 caliber.
5. Bruce Lee
The famous Hong Kong actor, master and director of spectacular fights and just the smartest man in 1973 worked on a film with the mystical name "Game of Death". In the process of working inside the pavilion, Bruce fell sharply, to which the film crew immediately reacted and sent him to the hospital. Doctors made an unexpected diagnosis of cerebral edema, which, according to one version, developed on the background of the use of a tablet with meprobamate and aspirin in the composition. However, the star was not tested, which casts doubt on this information. After rumors spread that Lee's competitor had arranged the death, however, they were not confirmed either. The farewell to the actor was large-scale - thousands of fans, friends and acquaintances came to the citywide mourning. The body was then transported to Seattle, where Bruce's family could say one last goodbye and be buried.
4. Vic Morrow and two teenage actors Mika Ding Lee (age 7) and Renee Shin-Yi Chen (age 6)
A terrible tragedy happened to the participants during the filming of the famous film "The Twilight Zone". The actor and a couple of school-age children, according to the script, portrayed the Vietnamese who escaped American pursuers by helicopter during the war. Unexpectedly for the entire film crew, the helicopter with the actors exploded, which led to their death on the spot. So in 1982, the famous actor of Charlie's Angels and Bad Bears, as well as two children who were just starting their careers in show business, passed away.
3. George Camilleri
The ill-fated film "Troy" became a landmark for several Hollywood actors at once. Known to all, Brad Pitt managed to damage the Achilles tendon - you see, it is very symbolic. But this incident faded before the real tragedy. Colleague on the set George Camilleri managed to break his leg right in the process. Everything would be fine, only in the hospital a couple of days later he had a heart attack against the background of a blood clot that had come off in the injured leg. Another attack followed, which eventually led to the death of the actor.
2. John Ritter
The talented actor of the tape Three is a Company starred in one of the series in the fall of 2003. During the filming of the next take, John began to complain of bursting chest pain and severe nausea, fainted, after which he was sent to the hospital. There, the actor was diagnosed with a "heart attack" and an emergency operation was scheduled for the same evening, during which, unfortunately, he did not survive.
1. Paul Walker
Many fans of the film "Fast and the Furious" heard about this sensational death, as fate played a cruel joke on the main actor. During his lifetime, an experienced racer, Paul, along with a friend, got into a car accident on the way from filming. The car caught fire, which led to the death of passengers (Walker and Roger Rodas). Filming was delayed, but the film was released anyway. His brother had to replace Paul.
The talented actors mentioned in the review were devoted to their favorite work to the last, delighting fans with their work for the last time. Let's remember the kindest and most pleasant moments of a career in memory of worthy people.
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In the history of cinema, there have been tragic cases associated with the death of actors. Next, we offer a look at the latest footage of famous domestic and foreign actors who died on the set.
Bruce Lee. On July 20, 1973, the actor was working in Hong Kong on the film "The Game of Death" when he suddenly fell in 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, which makes it doubtful that he died from the pill. After his death, rumors began to spread that another master had killed him, but they were not confirmed.
The funeral of Bruce Lee turned into a citywide mourning. Friends and thousands of fans came to pay their last respects to him. Then the body of Bruce Lee was transported to Seattle, where his family said goodbye and where he was buried.
Brandon Lee. Hong Kong and American actor, martial artist, and also the son of Bruce Lee, who died on the set at 28 years old.
The final star status of the actor was supposed to be secured by the film "The Raven" - a film adaptation of comics 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 shot in the stomach. Shot from a revolver 44 caliber actor Michael Massey, who played one of the villains.
The plug stuck in the barrel was not noticed by the 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 stuck in the spine, causing extensive blood loss.
He died 12 hours later in a hospital in Wilmington, North Carolina. Doctors pronounced Brandon Lee dead on March 31, 1993, at 13:30, from an ongoing hemorrhage.
Brandon died seventeen days before his own wedding. He and Eliza Hutton were already engaged and were to be married immediately after filming ended.
The footage of the murder was not included in the film, this film was destroyed, and the scene was filmed again with the participation of an understudy. On April 3, 1993, a private funeral was held. Brandon Lee was buried next to his father in Seattle at Lake View Cemetery on the shores of Lake Washington at the site that Linda, his mother, had originally reserved for herself.
John Eric Hexum. John-Eric was a famous actor, a sought-after model and the dream of many women.
The tragedy occurred in 1984 on the set of the TV series Hidden Fact, he inadvertently 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 sonorous, sonorous, and human bones, of course, are very fragile.
As a result, the bullet destroyed part of the actor's skull, causing extensive bleeding.
Tyrone Power. An American actor best known for his romantic roles in classic Hollywood films from the 1930s-1950s, he starred in Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
Power, 44, was playing a duel scene when he suffered a heart attack. The actor died before arriving at the hospital.
Martha Mansfield is both a vaudeville actress and an American silent film star.
In November 1923, during the filming of The Warrens of Virginia, Mansfield was sitting in a car when a passer-by who lit a cigarette inadvertently threw a match into the passenger compartment.
Mansfield's dress immediately caught fire, and the actress received 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 movie Three's Company. He has also made cameo appearances in TV series and films such as The Bob Newhart Show, The Cosby Show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Scrubs.
While playing a scene for the TV 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, he died during the operation.
Vic Morrow. The actor is widely known for his roles in films such as Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, Bad 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, and later in 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 off his horse, resulting in a fractured pelvis, causing profuse internal bleeding. He was hospitalized, but died the next day of a heart attack.
Jean Harlow. One of the sexiest actresses of the 1930s, while filming Saratoga in 1937, felt unwell.
Jean began to complain of fatigue, nausea and pain in her stomach. When the scene was filmed where her character was suffering 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 television movie about the jungle in 1966, the actor was canoeing with colleague Nico Minardos.
The canoe capsized and both actors fell into the Huallaga River. Minardos managed to get out, but Fleming was swept 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, died during a live report.
On September 4, 2006, while filming underwater in the Great Barrier Reef, he was hit in the chest by a stingray.
Steve's death was watched by millions of viewers around the world. Irwin was 44 years old, he left two children - Bindi Sue and Bob Clarence.
Redd Fox. The American comedian died during a rehearsal for the television show The Royal Family.
The heart attack scene was Sanford's signature act, often played by the actor to amuse the audience.
Therefore, when he grabbed his heart and then fell, no one understood what really happened. When those around them got their bearings, they could no longer 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 play himself, without resorting to the help of a stuntman in an important but dangerous episode.
In the frame, the car driven by the main character, as if on a springboard, was supposed to take off over the dune and fall to the ground. The first take was shot successfully, but the actor did not like it - he insisted on the second.
The car fell on the roof. Urbansky was summed up by the lack of necessary experience - he broke his cervical vertebra and died a few hours later in the hospital.
The last words that the actor said in his life: "Lord, how painful!". Evgeny 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 of the Kyiv Theater Institute named after I.K. Karpenko-Kary died on the set of a film with the working title "Nobody Loved So", later renamed "Flower on the Stone".
In one of the scenes, the actress playing a Komsomol member had to save the banner from a burning house. The director forced Burduchenko to run into the gasoline-drenched and blazing hut 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, she, like a true woman and actress, covered her face with her hands.
Burduchenko was carried out of the fire by the actor Sergei Ivanov, who, being at that time still an unknown extra, starred in the film as an extra.
Inna turned out to have 78 percent of her body burned (only her face remained unharmed), in the middle of the last century this was a death sentence.
In the history of cinema, there have been tragic cases associated with the death of actors. We offer a look at the latest shots of famous domestic and foreign actors who died on the set.
Bruce Lee
On July 20, 1973, the actor was working in Hong Kong on the film The Game of Death, when he suddenly collapsed in the Golden Harvest film studio pavilion.
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, which makes it doubtful that he died from the pill. After his death, rumors began to spread that another master had killed him, but they were not confirmed.
The funeral of Bruce Lee turned into a citywide mourning. Friends and thousands of fans came to pay their last respects to him. Then the body of Bruce Lee was transported to Seattle, where his family said goodbye and where he was buried.
Brandon Lee
Hong Kong and American actor, martial artist, and also the son of Bruce Lee, who died on the set at 28 years old.
The final star status of the actor was supposed to be secured by the film "The Raven" - immersed in a gloomy, "Gothic" atmosphere, a film adaptation of comics on the themes of honor and retribution.
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 shot in the stomach. Shot from a revolver 44 caliber actor Michael Massey, who played one of the villains.
The plug stuck in the barrel was not noticed by the 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 stuck in the spine, causing extensive blood loss.
He died 12 hours later in a hospital in Wilmington, North Carolina. Doctors pronounced Brandon Lee dead on March 31, 1993, at 13:30, from an ongoing hemorrhage.
Brandon died seventeen days before his own wedding. He and Eliza Hutton were already engaged and were to be married immediately after filming ended.
The footage of the murder was not included in the film, this film was destroyed, and the scene was filmed again with the participation of an understudy. On April 3, 1993, a private funeral was held. Brandon Lee was buried next to his father in Seattle at Lake View Cemetery on the shores of Lake Washington at the site that Linda, his mother, had originally reserved for herself.
John-Eric Hexum
John-Eric was a famous actor, a sought-after model and the dream of many women.
The tragedy occurred in 1984 on the set of the TV series Hidden Fact, he inadvertently put a .44 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 sonorous, sonorous, and human bones, of course, are very fragile.
As a result, the bullet destroyed part of the actor's skull, causing extensive bleeding.
Tyrone Power
An American actor best known for his romantic roles in classic Hollywood films from the 1930s to 1950s, he starred in Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
Power, 44, was playing a duel scene when he suffered a heart attack. The actor died before arriving at the hospital.
Martha Mansfield
At the same time, an actress who played in vaudeville and an American silent film star.
In November 1923, during the filming of The Warrens of Virginia, Mansfield was sitting in a car when a passer-by who lit a cigarette inadvertently threw a match into the passenger compartment.
Mansfield's dress immediately caught fire, and the actress received 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 Three's Company. He has also made cameo appearances in TV series and films such as The Bob Newhart Show, The Cosby Show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Scrubs.
While playing a scene for the TV 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, he died during the operation.
Vic Morrow
The actor is widely known for his roles in films such as Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, Bad 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, then 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 off his horse, resulting in a fractured pelvis, causing profuse internal bleeding. He was hospitalized, but died the next day of a heart attack.
Jean Harlow
One of the sexiest actresses of the 1930s, while filming Saratoga in 1937, felt unwell.
Jean began to complain of fatigue, nausea and pain in her stomach. When the scene was filmed where her character was suffering 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 television movie about the jungle in 1966, the actor was canoeing with colleague Nico Minardos.
The canoe capsized and both actors fell into the Huallaga River. Minardos managed to get out, but Fleming was swept 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, died while reporting live.
On September 4, 2006, while filming underwater in the Great Barrier Reef, he was hit in the chest by a stingray.
Steve's death was watched by millions of viewers around the world. Irwin was 44 years old, he left two children - Bindi Sue and Bob Clarence.
Redd Fox
The American comedian died during a rehearsal for the television show The Royal Family.
The heart attack scene was Sanford's signature act, often played by the actor to amuse the audience.
Therefore, when he grabbed his heart and then fell, no one understood what really happened. When those around them got their bearings, they could no longer 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 play himself, without resorting to the help of a stuntman in an important but dangerous episode.
In the frame, the car driven by the main character, as if on a springboard, was supposed to take off over the dune and fall to the ground. The first take was shot successfully, but the actor did not like it - he insisted on the second.
The car fell on the roof. Urbansky was summed up by the lack of necessary experience - he broke his cervical vertebra and died a few hours later in the hospital.
The last words that the actor said in his life: “Lord, how painful!”. Evgeny 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 of the Kyiv Theater Institute named after I.K. Karpenko-Kary died on the set of a film with the working title “Nobody Loved So Much”, later renamed “Flower on a Stone”.
In one of the scenes, the actress playing a Komsomol member had to save the banner from a burning house. The director forced Burduchenko to run into the gasoline-drenched and blazing hut 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, she, like a true woman and actress, covered her face with her hands.
Burduchenko was carried out of the fire by the actor Sergei Ivanov, who, being at that time still an unknown extra, starred in the film as an extra.
Inna turned out to have 78 percent of her body burned (only her face remained unharmed), in the middle of the last century this was a death sentence.
Soviet actors whose lives were cut short due to ridiculous accidents
It's no secret that during the filming of dangerous episodes, actors are most often replaced by stuntmen, and it is their lives that are often at risk. They manage to avoid injuries only thanks to their own professionalism and special training. However, in the history of cinema there have been such tragic cases when the actors themselves took on the performance of complex stunts and paid for it with their lives. This happened to three Soviet actors whose lives ended prematurely and absurdly...
Frame from the film *Ivanna*, 1959
Inna Burduchenko's film career ended as soon as it began. The very first role in the film "Ivanna" (1959) brought her success, and the audience began to call the actress Ivushka by the name of her heroine. She played the daughter of a priest who renounced God, which later became the reason for persistent rumors that this film was anathematized by the Pope. These rumors were born after the Soviet football players visited Rome for the Olympic Games and heard about the anathema there. Decades later, the press again started talking about the curse that allegedly hung over the picture - the death of the 21-year-old actress seemed too ridiculous. 
Inna Burduchenko in the film *Ivanna*, 1959
Actress Inna Burduchenko
Her life was cut short just a year after a successful film debut. On the set of the film “Nobody Loved Like This,” the heroine Burduchenko had to carry the banner out of the house, engulfed in flames. The actress worked without an understudy. They shot several takes, and during the last one a tragedy occurred: Inna's heel got stuck in wooden boards, and at that moment a burning beam collapsed on her. Miner Sergei Ivanov, who starred in the extras, rushed into the house and carried the actress out. Unfortunately, it was too late - she received 78% burns, and it was not possible to save her. The director of the film was sentenced to 4 years in prison and suspended from filming.
The film career of Yevgeny Urbansky was short, but very bright. After the first role, he won popularity and love of the audience. His film debut was the film "Communist" (1957), for participation in which he received the main prizes at festivals in Kyiv and Venice. Two years later, he starred in the title role in the film The Unsent Letter. After 36 years, Francis Ford Coppola undertook the restoration of this painting and financed its distribution in the United States. In 1961, the success of Evgeny Urbansky secured the film "Clear Sky", recognized as the best picture of the year in the USSR. It seemed that a bright future awaited him, but despite all the prerequisites, he did not succeed in becoming one of the first Soviet movie stars. he managed to star in only 9 films. 
Yevgeny Urbansky in the film *Communist*, 1957
Frame from the film *Communist*, 1957
In 1965, on the set of The Director, an accident occurred that took the life of a 33-year-old actor. He had a permanent understudy, a professional athlete, but the actor preferred to perform most of the tricks on his own. The first take was shot without incident, but the director suggested that the stunt be made more difficult by making the car bounce higher and that another take be shot. The truck, driven by Yevgeny Urbansky, jumped up on a sand dune and suddenly overturned. The actor broke his cervical vertebrae and died on the way to the hospital. After the tragic death of Urbansky, the picture was closed, and 4 years later it was re-shot with another actor. 
Frame from the movie *Clear Sky*, 1961
Soviet actor whose life was cut short by a ridiculous accident
The sudden death of Urbansky immediately gave rise to many ridiculous rumors that made his colleagues resent. So, Aleksey Batalov said indignantly: “When they said about Urbansky that he died because he was drunk, nothing more offensive can be imagined. Once I almost quarreled with the audience, which I never do, because the gossip about Urbansky is monstrously unfair. I know that he was the most conscientious actor, that if he climbed into this car, which became his grave, it was only so that these very spectators would believe in his hero ... ".
Andrei Rostotsky in the film *Days of the Turbins*, 1976
Frame from the film *Loop*, 1983
Andrey Rostotsky, the son of the famous director Stanislav Rostotsky, often starred in military and heroic adventure films, staged stunts and participated in them himself, without the help of understudies, since 1997 he worked as an instructor at the Vitalis transnational survival school, deputy general director of the Russian Expeditions and Travels Foundation, conducted expeditions to the Crimean caves, was a member of the jury of the Moscow International Stunt Festival. No one doubted his experience and professionalism. 
Soviet and Russian actor Andrey Rostotsky
In 2002, Rostotsky went to shoot the film "My Border", which took place in the area of a ski resort near Sochi. The places where the tricks were to be filmed, he usually examined himself. Relying on his athletic training, he tried to climb the mountain slope at the Maiden's Tears waterfall without insurance and fell down from a 40-meter height. It was not possible to save the actor - he died in the hospital without regaining consciousness. The widow of Rostotsky said: “And the waterfall is called so for a reason: people died there before. There are many moving stones in this place - it seems that the boulder is firmly on the ground, but in fact it is hanging in the air. Andrey stepped on one of these. After his death, some kind of fence was put up there and a warning sign was hung ... ". 
Actor with wife and daughter
Poltergeist has been called a cursed movie, with four actors associated with the franchise dying in six years. The first tragedy happened to 22-year-old actress Dominique Dunn. On the evening of October 30, 1982, she rehearsed one of the Poltergeist 2 scenes at her home in Los Angeles. At this time, the ex-boyfriend of actress John Sweeney knocked on the door. A squabble ensued, the girl offered to go outside. There, Sweeney attacked the girl and tried to strangle her. On November 4, the actress died without coming out of a coma. The killer spent only 6 years in prison.
60-year-old Julian Beck, who played the role of the priest, died of cancer in 1985 - a few months before the end of filming of the second film. The team continued filming with a created double of the actor.
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In 1987, 53-year-old Will Sampson from the movie Poltergeist 2 died. The actor died a month and a half after a heart transplant operation.
Young Heather O'Rourke died in 1988 of a myocardial infarction caused by septic shock due to intestinal stenosis. The girl was only 12 years old.
During the filming of the third "Poltergeist" (1988), the pavilion with the props caught fire. Several technical workers were hospitalized with burns of varying severity. Another dark story is connected with the third part of the franchise. While filming promotional shots for the film, actress Zelda Rubinstein felt a jolt and lost her balance for a second. At the end of the photo shoot, Rubinstein found out about her mother's death and flew off to the funeral.
After developing, it turned out that in one frame Zelda's face was illuminated by a strange haze. The actress was sure that the push and the veil on the frame were signs of her late mother.
Brandon Lee - "The Crow" (1994)
There were quite a few accidents on the set of The Crow, including fires, but the death of Brandon Lee, Bruce Lee's son, was a shocking tragedy. On March 31, 1993, work was underway on the finale of The Crow, where the hero Brandon Lee is killed by his enemy Fanboy, played by Michael Massey. By a fatal accident, the pistol, from which Michael shot Brandon, got a plug, which, when fired with a blank cartridge, mortally wounded the actor in the stomach. Brandon was 28 years old.
The actor's mother sued the film company for negligence and won the case. No charges were brought against Michael Massey, but this did not save him from a protracted depression.
Experienced stunt coordinator Mark Ackerstream also died on the set after being hit in the head by debris from the explosion.
Jack McGowran - The Exorcist (1973)
54-year-old actor Jack McGowran, who played in the episode, died immediately after filming was completed from a heart attack. Later, the tragedy overtook the family of actress Mercedes McCambridge, who voiced the demon Pazuzu in the body of the main character. In 1987, her son killed his wife and child and then committed suicide.
Vic Morrow - The Twilight Zone (1983)
53-year-old actor Vic Morrow and two child actors (seven-year-old Mika Ding Lee and six-year-old Rene Shin-Yi Chen) died on the set. Explosions rumbled in the background, and a helicopter circled over the lake, which Morrow ran across with the boys in his arms. The explosion of pyrotechnics damaged the tail rotor of the helicopter, it began to fall into the lake. From the impact of the blades, all three died on the spot.
