Deaths during filming?

[Dan]

Maybe too obvious, but what about Vic Morrow and the two kids in Twilight Zone: The Movie?

[ExpendablesFan]

A stunt lady died on Vampire in Brooklyn I think. Let's keep this thread clear of bad jokes. No Vampire in Brooklyn was bad jokes please. Like "she died and so did Eddie Murphy's funny bone and career", that type of stuff.

Her death was probably Allen Payneful though.

[chrisb]

Wikipedia has a morbid list: List of people who died onstage

[Dalton]

A stunt lady died on Vampire in Brooklyn I think. Let's keep this thread clear of bad jokes. No Vampire in Brooklyn was bad jokes please. Like "she died and so did Eddie Murphy's funny bone and career", that type of stuff.

Her death was probably Allen Payneful though.

It was horrible.  She did a 40 fall on to an inflated mat, but wound up hitting her head on the pavement.  She died 11 days later.  Paramount was fined by OSHA for several safety violations, and the family of the stunt lady sued Paramount and the producers (including Eddie Murphy) and wound up settling out of court.

[ExpendablesFan]

A stunt lady died on Vampire in Brooklyn I think. Let's keep this thread clear of bad jokes. No Vampire in Brooklyn was bad jokes please. Like "she died and so did Eddie Murphy's funny bone and career", that type of stuff.

Her death was probably Allen Payneful though.

It was horrible.  She did a 40 fall on to an inflated mat, but wound up hitting her head on the pavement.  She died 11 days later.  Paramount was fined by OSHA for several safety violations, and the family of the stunt lady sued Paramount and the producers (including Eddie Murphy) and wound up settling out of court.

What part of "let's keep this thread clear of bad jokes" did you not understand?

[Dalton]

A stunt lady died on Vampire in Brooklyn I think. Let's keep this thread clear of bad jokes. No Vampire in Brooklyn was bad jokes please. Like "she died and so did Eddie Murphy's funny bone and career", that type of stuff.

Her death was probably Allen Payneful though.

It was horrible.  She did a 40 fall on to an inflated mat, but wound up hitting her head on the pavement.  She died 11 days later.  Paramount was fined by OSHA for several safety violations, and the family of the stunt lady sued Paramount and the producers (including Eddie Murphy) and wound up settling out of court.

What part of "let's keep this thread clear of bad jokes" did you not understand?

There was a great article about it in Premiere Magazine called "After the Fall" detailing all the events and workplace violations that led to the tragedy.  I seem to recall the family being upset that no one from the production (I think they specifially singled out Angela Bassett, since the stunt woman was doubling for her) showed up to the funeral.

Premiere was great back then.  They used to do articles like this one, one on the failure of Planet Hollywood,  one on Scientologists in Hollywood, and one on the death of Brandon Lee but after it was bought by another company they did less and less of those kinds of articles.  I still liked it, but it wasn't the same after about 1998.

[Cliffavarious]

The two actors on the Carl Reiner flick that died in a firey car crash due to his faulty depth perception caused by the Opti-Grab.  

Seriously though, Redd Foxx died of a heart attack on the set of his 90's show The Royal Family.  His costar Della Reese and others thought he was doing his famous "fake heart attack" routine.

[Neri]

The two actors on the Carl Reiner flick that died in a firey car crash due to his faulty depth perception caused by the Opti-Grab.  

Seriously though, Redd Foxx died of a heart attack on the set of his 90's show The Royal Family.  His costar Della Reese and others thought he was doing his famous "fake heart attack" routine.

I remember reading about this years ago.  That's kind of ironically morbid.  Somehow I almost think that's the way Redd Foxx probably wanted to go, though.  Leave 'em laughing, ya know?

[TennisAnyone]

Heath Ledger died during the production of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

[Tim]

Jim Varney died before Ernest The Pirate could be completed.

Chris Farley had recorded some vocals as Shrek when he died, causing the movie to be recast(and the story vastly reworked).

Spencer Tracy died just after completing filming on Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

James Dean died just when Giant was finishing up.  His dialogue in his final scene had to be rerecorded by someone else b/c Dean had mumbled it all.  

And from an internet search:

Aerobatic pilot Art Scholl was killed while filming Top Gun

Roy Kinnear died after falling of a horse while filming Return of the Musketeers.

Set dresser David Ritchie died on the set of Jumper after a large piece of frozen sand and gravel fell while dismantling a set

Harry L O'Connor, Vin Diesel's stunt double was killed filming xXx.  The stunt scene is used in the movie(cut before he hits a bridge and dies).

Camera man Ronald Schlotzhauer was killed filming The Final Season, he was known for helicopter shots, his helicopter hit powerlines and crashed.

Actor George Camilleri, a bodybuilding extra, broke his leg while filming Troy.  He was treated, then suffered a heart attack from a blood clot in his leg, then treated again, and had another heart attack which killed him.


Here's a youtube video about helicopter accidents in movies, it includes the footage of the accident in the Twilight Zone movie.   If you haven't seen this footage, be warned, it is disturbing to watch(duh).

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iM7WqxTyg5s

[Luke Erik]

Was Chris Farley acting on anything when he passed?  I'm thinking this question is more geared to those who died during a shoot.

[Dobbin]

Everyone forgets Bruce Lee.

Bruce Lee died after scripting/plotting GAME OF DEATH, and filming a series of test fights and scenes for choreography.

Those scenes would be spliced together in a macabre fashion with moments from his other movies, and mixed with an actor playing him, (named Bruce "Li" !!) , in a hastily thrown together mishmosh script--sort of DEAD MEN DON'T WEAR PLAID style, to make the theatrical release of GAME OF DEATH.

There are many of them, but the movies lowest low point comes when a picture-cut-out of Bruce Lee's face is floated over someone's body, like how SOUTH PARK does David Hasselhoff, during one scene.

Later on,  the recovered footage of Lee's test shots and non-color-timed choreography tests was stitched together, and broadcast, giving a glimpse of what the actual GAME OF DEATH would have been.

[Donnacha]

Everyone forgets Bruce Lee.

Oh, not everyone.

[RedShoes60]

Famously, but slightly off-topicly, there was a recent Mountain Dew commercial that played on a Bond-style theme in which the stunt man died.  The scene called for him to disconnect his chute, fall, and then land on a snowboard.

The shot was set up for the stuntman to disconnect his first chute and then engage his second chute.  The second chute failed and he plummeted to his death.  The footage was used and melded with that of an actor landing.

Kevin

[harry]

The footage was used and melded with that of an actor landing.

Untrue!