Actors who died on set. Stars who died on the set (11 photos)
On July 20, 1973, while working on the film The Game of Death in Hong Kong, the actor suddenly collapsed in the Golden Harvest film studio pavilion. He was immediately taken to the hospital, where he was given a disappointing diagnosis of cerebral edema. According to one version, Bruce took a headache pill containing aspirin and meprobamate, which led to his death. However, no analyzes and examinations were carried out, which raised doubts whether the actor really died from the pill. Rumors spread that he had been murdered. However, this version has not been confirmed.
2. Brandon Lee (age 28)
rg.ruAlas, the same sad fate befell the son of Bruce Lee, Brandon Lee. On March 31, 1993, while shooting one of the final scenes of The Crow, where the main character is shot with a pistol, Brandon was shot in the stomach. Actor Michael Massey, who played one of the villains, fired a .44 revolver. 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. Brandon died in the hospital from an ongoing hemorrhage. After the death of the actor, the shooting of the film continued with the participation of an understudy. He is buried next to his father in Seattle at Lake View Cemetery on the shores of Lake Washington at the site that Linda, his mother, originally reserved for herself.
s00.yaplakal.com 3. Steve Irwin (44)
i.dailymail.co.uk During another shoot, on September 4, 2006, the famous wildlife expert went scuba diving to film large stingrays off the Great Barrier Reef. One of the fish attacked the leader when he was above her. The stingray lifted its tail with a venomous stinger at the end and stabbed straight into Steve's chest. Unfortunately, the sting hit right in the heart, causing extensive blood loss. A few minutes later, Irwin died. The irony of fate is that this predator is rarely truly dangerous to humans: only two cases of the death of tourists stung by stingrays have been recorded off the coast of Australia.
4. John Eric Hexum (age 27)
cdn.tvc.ru Aspiring American actor who died at the age of 26 a stupid death. And so stupid that the case was nominated for a Darwin Award (an award given annually to individuals who died in the most stupid way). On October 2, 1984, during the filming of The Hidden Fact, Hexam's character was supposed to fire a .44 Magnum. During breaks, the actor played with a revolver and suddenly, deciding that the Magnum was loaded with blanks, he put it to his temple and pulled the trigger. The shot destroyed part of the actor's skull, causing extensive bleeding. After 6 days, the actor died, never regaining consciousness.
5. Sergei Bodrov Jr. (31 years old)
www.spletnik.ru A terrible tragedy that claimed the lives of a large number of people occurred during the filming of the film "The Messenger". On that day, September 20, 2002, the Kolka glacier collapsed in the Karmadon Gorge, causing a stone avalanche that killed 130 people, 23 of whom were members of the film crew. Among them was Sergei Bodrov. The body of the actor was never found, which is why many thought for a long time that he survived.
6. Evgeny Urbansky (33 years old)
s00.yaplakal.com The actor died in 1965 on the set of the film "Director". According to the scenario, the car of the hero Urbansky was supposed to make a jump from one of the dunes. The first take was shot successfully, but the director decided to complicate the shot so that the car bounces higher. While filming the second take, the car overturned. As a result of his injuries, Urbansky died on the way to the hospital.
7. Vic Morrow (53), Mick Ding Lee (7), Rene Chen (6)
img.uduba.com One of the worst tragedies in the history of cinema occurred in 1983 on the set of the film The Twilight Zone. In one of the scenes, Vic Morrow had to run across the lake with the children, Mick Ding Lee and Rene Chen. Explosions rumbled in the background, and a helicopter circled over the lake. According to the scenario, the helicopter should fly at a height of eight meters, which turned out to be too low to dodge pyrotechnic explosions. As a result of one of the explosions, the tail rotor blades were damaged, and the car crashed to the ground, taking the lives of Vic and two children. Everyone who was at this time in the helicopter itself survived, having received only minor injuries.
8. Roy Kinnear (54)
i.ucrazy.ru On September 20, 1988, while filming The Return of the Musketeers in Madrid, actor Roy Kinnear fell off his horse. As a result of the fall, he broke his pelvis, which led to profuse bleeding and death.
9. Inna Burduchenko (22 years old)
s00.yaplakal.com The actress died during the filming of "No One Loved Like This" (or "Flower on a Stone") during a fire. According to the script, the girl had to save the banner from the burning house. At the request of the director, Inna went into the burning house again and again. And during the shooting of the third take, the house collapsed. The actress did not have time to run out. She was burned 78% of the body, and, unfortunately, it was not possible to save the actress.
10. Andrey Rostotsky (45 years old)
cdn.fishki.net In 2002, the shooting of the film "My Border" was to take place in the mountainous part of the outskirts of the city of Sochi. When Andrey Rostotsky chose places for filming, he fell from a 30-meter height from a cliff near the Maiden's Tears waterfall.
Interrogated in connection with an accident on the set of the series "Smersh". The tragedy occurred on Friday, September 14, in Tutaev, Yaroslavl region, during the staging of a scene of a mass brawl.
During the action, one of the extras hit one of his colleagues too hard in the temple. A 50-year-old man was sent to the hospital in an ambulance, but the doctors could not save the life of the victim.
Valery Shuvalov turned out to be dead on the set, he was supposed to receive 500 rubles for shooting in the episode.
Russia opened a criminal case and is now interrogating witnesses, one of whom is Makarov.
“On September 14, 2018, in the evening, a man, born in 1967, was taken to a medical institution, who received a head injury during the filming of the film, which took place in the city of Tutaev, - says in the message of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Yaroslavl region. Despite resuscitation, the victim died. On the fact of what happened, the investigating authorities of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Yaroslavl Region initiated a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Part 4 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, negligently resulting in the death of the victim).
The deceased was not a professional actor, but took part only in the filming of extras.
“According to the investigation, a resident of the city of Tutaev, who was involved in filming a scene of a mass brawl, received a blow to the temple during a rehearsal,” the Investigative Committee reports.
“Currently, investigative actions are being carried out aimed at collecting and consolidating the evidence base. The person involved in the commission of the crime is being identified.”
Filming of the series "Smersh" began in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl region in June this year. Having filmed all the material in the city, the film crew moved several hundred kilometers to Tutaev, where they continued to work.
The director of "Smersh" was the famous director and actor Oleg. The action of "Smersh" takes place during the Great Patriotic War.
“The whole picture is such a drive, an action movie, in the center of which there are two heroes,” told Fomin in an interview with the local P40 TV channel.
46-year-old Alexei Makarov made his screen debut in 1995 in a small role in the detective mini-series On the Corner, at the Patriarchs. Four years later, he starred in the film "Voroshilov Shooter", where he played one of the key roles - the negative character of businessman Boris Chukhanov.
Makarov has played over 80 roles in films and TV series, including In August 1944, What Men Talk About, Tsar, The Three Musketeers, Turetsky's March, Kamenskaya, Particle of the Universe.
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The actor was awarded an award for his role as an officer of the department in the 2004 film “Personal Number”, based on the tragic events of 2002 in Moscow, when terrorists took hostages at the musical “Nord-Ost”.
Oleg Fomin began his acting career in the mid-80s in the films Fare, My Name is Arlekino and The Glass Labyrinth. In the 1990s, Fomin starred in several important films of the era, including Publican, Land of the Deaf, and Contract with Death. In recent years, the actor has been filming mainly in serials.
Fomin sat in the director's chair in 1991 on the set of the film "Cute Ep".
Fomin also works closely with serials. He directed the popular early 2000s project Next. Next ”with Alexander Abdulov in the title role. All came out three seasons of the series.
In the near future, Fomin's new feature film "Redheads" should be released on the big screens, and the series "Aliens" is also expected. The date of the release of "Smersh" on television has not yet been reported.
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 got 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 took part 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
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 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 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.
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.
