Stephen Stucker, who played Johnny, the wacky air traffic controller in Airplane!, died of AIDS related complications in 1986. Although he’s not an actor I recently discovered, I didn’t learn about his death until relatively recently.
My mom used to say “We’re watching ghosts.” Still pretty morbid.:eek:
For me it was Jon-Erik Hexum. He was an extremely attractive actor at the beginning of his career. He died at the age of 26 on the set of his first TV show - Cover Up in which starred as a male model who also either solved crimes or was a spy (can’t remember now). He was joking around on set and shot himself in the head with a gun that was loaded with blanks. Turns out even blanks will produce enough concussive force if the barrel is placed against your skull.
Adrienne Shelley, I noticed her in Unbelievably Truth, saw there was a follow-up from the same director and watched that…hmm, what else has she been in…oh crap, brutally murdered.
64 replies and no mention of Heather O’Rourke?
Maybe she’s just not a great talent?
Jim Hutton, died at 45 from liver cancer. I always loved watching him work. I know him best as the scrounger from The Green Berets, and now I’m watching him as Ellery Queen from a 70’s TV series.
Tim Hutton’s father?
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There was a MASH episode about that movie, wasn’t there?
Yep! Probably haven’t seen that episode in close to twenty years, and I still remembered the movie title. But it still takes me two tries to log into my computer at work every morning.
Me. too.
When did I first get into Sandy Denny? 1978. How about Kirsty McColl? 1999. Eva Cassidy? 1997.
Thanks!! I missed that!
Watched The Caine Mutiny a couple weeks ago and was curious to see what other movies Robert Francis, who played Ensign Kieth, has been in. Bit shocked to find out he died in a plane crash the year after the movie came out.
not a movie/show but when i was in hs there was a woman who seemed to write for teenagers and didn’t hold anything back …I wondered why i never read anything of hers past hs…
Turns out norma Klein died in 1989 a year before i started hs with what’s been stated as "an unusual medical problem that’s never been publicly discussed " And I was lucky my high school had her books because shes one of the most banned modern authors for young adults in America
As noted in the link, he had previously been one of the stars of Voyagers! He shot himself not long after the airing of the episode of ***Hill Street Blues *** in which Howard Hunter unknowingly tries to commit suicide with a gun loaded with blanks. I’ve always thought the two were connected.
One of my favorite George Carlin jokes, BTW, is “You ever look at crowds in old movies and wonder if they’re dead yet?”
As this is thread is going off the original aspect, one thing that I was thinking of, and personally(to my own non-hip fault) that I only discovered because the artist was ironically dead. Amy Winehouse-Rehab 
Indus Arthur. Knew her from the film version of MASH as Henry Blakes mistress and in Perry Mason. She was one of the most beautiful women i have ever seen. But she died at age 43 of skin cancer.
Yep. They did an episode of Leverage where Timothy’s character dressed up as a detective at a costume party. They dressed him up as… Ellery Queen.
I always wondered why the original yellow power ranger was the only one to never come back on the show at least once …I didnt know about the car accident until i was on some clickbait "where are the power rangers now type of thing a few years ago …
Thanks to that episode, for years I thought The Moon is Blue was an early porno movie. Obviously I missed the fact that when the 4077th crew finally do get to see the film, they’re upset about how non-enticing it really is.
Another fella that comes to mind is from the movie “The Lighthorsemen” and the actor Jon Blake who was considered to be a rising star in Australia but on the final day of shooting this movie, he was involved in a car accident that left him permanently brain damaged. Passed away in 2011. Damn fine movie btw for anybody interested.
I came here to mention him. I was aware of him having been a major star when I was a kid in the 1950s but was too young to appreciate him. I recently watched some of his stuff again and it blew me away. He was doing Monty Python type surrealism 20 years earlier. It was hard to believe this stuff was on 1950s TV.