# Celebrity Suicides **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143 "2007-03-16T03:34:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/1 "2007-03-16T03:34:59Z")
Now that it’s been revealed that the death of Brad Delp, lead singer of Boston, was a suicide, I’m wondering how many other celebs have killed themselves over the years. Here’s who I can think of so far: Kurt Cobain Hunter S. Thompson Wendy O. Williams Abbie Hoffman Marilyn Monroe (maybe) George Reeves (maybe) ---
**Author:** ![Daylight\_Saving](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@Daylight\_Saving](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylight_Saving)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/2 "2007-03-16T03:40:55Z")
[QUOTE=sqweels] Abbie Hoffman [/QUOTE] ☹ April 12, 1989. A sad day. But was he a celeb? or do you jsut mean someone famous? he wa more of a political figure. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/3 "2007-03-16T03:54:57Z")
Richard Jeni ☹ ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/4 "2007-03-16T03:55:40Z")
One celebrity suicide that really shook me up was that of [Jonathan Brandis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Brandis). I really liked this young actor, and it was a shock to learn that he had hanged himself at age 27. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/5 "2007-03-16T03:57:35Z")
Ernest Hemingway Del Shannon Frankie Lymon ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/6 "2007-03-16T04:02:45Z")
[Spalding Gray](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spalding_Gray) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/7 "2007-03-16T04:04:00Z")
Michael Hutchence Paul Hester ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/8 "2007-03-16T04:05:49Z")
I was stunned to learn that the affable and seemingly cheerful [Dave Garroway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Garroway) had committed suicide. I grew up fantasizing that this guy was my dad. He seemed so stable and sturdy. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/9 "2007-03-16T04:09:21Z")
Ernest Hemmingway Margeaux Hemmingway Virginia Woolfe Freddie Prinze Brian Keith (and his step-mother, Peg Entwistle) Ed Flanders Doodles Weaver David Rappaport Hervé Villechaise ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/10 "2007-03-16T04:14:35Z")
Ray Combs from the family fued. Vincent Van Gogh shot himself didn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/11 "2007-03-16T04:14:41Z")
[Richard Farnsworth](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002070/). He had terminal cancer, and shot himself to end the pain. ---
**Author:** ![DataZak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@DataZak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataZak)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/12 "2007-03-16T04:15:25Z")
[David Strickland](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Strickland) [Dana Plato](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Plato#Death) ---
**Author:** ![D-bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@D-bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D-bear)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/13 "2007-03-16T04:16:09Z")
[David Strickland](http://imdb.com/name/nm0834362/), Todd from Sudenly Susan. ---
**Author:** ![DataZak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@DataZak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataZak)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/14 "2007-03-16T04:21:15Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] Michael Hutchence [/QUOTE] [hijack] I don’t know…did Mike intent to kill himself that night or was it just a wank gone wrong?[/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/15 "2007-03-16T04:38:12Z")
Were these suicides? That’s how I’m remembering it. Brandon deWilde (Little Joe on Shane, and the boy who got Carol Lynley pregnant in Blue Denim) Nick Adams (“_Johnny Yuma was a rebel, he roamed through the west_”) ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/16 "2007-03-16T04:41:34Z")
**Auntie Pam** , I’m pretty sure that Brandon de Wilde died in a car crash. I don’t think it was a suicide. I had a big crush on him when I was a teenager. He was like James Dean without the sneer. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/17 "2007-03-16T04:48:44Z")
Sigmund Freud (assisted suicide) Charlotte Perkins Gilman (if you read _The Yellow Wallpaper_, you’d know why) Primo Levi Sylvia Plath ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/18 "2007-03-16T04:51:02Z")
[QUOTE=DataZak] [hijack] I don’t know…did Mike intent to kill himself that night or was it just a wank gone wrong?[/hijack] [/QUOTE] Oh yes, if we’re counting Hutchence, add Truman Capote to the list. Are we counting accidental suicides? 'Cuz there’s a fair number of drug overdoses that come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/19 "2007-03-16T04:56:02Z")
Ian Curtis. And he always seemed so happy. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143/20 "2007-03-16T05:05:37Z")
**Pete Duel** , who among other things, was one of the stars of the TV show “ **Alias Smith and Jones** ”. > **[Pete Duel | Actor](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0240233/)** > > Known for: Alias Smith and Jones, Gidget, The Scarecrow **Richard Webb** (“Captain Midnight” aka “Jet Jackson”) who was probably best remembered as Ben Finney (stationed in the ion pod) in the “Star Trek” episode “Court Martial”. > **[Richard Webb | Actor](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0916253/)** > > Known for: Out of the Past, Sullivan's Travels, Captain Midnight **Tommy Boyce** (of the songwritng / performing team Boyce and Hart) [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0101670/](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0101670/) **Danny Rapp** (of the “Let’s Go To The Hop” group - Danny and the Juniors). > **[Danny Rapp](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1734903/)** > > Known for: The History of Rock 'n' Roll [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-suicides/396143.md?page=2)