I always found this particularly sad since CB killed himself two days after his wife’s death (they’d been married over 40 years).
George Eastman.
don’t ask
That reminds me of a Jay Leno ‘truth in advertising’ sketch a few months ago. He said a warning should be put on this television show: “Dancing With The Stars: Warning may not contain actual stars”.
I’m sorry I just laughed at your mom. It was rude.
It turns out that Inger Stevens picked up that mysterious hitchiker after all.
Just off the top of my head (consulting those Wikipedia lists is cheating)
Adolf Hitler
Several other Nazi leaders (Goering, Goebbels, etc.)
Thomas Chatterton (a tragic loss of a 17 year old genius)
Socrates
Judy Garland (?)
Cleopatra
Marcus Curtius (although it was committing suicide that made him famous)
Well, **pinkfreud ** did refer to him as her “crush”. :eek:
Loach, that didn’t stop my father either. 
That was just one of those pinkfreudian slips.
Funny thing - the Google Ads (at the moment anyway) all have “lesbian” in their titles. Wow, you mention the Singing Nun and her lover and that’s enough to influence the Google Ads.
And like Ronald C. Semone said, consulting Wikipedia is just cheating. However, for some of the more obscure stars, it would be nice to have a link - after you have thought of the celebrity.
Here’s a few more I thought of:
Rusty Hamer - He was the kid in “Make Room For Daddy” (with Danny Thomas")
Carole Landis - an extremely fantastic-looking actress, who made just a few films (the original “One Million BC”) and killed herself at quite a young age.
And that makes me think of Peg Entwhistle who jumped off the “Hollywood” sign after making her first and only film.
Yeah, I agree. FTR, the ones I cited are from my own personal recollection.
(I know you’re not singling me out, but I did post a link to the Wikipedia lists, so I thought I should just clarify that I didn’t get my names from there.) I just went to Wikipedia to refresh my memory on the details.
This probably won’t matter to many people, but Donald Sinclair, the veterinarian who was the inspiration for the character of Siegfried Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small, intentionally OD’d in 1995- two weeks after the death of his wife (they’d been married 50 years), and four months after the death of his best friend/former coworker, Alf Wight (AKA James Herriot).
Holy shit. I didn’t know that. Do you know if his brother is still alive (the Tristan character)?
That’s made me quite sad, actually.
Brian had died several years earlier… some time in the late 80s, IIRC
Some of us still “recovering” from Wight’s death took the news rather hard… even though both were somewhere around 80-something years old, it was upsetting.
My only connection is loving the books (and to a much lesser extent the TV programme) when I was young. Did you know Alf Wight?
Not many remember him because he never got really big doing stand-up and quickly moved to working behind the camera, but comic Drake Sather shot himself over marital problems a couple years ago. Found out googling his name after wondering whatever happened to him. 
Had one of the funniest lines ever:
"Every time I go to the doctor he tells me the same old thing, [mocking voice] ‘Stop shootin’ heroin!’ "…
Wally Cox, I believe OD’d & drowned in his swimming pool.
Also, director James Whale (a friend gave me GODS & MONSTERS for my birthday yesterday)
Also, IIRC, Sarge from Gomer Pyle?
Oh, also Robert Young
He was kind enough to correspond with me when I was younger- I read his books when I was about 9 or 10, and became utterly convinced that I wanted to be Just Like Him when I grew up (to be fair, I’d already wanted to be a vet, but the books opened up an entirely new world for me…). So with the conviction that only 9 or 10 year olds have, I decided to write to him via his publisher, and he replied. The letters were sporadic (more so from my end- I was a kid, after all!), but continued for several years. He was a very, very sweet man (who never, not once, pointed out the relative ridiculousness of a kid from Boston wanting to be a large animal vet), and even though we hadn’t written in some time when he died, it was heartbreaking to hear the news. More so because I never did go on to be a vet.
Gods, I wish I’d been more careful about keeping those letters… my mom threw them out years ago in one of her spring-cleaning fits. There were some awesome pictures in there, of the whole “family,” and Donald even signed a couple of the letters.
How can we forget Lupe Velez? She of the “died with her head in the toiled” urban legend.
Well if we’re counting that sort of self destruction, we’d also have to include Hank Williams, who met a similar end (booze and sedatives). I don’t know if you’d call it suicide exactly, but it certainly seemed like Hank had reached the point where he didn’t care whether he lived or died; he’d been despondent for some time prior to his death.