# Ever get scooped about an actor's crime / murder / suicide on IMDb? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-scooped-about-an-actors-crime-murder-suicide-on-imdb/390157 "2007-01-30T20:11:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-scooped-about-an-actors-crime-murder-suicide-on-imdb/390157/1 "2007-01-30T20:11:54Z")
Last night I was watching old Twilight Zone episodes and there was one I hadn’t seen in years - Jack Warden is the manager of the “Hoboken Zephyrs” and they hire a robot to pitch for them. Proud of my success in recognizing Jack Warden (OK, it wasn’t that hard) I could swear I recognized the actor that played the robot pitcher. So today I went to IMDb to look him up. Though I couldn’t figure out from where I recognized him (probaby Gunsmoke) I did find this interesting tidbit in his biography: > [@](#): > > A bizarre recluse who suffered from a drinking problem in later years, he walked into a Simi Valley bar on July 24, 2004, and shot two customers – one fatally. He was caught three blocks away by police and arrested for murder. :eek: I remember finding out about the kids from **Poltergeist** in much the same way. Any others out there in IMDb land that shocked / surprised you? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-scooped-about-an-actors-crime-murder-suicide-on-imdb/390157/2 "2007-01-30T20:27:57Z")
I also saw someone familiar in an old Twilight Zone episode. It took a while, but I finally realized where I’d seen him. Looked up the name on IMDb, it was [Warren Oates](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0643105/), probably most recognizable as Sgt. Hulka in _Stripes_. Then I found out he died only about a year after that movie was released. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-scooped-about-an-actors-crime-murder-suicide-on-imdb/390157/3 "2007-01-30T20:55:32Z")
**Dooku-** who is the actor you mention in your OP? ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-scooped-about-an-actors-crime-murder-suicide-on-imdb/390157/4 "2007-01-30T21:07:45Z")
I think my only real imdb surprise was finding out that the young actor who played Michael in Mary Poppins (Matthew Garber) died at the age of 21. Initially, the link to his name only said, “tragically, Garber died young” without details, but looking again now I see that the cause of death was pancreatitis. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-scooped-about-an-actors-crime-murder-suicide-on-imdb/390157/5 "2007-01-30T21:07:53Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] **Dooku-** who is the actor you mention in your OP? [/QUOTE] [Robert Sorrells](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0815171/bio) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-scooped-about-an-actors-crime-murder-suicide-on-imdb/390157/6 "2007-01-30T21:15:20Z")
I didn’t find out through IMDB, but I had no idea Adrienne Shelly had been murdered until they started publicizing newly-pregnant Keri Russell and the movie she’s in that Adrienne Shelly had been directing when she was killed. In November. :smack: My father has a huge crush on her…I wonder why he never mentioned it?? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-scooped-about-an-actors-crime-murder-suicide-on-imdb/390157/7 "2007-01-30T21:18:18Z")
[QUOTE=Dooku] [Robert Sorrells](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0815171/bio) [/QUOTE] > [@](#): > > A devotee of yogi exercise and a vegetarian, he professed to believe in non-violence until his sudden murder spree. One murder is a spree now? :dubious: