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Did any of those mentioned above (with the exception of Brandon Lee and Vic Morrow) actually die on the movie set?
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Not a death, but in filming the scene in Doctor Zhivago where a woman with a baby runs alongside the train while trying to get aboard, the actress was dragged under the train and, I believe, lost a leg. The shot was actually used in the film, though from the camera’s angle (inside the car) you only see her fall (not the results).
See “fake shemp” 
Yes, and he was killed doing a second take, no less.
As Zev said, she died much later, and got to do commercials (Maxwell House?). But she was pretty badly burned during the early scene where the witch disappears in a cloud of smoke.
Not true. Snopes covered this:
River Phoenix died 11 days before the end of principal photography on the film “Dark Blood” – the film was never completed. He was also set to play the interviewer in “Interview With The Vampire”, which was recast with Christian Slater.
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Not true. Snopes covered this:
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Sorry, but it is true true that the woman fell and was injured. She did not lose a leg (says Snopes), but as I said, I was uncertain on that point. From IMDb:
Sorry – your post doesn’t say you were uncertain.
In 1986, stuntman Dar Robinson drove off a cliff and died while filming a stunt for the movie Million Dollar Mystery.
Heather O’Rourke, died while filming Poltergiest III, while not on set she was sick during most of the filiming and they used a stand in to complete the movie.
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Roy Kinnear died in hospital after falling from a horse on location for The Return of the Musketeers.
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How is it he has two film credits years after his death?
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How is it he has two film credits years after his death?
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They’re voice credits and I haven’t heard of either movie but they usually record the voices for animated movies a long long time before the animation is finished let alone before it is released.
I don’t know anything about this guy though.
Didn’t Richard Harris die during the early stages of filming of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?
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I’m also reminded of an episode of The Dick Cavett Show which never aired due to an unusual circumstance: during the interview, one of the guests appeared to fall asleep sitting down and started to “snore.” Cavett jokingly asked the guest, “are we boring you?” There was no response: he had died. I’m not sure if they kept taping after this happened.
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This guest was allegedly J. I. Rodale, founder of Rodale Press, publisher of many health-related publications, and noted advocate for organic gardening.
This allegedly happened after he bragged that his lifestyle would allow him to live to 100.
I say “allegedly” because, even though I have heard this story from other sources, the Wikipedia article can’t come up with any meaningful cites.
[QUOTE=mobo85]
I’m also reminded of an episode of The Dick Cavett Show which never aired due to an unusual circumstance: during the interview, one of the guests appeared to fall asleep sitting down and started to “snore.” Cavett jokingly asked the guest, “are we boring you?” There was no response: he had died. I’m not sure if they kept taping after this happened.
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My mom, who was in bed when my dad died, reported snoring-ish noises coming from
his throat: apparently excess air in the lungs leaks slowly out, resembling snoring or
choking…
Actor Joseph Schildkraut died of a heart attack during the filming of The Greatest Story Ever Told, and the script had to be changed to work around his absence. (This was a few weeks after William Mellor, the film’s director of photography, had dropped dead, also of a heart attack, on set).
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If you count TV, when Nancy Marchand died during filming of The Sopranos they had some awkward edited bits of her before her character died. I wish they had just gotten the phone call instead of what they ended up doing.
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That was the worst moment in Sopranos history.
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Any others?
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Martha Mansfield, Eve Golden’s article, or Wikipedia’s description, during the 1923 filming of The Warrens of Virginia. Certainly one of the more horrible ways to go. Hopefully your hoop skirts are flame retardant, and none of your colleagues is careless with matches.
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This guest was allegedly J. I. Rodale, founder of Rodale Press, publisher of many health-related publications, and noted advocate for organic gardening.
This allegedly happened after he bragged that his lifestyle would allow him to live to 100.
I say “allegedly” because, even though I have heard this story from other sources, the Wikipedia article can’t come up with any meaningful cites.
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It’s a true story, according to Cavett himself. However, the episode was never broadcast, so if you encounter someone who claims to have seen it, you may want to ask that person what he’s been smokin’.
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Not really – Lugosi was already dead when Ed Wood started crafting (if that’s the word for it) the movie around a few snippets of Lugosi footage.
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Yes, Lugosi died of a heart attack in 1956, and Plan 9 came out in 1959. Wood used stock footage, then for new scenes used someone like his cousin’s wife’s gardener, someone obscure like that. The replacement had to hide his face with the cape, but he was ridiculously taller than Lugosi, so it’s easy to tell which scenes are Lugosi and which are the replacement. That’s just one of what makes this movie so wonderful.
Trivia: Vincent Price used to say that when he and Peter Lorre went to view Lugosi during his funeral, Lorre, upon seeing Lugosi dressed in his famous Dracula cape, quipped, “Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case?” But in reality, neither was actually at the funeral.
And Johnny Depp, who played the title role in *Ed Wood * (1994), bought Lugosi’s Los Angeles home.
Dick Shawn is dead? My brother and I were watching It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World on TV last month and trying to figure out how many of the actors in it were still alive. The only ones I was sure about were Mickey Rooney and Charles Lane (which shocked my brother incidentally). But Shawn was one of the ones I was guessing might still be alive.
As you are no doubt now wondering:Edie Adams, Sid Caesar, Barrie Chase, Peter Falk, Stan Freberg, Marvin Kaplan, Charles Lane, Dorothy Provine, Carl Reiner, Mickey Rooney, Arnold Stang, and Jonathan Wintersare the twelve credited cast members still alive.