ISTR reading a story that Bill Macy (Bea Arthur’s husband on Maude) stabbed himself onstage doing some Shakespeare play. His character was committing suicide, and he got carried away, so to speak. Since the story was referring to his stage work before the TV series, I assume he lived. Okay, not nun-chucks or a mace, but he himself was Macy.
One of the acting artillery men in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, lost a hand to a premature cannon. This was as the show suffered some decline, starring the totally white haired Annie Oakley, who had supposedly been shocked white by a 40 minute scalding bath at a popular Health Resort ala Dr. Kellogg in treatment of spinal injuries from being smashed back first into the opposite wall of a sleeper train during a railroad accident. She wore a curly fawn wig forever in public apearences after that, for some weird vanity.
Well, it was set in Vietnam and since three people got killed, it was a melee massacre!
Not to mention fromt he same site: Exhumation Celebration! Don’t know about you, but I’ve got a new bookmark.
You…just went on the list.
What, again?
Anyone else read the title and thought first of the Shock Promotion to get 25% bonus?
Yep. Two more listings and we send a elderly Asian gentleman to your home to menace you with a rutabaga.
In high school, the actor who came in to do stage violence for a production of *Hamlet *I was in (and later ended up directing one of the two casts) made sure to point out a scar on his forehead from a stage fight that went poorly 'cause someone hadn’t learned their choreography.
When filming a climactic fight in Scream 3, Neve Campbell stabbed… the killer in the back; she was supposed to hit a vest, but missed. The killer’s scream of pain was in the final cut, and is quite, quite genuine.
Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow. His arm was accidentally slashed by a sword. The final cut of the film (heh) shows his actual blood coming out of the wound.
Didn’t Jackie Chan fall off the front of a bus once when it screeched to a stop, or was that a stuntman (or a henchman)?
Wow, I’ve ridden a melee weapon to school back in the day! Who knew?
I got whacked in the head with a staff during a theatre production when some idiot took a picture with a flash camera and my combat partner and I both missed our marks. I got clocked a good one in the back of the head, which sent me reeling , and my staff swung like a baseball bat. If not for his helmet, he would’ve been knocked right out. As it was, he sort of wobbled around the stage for a bit seeing stars, looking like a toddler just learning to walk.
So… The moral of the story is, “Flash photograph + stage combat = wacky hijinx”? Cool! I’ll bring a camera next time. 
I happened to be looking at the Wiki page for Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon, and it mentions Lee getting cut in one scene by a guy who was holding a real glass bottle instead of one of the normal sugar prop ones.
Opening sequence of “Police Story” and it was several stuntmen. Just after the 3 minute mark in this clip:
By the Sword by Richard Cohen has a chapter on movie and stage swordplay; if I remember correctly it talks aboout some actors who were seriously injured in duelling scenes. I’ll look it up whan I get home, unless somebody else has it handy.
Here we go:
Bob Anderson, who played Darth Vader in the fight scenes for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, pierced Errol Flynn in the thigh during the filming of The Master of Ballantrae. For years afterwards film crews warned new cast members “watch out for Anderson - he’s the one who skewered Flynn!”
Actor Bill Mead was killed on the set of the 1941 film They Died With Their Boots On. He was thrown from his horse and threw his sword away for safety, but it stuck in the ground hilt down and impaled him.
Among a long list of injuries accrued while acting, Lawrence Olivier included “Untold slashes including a full thrust razor edged sword wound in the breast.”
Errol Flynn nearly cut Chritopher Lee’s thumb off duing the filming of the 1955 film The Warriors.
During the filming of The Sword of the Avenger (1948), Ralph Faulkner tripped and almost put his opponent’s sword through his eye.
David Niven says he once tripped and put his sword into an extra’s leg; fortunately, it was wooden.
In My Best Fiend, an extra from Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God shows off a scar where an out-of-control Klaus Kinski hit him on the head with a (real) broadsword; the extra’s helmet is the only thing that stopped him from getting hurt far more seriously.
Horror movie actress Debbie Rochon took a severe cut to her hand while filming a movie (never completed, if my memory is correct) in Tennessee. She got cut by a real machete that someone thought was just a prop.