Marty Feldman died during the shooting of Yellowbeard. They dealt with it by having his character die by inexplicably falling into a vat of acid.
(Interestingly enough, I know this because I watched a different movie featuring Feldman recently, and so had become curious and looked up more information on him.)
I don’t remember if he was a diminishing presence in his last few episodes or not, but his character definitely went out with a bang. Sgt. Esterhaus died offscreen, as Andy Renko would put it, “whilst in the act” with Grace Gardner, in the episode “Grace Under Pressure”. (As the character Joyce Davenport observed, “a legend is born”.) This particular show was so well-written, its script was included in a collection of outstanding writing samples in various formats.
This wasn’t answered - if memory serves they had him die of a heart attack while at the store for something like milk.
Then they took the family through grief - I caught some of the episodes and found that they were well handled…
He was going to leave anyway. The planned next (and final) Master story would have been Pertwee’s regeneration story too.
From the LA Times
Gone With the Wind began with Robert Gleckler playing Tara’s overseer Jonas Wilkerson. After a month of filming, Gleckler died. His scenes were re-shot with actor Victor Jory.
Edna May Oliver was not the original Aunt March in Little Women (1933). Actress Louise Closser Hale died in the middle of filming.
Some guy named “Phil Hart-man” died before what would be the final season of Newsradio.
Selma Diamond and Florence Halop both died during their runs on “Night Court” (one replaced the other and was in turn replaced by Marsha Warfield).
Douglas Trumbull, the film’s director, also re-wrote the ending so another character did some of the scenes originally intended for Natalie Wood’s character.
…I think you or I should watch it again.
He’s found dead. Richard Lewis then has to convince the other un-settlers that they are brave enough to continue their cowardly trek back East.
IIRC, Selma was simply replaced without comment, but after Flo they acknowledged that both ladies had died. (This was an issue for Bull, who was afraid to befriend Roz, lest she die too.)
No, they mentioned Selma being dead. They dedicated the first episode after her death, “Hello, Goodbye” to her. It had the cast, especially Bull, dealing with her dying. And Flo walked in at the end and got the bailiff job. But I don’t remember hearing Bull’s real name before.
James Dean died before post-production on *Giant * had finished. His dialogue in the final scene had to be re-recorded, because he had mumbled during the shot.
I don’t recall the name of the film, but I do remember seeing a special effects documentary in which it was explained how they had put Robert Walker into a wrecked car for a death scene even though Walker died before the scene was filmed. I recall it was done through use of superimposition or somesuch. Probably looked good in the 1950s (or whatever), but looked cheesy by today’s standards.
Sir Rhosis
Maybe they stuck his body in the wreck?
Dolph Sweet died while still one of the leads on 80s sitcom “Gimme A Break”. IIRC they started the next season with the character having suddenly passed away and his family dealing with it.
IIRC “Married With Children” just ignored the fact that Katey Sagal had a miscarriage; her pregnancy had been written into the show and she was well along when it happened. They just wrote all mentions of pregnancy out of the show and didn’t mention it again. She was also in John Ritter’s show so she’s seen her share of this stuff…
Sagal told the writers that she was willing to continue the storyline and wear a prosthesis, but they thought that was too ghoulish. They wrote it off as a nightmare of Al’s.
You may remember the Phil had filmed the first half of a 3rd Rock two-partner in which he played Jan Hook’s psychotic boyfriend Randy. Oh, yeah
Since recasting the role would have been totally impossible, they rewrote the second half.
When Will Lee, who played Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street, passed away, the show’s writers had Mr. Hooper die as well, and an episode was written to teach children about death and grief. It’s considered a classic, but I recall my sitter’s younger children were completely freaked out by that episode, and didn’t want to watch Sesame Street any more.