- 5/18/2025
From beloved action stars to comedy legends, join us as we remember the talented performers who left us too soon, before their final works could reach audiences. Our tribute includes legendary names from classic Hollywood to modern cinema, highlighting their last performances and the circumstances of their untimely departures.
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00:00Little things used to mean so much to Shelly.
00:04I used to think they were kind of trivial.
00:06Believe me, nothing is trivial.
00:10Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:12And today we're looking at tragic times
00:14performers passed away before they were able
00:17to see their final productions released to the public
00:20or even complete them.
00:22We're all dying, aren't we?
00:24All the husbands and all the wives.
00:27Every minute.
00:30Tony Todd, Final Destination Bloodlines.
00:34You are not content with the stories.
00:37So I was obliged to come.
00:40Best known for his work as the title horror icon
00:43in the Candyman franchise,
00:45Todd was a prolific actor and voice artist
00:48with over 250 credits throughout his career.
00:52Another scary franchise he was involved in
00:55was Final Destination,
00:56where he played the creepy William Bloodworth,
00:59a role he reprised in 2025's Final Destination Bloodlines.
01:04However, before its release,
01:06Todd sadly passed away in 2024 after a long illness.
01:11Several months after his death,
01:13in 2025, Werewolf Game was released
01:17with Todd in his element as a baddie.
01:19Also in the same year, Cutter's Club finally debuted,
01:23which Todd originally shot in 2005.
01:26We are a small, gifted group of certain.
01:31Cory Monteith, All the Wrong Reasons and Mechanic.
01:35From a jock to a reluctant Glee member
01:38to falling in love with the club,
01:40Finn Hudson was a fan favorite character.
01:43Working on Glee slingshotted Monteith into fame
01:46and a relationship with co-star, Lea Michele.
01:49Yet behind the scenes, he struggled with substance issues.
01:53I hadn't found myself at all.
01:54I had no idea who I was.
01:55I had no idea where I was going.
01:56I was trying to, you know, and all of a sudden,
01:58I was like, I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be this bad kid.
02:01And other kids are gonna be like, oh, he's the bad kid.
02:04And so he's cool.
02:04And so they'll wanna hang out with me.
02:06Do you know what I'm saying?
02:07After getting treatment as a teenager,
02:09the problem returned in 2013.
02:12Sadly, that year, Monteith was found unresponsive
02:16in a hotel after an overdose of multiple substances.
02:20After Glee took a break and reworked the show,
02:23they had an emotional sendoff to Finn and Monteith
02:27in the episode, The Quarterback.
02:28Shortly after passing, his two final productions
02:31were screened at the Toronto International Film Festival
02:34with Mechanic and All the Wrong Reasons.
02:38Could you get me some crack filler from the warehouse?
02:40There should be some tubes of it somewhere in there.
02:43I hate the look of an unfinished office.
02:46Anton Yelchin, We Don't Belong Here.
02:49In 1989, six months after his birth,
02:52Yelchin's family left the Soviet Union
02:55and moved to the U.S.
02:57From there, he developed into a rising star in Hollywood
03:01from performances in Like Crazy and Terminator Salvation.
03:05Yet Yelchin's most famous role
03:07was in the rebooted Star Trek franchise as Pavel Chekhov.
03:11It's hitting gravitational pull.
03:13And...
03:14Whoa!
03:15Whoa!
03:15Whoa!
03:16Whoa!
03:17Whoa!
03:18Whoa!
03:19It's good!
03:20Whoa!
03:20Whoa!
03:21Whoa!
03:22Yo, my yo!
03:24However, weeks before the third installment,
03:26Star Trek Beyond, was set to come out in 2016,
03:30tragedy struck.
03:32As Yelchin was getting mail,
03:34his Jeep Grand Cherokee rolled and pinned him,
03:37taking his life.
03:38212 crashes and 41 injuries have been blamed
03:42on this rollaway problem,
03:43and now, possibly, the death of a Hollywood star.
03:47The actor's parents issued a lawsuit
03:49against the car model's manufacturers, Fiat Chrysler,
03:53which was settled in 2018.
03:56Following his tragic death,
03:57several other films featuring Yelchin were released,
04:00the last of which was 2017's We Don't Belong Here.
04:04If things are so bad,
04:06if things are so bad and you move through it
04:09and you go through it and you live through it,
04:11then everything should just be good.
04:14Things should just be good.
04:16Am I wrong?
04:18Phil Hartman, Small Soldiers.
04:21One half of creating Pee Wee Herman alongside Paul Rubens,
04:25Hartman found massive comedy success
04:28as a long-running cast member on Saturday Night Live
04:31in the late 80s and early 90s.
04:33He then began voicing several characters on The Simpsons,
04:36including the iconic Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure.
04:40You kids might remember me from such educational films
04:43as Lead Paint, Delicious but Deadly,
04:45and Here Comes the Metric System.
04:47In 1998, Hartman was fatally shot in his sleep
04:51by his wife, Brynn Omdahl.
04:53Shortly after, while under the influence
04:56of multiple substances, she took her own life.
04:59Omdahl's brother later issued a lawsuit against Pfizer,
05:03which produced a medication she was on.
05:05The suit was settled for $100,000.
05:08Hartman's final live-action film role
05:10was in 1998's Small Soldiers.
05:13He also lent his voice to the English dub
05:15for Kiki's Delivery Service
05:17and Buster and Chauncey's Silent Night.
05:21If you wake up tomorrow and find a white cat, it's me.
05:24Jean Harlow, Saratoga.
05:27One of Hollywood's original blonde bombshells,
05:30Harlow began her acting career in 1928.
05:33It was 1930s Hell's Angels
05:35when her career started to take off,
05:38turning her into an icon of the industry.
05:41I wanna be free.
05:42I wanna be gay and have fun.
05:44Life's short, and I wanna live while I'm alive.
05:46In 1937, Harlow was filming alongside Clark Gable
05:50for Saratoga when she began to feel unwell and collapsed.
05:54She was soon admitted to the hospital with kidney failure.
05:58Unfortunately, Harlow didn't recover and passed away.
06:02MGM, the production company behind Saratoga,
06:05originally wanted to recast Harlow's role
06:08with a different performer.
06:09However, with her fans hating that idea,
06:12Mary Dee stepped in as Harlow's body double
06:14for the final scenes.
06:16Saratoga was released several weeks after the actor's death,
06:20becoming one of the year's highest-grossing films.
06:22But are you sure that your horse will win
06:24if that Dixie Gordon rides him?
06:26I'll bet my farm on it.
06:28And will Mr. Madison make a large bet with that Bradley?
06:30Big enough to break him.
06:32Yes, well, that's all I wanna know.
06:34Heather O'Rourke, Poltergeist III.
06:37With the creepy words of Their Here
06:39in 1982's Poltergeist,
06:41O'Rourke made her legend in the film industry as a child.
06:45After appearing in the 1986 sequel as Caroline Freeling,
06:48O'Rourke returned in 1988's Poltergeist III.
06:52However, months before the film debuted,
06:55the young actor collapsed at home.
06:57I don't wanna talk about it.
06:59When you talk about things that bother you, they go away.
07:03No, if you talk about things, they happen.
07:05Suffering from septic shock
07:07from congenital stenosis of the intestine,
07:09O'Rourke had multiple heart attacks
07:11and sadly didn't make it.
07:13O'Rourke's mother, Kathleen, issued a lawsuit
07:16against the hospital that treated her daughter
07:19for wrongful death after misdiagnosing her
07:21with Crohn's disease.
07:22They were treating her medically with drugs,
07:25whereas in fact, what they should have done
07:28almost a year before her death was to operate
07:31and remove this narrowed portion of the bowel.
07:34And that's a fairly routine procedure.
07:36The suit was settled out of court.
07:39Carrie Fisher, Wonder Well.
07:41With a storied career in the industry,
07:44not only was she an actor, famously playing Leia Organa
07:48in Star Wars, Fisher was also a script doctor
07:51who worked on several big productions.
07:53In 2015, she returned to the space opera franchise
07:57with the sequel, Star Wars, The Force Awakens.
08:00You changed your hair.
08:04Same jacket.
08:07In 2016, a year before the release of Star Wars,
08:10The Last Jedi, Fisher had a heart attack
08:12on a flight back from the UK.
08:15While she was taken to a hospital,
08:16she unfortunately passed away.
08:19Her mother, the legendary Debbie Reynolds,
08:22died the day after.
08:24With archive footage, 2019's Star Wars,
08:27The Rise of Skywalker gave Leia and Fisher
08:30an ending to their story.
08:32In 2023, she appeared in her final film role, Wonder Well.
08:36You reached it after all.
08:41Life can be just as magical with this garden,
08:45only it's a lot more fun.
08:48Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
08:51Not only was he setting the business alight
08:54with his work as the Black Panther in the MCU,
08:56but Boseman was also the go-to actor for biopics
08:59after portraying Jackie Robinson and James Brown,
09:03among others.
09:04Yet to make it even more impressive,
09:07he had been secretly facing bowel cancer since 2016.
09:11Sadly, in 2020, the disease caught up to him
09:15and Boseman passed away.
09:17A couple of months later,
09:18Boseman's final live-action film was released,
09:21Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
09:23Now, death, death got some style.
09:26Death will kick your ass and make you wish
09:28you'd never been born.
09:29That's how bad death is, but you can rule over life.
09:31His performance earned him an Oscar and BAFTA nominations,
09:35as well as a Golden Globe.
09:37Boseman's final work was voicing T'Challa
09:39in Marvel's animated series, What If?,
09:42which aired in 2021,
09:44earning him a deserved Primetime Emmy.
09:47Should we be bowing?
09:48I feel like we should be bowing.
09:49I mean, unless we should be kneeling.
09:51Neither is necessary.
09:52Please, you are a lord.
09:55It is not an official title,
09:56nor is it one I am comfortable with.
09:58Richard Harris, Kyanna, The Prophecy.
10:02A Golden Globe and Grammy-winning actor,
10:04as well as a multi-time Oscar nominee,
10:07Harris was already an icon in the industry
10:09by the time he was cast in 2001's Harry Potter
10:12and the Philosopher's Stone as Albus Dumbledore.
10:15That is one of my more brilliant ideas.
10:19And between you and me, that is saying something.
10:23In 2002, several months before Harry Potter
10:26and the Chamber of Secrets was released,
10:28the Irish actor was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma.
10:32Unfortunately, after a couple of months,
10:34the disease eventually took his life.
10:37Dumbledore was later recast with fellow Irish actor
10:40Michael Gambon, taking on the wizard role.
10:43After Harry Potter, Harris' final role was voice acting
10:46for the French animated film,
10:48the 2004 English dub of Kyanna, The Prophecy.
10:52Are you gods?
10:54No, my name is Opaz.
11:00I am immortal just as you are.
11:02Clark Gable, The Misfits.
11:05One Oscar win plus two other nominations,
11:07two Golden Globe nominations,
11:09and appearing in over 65 productions,
11:12Gable had an acting career that anyone would be jealous of.
11:16After all, with his star power
11:18and signature mustache bringing him a fortune,
11:20it was no wonder he was known as the King of Hollywood.
11:24I do declare I was surprised to see you
11:25turn out to be such a noble character.
11:27I can't bear to take advantage
11:29of your little girl ideas, Miss O'Hara.
11:31I am neither noble nor heroic.
11:33But you are a Black Ableman.
11:35For profit and profit only.
11:37In 1960, Gable was cast opposite Marilyn Monroe
11:41for The Misfits.
11:42However, less than two weeks after filming had finished,
11:45Gable went to the hospital with a suspected heart attack.
11:48A second attack developed an infection
11:50that sadly took his life.
11:53Three months after the tragedy,
11:55The Misfits was released,
11:56marking Gable's final bow as an actor.
11:59Honey, we all gotta go sometime, reason or no reason.
12:02Time's as natural as living.
12:03A man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.
12:05John Ritter, Eight Simple Rules.
12:08On September 17th, 2002, ABC began airing a sitcom
12:13called Eight Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter.
12:16John Ritter starred as an uptight
12:18and overprotective father named Paul Hennessy.
12:22I just figured it's time, our daughters are maturing
12:24and, you know, it'd be foolish of me
12:26not to use expert resources
12:28that are available right at my fingertips.
12:29The first season was a huge rating success for the network,
12:33but Ritter passed away shortly into the second.
12:36While rehearsing on set, Ritter started vomiting
12:38and experiencing severe chest pain,
12:41so he was rushed to a nearby hospital.
12:44He was treated for a heart attack,
12:45but his affliction was later found
12:47to be an aortic dissection.
12:49Ritter died later that night,
12:50coincidentally in the very same hospital
12:53in which he was born.
12:54Ritter's sudden death was blamed on a heart condition
12:57that is hard to detect,
12:58but not as rare as you might think.
13:00The ratings of Eight Simple Rules plummeted without Ritter,
13:03and it was canceled after three seasons.
13:05He would say anything.
13:06He didn't care how silly he was.
13:08Just wanted to make us laugh.
13:12I'm really gonna miss that.
13:13Roy Kinnear, The Return of the Musketeers.
13:16A British character actor,
13:18many people recognize Roy Kinnear
13:20as Veruca Salt's father
13:21from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
13:24Hey, Daddy, I want an Oompa Loompa.
13:26I want you to get me an Oompa Loompa right away.
13:28All right, Veruca, all right.
13:29I'll get you one before the day's out.
13:31I want an Oompa Loompa now!
13:33Kinnear worked a lot with director Richard Lester,
13:36and he starred in three of his Musketeers movies.
13:40He would die during the production of the third.
13:42While shooting, Kinnear fell off a horse
13:45and suffered both a broken pelvis and internal bleeding.
13:49The injuries were severe
13:50and put great strain on Kinnear's body,
13:53and he died of a heart attack the following day.
13:55It's very hard to express the loss
13:59that was felt by so many people,
14:02friends and strangers, on hearing this news.
14:05Kinnear's family later won multiple settlements
14:08over his death.
14:09They sued the production company
14:10for their sloppy health and safety measures,
14:13and they later went against the Madrid hospital
14:15in which Kinnear died for their poor quality of care.
14:18Five, four, come on!
14:21Three, two, one, go.
14:23I like to observe the correct procedure, you see.
14:24Thank me for it in the end.
14:26Oliver Reed, Gladiator.
14:28Coincidentally, Oliver Reed starred alongside Roy Kinnear
14:31in the Musketeers films, playing Athos.
14:34He later found great acclaim
14:36portraying Antonius Proximo in Gladiator,
14:39although this would be his final role.
14:41I wasn't the best because I killed quickly.
14:45I was the best because the crowd loved me.
14:49Win the crowd, and you'll win your freedom.
14:52Reed suffered from alcohol use disorder,
14:55and on May 2nd, 1999, he got into a drinking competition
14:59with some sailors while filming in Malta.
15:01He drank about $600 worth of alcohol
15:04before competing with them in arm wrestling.
15:07Following the fights, Reed collapsed
15:09and died of a heart attack.
15:10Reed, who was 61, appeared in 100 films.
15:13One of his co-stars was Glenda Jackson,
15:15who said of him tonight,
15:16I'm sorry he's gone, but I think he probably went
15:19the way he would have wished.
15:21Gladiator was finished with the help of CGI
15:23and a body double,
15:24and Reed was posthumously nominated for a BAFTA.
15:27John Eric Hexham, Cover Up.
15:30This male model was cast as Mac Harper
15:32on an 80s CBS action show called Cover Up.
15:36He appeared in just eight episodes of the show
15:38before passing away at 26.
15:40Tell me, do you have access to weapons,
15:45special truth chemicals?
15:47Access?
15:48Can you get your hands on them?
15:50Well, I get my hands on anything I need to survive,
15:52any place in the world,
15:53but I don't know what the hell
15:54that's got to do with modeling.
15:55To film an action scene,
15:56Hexham was given a functional .44 Magnum
15:58that was loaded with blanks.
16:00Bored between takes,
16:01Hexham decided to play Russian roulette with the gun,
16:04seemingly unaware that blanks fired at such close range
16:07can cause serious harm.
16:09Hexham was rushed from the 20th Century Fox lot
16:11to nearby Beverly Hills Medical Center,
16:14where he underwent several hours of surgery
16:16by a team of neurosurgeons.
16:17Hexham suffered some horrible luck
16:19and fired the blank directly into his head.
16:22He underwent emergency surgery
16:24and stayed on life support for about a week,
16:26but he was eventually declared brain dead.
16:28He was then taken off
16:30and his organs were donated to those in need,
16:32including a five-year-old child.
16:34John Eric Hexham died in October of this year,
16:39but the lives he touched will continue to be bright
16:43by his light forever and ever.
16:48James Dean, Giant.
16:50To this day, James Dean is the only actor
16:53to have received two posthumous Oscar nominations
16:56for acting.
16:57He was nominated for his roles as Cal Trask
16:59in East of Eden and Jet Rink in Giant.
17:03You make a very excellent cup of tea.
17:08Yeah, well, I do a lot of things in a pinch.
17:11Dean very famously died on September 30th, 1955,
17:15when his Porsche T-boned a Ford
17:17on what is now State Route 46 in California.
17:20I used to fly around quite a bit, you know.
17:22I took a lot of unnecessary chances on the highway.
17:26Dean was raced to a nearby hospital,
17:28but he was declared dead on arrival.
17:30According to the book, Ferber,
17:31a biography of Edna Ferber and her circle,
17:34Dean had not quite finished work on Giant
17:36at the time of his death.
17:37He was still required for dubbing and post-production,
17:40so his best friend, Nick Adams,
17:42filled in for his late companion.
17:44Everybody thought I had a duster?
17:47Y'all thought old Spindletop and old Burton Burnett
17:49was all the oil was, didn't ya?
17:52Well, I'm here to tell you it ain't, boy.
17:55It's here.
17:57And it ain't a dang thing you're gonna do about it.
17:59Natalie Wood, Brainstorm.
18:01Natalie Wood's death remains
18:03one of Hollywood's greatest mysteries.
18:05Wood was quite popular throughout the 50s and 60s,
18:08but she took a hiatus to focus on her children.
18:10I think, for me, I'm doing something
18:12that I used to think was not allowed,
18:15which is that I'm married
18:17and I have two beautiful children.
18:20By late 1981, Wood was filming a comeback movie
18:23called Brainstorm with Christopher Walken.
18:25During a scheduled break, Wood, her husband, and Walken
18:29went on a yachting trip to Santa Catalina Island.
18:32Everyone on the boat, including the ship's Captain Davern,
18:35had been drinking for much of the weekend.
18:37On the night of November 28th, 1981,
18:39Wood somehow went over the side and drowned.
18:42Suspicion has been repeatedly placed
18:44on her husband, Robert Wagner.
18:46He has been named a person of interest by the police,
18:49and the boat's Captain claimed that Wagner
18:50was responsible for his wife's death.
18:52He claimed that Wagner grabbed and smashed a wine bottle
18:55after going into a jealous rage
18:57over Wood and Walken's interactions.
18:58Wood's sister was brought in to replace her
19:00for the filming of Brainstorm.
19:02John Candy, Wagons East.
19:05In 1994, legendary funnyman John Candy
19:08was filming a movie called Wagons East in Mexico
19:11when he died of a heart attack in his sleep.
19:13I guess a lot of things change in 20 years.
19:15Candy was notoriously unhealthy
19:17through much of his professional life.
19:19He continuously struggled with his weight
19:21and tended to binge eat.
19:22He was also a very heavy smoker and drinker,
19:25and he was known to have a substance use disorder.
19:28It all took a toll on his body,
19:29and he passed away at just 43.
19:32He was the sweetest man.
19:33I was so lucky to work with him, so lucky.
19:36It will be sad because he will be missed.
19:38Candy had finished most of his scenes for Wagons East,
19:41and those that weren't were completed
19:42with the help of a body double and some clever editing.
19:45Ah!
19:46Ah!
19:49Aaliyah, The Matrix Reloaded.
19:51Known as the princess of R&B,
19:53Aaliyah saw great success throughout the 90s
19:55and early 2000s.
19:57♪ Rock the world, rock the world, mm-mm-mm-mm-mm ♪
20:00♪ Rock the world, rock the world, mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm ♪
20:04All three of her albums have been certified multi-platinum,
20:07and she had five singles reach the top 10
20:09in the United States.
20:11She eventually found success in movies as well,
20:13starring as Akasha in Queen of the Damned.
20:15Never fear me, Lestat.
20:19All your wishes are from true.
20:21At the time of her death,
20:22Aaliyah was filming scenes for The Matrix Reloaded,
20:24as she had been cast as a character named Zee.
20:27Tragically, Aaliyah died in a plane crash
20:29on the night of August 25th, 2001.
20:32Along with eight passengers, Aaliyah,
20:34a young Brooklyn native and a talented singer and actress.
20:37Aaliyah's footage was cut from The Matrix Reloaded,
20:39and the character of Zee was recast
20:41with Nona Gaye in the role.
20:43Chris Farley, Shrek.
20:45Like John Candy, Chris Farley did not take care of himself,
20:49and it led to a premature death at just 33.
20:52I'll turn this damn bus around.
20:54That'll end your precious little field trip
20:57pretty damn quick, huh?
20:59Farley was a very heavy drinker and also used substances.
21:03By 1997, the year that Farley would die,
21:06his declining health was obvious to all.
21:08He was not only finding it difficult to perform,
21:11but he physically looked sick and grew exhausted easily.
21:14Well, yes, you might say that I enjoy chocolate.
21:18Well, then feast your eyes on this little baby right here.
21:24How do you like this one?
21:25This was especially evident when he hosted
21:27Saturday Night Live on October 25th.
21:30He was dead two months later,
21:31the result of a highly dangerous combination
21:33of multiple substances.
21:35He was very religious.
21:37I don't know if you know that or not.
21:39He often went to mass.
21:41Chris had so many demons that he couldn't fight them.
21:44At the time, Farley was nearly finished work on Shrek.
21:48Upon his death, Mike Myers was brought in as a replacement
21:51and re-recorded nearly the entire movie.
21:54Vic Morrow, Twilight Zone the movie.
21:57This actor died in what is arguably
21:59the most horrific on-set accident in the history of film.
22:03Morrow was shooting Twilight Zone the movie
22:05with two young actors named Micah Yin-Lei
22:08and Renee Shin-Yi Chen.
22:10The scene was very elaborate.
22:12A helicopter was flying overhead,
22:14explosions were going off,
22:16and Morrow was running across a body of water
22:18while holding the actors in his arms.
22:24A pyrotechnic went off and damaged the helicopter,
22:27causing it to spiral out of control.
22:29It quickly plummeted to the ground
22:31and landed right on top of the actors.
22:33Set was closed down immediately after the accident,
22:36with the parents of the two children
22:37being rushed to a nearby hospital.
22:39They couldn't stop crying and screaming.
22:41The staff diagnosed them as being in shock.
22:44This horrible accident resulted in lengthy court battles.
22:47The parents of the young actors
22:49were awarded an undisclosed settlement,
22:51as were Morrow's children.
22:54Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part II.
22:58This is another actor who tragically succumbed
23:00to substance use disorder.
23:02Hoffman used substances in university,
23:05but he entered rehab at 22
23:07and stayed sober for much of his adult life.
23:09And why did you decide to stop?
23:15You get panicked.
23:16You get panicked.
23:17It was, um,
23:20I was 22 and I got panicked for my life.
23:22It really was.
23:23It was just that.
23:24Unfortunately, he relapsed in 2013 and died soon after.
23:28On February 2nd, 2014, Hoffman was found dead.
23:32Police say they responded to a 911 call
23:35from those friends at 1136 this morning.
23:38When they arrived, 46-year-old Hoffman was unresponsive.
23:42Further investigation showed
23:43that multiple substances were in his system.
23:46The official cause of death
23:47was acute mixed drug intoxication.
23:49Hoffman was nearly finished
23:51filming The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part II,
23:53but the movie needed some last-minute rewrites
23:55to accommodate his sudden death.
23:57And whatever she's doing, we conceived it.
24:02It was our plan all along.
24:05Of course it was.
24:06Tommy Cooper, live from,
24:09this was a very famous English magician
24:11who performed funny tricks on television.
24:13Watch!
24:14Watch!
24:14Watch!
24:17However, Cooper's career was waning by the late 70s
24:20as he fell deeper into alcohol use disorder.
24:24He also smoked up to 40 cigars a day.
24:27Did you learn anything at school?
24:30Did I learn anything at school?
24:31Yes.
24:32Well, I always say that the sun shines
24:33on the lower side of the hill.
24:35Oh, I think that's terrible.
24:36I mean, that's,
24:39what does that mean exactly?
24:41I don't know, but I always say it.
24:42On April 15th, 1984,
24:45Cooper was filming a live variety show
24:47called Live From Her Majesties when he collapsed on stage.
24:51Everyone, including the audience
24:52and Cooper's own assistant, believed that it was an act.
24:55However, it soon became evident
24:57that something serious had occurred
24:59and attempts to revive Cooper began backstage.
25:02He was taken to Westminster Hospital
25:04but was declared dead on arrival,
25:06having passed from a heart attack.
25:08Marilyn Monroe, something's gotta give.
25:11By the early 60s, Marilyn Monroe's life
25:13was in a downward spiral.
25:15The press was hounding her,
25:17producers didn't wanna work with her,
25:18and her performances were being harshly criticized.
25:21Furthermore, she was divorcing her third husband,
25:24suffering from various health problems
25:26and falling deeper into her substance use disorder.
25:29Marilyn had grown dependent on sleeping pills
25:31during her rise to fame in Hollywood.
25:33It ironically came to a head
25:35while filming Something's Gotta Give,
25:37and Monroe was fired on June 8th, 1962.
25:40She was later rehired
25:42with the help of her co-star Dean Martin,
25:44and filming was scheduled
25:45to recommence the following October.
25:47Unfortunately, Monroe died of an overdose in August.
25:50To this day, many suspect
25:52that Monroe intentionally took her own life,
25:55although we may never know for sure.
25:57The movie was subsequently abandoned.
25:59River Phoenix, Dark Blood.
26:01In late 1993, River Phoenix was in Utah
26:04filming a movie called Dark Blood.
26:06In October, he flew back to Los Angeles
26:08and spent several days consuming substances
26:11with John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
26:14On the night of October 30th,
26:16Phoenix was watching Frusciante perform at the Viper Room
26:19when he started feeling sick.
26:21He made his way outside, collapsed on the sidewalk,
26:23and began having convulsions.
26:25Paramedics found him on the sidewalk.
26:28He didn't have a heartbeat, didn't have a pulse.
26:30An ambulance was called,
26:32and Phoenix was rushed to Cedars-Sinai,
26:34but he died the following morning from the overdose.
26:37In an open letter to the Los Angeles Times,
26:39River's mother, Hart Phoenix,
26:41wrote, River was not a regular drug user.
26:45Some important scenes were still required for Dark Blood,
26:48and because Phoenix was no longer available,
26:50the entire movie was scrapped.
26:52It was later released in 2012
26:54after some significant re-editing.
26:56We got problems.
27:04Bruce Lee, Game of Death.
27:06Shortly before his death,
27:07Bruce Lee was diagnosed with a cerebral edema,
27:10which is an accumulation of fluid in the brain.
27:12On July 20th, 1973, Lee was suffering from a headache
27:16and was given painkillers by a colleague.
27:18He then went to lie down for a nap and never woke up.
27:22Betty called Raymond back at the restaurant in hysterics.
27:25She couldn't wake him up.
27:27It was later theorized that Lee died
27:28from an allergic reaction to an ingredient in the painkiller,
27:31which exacerbated the cerebral edema.
27:34It may have also been exacerbated by heat stroke,
27:36as Lee had the sweat glands
27:38that were causing the pain in his head.
27:40At the time, Lee was working on a movie
27:42called Game of Death.
27:43This was released five years later
27:45with two martial arts experts
27:47crudely and quite obviously standing in for Lee.
27:50Hey!
27:51Hey!
27:52Come on!
27:53Come on!
27:54Paul Walker, Furious 7.
27:56The final scene of Furious 7 is iconic,
27:59with Dominic Toretto happily seeing off Brian O'Connor.
28:02Hey, I thought you could leave without saying goodbye.
28:06I'm not leaving without saying goodbye.
28:08I thought you could leave without saying goodbye.
28:11This wasn't just Dom bidding farewell to Brian.
28:13It was also Vin Diesel,
28:15and the entire world for that matter,
28:17saying goodbye to Paul Walker.
28:19In the middle of filming,
28:20Walker and his friend Roger Rodas
28:21died in a horrible car crash in Santa Clarita, California.
28:25The driver, Walker's friend, Roger Rodas,
28:28was a pro racer with championship titles to his name.
28:31The decision was made to continue filming without Walker
28:34and to retire his character in a show of respect.
28:37Actor John Bretherton and Walker's brothers,
28:39Caleb and Cody, stood in for the late actor,
28:42and his face was superimposed over their bodies.
28:44You'll always be with me.
28:46Change the game without even knowing.
28:49And you'll always be my brother.
28:51Owen Hart, Over the Edge.
28:53It was May 23, 1999,
28:55and 16,000 people were sitting in Kansas City's Kemper Arena
28:59for a wrestling event called Over the Edge.
29:02Thousands more were watching at home.
29:03The event plays to a sold-out crowd
29:06and airs live to hundreds of thousands at home.
29:09The Undertaker and Stone Cold Steve Austin
29:11were headlining the main event.
29:13Owen Hart was also scheduled to fight the Godfather
29:15for the Intercontinental Championship.
29:18To make a dramatic entrance,
29:19Hart was being lowered into the ring from the rafters.
29:22Unfortunately, the escape mechanism was prematurely sprung,
29:25and Hart fell nearly 80 feet to his death.
29:28Canadian Owen Hart, known as the Blue Blazer,
29:31was killed performing a pre-match stunt.
29:33The accident was not broadcast on TV,
29:36but the thousands in attendance witnessed the fall.
29:38Hart was taken to the hospital
29:40and the show controversially continued.
29:42The audience was never informed of Hart's death.
29:45Here's a vibrant guy that died unnecessarily
29:48before he could ever get to the peak of his career.
29:50Brandon Lee, The Crow.
29:52Even those who don't believe in curses
29:53might think twice after hearing about the Lee family.
29:56Do you know someone named T-Bird?
29:58He had a friend who shouldn't have played with knives.
30:01Like the coat?
30:02Brandon Lee was eight years old
30:04when his father Bruce died at the age of 32.
30:06Brandon would be even younger when he went, being just 28.
30:11Lee followed in his father's footsteps
30:12and started working in the film industry.
30:14He landed the role as the titular character
30:16in Alex Proyas' The Crow,
30:18and it was while filming this movie that he would die.
30:21While filming a violent scene,
30:22Lee was shot in the abdomen with a dummy bullet
30:25that had been lodged in the prop gun.
30:26It was here at the Carolco Studios
30:28in Wilmington, North Carolina,
30:30that actor Brandon Lee was filming The Crow.
30:33Ironically, the film is about a man who dies
30:36and comes back to life to avenge his death.
30:38He was taken to a nearby hospital,
30:40but died after six hours of surgery.
30:42I have something to give you.
30:45I don't want it anymore.
30:5130 hours of pain.
30:52Steve Irwin, Ocean's Deadliest.
30:55Steve Irwin was unlike any other zookeeper
30:57or TV personality.
30:59He had a certain charm and enthusiasm about him
31:01that garnered the attention of millions,
31:04and he quickly became
31:04the world's most popular wildlife expert.
31:07My fondest memories are of catching crocodiles.
31:10And during the 80s, I was up on my own
31:12with my little dog, Suie, capturing some wild crocodiles.
31:16But his dangerous line of work
31:17would eventually get the best of him.
31:19While filming a documentary called Ocean's Deadliest,
31:22Irwin was pierced in the heart by a stingray
31:24and quickly bled to death.
31:26It's reported the environmentalist was killed
31:28after being stabbed by a stingray barb in the chest
31:31while filming an underwater documentary
31:33on the Great Barrier Reef.
31:34The documentary was finished without Irwin
31:36and aired in January 2007.
31:39That was after an estimated 300 million people
31:42watched his memorial service at the Australia Zoo.
31:44In everything he did, he was direct,
31:47he was genuine, and oh so Australian.
31:51And that is what we love so much about him.
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32:10Heath Ledger, the Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.
32:13According to Heath Ledger's former partner,
32:15Michelle Williams, Ledger frequently
32:17had trouble with insomnia.
32:19You choose to have your little group therapy sessions
32:24in broad daylight.
32:25I know why you're afraid to go out at night.
32:29While filming his final movie,
32:30The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus,
32:32Ledger complained about his lack of sleep
32:34to his co-star Christopher Plummer.
32:36To deal with the insomnia, Ledger started misusing pills.
32:40In the afternoon of January 22nd, 2008,
32:43Ledger was found dead in his Soho apartment.
32:45It was nine years ago, 28-year-old actor Heath Ledger
32:49died of an accidental prescription drug overdose.
32:51A toxicological analysis found multiple drugs
32:54in his system, and his death was ruled
32:56an accidental overdose of prescription medication.
32:59Three friends of Ledger, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell,
33:02and Jude Law, were brought in to replace his character
33:05in The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.
33:07They played alternate versions of Ledger's character
33:09as he travels through magical realms.
33:12Can I ask you a question?
33:15Do you dream?
33:16Or should I say, can you put a price on your dreams?
33:21What other performers who passed away
33:22before seeing their final productions did we miss?
33:25Let us know in the comments.
33:30It hurts me that I never got to say goodbye.
33:36That I won't get to see him again or talk to him.
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