With Omar Sharif on the set of Genghis Khan He became trapped in the wreckage for some time and died of his injuries later in hospital. He was on his way to visit his wife in hospital when his camper van collided with a construction truck. He even scored an Oscar nomination for his performance. Shirley Temple had gotten very close to her during the making of Little Miss Marker and was distraught when told of her death.Īlthough he did a lot of television work, plus a few movies, Brandon will be forever remembered as the little boy Joey who idolized gunfighter Alan Ladd in George Stevens’ brilliant western Shane (1953). At around 1.00am, 8 June 1934, her date slammed his car into a tree and Dorothy died instantly. Only recently had she become engaged, and was busy planning her wedding in the days leading up to her death. She had won the Miss New Orleans beauty title at 15, appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1931 in New York City, played opposite the world’s number one star Shirley Temple in Little Miss Marker (1934), and had just signed a long-term contract with Paramount. Poor Dorothy had the world at her feet when a car accident claimed her at 19. According to his mechanic, Rolf Weutheric, (he survived the crash), Dean’s last words were: ‘That guy’s got to stop…he’ll see us.’ Incidentally, Rolf would die in a similar crash 20 years later. I have written quite a large piece on him in this blog, so suffice to say he died in his Porsche Spyder when it collided with another vehicle near Cholame, California in 1955. Without doubt, the most famous Hollywood car crash victim would be James Dean. A year after making Waking Ned Devine (1998) he was killed in a car crash in Scotland at the age of 71, a passenger in a vehicle driven by his wife of 23 years. This Scottish character actor enjoyed his greatest success in the 1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix, in which he played ‘Crow’ and was Oscar-nominated. By far the biggest group, however, relates to motor vehicle accidents, so I shall deal with them first, alphabetically and in two parts. Some have been electrocuted, others accidentally shot themselves or choked to death on food. My research has found over sixty actors and actresses who have been killed in accidents involving automobiles, airliners, drownings, genuine accidental overdoses, fires, skiing, even earthquakes. Hollywood movie stars are prone to luck, good and bad, just like the rest of us.
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