As three motion picture cameras ground away, his plane hit a small sand dune, overturned and disintegrated.
#MAGIC TRICK GONE WRONG DEATH CHAINSAW MOVIE#
This aviation pioneer and legendary movie stunt pilot died in Yuma, Arizona, during the filming of The Flight Of The Phoenix. The curtain was rung down, and it was announced a half hour later the singer had died of a massive stroke. Just after he completed his second-act aria in Verdi’s La Forza del Destino (The Force of Destiny) at the New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Warren plunged face-forward onto the stage. Eduard van Beinum (died 13 April 1959)Ĭhief conductor at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, van Beinum was taken ill after rehearsing the first two movements of a Brahms symphony, and died immediately after stepping off the podium aged 58.
He collapsed onto Milton Berle’s shoulder. He died only minutes after being loaded into an ambulance.Īs famed comedian Parkyakarkus, Harry Einstein expired while performing at a Friars Club roast for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Tyrone Power suffered a heart attack during the filming of a fencing scene in Solomon and Sheba in Madrid, Spain. During a five minute break, the singer was amusing himself with a game of Russian Roulette (one bullet in the chamber). Rhythm and blues recording star Johnny Ace died during a show he was giving in Houston, but did so offstage. Indeed, listeners reported that the writer, known for his incisive and sometimes stinging comments, seemed to have taken less than his usual part in the broadcast. Hundreds of people tuned into the show were unaware anything was amiss.
Alexander Woolcott (died 23 January 1943)ĭuring a radio show (a round table discussion with four others on Hitlerism), Woolcott suffered a heart attack at 7:15 p.m. This Austrian conductor died in Munich at the age of 55 while conducting Act II of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde. Overwhelmed by a coughing fit, he was carried to his home in the Rue de Richelieu, Paris, where he died. This French playwright and actor-manager collapsed during the fourth performance of his newly penned Le Malade Imaginaire (The Hypochondriac). Sports figures are not included in this compilation, even though a great many of them have expired while doing their thing as the public watched. At least one thespian death actually does match the legend (see if you can find it). What follows is a quick romp through a growing list of those who died in the blaze of the footlights or on camera, or who were rumored to have met the Grim Reaper while treading the boards. Long part of the canon of contemporary lore is the tale of an unfortunate actor who expires on stage, his adoring audience unaware of his sudden deceasement because they think his collapse part of the show - while they clap and cheer at the brilliance of his death scene performance, unknown to them he is gasping his last.
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