Performers who died while working...

[Ireneparalegal]

The following is a list of people who had died while doing what they love:

Jerome Rodale (died June 5, 1971)
In a New York Times Magazine interview, this 72-year-old longevity guru announced, "I'm going to live to be 100, unless I'm run down by a sugar-crazed taxi driver." A guest on the Dick Cavett Show the next day, while Cavett was discussing politics with journalist Pete Hamill, Rodale's head dropped to his chest and he was heard to let out what sounded like a snore. "Are we boring you, Mr. Rodale?" asked Cavett. There was no response -- Rodale was dead. The show was never broadcast.

Irene Ryan (died April 26, 1973)
Best known as "Granny" on TV's Beverly Hillbillies, this spritely 71-year-old suffered a stroke while performing in the Broadway musical Pippin and died six weeks later.

Jon-Erik Hexum (died October 12, 1984)
Hexum died of a gunshot wound after he accidentally shot himself in the head with a .44-caliber magnum pistol loaded with blanks while on the set of the TV series Cover-Up. Wadding from the blank cartridge had been driven into his skull. Hexum was replaced in the series by Antony Hamilton, but the show didn't last all that long, running only from 22 September 1984 to 6 July 1985 before being canceled.

Redd Foxx (died October 11, 1991)
Actor/comedian Redd Foxx underwent a heart attack on the set of The Royal Family, a new sitcom he was to appear in. Best known for his curmudgeonly role in Sanford and Son, this time it really was the big one, Elizabeth.

John Ritter (died September 11, 2003)
During the taping of the TV sitcom 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, the 54-year-old actor was stricken by a previously undiagnosed heart problem. He died in hospital later that night.

[snl 70s show fan]

wayland flowers collapsed during a performence and died several hours later and tiny tim died on stage right after singing his most famous tune tiptoe through the tulips

[Ireneparalegal]

Originally Posted by snl 70s show fan

wayland flowers collapsed during a performence and died several hours later and tiny tim died on stage right after singing his most famous tune tiptoe through the tulips

Yeah, those also. Do u know if there are any DVD's of Wayland Flowers and Madam available?

Tiny Tim didn't even get to finish his song, if i remember correctly. So sad.

[Chain Gang Member]

Owen Hart-Died while trying to do a stunt @ Over The Edge '99(crashed from the rafters to the ring)

[tazz765]

Originally Posted by Chain Gang Member

Owen Hart-Died while trying to do a stunt @ Summer Slam '98(crashed from the rafters to the ring)

Actually it was Over the Edge 99 (The only WWF/E PPV never to be released on home video or DVD).

[Janice]

Actor Brandon Lee, son of Bruce Lee, died of a gunshot wound during the filming of a the Movie, The Crow (1994).

Vic Morrow and two children were killed when a helicopter fell on them during the filming of the movie, Twilight Zone:The Movie (1983).

[Chain Gang Member]

Originally Posted by tazz765

Actually it was Over the Edge 99 (The only WWF/E PPV never to be released on home video or DVD).

Whoops,thanks for the reminder

[gilligan fanatic]

This happened from the movie The Conqueror

Filmed near the site of contemporaneous nuclear testing grounds, the set was contaminated by nuclear fallout. After location shooting, much dirt from the location was transported back to Hollywood in order to match interior shooting done there. Scores of cast and crew members developed forms of cancer over the next two decades, many more than the normal percentage of a random group of this size. Quite a few died from cancer or cancer-related problems, including John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendáriz (who shot himself to death soon after learning he had terminal cancer), Agnes Moorehead, Thomas Gomez, and director Dick Powell,

[Ireneparalegal]

Originally Posted by gilligan fanatic

This happened from the movie The Conqueror

i recall reading abt this story. i thought the actors had filmed ON LOCATION, which is how they all got sick and eventually died of cancer. Hmmm, interesting...thanx for that info.

BTW:
Does anyone know abt some story abt Michael J. Fox who supposedly feels there is some sort of link between his Parkinson's disease and other workers on the studio set that Family Ties filmed on that eventually came down with similar symptoms of Parkinson's and now he feels there is something that can be connected? Someone had told me this a while back but I had never read anything or heard anything abt that so I am not sure if this was just a rumor.

[snl 70s show fan]

Originally Posted by Ireneparalegal

i recall reading abt this story. i thought the actors had filmed ON LOCATION, which is how they all got sick and eventually died of cancer. Hmmm, interesting...thanx for that info.

BTW:
Does anyone know abt some story abt Michael J. Fox who supposedly feels there is some sort of link between his Parkinson's disease and other workers on the studio set that Family Ties filmed on that eventually came down with similar symptoms of Parkinson's and now he feels there is something that can be connected? Someone had told me this a while back but I had never read anything or heard anything abt that so I am not sure if this was just a rumor.

it actully wasant the family ties set this happend on but rather a series that he did in his native canada called leo and me but he says that sveral people connected with the show are now ill

[snl 70s show fan]

Originally Posted by Ireneparalegal

Yeah, those also. Do u know if there are any DVD's of Wayland Flowers and Madam available?

Tiny Tim didn't even get to finish his song, if i remember correctly. So sad.

im not sure if there are any dvds of wayland and madam except maybe from collectors im not even sure if i have anything with them in my tv show collecton