Celebrity deaths that bum you out the most…
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — John Ritter
whipells — 18 years ago(July 04, 2007 09:39 PM)
Some that come to mind for me are John Ritter, Phil Hartman, Chris Farley, Peter Boyle, Mitch Hedberg, Richard Jeni, Madeline Kahn, David Graf (the guy who played Tackleberry in Police Acadamy), Charles Nelson Reilly.
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KitMagic — 18 years ago(October 29, 2007 12:25 PM)
Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention Jim Henson. And John Candy. And Brandon Lee. And his dad, Bruce Lee.
And Christopher Reeve. And Dana Reeve (Christopher Reeve's wife,
only outlived him by a few years) (well, at least they're together now)
(somewhere in time) (
Somewhere in Time
is the title of my
favorite Christopher Reeve movieyes, it's about time travel
[really, need you ask? ^_~]).
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KitMagic — 18 years ago(October 29, 2007 12:31 PM)
Channel 6 (PBS) was just telling a few minutes ago about the death of the
famous painter Vincent Van Gogh (yeah, I know, it's a LONG time ago now,
butapparently he shot himselfbleah).
(Oh, and as if THAT'S not bad enoughwhen I went to Google and5b4 Wikipedia
to look up the death of Van Gogh, I found out that he had a brother Theo,
who had a descendant Theo, who was a filmmaker, who was murdered in 2004.)
(The Van Goghs do not seem like a very lucky family, somehow!)
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MorbidKittyProductions — 18 years ago(July 30, 2007 11:28 PM)
Phil Hartman
Chris Farley
John Ritter
Madeline Kahn
Selena
Gilda Radner
Jonathan Brandis
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marvel88 — 18 years ago(August 05, 2007 09:48 PM)
Yeah, though it is sad when people like Lucille Ball and Peter Boyle die, they were old and lived good lives.
I always get bummed out thinking about John, it was so tragic and sudden. Phil Hartman is sad to think about, I almost get depressed when I really do. Such a great, funny guy brought down in such a cruel way. Chris Farley is sad, because if he had kept straight he may be here today.
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tiff_lisatony7 — 17 years ago(June 17, 2008 10:40 AM)
all of them!! Plus, Phil Hartman was shot by his own wife, who then took her own life. Drugs do weird things 2 people.
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megafauna005 — 15 years ago(October 21, 2010 02:00 PM)
Bruce Lee would have to be number 1 eventhough he was before my time. Bruce Lee would've gone on to become the BIGGEST MOVIE STAR IN THE WORLD if he lived.
He was THAT charismatic. Chris Farley sucked too because he was hilarious. Also singer Laura Branigan and Kevin Dubrow of Quiet Riot. Of course these are people besides John. -
KitMagic — 18 years ago(October 29, 2007 12:17 PM)
To chocolatemilkshakedream on the "78 or older" thing: Exactly
now, did somebody say that this thread was only about people who died young???
(Then again, it does sort of alarm me when people are collecting up lists of
celebrities who died youngone starts to wonder, is that really a list that
those people would have wanted to be on???)
My list of celebrity deaths (all ages!!!):
Old movie stars (who died old or oldish, not young):
Katharine Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn
Danny Kaye
Gene Kelly
Cary Grant (I like him not because he was handsome, which he was,
but because he was funny, which he REALLY was, but not many people
seem to know that, somehow!!!)
(and many more, of course!!!)
Old TV show stars (who died at various ages):
Elizabeth Montgomery and several other
Bewitched
stars
Hayden Rorke (Dr. Bellows from
I Dream of Jeannie
)
Practically everyone in
I Love Lucy
(but I assume
that the various Little Ricky actors are all still alive! ^^)
Famous movie actresses who died youngish:
Natalie Wood
Grace Kelly (Princess Grace)
Child actresses who died in childhood:
Heather O'Rourke (the
Poltergeist
movies, the last of which was finished
after she died)
Judith Barsi (voice actress,
All Dogs Go to Heaven
and the original
Land
Before Time
, both of which were released after her death) (her father
murdered her, which is really sad!)
Royalty:
Princess Diana
(and Princess Grace, already mentioned above)
Actor for several decades, recently made popular again by Harry Potter movies:
Richard Harris
Young actor:
Jonathan Brandis (suicide, 2003)
Little-known, but good, young actress from long-ago Disney stuff:
Janet Munro (Katie from
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
)
(she was also in
Third Man on the Mountain
[the Disney movie
about the Matterhorn, which inspired the Disneyland ride The Matterhorn
(oddly enough, I never thought of the ride having been inspired by the movie,
until I heard/read that somewhere, even though I had seen the movie a few times
[I don't know, I guess I just thought that Disney wanted to make a Matterhorn
ride because he thought that mountains were adventurous or somethingwhich
he probably did (going by his making a movie about people climbing the Matterhorn!)])])
Last year:
Steve Irwin (why I mind very much is mostly because of his family members
left behind, especially his wife and kidsalso he was a funny guy too,
most people thought of him as the Crocodile Hunter, I never paid much attention
to him until around the time he died, but I started watching his shows last
year and found out that he was funnyalso that he did stuff for a LOT of
kinds of animals [including mammals ^^], not just crocodiles and other
reptiles! [somebody should've told me sooner that he did stuff for and with
koalas and kangaroos and suchlike! ^^])
This year:
Madeleine L'Engle (author)
Lloyd Alexander (author)
Tommy Makem (singer/musician, Irish stuff mostly, probably most famous
decades ago but was still performing as of fairly recently)
In the past several years:
Elizabeth Goudge (author)
Joan Aiken (author)
Vera Chapman (author)
Pope John Paul II
(Those last several were all old. Is there something wrong with remembering
them anyway? ^^) (Moral of the story: die young, if you really want to get
noticed/remembered? @_@)
I'm sure there are probably more, I just can't think of everyone at once
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