Did Network kill him?

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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Peter Finch

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tallpall — 19 years ago(April 16, 2006 12:06 PM)

You think his unbelievable performance in Network might have set off his heart disease into overdrive? During the performance you see veins bulging out his head, skin turning red, eyes bulging, and sweating. His blood pressure must have been through the roof!

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somewhere53 — 19 years ago(June 09, 2006 06:23 AM)

That performance didn't help his health, no doubt about that. He gave everything he had, to the point of exhaustion.
But what a way to go out!

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bbrook9 — 17 years ago(July 18, 2008 07:47 PM)

He was on the Tonight Show the day before he died.

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heather_m1986 — 16 years ago(July 09, 2009 07:31 PM)

He had already had a minor heart attack in the early 1970s. His drinking, womanizing, peripatetic lifestyle, smoking, insomnia, relentless drive for new experiences, serious bout of hepatitis in the late 1960s, and aversion to doctors probably helped do him in more than Network. Finch went through periods when he was off the bottle and supposedly before his death, he wasn't drinking

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generalusgrant — 16 years ago(July 14, 2009 11:22 AM)

Heather, excellent post. You are right that he was on the wagon for the months prior to his death.