Police have reported that Alec Baldwin accidentally killed a female crew member on the set of his film Rust, after shooting a prop gun.
It is one of the many incidents throughout the decades, where actors and members of the crew have died in devastating accidents on set, including Brandon Lee while filming 1994’s The Crow and Roy Kinnear while filming 1988’s Return of the Musketeers.
In recent decades, accidents including aerial stunts that have gone wrong, falling off horses and crashes on set have caused the deaths of some of the film industry’s most talented actors and production team members.
Brandon Lee – The Crow
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Brandon Lee, son of the late martial arts star Bruce Lee, died on the set of The Crow.
During filming on March 31, 1993, a prop gun was fired, but a piece of debris that had been lodged in the gun from a previous scene flew out at the same time, hitting Brandon.
He was taken to hospital for emergency surgery, but died aged 28.
Roy Kinnear – Return of the Musketeers
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Roy Kinnear, known for his roles including Veruca Salt’s father in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, died aged 54 when filming The Return of the Musketeers in 1988.
It is reported that he rode on a horse into a shot for the film, but the horse slipped on pavement, which caused Roy to fall off and break his pelvis.
He was taken to hospital, having suffered internal bleeding, but died from a heart attack as a result of his injuries.
Jon Erik-Hexum – Cover Up
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Hollywood actor Jon Erik-Hexum died on the set of his CBS show after he accidentally shot himself.
On October 18, 1984, it is reported that during delays in filming, he began playing with one of the on-set prop guns, which he then placed to his head and fired, unaware there was also a bullet inside.
Jon was rushed to hospital, undergoing five hours of surgery and placed on a life support machine, but died six days later.
Sonja Davis – Vampire in Brooklyn
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Vampire in Brooklyn, released in 1995, starred Angela Bassett as an NYPD detective who is targeted by Eddie Murphy’s vampire.
However, Bassett’s stunt double Sonja Davis died during the film’s production after she fell 42 feet from a building onto an airbag, but bounced off the airbag and hit the building, suffering multiple injuries.
Davis died age 39 after 19 days in a coma, with her mum telling the Los Angeles times in 1995: “The last words I heard my baby say was when she yelled down to the stunt coordinator, ‘Are you sure?'”
“I could feel Sonja wasn’t comfortable with the stunt.”
Art Scholl – Top Gun
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Eighties hit Top Gun involved many high altitude stunts, but during one scene, stuntman Art Scholl died while filming one of the aerial action takes.
After performing a flat spin manoeuvre in his plane, he was unable to maintain altitude and it crashed into the sea.
The plane was never recovered and when the film was released in 1986, it was dedicated in memory of Art Scholl.
Conway Wickliffe – Batman: The Dark Knight
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Conway Wickliffe, a special effects technician for 2008’s Batman: The Dark Knight, died aged 41 while working on the film.
Wickliffe was running a test sequence where the Batmobile blew up, and was filming a stunt car when the accident happened.
He was operating a camera in a truck that failed to turn and instead crashed into a tree, causing Wickliffe to sustain serious injuries and he died at the scene.
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