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Soviet actors whose lives were cut short due to ridiculous accidents

It's no secret that during the filming of dangerous scenes, actors are most often replaced by stuntmen, and it is their lives that are often at risk. They manage to avoid injuries only thanks to their own professionalism and special training. However, in the history of cinema there have been such tragic cases when actors themselves took on difficult stunts and paid for it with their lives. This happened to three Soviet actors whose lives ended prematurely and absurdly...

Still from the film *Ivanna*, 1959

Inna Burduchenko's film career ended as soon as it began. Her first role in the film “Ivanna” (1959) brought her success, and viewers began to call the actress Ivushka by the name of her heroine. She played the daughter of a priest who renounced God, which later became the reason for persistent rumors that this film was anathematized by the Pope. These rumors were born after Soviet football players visited Rome for the Olympic Games and heard about the anathema there. Decades later, the press again started talking about the curse supposedly hanging over the picture - the death of the 21-year-old actress seemed too ridiculous.


Inna Burduchenko in the film *Ivanna*, 1959

Actress Inna Burduchenko

Her life was cut short just a year after her successful film debut. On the set of the film “Nobody Loved Like That,” Burduchenko’s heroine had to carry a banner out of a house engulfed in flames. The actress worked without an understudy. They filmed several takes, and during the last one a tragedy occurred: Inna’s heel got stuck in the wooden boards, and at that moment a burning beam fell on her. Miner Sergei Ivanov, who was acting as an extra, rushed into the house and carried out the actress. Unfortunately, it was too late - she received 78% burns and could not be saved. The film's director was sentenced to 4 years in prison and removed from filming.

Evgeniy Urbansky's film career was short, but very bright. After his first role, he gained popularity and love from the audience. His film debut was the film “Communist” (1957), for his participation in which he received main prizes at festivals in Kyiv and Venice. Two years later, he starred in the film “The Unsent Letter.” 36 years later, Francis Ford Coppola undertook the restoration of this painting and financed its distribution in the United States. In 1961, Yevgeny Urbansky’s success was consolidated by the film “Clear Sky,” recognized as the best picture of the year in the USSR. It seemed that a brilliant future awaited him, but despite all the prerequisites, he failed to become one of the first Soviet film stars. he managed to star in only 9 films.


Evgeny Urbansky in the film *Communist*, 1957

Still from the film *Communist*, 1957

In 1965, on the set of the film “The Director,” an accident occurred that took the life of the 33-year-old actor. He had a permanent stunt double, a professional athlete, but the actor preferred to perform most of the stunts on his own. The first take was filmed without incident, but the director suggested complicating the stunt so that the car would jump higher, and filming another take. The truck, driven by Evgeniy Urbansky, bounced on a sand dune and suddenly overturned. The actor broke his cervical vertebrae and died on the way to the hospital. After the tragic death of Urbansky, the film was closed, and 4 years later it was remade with another actor.


Still from the film *Clear Sky*, 1961

Soviet actor whose life was cut short by a freak accident

The sudden death of Urbansky immediately gave rise to many ridiculous rumors that made his colleagues indignant. Thus, Alexei Batalov said with indignation: “When they said about Urbansky that he died because he was drunk, nothing more offensive could be imagined. Once I almost had a fight with the audience, which I never do, because the gossip about Urbansky is monstrously unfair. I know that he was the most conscientious actor, that if he climbed into this car, which became his grave, it was only so that these same spectators would believe in his hero...”

Andrei Rostotsky in the film *Days of the Turbins*, 1976

Still from the movie *Loop*, 1983

Andrei Rostotsky, the son of the famous director Stanislav Rostotsky, often starred in military and heroic adventure films, choreographed stunts and participated in them himself, without the help of stunt doubles. Since 1997, he has worked as an instructor at the transnational Vitalis survival school, deputy general Director of the Foundation for Russian Expeditions and Travels, conducted expeditions to the Crimean caves, and was a member of the jury of the Moscow International Stunt Festival. No one doubted his experience and professionalism.


Soviet and Russian actor Andrei Rostotsky

In 2002, Rostotsky went to film the film “My Border,” which took place in the area of ​​a ski resort near Sochi. He usually inspected the places where the stunts were to be filmed himself. Relying on his athletic training, he tried to climb the mountain slope at the “Maiden Tears” waterfall without a safety net and fell down from a 40-meter height. It was not possible to save the actor - he died in the hospital without regaining consciousness. Rostotsky’s widow said: “And the waterfall is called that for a reason: people have died there before. There are a lot of moving stones in this place - it seems that the boulder lies firmly on the ground, but in fact it hangs in the air. Andrei stepped on one of these. After his death, they put up some kind of fence there and hung a warning sign...”


Actor with wife and daughter

During filming, unforeseen situations happen that lead to sad consequences. Carelessness or a stupid mistake, and the celebrity is no longer alive.

Martha Mansfield (07/14/1899 – 11/30/1923)

Martha Mansfield suffered life-threatening burns to her entire body and died in hospital several hours later. The film The Warrens of Virginia, which became fatal for the young actress, was finally released a year later, since most of the scenes with her participation had already been filmed.

Jean Harlow (03/03/1911 – 06/07/1937)

She became ill during filming. Jean felt weak, nauseous and a sharp pain in her lower abdomen, twisting her to the point of unconsciousness. The actress was taken to the hospital, where after an examination it was determined that, having had the flu several months ago, the 26-year-old girl developed complications in her kidneys, which began to fail and stopped removing harmful substances from the body. The star fell into a coma and died on June 7, 1937 from cerebral edema.

Tyrone Power (05/05/1914 - 11/15/1958)

The reason for this is the heart attack that happened to Tyrone Power on the set of the film Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. The actor became ill while working on one of the first scenes (the duel scene). Power was buried with honors, and USSR native Yul Brynner was appointed in his place.

Inna Burduchenko (03/31/1939 – 08/15/1960)

The actress was taken to the hospital, where it turned out that two-thirds of her body was covered with burns. Only her face, which Inna protected with her hands, was not damaged. Many people donated blood and skin for their beloved actress, but it did not help - 2 weeks later Burduchenko died. The girl was 21 years old and had been expecting a child for three months.

Evgeny Urbansky (02/27/1932 – 11/5/1965)

The actor did all the stunts himself, without the help of stuntmen. In one of the scenes, he was supposed to, sitting behind the wheel of a car, use a sand dune as a springboard, take off and land. The first take was shot successfully, but Evgeniy Urbansky was dissatisfied. He demanded that the scene be re-shot. For the second time, the actor broke a cervical vertebra and died on the way to the hospital.

The poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko dedicated a poem to the actor’s death. It's called "The Ballad of Perfection."

Eric Fleming (07/04/1925 – 09/28/1966)

Vic Morrow (02/14/1929 – 07/23/1982)

We were filming a scene with a helicopter that was supposed to explode in the frame. At an altitude of 7 meters, the helicopter lost control due to problems with pyrotechnics and began to fall. Morrow and two children, 6 and 7 years old, playing Vietnamese fleeing American aircraft, were decapitated by the rotating blades at full speed. The scene of the helicopter crash and the actor’s death was caught on video.

Death of actor Vic Morrow on the set of The Twilight Zone

John-Erik Hexam (11/05/1957 – 10/18/1984)

Roy Kinnear (01/08/1934 – 09/20/1988)

Redd Foxx (12/09/1922 – 10/11/1991)

The television shows “Sanford and Son” and “The Royal Family” made him popular with a wide audience. While rehearsing for an episode of The Royal Family, he suddenly grabbed his heart and fell. Before this, the comedian had amused his colleagues more than once with scenes involving a heart attack, so this time everyone decided that Redd was just playing too hard. When he was taken to the hospital, he was still alive. Perhaps, if not for the delay, he would have been saved.

Brandon Lee (02/01/1965 - 03/31/1993)

This was the last scene involving the use of firearms. And just that day, Brandon Lee refused to wear a bulletproof vest. The scene was filmed using a proven method, perfected hundreds of times: the “criminal” fires blank cartridges, and the “hero” detonates an explosive device hidden in his hand, simulating a shot.

And so the actor shoots from a 44-caliber revolver. Brandon Lee falls and... doesn't get up. Colleagues were sure that he was faking or had gone too deep into the role until they saw streams of blood gushing from his stomach. The actor was rushed to the hospital, where he fought for life for 12.5 hours. His fiancée Eliza Hutson urgently flew out to see him. She barely had time to say goodbye to Brandon - a couple of minutes after her appearance, he died.

The investigation established two causes of the accident. It turned out that due to negligence, instead of blank cartridges in the revolver magazine, there were converted live ones from which gunpowder was poured out. And due to the fact that earlier one of the bullets got stuck in the barrel, it was knocked out with terrible force, and the shot turned out to be slightly less powerful than when firing live ammunition. The actor was pierced in the stomach, damaging internal organs and the spine.

Due to the fact that the actor died during the filming of the final scenes, the film was completed and released. The last minutes of Brandon Lee’s “stage” life were played by an understudy.

Oliver Reed (02/13/1938 – 05/02/1999)

On the evening of the 20th, the film crew, numbering more than a hundred people, headed towards the camp. The sudden collapse of the Kolka glacier buried them all under a 60-meter layer of ice and stones. The search for bodies continued until 2004, but most of the dead, including Sergei Bodrov, were never found.

Steve Irwin (02/22/1962 – 09/04/2006)

But it was not crocodiles that killed him. On the set of the film Ocean's Deadliest Killers, the Discovery Channel star talked to the camera about stingrays, whose bite can be lethal to humans. Irwin became the third Australian in history to die from the poisonous sting of a stingray - it struck him straight in the heart. His death was caught on film, but the TV presenter's wife decided to destroy it.

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In the history of cinema, there are many tragic cases involving the death of actors. We invite you to take a look at the latest footage of famous domestic and foreign actors who died on film sets.

Bruce Lee

On July 20, 1973, the actor was working in Hong Kong on the film “Game of Death” when he suddenly fell on the pavilion of the Golden Harvest film studio.

Bruce was immediately taken to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with cerebral edema.

According to one version, Bruce Lee took a headache pill containing aspirin and meprobamate, which led to fatal consequences.

No tests were taken, casting doubt on whether he died from the pill. After his death, rumors began to spread that another master had killed him, but they were not confirmed.

Bruce Lee's funeral turned into a citywide mourning. Friends and thousands of fans came to pay their last respects to him. Bruce Lee's body was then flown to Seattle, where his family said goodbye and where he was buried.

Brandon Lee

Hong Kong and American actor, martial artist, and son of Bruce Lee, who died on the set at the age of 28.

Finally, the actor’s star status was to be cemented by the film “The Raven” - an adaptation of comic books on the themes of honor and retribution, immersed in a gloomy, “Gothic” atmosphere.

On March 31, at one o'clock in the morning, while filming one of the final scenes, where the main character is shot with a pistol, Brandon was wounded in the stomach. Actor Michael Massey, who played one of the villains, fired from a .44 caliber revolver.

The plug stuck in the barrel was not noticed by members of the film crew and flew out when fired with a blank cartridge. As a result, the foreign body pierced Brandon's abdomen and became lodged in his spine, causing extensive blood loss.

He died 12 hours later at a hospital in Wilmington, North Carolina. Doctors pronounced Brandon Lee dead on March 31, 1993, at 1:30 p.m., from persistent hemorrhage.

Brandon died seventeen days before his own wedding. He and Eliza Hutton were already engaged and were due to marry immediately after filming ended.

The footage of the murder was not included in the film; this film was destroyed, and the scene was re-shot with the participation of a double. A private funeral took place on April 3, 1993. Brandon Lee was buried next to his father in Seattle at Lake View Cemetery on the shores of Lake Washington in the place that Linda, his mother, had originally reserved for herself.

Jon-Erik Hexam

John-Erik was a famous actor, a sought-after model and the dream of many women.

The tragedy occurred in 1984, on the set of the series “The Hidden Fact,” when he carelessly put a 44-caliber Magnum loaded with blank cartridges to his temple and pulled the trigger.

Such cartridges are covered with a metal shell - this is necessary so that the sound of the shot is loud and resonant, and human bones, naturally, are very fragile.

As a result, the bullet destroyed part of the actor's skull, causing extensive bleeding.

Tyrone Power

The American actor, best known for his romantic roles in classic Hollywood films from the 1930s to the 1950s, starred in Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.

Power, 44, was acting in a duel scene when he suffered a heart attack. The actor died before arriving at the hospital.

Martha Mansfield

At the same time, she was an actress who played in vaudeville and a star of American silent films.

In November 1923, while filming The Warrens of Virginia, Mansfield was sitting in her car when a passerby, lighting a cigarette, carelessly threw a match into the car.

Mansfield's dress immediately caught fire, and the actress suffered severe burns all over her body. She was immediately taken to the hospital, but she died from her burns a day later.

John Ritter

The actor is best known for his role as Jack Tripper in the film Three's Company. He also played cameo roles in such TV series and films as “The Bob Newhart Show,” “The Cosby Show,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Scrubs.”

While performing a scene for the series on September 11, 2003, Ritter suddenly complained of nausea and chest pain. He was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with a heart attack and died during surgery.

Vic Morrow

The actor is widely known for his roles in such films as Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, Horrible Bears, and the television series Charlie's Angels.

During the filming of The Twilight Zone in 1982, Morrow and two other actors portrayed Vietnamese fleeing an American helicopter during the war. Suddenly the helicopter exploded and all three died on the spot.

Roy Kinnear

The British comedian played Veruca Salt's father in 1971's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, followed by Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers and two sequels, The Four Musketeers and Return of the Musketeers.

During the filming of The Return of the Musketeers, Kinnear fell from his horse, resulting in a fractured pelvis and severe internal bleeding. He was hospitalized, but died of a heart attack the next day.

Jean Harlow

One of the sexiest actresses of the 1930s felt unwell during the filming of the film Saratoga in 1937.

Jean began to complain of fatigue, nausea and abdominal pain. When filming the scene where her character suffered from a fever, she herself felt much worse than the heroine.

A few days later it became known that her kidneys were failing, she was urgently hospitalized, but the actress fell into a coma and died on June 7, 1937.

Eric Fleming

While filming a TV movie about the jungle in 1966, the actor sailed in a canoe with his colleague Nico Minardos.

The canoe capsized and both actors fell into the Huallaga River. Minardos managed to get out, but Fleming was carried away by the current and drowned. His body was torn to pieces by piranhas.

Steve Irwin

A well-known Australian TV presenter known as the "crocodile hunter" because he specialized in programs about dangerous animals has died while reporting live.

On September 4, 2006, while filming underwater in the Great Barrier Reef, he was hit in the chest by a spiny-tailed stingray.

Steve's death was watched by millions of viewers around the world. Irwin was 44 years old and left behind two children, Bindi Sue and Bob Clarence.

Redd Fox

The American actor-comedian died during rehearsals for the television show “The Royal Family.”

The heart attack scene was Sanford's signature number, and the actor often played it to amuse the audience.

Therefore, when he grabbed his heart and then fell, no one understood what really happened. When those around him got their bearings, they could do nothing to help Sanford; he died instantly.

Evgeny Urbansky

The star and sex symbol of Soviet cinema, actor Yevgeny Urbansky, died on the set of the film “Director.” The actor wanted to act himself, without resorting to the help of a stuntman, in an important but dangerous episode.

In the shot, the car driven by the main character, as if on a springboard, was supposed to fly over the dune and fall to the ground. The first take was shot successfully, but the actor didn’t like it - he insisted on a second take.

The car fell on the roof. Urbansky was let down by the lack of necessary experience - he broke a cervical vertebra and died a few hours later in the hospital.

The last words the actor said in his life were: “Lord, how it hurts!” Evgeniy Urbansky was only 33 years old, two and a half months later his wife, actress Dzidra Ritenberg, gave birth to a daughter, who was named Evgenia.

Inna Burduchenko

A student at the Kyiv Theater Institute named after I.K. Karpenko-Kary died on the set of a film with the working title “Nobody Loved Like That,” later renamed “Flower on the Stone.”

In one of the scenes, the actress playing a Komsomol member had to save a banner from a burning house. The director forced Burduchenko to run into the gasoline-drenched and blazing barracks again and again, and during the third take the building collapsed.

Inna, whose heel was stuck in a crack in the floor, did not have time to run out. At the last moment, like a true woman and actress, she covered her face with her hands.

Burduchenko was brought out of the fire by actor Sergei Ivanov, who, at that time an unknown extra, starred in the film as an extra.

Inna found that 78 percent of her body was burned (only her face remained unharmed); in the middle of the last century, this was a death sentence.

Poltergeist has been called a cursed film, with four actors associated with the franchise having died in six years. The first tragedy occurred with 22-year-old actress Dominique Dunne. On the evening of October 30, 1982, she rehearsed one of the scenes of Poltergeist 2 at her home in Los Angeles. At this time, the actress's ex-boyfriend John Sweeney knocked on the door. A squabble ensued and the girl suggested going outside. There, Sweeney attacked the girl and tried to strangle her. On November 4, the actress died without leaving a coma. The killer spent only 6 years in prison.

60-year-old Julian Beck, who played the priest, died of cancer in 1985, a few months before the end of filming of the second film. The team continued filming with the actor's double created.

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In 1987, 53-year-old Will Sampson from the movie Poltergeist 2 died. The actor died a month and a half after a heart transplant operation.

Young Heather O'Rourke died in 1988 from a myocardial infarction caused by septic shock due to intestinal stenosis. The girl was only 12 years old.

During the filming of the third Poltergeist (1988), the pavilion with props caught fire. Several technical workers were hospitalized with burns of varying severity. Another dark story is connected with the third part of the franchise. While filming promotional shots for the film, actress Zelda Rubinstein felt a jolt and momentarily lost her balance. At the end of the photo shoot, Rubinstein learned of her mother’s death and flew to the funeral.

After development, it was discovered that in one frame Zelda’s face was illuminated by a strange haze. The actress was sure that the push and veil in the frame were signs of her late mother.

Brandon Lee - "The Crow" (1994)

There were many accidents on the set of The Crow, including fires, but the death of Brandon Lee, Bruce Lee's son, was a shocking tragedy. On March 31, 1993, work was underway on the finale of The Crow, where Brandon Lee's character is killed by his enemy Fanboy, played by Michael Massey. By fateful accident, the pistol with which Michael shot Brandon was hit by a plug, which, when fired with a blank cartridge, fatally wounded the actor in the stomach. Brandon was 28 years old.

The actor's mother sued the film company for negligence and won the case. No charges were brought against Michael Massey, but this did not save him from a prolonged depression.

Experienced stunt coordinator Mark Akerstream also died during the filming, when he was hit in the head by debris thrown by the explosion.

Jack MacGowran - The Exorcist (1973)

54-year-old actor Jack McGowran, who played in the episode, died immediately after filming was completed from a heart attack. Later, tragedy overtook the family of actress Mercedes McCambridge, who voiced the demon Pazuzu in the body of the main character. In 1987, her son killed his wife and child and then committed suicide.

Vic Morrow - The Twilight Zone (1983)

53-year-old actor Vic Morrow and two child actors (seven-year-old Micah Dean Lee and six-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen) died on the set. Explosions roared in the background, and a helicopter circled over the lake as Morrow crossed with the boys in his arms. The pyrotechnics explosion damaged the helicopter's tail rotor and it began to fall into the lake. All three died on the spot from being hit by the blades.

In the history of cinema, there are many tragic cases involving the death of actors. Next, we suggest taking a look at the latest footage of famous domestic and foreign actors who died on film sets.

Bruce Lee. On July 20, 1973, the actor was working in Hong Kong on the film Game of Death when he suddenly fell on the pavilion of the Golden Harvest film studio.

Bruce was immediately taken to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with cerebral edema.

According to one version, Bruce Lee took a headache pill containing aspirin and meprobamate, which led to fatal consequences.

No tests were taken, casting doubt on whether he died from the pill. After his death, rumors began to spread that another master had killed him, but they were not confirmed.

Bruce Lee's funeral turned into a citywide mourning. Friends and thousands of fans came to pay their last respects to him. Bruce Lee's body was then flown to Seattle, where his family said goodbye and where he was buried.

Brandon Lee. Hong Kong and American actor, martial artist, and son of Bruce Lee, who died on the set at the age of 28.

Finally, the actor's star status was to be cemented by the film "The Raven" - an adaptation of comic books on the themes of honor and retribution, immersed in a gloomy, "Gothic" atmosphere.

On March 31, at one o'clock in the morning, while filming one of the final scenes, where the main character is shot with a pistol, Brandon was wounded in the stomach. Actor Michael Massey, who played one of the villains, fired from a .44 caliber revolver.

The plug stuck in the barrel was not noticed by members of the film crew and flew out when fired with a blank cartridge. As a result, the foreign body pierced Brandon's abdomen and became lodged in his spine, causing extensive blood loss.

He died 12 hours later at a hospital in Wilmington, North Carolina. Doctors pronounced Brandon Lee dead on March 31, 1993, at 1:30 p.m., from persistent hemorrhage.

Brandon died seventeen days before his own wedding. He and Eliza Hutton were already engaged and were due to marry immediately after filming ended.

The footage of the murder was not included in the film; this film was destroyed, and the scene was re-shot with the participation of a double. A private funeral took place on April 3, 1993. Brandon Lee was buried next to his father in Seattle at Lake View Cemetery on the shores of Lake Washington in the place that Linda, his mother, had originally reserved for herself.

John-Erik Hexam. John-Erik was a famous actor, a sought-after model and the dream of many women.

The tragedy occurred in 1984, on the set of the series “The Hidden Fact,” when he carelessly put a 44-caliber Magnum loaded with blank cartridges to his temple and pulled the trigger.

Such cartridges are covered with a metal shell - this is necessary so that the sound of the shot is loud and resonant, and human bones, naturally, are very fragile.

As a result, the bullet destroyed part of the actor's skull, causing extensive bleeding.

Tyrone Power. The American actor, best known for his romantic roles in classic Hollywood films from the 1930s to the 1950s, starred in Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.

Power, 44, was acting in a duel scene when he suffered a heart attack. The actor died before arriving at the hospital.

Martha Mansfield is both a vaudeville actress and an American silent film star.

In November 1923, while filming The Warrens of Virginia, Mansfield was sitting in her car when a passerby, lighting a cigarette, carelessly threw a match into the car.

Mansfield's dress immediately caught fire, and the actress suffered severe burns all over her body. She was immediately taken to the hospital, but she died from her burns a day later.

John Ritter. The actor is best known for his role as Jack Tripper in the film Three's Company. He also played bit parts in such TV series and films as “The Bob Newhart Show,” “The Cosby Show,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Scrubs.”

While performing a scene for the series on September 11, 2003, Ritter suddenly complained of nausea and chest pain. He was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with a heart attack and died during surgery.

Vic Morrow. The actor is widely known for his roles in such films as “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry,” “Horrible Bears,” and the television series “Charlie’s Angels.”

During the filming of The Twilight Zone in 1982, Morrow and two other actors portrayed Vietnamese fleeing an American helicopter during the war. Suddenly the helicopter exploded and all three died on the spot.

Roy Kinnear. The British comedian played Veruca Salt's father in 1971's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, followed by Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers and two sequels, The Four Musketeers and Return of the Musketeers.

During the filming of The Return of the Musketeers, Kinnear fell from his horse, resulting in a fractured pelvis and heavy internal bleeding. He was hospitalized, but died of a heart attack the next day.

Jean Harlow. One of the sexiest actresses of the 1930s felt unwell during the filming of the film Saratoga in 1937.

Jean began to complain of fatigue, nausea and abdominal pain. When filming the scene where her character suffered from a fever, she herself felt much worse than the heroine.

A few days later it became known that her kidneys were failing, she was urgently hospitalized, but the actress fell into a coma and died on June 7, 1937.

Eric Fleming. While filming a TV movie about the jungle in 1966, the actor sailed in a canoe with his colleague Nico Minardos.

The canoe capsized and both actors fell into the Huallaga River. Minardos managed to get out, but Fleming was carried away by the current and drowned. His body was torn to pieces by piranhas.

Steve Irwin. A well-known Australian television presenter known as the "crocodile hunter" because he specialized in programs about dangerous animals, died while reporting live.

On September 4, 2006, while filming underwater in the Great Barrier Reef, he was hit in the chest by a spiny-tailed stingray.

Steve's death was watched by millions of viewers around the world. Irwin was 44 years old and left behind two children, Bindi Sue and Bob Clarence.

Redd Foxx. The American actor-comedian died during rehearsals for the television show “The Royal Family.”

The heart attack scene was Sanford's signature number, and the actor often played it to amuse the audience.

Therefore, when he grabbed his heart and then fell, no one understood what really happened. When those around him got their bearings, they could do nothing to help Sanford; he died instantly.

Evgeny Urbansky. The star and sex symbol of Soviet cinema, actor Yevgeny Urbansky, died on the set of the film "Director". The actor wanted to act himself, without resorting to the help of a stuntman, in an important but dangerous episode.

In the shot, the car driven by the main character, as if on a springboard, was supposed to fly over the dune and fall to the ground. The first take was shot successfully, but the actor didn’t like it - he insisted on a second take.

The car fell on the roof. Urbansky was let down by the lack of necessary experience - he broke a cervical vertebra and died a few hours later in the hospital.

The last words the actor said in his life were: “Lord, how painful it is!” Evgeniy Urbansky was only 33 years old, two and a half months later his wife, actress Dzidra Ritenberg, gave birth to a daughter, who was named Evgenia.

Inna Burduchenko. A student at the Kyiv Theater Institute named after I.K. Karpenko-Kary died on the set of a film with the working title “Nobody Loved Like That,” later renamed “Flower on a Stone.”

In one of the scenes, the actress playing a Komsomol member had to save a banner from a burning house. The director forced Burduchenko to run into the gasoline-drenched and blazing barracks again and again, and during the third take the building collapsed.

Inna, whose heel was stuck in a crack in the floor, did not have time to run out. At the last moment, like a true woman and actress, she covered her face with her hands.

Burduchenko was brought out of the fire by actor Sergei Ivanov, who, at that time an unknown extra, starred in the film as an extra.

Inna found that 78 percent of her body was burned (only her face remained unharmed); in the middle of the last century, this was a death sentence.