Stars who died Young
by gingerninjasz | created - 11 months ago | updated - 1 day ago | PublicA list of people who died too young or had a tragic or untimely death.
1. Jonathan Brandis
Actor | The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter
Born in Danbury, Connecticut, USA, to Greg and Mary, Jonathan Brandis began his career at age 5, acting in several television commercials. He also appeared in small parts in several films and TV shows before his first starring role in the 1990 film The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990). ...
He committed suicide
2. Laura Sadler
Actress | Intimate Relations
Laura Sadler was born on December 25, 1980 in Ascot, Berkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Intimate Relations (1996), Grange Hill (1978) and Holby City (1999). She died on June 19, 2003 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK.
Died after falling from a balcony
3. Charlotte Coleman
Actress | Four Weddings and a Funeral
Charlotte Coleman was born in Islington, London, England as Charlotte Ninon Coleman. She was an actress, known for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1989), Worzel Gummidge (1979-1982), Educating Marmalade (1983), Danger: Marmalade at Work (1984) and Beautiful ...
Died of an asthma attack at just 33
4. Bonar Colleano
Actor | Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary
Bonar Colleano was born in New York City. His name was Bonar Sullivan, but he took on his family's stage name when he joined the Colleano family acrobatic circus act at 5, then at 12 moved to England. Bonar's mother, part of the Colleano family act in her role as a comely contortionist met his ...
Died in a car crash
5. Susan Shaw
Actress | The Diplomatic Corpse
The lovely blonde actress, Susan Shaw, was groomed by the Rank Organisation in England for a career in film in the 40s and 50s. She was born on August 29, 1929 in West Norwood, England. Susan was at her best when cast in a role as a pretty young slip of a girl with her nose in the air. After a ...
Died from alcoholism
6. Joan Dowling
Actress | Murder Without Crime
Joan Dowling had a passion for acting and as an aspiring young actress she would take roles in plays, pantomimes and other works simply to be on the stage. Her first recognised role was at the tender age of 14 and she signed her first film contract at 17. She had natural talent and did not have any...
Committed suicide
7. Ashleigh Aston Moore
Actress | Now and Then
Ashleigh Aston Moore was born as Ashley MacMillan (first stage name Ashley Rogers) on September 30, 1981. Her parents were Maryanna Aston Moore, an interior designer, and Dennis MacMillan, who wasn't around for much of her life. She grew up in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. Her first acting ...
Drug overdose
8. Brittany Murphy
Actress | Clueless
Brittany Murphy was born Brittany Anne Bertolotti on November 10, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia, to Sharon Kathleen Murphy and Angelo Joseph Bertolotti. Her father's ancestry is Italian, and her mother is of Irish and Slovak descent. Her father moved the family back to Edison, New Jersey as a native New...
Died of pneumonia, anemia and drug intoxication
9. Gia Scala
Actress | The Guns of Navarone
This tall, dazzling, yet reserved and sensitive foreign import was born Giovanna Scoglio in Liverpool, England but moved to Sicily with her aristocratic Sicilian father and Irish mother at three months of age. She migrated to New York at age 14 and attended Bayside (Queens) High School, graduating ...
Died of alcoholism aged 38.
10. Colin Clive
Actor | Frankenstein
Who could forget Colin Clive's "It's Alive! It's Alive!" as he melted to the floor mumbling the same over and over in ecstasy after his success at animating the Monster in the first sound version of Frankenstein (1931). Film history - horror film history - but part of a short history for actor ...
Officially died on TB under mysterious circumstances
11. Jeff Chandler
Actor | Broken Arrow
Jeff was born in Brooklyn and attended Erasmus High School. After high school, he took a drama course and worked in stock companies for two years. His next role was that of an officer in World War II. After he was discharged from the service, he became busy acting in radio dramas and comedies until...
Died after a botched operation
12. River Phoenix
Actor | My Own Private Idaho
River Phoenix was born River Jude Bottom in Madras, Oregon. His mother, Arlyn (Dunetz), a Bronx-born secretary, and his father, John Bottom, a carpenter, met in California in 1968. They worked as itinerant fruit pickers, and later joined the Children of God religious group (John was originally ...
Died from a drug overdose
13. Mabel Normand
Actress | Mickey
Mabel Normand was one of the comedy greats of early film. In an era when women are deemed 'not funny enough' it seems film history has forgotten her contributions. Her films debuted the Keystone Cops, Charlie Chaplin's tramp and the pie in the face gag. She co-starred with both Chaplin and Roscoe "...
Died of tuberculosis
14. Kay Kendall
Actress | Les Girls
Kay Kendall was born on May 21, 1927 in Withernsea, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Les Girls (1957), The Reluctant Debutante (1958) and Simon and Laura (1955). She was married to Rex Harrison. She died on September 6, 1959 in London, England, UK.
Died of leukemia
15. Jenny McCrindle
Actress | Jute City
Jenny McCrindle was born on September 19, 1968 in Clydebank, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Jute City (1991), Dream Baby (1989) and Your Cheatin' Heart (1990). She died on October 26, 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Died of multiple scerosis
16. Simon Cadell
Actor | Watership Down
Simon Cadell was born on July 19, 1950 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Watership Down (1978), The Cold Light of Day (1996) and Enemy at the Door (1978). He was married to Rebecca Croft. He died on March 6, 1996 in Westminster, London, England, UK.
Died of cancer
17. Jeremy Sinden
Actor | Star Wars
Jeremy Sinden was born on June 14, 1950 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Chariots of Fire (1981) and The Far Pavilions (1984). He was married to Delia Lindsay. He died on May 29, 1996 in London, England, UK.
Died of lung cancer just 6 weeks after his best friend Simon Cadell died.
18. Carole Landis
Actress | I Wake Up Screaming
Carole Landis was born on New Year's Day in 1919 in Fairchild, Wisconsin, as Frances Lillian Mary Ridste. Her father, a railroad mechanic, was of Norwegian descent and her mother was Polish. Her father walked out, leaving Carole, her mother and an older brother and sister to fend for themselves.
...
Committed suicide
19. Betty Jardine
Actress | Almost a Honeymoon
Betty Jardine was born on April 17, 1903 in Heaton Norris, Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Almost a Honeymoon (1938), Rhythm Serenade (1943) and Two Thousand Women (1944). She was married to Wilfrid Bion. She died on February 28, 1945 in Bournemouth, Hants, England, ...
Died in childbirth aged 41.
20. Betty Ann Davies
Actress | It Always Rains on Sunday
Betty Ann Davies was born on December 24, 1910 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for It Always Rains on Sunday (1947), The Man in Black (1950) and She Knew What She Wanted (1936). She was married to Alexander Blackford. She died on May 14, 1955 in Manchester, England, UK.
Died from complications following an operation
21. Heather O'Rourke
Actress | Poltergeist
Heather Michele O'Rourke was born on December 27, 1975 in Santee, San Diego, California, to Kathleen, a seamstress, and Michael O'Rourke, a construction worker. She had German, Danish, English, and Irish ancestry.
Heather entered American cinematic pop-culture before first grade. She was sitting ...
Died from complications following an operation
22. Dominique Dunne
Actress | Poltergeist
Dominique Dunne was born in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of Ellen Beatriz Griffin Dunne and Dominick Dunne, a producer, actor, and writer. Actor Griffin Dunne is her brother. After her parents' divorce, she moved first to New York, and then to Beverly Hills. Upon graduation from high ...
She was murdered by her boyfriend
23. Judith Barsi
Actress | The Land Before Time
The only child of Jozsef Barsi and Maria Benko, Judith Eva Barsi beat 10,000-to-1 odds when she was discovered at a San Fernando Valley skating rink at age 5 1/2 in 1983 and mistaken for a three-year-old. Her first commercial was for Donald Duck Orange Juice and she went on to appear in anywhere ...
She was murdered by her father.
24. Jean Harlow
Actress | China Seas
Harlean Carpenter, who later became Jean Harlow, was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 3, 1911. She was the daughter of a successful dentist and his wife. In 1927, at the age of 16, she ran away from home to marry a young businessman named Charles McGrew, who was 23. The couple pulled up ...
Died from kidney failure
25. Leslie Howard
Actor | Pygmalion
Leslie Howard Steiner was born in London to Lilian (Blumberg) and Ferdinand "Frank" Steiner. His father was a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and his English mother was of German Jewish and mostly English descent. Leslie went to Dulwich College, then worked as a bank clerk until the outbreak of World ...
Died after his aircraft was shot down during WW2
26. Carole Lombard
Actress | My Man Godfrey
Carole Lombard was born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on October 6, 1908. Her parents divorced in 1916 and her mother took the family on a trip out West. While there they decided to settle down in the Los Angeles area. After being spotted playing baseball in the street with the ...
Died in a plane crash
27. Gail Russell
Actress | The Uninvited
Gail Russell was born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 21, 1924. She remained in the Windy City, going to school until her parents moved to California when she was 14. She was an above-average student in school and upon graduation from Santa Monica High School was signed by Paramount Studios.
...
Died of alcoholism at 36
28. Linda Darnell
Actress | Fallen Angel
Linda Darnell, one of five children of a postal clerk, grew up fast. At 11, she was modeling clothes, giving her age as 16. At 13, she was appearing on the stage with little theater groups. Her mother encouraged her to audition when Hollywood talent scouts came to Dallas. She went to California and...
Died in a house fire
29. Sal Mineo
Actor | Exodus
Salvatore (Sal) Mineo Jr. was born to Josephine and Sal Sr. (a casket maker), who emigrated to the U.S. from Sicily. His siblings were Michael, Victor and Sarina. Sal was thrown out of parochial school and, by age eight, was a member of a street gang in a tough Bronx neighborhood. His mother ...
Was stabbed to death in the street by an unknown attacker.
30. Natalie Wood
Actress | Rebel Without a Cause
Natalie Wood was an American actress of Russian and Ukrainian descent. She started her career as a child actress and eventually transitioned into teenage roles, young adult roles, and middle-aged roles. She drowned off Catalina Island on November 29, 1981 at age 43.
Wood was born July 20, 1938 in ...
Drowned after disappearing one night on a ship under mysterious circumstances.
31. James Dean
Actor | East of Eden
James Byron Dean was born February 8, 1931 in Marion, Indiana, to Mildred Marie (Wilson) and Winton A. Dean, a farmer turned dental technician. His mother died when Dean was nine, and he was subsequently raised on a farm by his aunt and uncle in Fairmount, Indiana. After grade school, he moved to ...
Died in a car crash
32. Elvis Presley
Soundtrack | Girls! Girls! Girls!
Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8, 1935 in East Tupelo, Mississippi, to Gladys Presley (née Gladys Love Smith) and Vernon Presley (Vernon Elvis Presley). He had a twin brother who was stillborn. In 1948, Elvis and his parents moved to Memphis, Tennessee where he attended Humes High School. ...
Died of a heart attack at 42
33. Jenny Maxwell
Actress | Blue Hawaii
Jenny Maxwell was an American actress of Norwegian descent. She had a relatively brief career during the late 1950s and the 1960s. Her most substantial role was that of Ellie Corbett in the musical comedy "Blue Hawaii" (1961), depicted as a flirtatious teenage girl who has suicidal thoughts.
Maxwell...
Was murdered by a hitman arranged by her husband to look like a street robbery - he inadvertantly was killed in the shootout.
34. Montgomery Clift
Actor | From Here to Eternity
Edward Montgomery Clift (nicknamed 'Monty' his entire life) was born on October 17, 1920 in Omaha, Nebraska, just after his twin sister Roberta (1920-2014) and eighteen months after his brother Brooks Clift. He was the son of Ethel "Sunny" Anderson (Fogg; 1888-1988) and William Brooks Clift (1886-...
Died of a heart attack in 1966, having suffered a car crash that caused concussion in 1957.
35. Elizabeth Hartman
Actress | A Patch of Blue
A slender, striking, red-haired, freckle-faced American leading lady, Mary Elizabeth Hartman was born in Boardman, Ohio on December 23, 1943, as the middle of three children born to building contractor Bill C. Hartman (May 7, 1914, Ohio - October 26, 1964, Youngstown, Ohio) and housewife Claire ...
Committed suicide by jumping from a window from her apartment.
36. Janet Munro
Actress | Darby O'Gill and the Little People
As Disney's lively lass Katie O'Gill, she was the freshness of spring. She could inspire you to dance a jig through a field of flowers. Her entrancing green eyes and catchy spirit had that kind of life-affirming effect. Cute, spunky, almond-eyed British actress Janet Munro was deemed to be an ...
Collapsed at home of a heart attack at 38, though she had been an alcoholic for nearly a decade due to her marriage to Ian Hendry
37. Ian Hendry
Actor | Get Carter
Born 13 January 1931 in Ipswich, England, Ian Hendry's career began rather inauspiciously, playing the fall guy for a circus clown. After attending London's Central School of Speech and Drama, things started progressing nicely when he starred as "Dr. Geoffrey Brent" in Police Surgeon (1960). This ...
Died of alcoholism at 53.
38. Rachel Roberts
Actress | Murder on the Orient Express
Beautiful, swift and tough-tongued British character actress Rachel Roberts gained notice for her roles on the English stage, before she hit it largely in films. Born in Wales and married to actor Rex Harrison in 1962, Roberts made her film debut in a key role in J. Lee Thompson's Young and Willing...
Committed suicide by drinking poison
39. Marilyn Monroe
Actress | Some Like It Hot
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, comedienne, singer, and model. Monroe is of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh descent. She became one of the world's most enduring iconic figures and is remembered both for her winsome embodiment of the Hollywood sex symbol and her tragic personal and ...
Died from a drug overdose in mysterious circumstances
40. Maria Montez
Actress | Arabian Nights
In a world weary of war and dispirited by the ravages of the Great Depression, Hollywood at the turn of the 1940s concocted a wildly popular, effective lot of escapist fare (though often cheaply made) to regale the sick at heart worldwide. Universal Pictures, more often than not, led in producing ...
Died of a heart attack while in her bath and drowned
41. Lupe Velez
Actress | The Girl from Mexico
Lupe Velez was born on July 18, 1908, in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, as Maria Guadalupe Villalobos Velez. She was sent to Texas at the age of 13 to live in a convent. She later admitted that she wasn't much of a student because she was so rambunctious. She had planned to become a champion roller ...
Committed suicide with sleeping pills.
42. Sunny Johnson
Actress | Flashdance
Sunny Johnson was born on September 21, 1953 in San Bernardino County, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Flashdance (1983), The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (1981) and Where the Buffalo Roam (1980). She died on June 19, 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Died of a brain haemorrhage just months after her role in Flashdance (1983).
43. Jayne Mansfield
Actress | The Girl Can't Help It
One of the leading sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, film actress Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jayne Palmer on April 19, 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, the only child of Vera J. (nee Palmer; later Peers) and Herbert W. Palmer. Her parents were well-to-do, with her father a successful attorney ...
Died in a car crash
44. Arkie Whiteley
Actress | Mad Max 2
Arkie Whiteley was born on November 6, 1964 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), The Killing of Angel Street (1981) and A Town Like Alice (1981). She was married to Jim Elliott and Christopher Kuhn. She died on December 19, 2001 in Palm Beach, ...
Died from cancer.
45. Cathryn Harrison
Actress | Black Moon
Cathryn Harrison was born on May 25, 1959 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Black Moon (1975), Images (1972) and The Dresser (1983). She was married to Paul Laing. She died on October 1, 2018 in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK.
46. Joan Hackett
Actress | The Last of Sheila
Joan Hackett was never one of your conventional leading ladies. Directors sometimes found her difficult to work with. Yet this strong-minded perfectionist had an unquenchable individuality that came through in her performances, and she never hesitated to appear unglamorous whenever the role ...
Died of ovarian cancer at 49
47. Agnes Ayres
Actress | The Sheik
Extremely popular silent star of the 1920s. Her popularity was enhanced when she co-starred with Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik (1921) and The Son of the Sheik (1926). She made her screen debut at Essanay Studios in 1915. While she was popular in the 1920s (thanks to the patronage of her lover, ...
Died from a brain haermorrhage aged 42.
48. Alan Ladd
Actor | Shane
Alan Walbridge Ladd was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, the only child of Ina Raleigh (aka Selina Rowley) and Alan Harwood Ladd, a freelance accountant. His mother was English, from County Durham. His father died when he was four. At age five, he burned his apartment playing with matches, and his ...
Died from an overdose of pills. Uncertain if accidental or deliberate.
49. Veronica Lake
Actress | Sullivan's Travels
Veronica Lake was born as Constance Frances Marie Ockleman on November 14, 1922, in Brooklyn, New York. She was the daughter of Constance Charlotta (Trimble) and Harry Eugene Ockelman, who worked for an oil company as a ship employee. Her father was of half German and half Irish descent, and her ...
Died from acute hepatitis.
50. Peter Finch
Actor | Network
Despite being one of the finest actors of his generation, Peter Finch will be remembered as much for his reputation as a hard-drinking, hell-raising womanizer as for his performances on the screen. He was born in London in 1916 and went to live in Sydney, Australia, at the age of ten. There, he ...
Died of a heart attack.
51. Robert Shaw
Actor | Jaws
Robert Archibald Shaw was born on August 9, 1927, in Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, the eldest son of Doreen Nora (Avery), a nurse, and Thomas Archibald Shaw, a doctor. His paternal grandfather was Scottish, from Argyll. Shaw's mother, who was born in Piggs Peak, Swaziland, met his father while...
Died of a heart attack.
52. Elissa Landi
Actress | The Sign of the Cross
Elissa Landi was born in Venice, Italy on December 6, 1904. From an early age, she wanted to be an actress and writer. Her acting career started at the Oxford Repertory Company and on London's West End performing with actors such as Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud. She played Desdemona in "...
Died of cancer.
53. Alice Brady
Actress | My Man Godfrey
Alice Brady was born in New York City on November 2, 1892. She was interested in the stage from childhood, as her father was famed Broadway producer William A. Brady. After a few stage productions, Alice was discovered by movie producers in New York, since this was the film capital at the time. Her...
Died of cancer
54. Pier Angeli
Actress | Battle of the Bulge
Anna Maria Pierangeli was born June 19, 1932, in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. Anna and her twin sister, Marisa Pavan, both had their eyes on becoming film stars, since that was one of the big Italian pastimes. Anna adopted her surname and split it in half, and it was as Pier Angeli that she would ...
Committed suicide
55. Mark Frankel
Actor | Young Catherine
Mark Frankel was born on June 13, 1962 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Young Catherine (1991), Fortune Hunter (1994) and Kindred: The Embraced (1996). He was married to Caroline Besson. He died on September 24, 1996 in West London, England, UK.
Best known for Ruth Rendell's Vanity Dies Hard (1994), he was killed in a car crash.
56. Brandon De Wilde
Actor | Shane
Brandon De Wilde was born into a theatrical family and made a much-acclaimed Broadway debut in "The Member of the Wedding" at age 9. He was the first child actor to win the Donaldson Award, and went on to repeat his role in the film version, directed by Fred Zinnemann in 1952. As the blond-haired, ...
Died in a car crash.
57. Ronald Lewis
Actor | Helen of Troy
Ronald Lewis was born on December 11, 1928 in Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK. He was an actor, known for Helen of Troy (1956), Storm Over the Nile (1955) and Billy Budd (1962). He was married to Elizabeth Phillips and Norah Gorsen. He died on January 11, 1982 in Pimlico, London, England, UK.
Committed suicide
58. Craig Reynolds
Actor | Perils of Pauline
Craig Reynolds was born on July 15, 1907 in Anaheim, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Perils of Pauline (1933), Back in Circulation (1937) and Love Birds (1934). He was married to Barbara Pepper. He died on October 22, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Died in a crash while riding his scooter.
59. Barbara Pepper
Actress | Foreign Correspondent
Barbara Pepper's signature roles were as worldly "dames" during the Hollywood's 1930s and 1940s Golden Era, fitting snugly alongside other flashy broads of that period such as Iris Adrian, Joan Blondell and Veda Ann Borg. Barbara patented her own unique, hard-boiled style, however, and should have ...
Wife of Craig Reynolds, she died of coronary thrombosis.
60. Wayne Morris
Actor | Paths of Glory
American actor who had early success as a sunny juvenile, but whose career declined following World War II, in which he was a highly-decorated hero. A native of Los Angeles, Morris played football at Los Angeles Junior College, then worked as a forest ranger. Returning to school, he studied acting ...
Died of a blocked artery causing a heart attack, aged just 45.
61. Ross Alexander
Actor | Captain Blood
The tragically brief life of fresh-faced, boyishly handsome Ross Alexander, who seemed to have everything going for him, plays these days like a bad Hollywood movie. Alexander was a charming, highly engaging young actor whose pleasant voice and breezy personality aided greatly in his transition ...
Committed suicide.
62. Melanie Clark Pullen
Producer | Marion agus an Banphrionsa
Melanie Clark Pullen was an Irish-born actress, writer, and producer, based in Northern Ireland.
In 2018, she produced the 20th anniversary benefit performance of The Vagina Monologues at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. The proceeds of the performance went to Women's Aid and contributed to the setting ...
Died of cancer
63. Matthew Garber
Actor | Mary Poppins
Matthew Garber was a British child actor. Both of his parents were theatrical actors, but neither was particularly famous.
In 1963, Garber came to the attention of actor Roy Dotrice (father of Karen Dotrice) who was seeking potential child actors. Roy recommended Garber to the casting department of ...
Caught hepatitis in India which developed into pancreatitis, dying aged just 21.
64. Rowena Roberts
Actress | I Thought You'd Gone
Rowena Roberts was born on January 23, 1951 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for I Thought You'd Gone (1984), Players (1979) and Within These Walls (1974). She died on March 21, 1989 in Islington, London, England, UK.
Known for the barmaid in Shelley (1979) & Hilary in King and Castle (1988) (both TV). Died of a stroke at the age of 38.
65. Fiona Mathieson
Actress | Armchair Thriller
Fiona Mathieson was born on December 17, 1950 in Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Armchair Thriller (1978), Big Deal (1984) and Holly (1972). She was married to Ian Brimble. She died on October 2, 1987 in Tain, Scotland, UK.
Played Clarice Grundy in The Archers from 1985-87, and on screen in The Agatha Christie Hour episode "The Fourth Man" (1982) as Felicie. Went missing and was found dead in a hotel in Scotland, having committing suicide. She was 36.
66. Briony McRoberts
Actress | The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Briony McRoberts was born in Hertfordshire in February 1957. One of her earliest acting roles was in The Pink Panther Strikes Again at the age of 19. She appeared in numerous theatrical and film roles, though the majority of her work was in television. She appeared in over 15 series, including ...
Committed suicide
67. Sean Flanagan
Actor | Look and Read
Sean Flanagan was an actor, known for Look and Read (1967), Coronation Street (1960) and The Dick Francis Thriller: The Racing Game (1979). He died on June 27, 1981 in Manchester, England, UK.
Best known as Matt in The Ghosts of Motley Hall (1976-78), he died in a car crash in 1981 at only 21.
68. Michele Galagher
Actress | The Famous Five
Michele Galagher was born on April 4, 1964. She was an actress, known for The Famous Five (1978). She died in 2000 in England.
Best remembered as George in The Famous Five (1978-79). Suffered a motorbike accident in 1990 that left her in a wheelchair. Committed suicide in 2001.
69. Janet Davies
Actress | The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Janet Davies was born on September 14, 1927 in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971), Pride and Prejudice (1980) and Dad's Army (1968). She was married to Ian Gardiner. She died on September 22, 1986 in Bromley, Kent, England, UK.
Mrs Pike in Dad's Army. Died of cancer
70. James Beck
Actor | Dad's Army
Londoner James Beck took to the Theatre at the end of his National Service, playing roles as diverse as Shylock to Archie Rice in "The Entertainer". His role as Cockney spiv Private Walker in Dad's Army made him a familiar face, if not a familiar name. His life was cut short before a potentially ...
Private Walker in Dad's Army. Died of pancreatitis.
71. Capucine
Actress | The Pink Panther
With classic patrician features and an independent, non-conformist personality, Capucine began her film debut in 1949 at the age of 21 with an appearance in the film Rendezvous in July (1949). She attended school in France and received a BA degree in foreign languages. Married for six months in her...
Committed suicide
72. Jill Bennett
Actress | The Nanny
Jill Bennett was born on December 24, 1931 in Penang, Malaysia. She was an actress and writer, known for The Nanny (1965), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Moulin Rouge (1952). She was married to John Osborne and Willis Hall. She died on October 4, 1990 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
Committed suicide
73. Cavan Malone
Actor | Over to William
Cavan Malone was born on November 25, 1936 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Over to William (1956), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School (1952). He died on March 8, 1982 in Richmond, Surrey, England, UK.
Died of heart failure at 46.
74. Annette Carell
Actress | Love and Mr Lewisham
Annette Carell was born on January 7, 1926 in Germany. She was an actress, known for Love and Mr Lewisham (1959), Buddenbrooks (1965) and The Prisoner (1967). She was married to Gerald Savory. She died on October 20, 1967 in London, England, UK.
Committed suicide at 41.
75. Nika Turbina
Actress | Eto bylo u morya ...
Nika Turbina was born on December 12, 1974 in Yalta, Ukrainian SSR, USSR. She was an actress, known for Eto bylo u morya ... (1989). She died on May 11, 2002 in Moscow, Russia.
Died after falling from a 5th floor window
76. Angela Scoular
Actress | On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Angela Scoular was born on November 8, 1945 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Casino Royale (1967) and You Rang, M'Lord? (1988). She was married to Leslie Phillips. She died on April 11, 2011 in Maida Vale, London, England, UK.
Famous for Cathy in Wuthering Heights (1967) and You Rang M'Lud (1988-93). Committed suicide.
77. John Garfield
Actor | Four Daughters
John Garfield was born Jacob Julius Garfinkle on the Lower East Side of New York City, to Hannah Basia (Margolis) and David Garfinkle, who were Jewish immigrants from Zhytomyr (now in Ukraine). Jules was raised by his father, a clothes presser and part-time cantor, after his mother's death in 1920,...
Died of a heart attack at 38.
78. Lena Zavaroni
Actress | Morecambe and Wise at the BBC
Lena Zavaroni was born on the 4th of November in the town of Rothesay, on the Isle of Bute, just off the West coast of Scotland. Although Scottish, her family was of Scottish and Italian descent and she grew up in a musical environment, performing at an early age. As a ten year old, she appeared on...
Died of anorexia
79. Bobby Driscoll
Actor | Peter Pan
Bobby Driscoll was a natural-born actor. Discovered by chance at the age of five-and-a-half in a barber shop in Altadena, CA. and then convincing in anything he ever undertook on the movie screen and on television throughout his career spanning 17 years (1943-1960). Includes such notable movie ...
Died of drug overdose
80. John Belushi
Actor | Saturday Night Live
John Belushi was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, on January 24, 1949, to Agnes Demetri (Samaras) and Adam Anastos Belushi, a restaurant owner. His father was an Albanian immigrant, from Qytezë, and his mother was also of Albanian descent. He grew up in Wheaton, where the family moved when he was ...
Died of drug overdose
81. Heath Ledger
Actor | Brokeback Mountain
When hunky, twenty-year-old heart-throb Heath Ledger first came to the attention of the public in 1999, it was all too easy to tag him as a "pretty boy" and an actor of little depth. He spent several years trying desperately to sway this image, but this was a double-edged sword. His work comprised ...
Died of prescription drug overdose
82. Laurence Harvey
Actor | The Manchurian Candidate
Laurence Harvey was a British movie star who helped usher in the 1960s with his indelible portrait of a ruthless social climber, and became one of the decade's cultural icons for his appearances in socially themed motion pictures.
Harvey was born Zvi Mosheh Skikne on October 1, 1928 in Joniskis, ...
Died of cancer at 45
83. Carole Lesley
Actress | Woman in a Dressing Gown
Shapely, scintillating, peroxide British blonde Carole Lesley wound up another sexy statistic alongside other vibrant and promising, photogenic stars and starlets who pervaded the film industry with their undeniable photogenic assets only to be left achingly unfulfilled and die unhappily by their ...
Committed suicide via a drug overdose at 38.
84. Gary Holton
Actor | Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Gary Holton was born on September 22, 1952 in Clapham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983), Breaking Glass (1980) and Minder (1979). He was married to Donna Campbell. He died on October 25, 1985 in London, England, UK.
Famous for Auf Wiedersehen Pet (1983-85). Died of a combination of alcohol and morphine overdose
85. Eva Mottley
Actress | Widows
Eva was born in England in 1953. Few details are known of her early life or of her break into acting. Her biggest success on television was her role in Widows (1983) as Bella O'Reilly. After the show's successful first series a second was commissioned. She was replaced by Debbie Bishop after Eva ...
Famous for TV series Widows (1983). Committed suicide
86. Richard Beckinsale
Actor | Porridge
Richard Beckinsale was an English actor, primarily known for his roles in sitcoms. His best known characters were prison inmate Leonard Arthur "Lennie" Godber in "Porridge" (1974-1977) and its sequel series "Going Straight" (1978), and medical student Alan Moore in "Rising Damp" (1974-1978).
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Died of a heart attack at 31
87. Imogen Hassall
Actress | Toomorrow
Imogen Hassall is sometimes referred to as "The Countess of Cleavage" as she was better known for her glamorous celebrity than her acting talent. Imogen was born on August 25 1942, in Woking, Surrey, England and rose to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an international B-movie ...
Committed suicide at 38.
88. Jameson Thomas
Actor | It Happened One Night
On the British stage from his teens, he first appeared as a half-breed boy in "The Squaw Man." His screen debut was in 1923 in the film "Chu Chin Chow." Dissatisfied with the British film industry, he moved to Hollywood and played a number of minor roles up to the time of his death. On the English ...
Died from tuberculosis
89. June Thorburn
Actress | The Pickwick Papers
June Thorburn was born on June 8, 1931 in Karachi, India. She was an actress, known for The Pickwick Papers (1952), Orders Are Orders (1954) and Fast and Loose (1954). She was married to Morten Smith-Petersen and Aldon Richard Bryse-Harvey. She died on November 4, 1967 in West Sussex, England, UK.
Killed in a plane crash at 36.
90. Belinda Lee
Actress | La lunga notte del '43
Green-eyed blonde bombshell Belinda Lee was born in Devon, England to florist Stella Mary Graham and hotel owner Robert Esmond Lee on June 15, 1935. Nicknamed "Billie," she was an incredible beauty while still a teen attending the Rookesbury Park Prep School in Hampshire and St. Margaret's boarding...
Died in a car crash
91. Dudley Foster
Actor | Danger Man
Dudley Foster was born on August 7, 1924 in Brighouse, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Danger Man (1960), Doctor Who (1963) and Coronation Street (1960). He was married to Eileen Kennally. He died on January 8, 1973 in Hampstead, London, England, UK.
Committed suicide
92. Don Castle
Actor | Roses Are Red
The fresh-faced appeal and promising talent of darkly handsome "B" actor Don Castle was evident from the late 30s into the 40s, but it wasn't enough for him to reach topgrade stardom. Born Marion Goodman, Jr. in Beaumont Texas in 1918 and raised in Houston, Don enrolled at the University of Texas ...
Died from a drug overdose
93. Peggie Castle
Actress | I, the Jury
Tall, sultry, green-eyed blonde Peggie Castle was actually spotted by a talent scout while she was lunching in a Beverly Hills restaurant. In her films she was usually somebody's "woman" rather than a girlfriend, and her career was confined to mostly "B"-grade action pictures, dramas or westerns: ...
Died from cirrhosis of the liver at 47
94. Jeffrey Hunter
Actor | The Searchers
Jeffrey Hunter was born Henry Herman McKinnies Jr. on November 25, 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana, an only child. His parents met at the University of Arkansas, and when he was almost four his family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In his teens, he acted in productions of the North Shore Children's ...
Died in surgery after injuries from a fall at only 43
95. Anne Heche
Actress | Six Days Seven Nights
Anne Celeste Heche was an American actress, director, and screenwriter. She came to recognition portraying Vicky Hudson and Marley Love in the soap opera Another World (1964), which won her a Daytime Emmy Award and two Soap Opera Digest Awards. She came to mainstream prominence in the late 1990s ...
Died from burns after a car crash
96. Sharon Tate
Actress | Valley of the Dolls
Sharon's early life was one of constant moving as her father served in the military. When she lived in Italy, she was voted "Homecoming Queen" of her high school. After being an extra in a few Italian films, Sharon headed to Hollywood where she would again start as an extra. Her first big break ...
Murdered by the Manson family aged just 26
97. Sabu
Actor | The Thief of Bagdad
Sabu Dastagir (or Selar Shaik Sabu, depending on your resource) was born on January 27, 1924, in the little town of Mysore, India, which is nestled in the jungles of Karapur. The son of an elephant driver (mahout) in service for the Maharajah of his town, the young stable boy learned responsibility...
Died of a heart attack aged 39
98. Grace Moore
Actress | One Night of Love
Grace Moore, the internationally famous star of the Metropolitan Opera, Broadway, motion pictures, radio and recordings, was born December 5, 1898, in Del Río near Newport, Tennessee. Her family moved to Jellico when she was a young girl. She attended Jellico High School where she was captain of ...
Died in a plane crash aged 49
99. Ricky Nelson
Actor | The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Ricky Nelson was born on May 8, 1940 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA as Eric Hilliard Nelson. He was an actor, known for The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1952) and Rio Bravo (1959). He was married to Kristin Harmon. He died on December 31, 1985 in De Kalb, Texas, USA.
Died in a plane crash in 1986
100. Gerry Sundquist
Actor | The Siege of Golden Hill
Actor Gerry Sundquist was born Gerald Christopher Sundquist in Manchester. He was known professionally as Gerry Sundquist, but always affectionately known as Ged to his friends.
He grew up in Chorlton with his older brother and younger sister. He developed an interest in acting at primary school and...
Committed suicide
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