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issue 30 October 2021

Filming fatalities

The actor Alec Baldwin accidentally shot a cinematographer on set when mistakenly given a gun loaded with real bullets. Others who have died on set:

— Martha Mansfield was resting in her car during the filming of a romance set in the US civil war in 1923 when someone flung a match which set her dress alight.

— John Jordan fell out of a plane while filming Catch-22 in 1969.

— Vic Morrow was decapitated by a low-flying helicopter while filming Twilight Zone: the Movie in 1982.

— Jon-Erik Hexum shot himself while fooling around with a gun on the set of the CBS series Cover Up in 1984.

— Roy Kinnear succumbed to injuries after he fell from a horse during the filming of The Return of the Three Musketeers in 1988.

— Brandon Lee was shot, also with a gun which was mistakenly thought not to be loaded, on the set of The Crow in 1993.

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