Hollywood's tragic history of on-set accidents

The decease of 42-year-old manager of photography Halyna Hutchins portion moving connected the movie "Rust" successful New Mexico after histrion Alec Baldwin discharged a prop gun is conscionable the latest on-set tragedy.

There person been aggregate cases of deaths of unit members and stunt radical astatine work, including a pistillate stunt idiosyncratic who died portion performing connected the acceptable of "Deadpool 2" successful 2017.

In 1993, Brandon Lee, was filming the last scenes of the movie "The Crow" erstwhile helium died aft being changeable with a prop gun.

Actor Michael Massee, who played cause trader Funboyin the film, fired astatine Lee during a country which with a weapon that was aboriginal recovered to person been beryllium improperly loaded.

Dummy bullets had been replaced with cardboard wadding, but a slug fragment had breached disconnected and remained successful the gun.

That metallic extremity from the dummy slug deed Lee's abdomen. The lad of the renowned martial-arts maestro and histrion Bruce Lee was 28.

"Our hearts spell retired to the household of Halyna Hutchins and to Joel Souza and each progressive successful the incidental connected "Rust"," the connection read. "No 1 should ever beryllium killed by a weapon connected a movie set. Period."

Jon-Erik Hexum

Jon-Erik Hexum became celebrated successful 1982 aft snagging the pb relation of Phineas Bogg successful the NBC bid "Voyagers!."

The gangly and strikingly handsome histrion was a rising prima and soon formed to play Mac Harper, a CIA operative posing arsenic a antheral exemplary successful the TV bid "Cover Up."

While filming, Hexum reportedly was playing astir with a prop weapon from a country and changeable himself successful the head.

The blank drove a portion of his skull into his brain, and helium was taken disconnected of beingness enactment a week later. His quality was aboriginal written disconnected the show.

Vic Morrow

Victor Morrow had a longstanding vocation arsenic an histrion and manager by the clip helium recovered himself starring successful "Twilight Zone: The Movie" successful 1982.

Morrow was playing a racist who is sent backmost successful clip and placed successful situations successful which helium is persecuted.

In a country directed by John Landis, the histrion and 2 kid actors, 7-year-old Myca Dinh Le and 6-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were being filmed fleeing from a Vietnamese colony during the Vietnam warfare portion a US Army chopper hovered implicit them.

The copter crashed pursuing a pyrotechnic explosion, landing connected Morrow, 53, and the children who were killed.

Landis, the aviator and 3 others were charged with involuntary manslaughter. They were all acquitted pursuing a precocious illustration proceedings which lasted astir 9 months.