- ‘The Captive’
Gun related deaths go back to the dawn of cinema with extra Charles Chandler shot in the head in 1915 while filming the Cecil B DeMille movie “The Captive”.
He died after a bullet was left in a rifle after soldiers shot at a door with live ammunition to give the scene more realism.
- ‘Twilight Zone: The Movie’
Actor Vic Morrow was decapitated and two Vietnamese-born child extras killed in 1982 when a helicopter crashed on them after being hit by pyrotechnics during the shooting of a night battle scene for the sci-fi horror movie near Los Angeles.
Director John Landis was later acquitted of the manslaughter of the 53-year-old star as well as the children, aged six and seven, in the first such case in Hollywood history.
- ‘The Crow’
US actor Brandon Lee, a martial arts legend and the son of Bruce Lee, was shot and killed on the set of “The Crow” in 1993 in a case which set off a whirl of conspiracy theories about him being murdered by Hong Kong gangsters.
But investigators found his death was caused by negligence. An actor fired at Lee with a gun which was supposed to contain blanks.
However, there was a bullet in the chamber and Lee, 28, died hours later from his injuries.
- ‘Batman: The Dark Knight’
Rumours of a “Curse of Batman” circulated after the 2007 death of stuntman Conway Wickliffe during a test run for a scene involving the Batmobile in “The Dark Knight” was followed by the drugs overdose of Heath Ledger, 28, who played The Joker.
Co-star Morgan Freeman was later badly injured in a car crash and Batman himself Christian Bale faced accusations of assaulting his mother and sister the day before the film’s UK premiere.
- ‘Jumper’
A set dresser was killed on the Samuel L Jackson sci-fi movie in 2008 when frozen sand, earth and ice from an exterior set collapsed onto staff below during shooting in Toronto.
David Ritchie, 56, died instantly.
- ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood’
Emmy-winning sound mixer James Emswiller died after falling from a second-floor balcony during the filming in 2018 of a biopic about US television icon Fred Rogers for which Tom Hanks was later nominated for an Oscar.