Top 5 Actors, That Died Too Soon

Sir Nicky Talent · 06-25-2009, 05:53 PM

If you go out, go out on a masterpiece. I call it The Ledger Leap.

Too soon?

James Deuce · 06-26-2009, 02:33 AM

I have two that I actually care about, John Candy and Bernie Mac. Both were great actors and were in some pretty funny movies.

Duke · 06-26-2009, 02:37 AM

chris farley is the main one in my head right now, i'll post more as i think of em

King Execution · 06-26-2009, 03:04 AM

Bernie Mac was 50 though, and his career was already winding down. Tho' he was ftw... he already accomplished a lot.

Caesar · 06-26-2009, 03:30 AM

Great call on Brandon Lee. The Crow is one of my all-time favorite movies ever.

Daddy · 06-26-2009, 03:32 AM

Dan Akroyd is still epic and hasn't fallen off the radar.

Dick! <.<

Conman · 06-29-2009, 09:35 AM

I always thought Jonathan Brandis was a good young actor ... Think he was about 27 years old when he hung himself.

Inogenius · 06-30-2009, 01:01 AM

1.) River Phoenix
2.) Brandon Lee
3.) Chris Farley
4.) Heath Ledger
5.) James Dean

I think some actors are immortalized by their death, but there are others who I think still had their breakout movie left in them. River Phoenix, by far, is the one where I feel this is especially true. He had an amazing capability to show emotion that seemed so real, and he was able to do this at a young age.

Freak · 06-30-2009, 02:14 PM

If you've ever watched The Crow as a sober adult, it's hard not to laugh a bit at Brandon Lee's performance in that movie... That's not to say he couldn't have been a big star, but his acting ability left something to be desired.

Unrelated to Lee (but related to the topic), one of my all-time fave films is a Russian drama called Vozvrashcheniye (or The Return) about two young brothers whose disturbed father returns after many years and takes them on a trip. In an early scene in the movie, the boys are cliff-jumping into a lake; very soon after the completion of filming, one of the two young actors actually drowned in the same lake...

Inogenius · 07-01-2009, 12:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Freak

If you've ever watched The Crow as a sober adult, it's hard not to laugh a bit at Brandon Lee's performance in that movie... That's not to say he couldn't have been a big star, but his acting ability left something to be desired.

Unrelated to Lee (but related to the topic), one of my all-time fave films is a Russian drama called Vozvrashcheniye (or The Return) about two young brothers whose disturbed father returns after many years and takes them on a trip. In an early scene in the movie, the boys are cliff-jumping into a lake; very soon after the completion of filming, one of the two young actors actually drowned in the same lake...

I actually just watched The Crow on Netflix a few weeks ago. He was awful, absolutely awful, but he was still taken far too young and the way it happened really was what motivated me to add him on my list.