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(#5) Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Dec. at 47 (1967-2014)
On February 2, 2014, Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in a Manhattan hotel room from a heroin overdose. After more than 25 years of sobriety, the Oscar-winning actor (for Capote in 2006) had relapsed into addiction 8 months before his death. At the time, the second installment of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay was in production, and Hoffman had a week left of filming. He was 46 years old.
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(#19) Tyrone Power
- Dec. at 44 (1914-1958)
Hollywood icon Tyrone Power was filming the epic Solomon and Sheba when he suffered a massive heart attack on set during a fencing scene. Power died en route to the hospital on March 15, 1958.
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(#6) Natalie Wood
- Dec. at 43 (1938-1981)
At the time of her mysterious death, Natalie Wood was in the middle of production of the movie Brainstorm. Wood drowned on November 29, 1981 off the coast of California's Catalina Island during a weekend boat trip with her husband Robert Wagner, her Brainstorm co-star Christopher Walken, and the boat's captain Dennis Davern.
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(#21) Jim Davis
- Dec. at 72 (1909-1981)
Playing Jock Ewing, the patriarch of the Ewing family on "Dallas," Jim Davis appeared in 75 episodes during the show's first three seasons. Davis died of a brain tumor on April 26, 1981 while season three was still on the air. His character later "died” in a helicopter crash on an episode that aired in January 1982.
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(#14) Bela Lugosi
- Dec. at 74 (1882-1956)
Horror film icon Bela Lugosi, best known for playing Count Dracula, Lugosi died from a heart attack on August 16, 1956 while filming Plan 9 from Outer Space. Director Ed Wood asked his family's chiropractor to take over Lugosi's scenes even though the man didn't look or sound like the actor.
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(#4) River Phoenix
- Dec. at 23 (1970-1993)
Before he could finish filming the drama Dark Blood, River Phoenix died of a drug overdose of on October 31, 1993 outside The Viper Room in Hollywood. The autopsy found various drugs including cocaine and morphine in his system. Dark Blood remained unfinished for 19 years and was finally released in 2012.
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Being an outstanding actor is not just about entertainment and games. Actors must always keep their best condition, and they also have to take risks during works, sometimes they need to perform terrible stunts during the filming process. In the past few decades, many celebrities have tragically died during the filming on set, which has left countless fans sighed and heartbroken.
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