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* Yet another heart attack victim: Redd Foxx on the set of ''The Royle Family''. His best known role was on ''Sanford and Son'', which had a [[Running Gag]] about his character faking heart attacks; ''and'' the working title for the show he was filming had been "Chest Pains". Holy [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]], [[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]! Due to his role as Fred Sanford, the rest of the cast [[All Part of the Show|thought he was just faking it]] until it was too late.
* John Ritter was rehearsing on the set of ''[[8 Simple Rules]]'' when he collapsed with a previously unknown heart problem. He died later that day.
* J.I. Rodale, author and publisher of ''Prevention'' magazine, died during a taping of ''The Dick Cavett Show''. Cavett's next guest, journalist Pete Hamill, heard a snore-like sound from Rodale and tipped Cavett and the staff to check on him
** Ironically enough, Rodale made several quips during that very interview that he had "never felt better" and [[Tempting Fate|"planned to live to 100"]]. He was 72.
* Italian soccer coach Francesco Scoglio died of a heart attack while on a TV talk show in 2005.
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=== [[Theater]] ===
* Actor/comedian Dick Shawn died of a heart attack onstage. It took time for anyone to realize he was dead, as the audience thought it was part of his act,<ref>
* Beloved British comedian [[Morecambe and Wise|Eric Morecambe]] also had a heart attack during a stage performance in 1984, and died the following day. In that stage show, ironically enough, he joked about the death of Tommy Cooper (whose death recounted above happened a month prior) and how he'd "hate to die like that".
* Sid James is rumored to haunt a dressing room at the Sunderland Empire Theatre after he had a heart attack and died onstage while performing there in 1976. The rest of the cast thought he was messing around when he failed to deliver his next line, and ad-libbed to cover. Then, when the truth was discovered, the initial request "Is there a doctor in the house" was met with a round of laughter. Incidentally, Les Dawson once used the haunted dressing room and then refused to ever play the venue again.
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* [[Older Than Steam]]: 17th-century playwright/actor Jean Baptiste Poquelin aka [[Moliere]], who suffered of [[Incurable Cough of Death|pulmonar tuberculosis]], collapsed during a last show and died after he was taken home. He was, [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|of course]], playing the title character in ''Le Malade Imaginaire'' (literally, The Imaginary Invalid; commonly, The Hypochondriac).
* Beloved Danish film and theater actor Dirch Passer passed away from a heart attack during a rehearsal. According to stories, he asked for someone to turn up the dim lights, shortly before he collapsed on the scene.
* Comedian Harry "Parkyakarkus"
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=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* A number of suicides have been recorded on TV, either set up deliberately or because a news crew happened to be passing at the time. However the only case of a professional performer doing so seems to have been Christine "Chris" Chubbuck, a talk show host for the Sarasota channel WXLT-TV, who shot herself dead during a live show, ''Suncoast Digest'', on July
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* While filming the river scene in ''The Two Towers'' of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' trilogy, Viggo Mortensen was pulled under by a current and nearly drowned.
** A related incident occured while filming ''The Fellowship Of The Ring'', again involving Viggo. During the climatic battle scene at the end of the film, one of the Uruk-Hai, originally meant to throw his knife at Aragorn and ''miss'', instead threw it ''right at him'' by mistake. Luckily, Viggo managed to ''deflect the knife with his sword'', turning it into a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] instead.
* [[Eli Roth]] and Omar Doom were almost incinerated during the filming of ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]''. [[Quentin Tarantino]] is not one for special effects, so the fire you see in the theater sequence burned far hotter than anyone had anticipated- nearly 2000 degrees Fahrenheit- and Roth collapsed from the sheer pain of being on the burning set. The fire marshals said that if filming had continued for
* Racing driver David Piper lost part of one of his legs in a severe crash during the making Steve McQueen's 1970 racing epic ''Le Mans''.
* While shooting the underwater scenes in ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien: Resurrection]]'', [[Ron Perlman]] hit his head and almost drowned.
** [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] almost suffered the same fate filming ''[[The 6th Day]]''.
* Ed Harris almost drowned while making ''[[The Abyss]]''. The kicker was that [[James Cameron]] ''knew'' he'd run out of air and kept rolling anyway, a case of [[Enforced Method Acting]] that [[Gone Horribly Wrong|backfired on him]]
** Weirdly enough Cameron himself nearly drowned early on in the shoot, when his diving suit malfunctioned while he was still weighed down at the bottom of the tank during filming. Seemed to happen a lot on that shoot.
* During film of ''[[The Last Samurai]]'', [[Tom Cruise]] was nearly decapitated when the animatronic horse he was riding malfunctioned during the filming of the first battle in the forest. If Hiroyuki Sanada hadn't been quite as skilled, his sword would have killed Cruise. As is, Sanada was able to stop his blade within an inch of Cruise's neck.
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* ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' episode where they visit Kings Island Amusement Park includes a scene of them on the roller coaster The Racer, which was filmed with a camera mounted onto the ride car. Robert Reed thought that the camera looked unsafe and made them do a test run first. When they did, the camera flew off and would have killed the actors if they had been on the ride.
* Bob Denver was nearly killed by a live lion used in one episode of ''[[Gilligan's Island]]''. Nevertheless, most of the cast considered the episode to be their favorite... presumably they almost [[Just Eat Gilligan|got off the island]].
* An infamous 2006 Vampire Dragster crash very nearly killed ''[[Top Gear]]'' presenter Richard Hammond. In a slight subversion however, he had already done the required take successfully. It was revealed when they were watching the footage when he returned to the show that he was trying to set an official speed record (which requires running the vehicle in two opposing directions to get the average speed of each run), during which he crashed at
* In one of the closest calls of this trope ever, In 1995, Tracey Conway, one of the stars of the Seattle sketch comedy show ''[[Almost Live]]!'', had a heart attack just after an ''ER'' spoof, of all things. A fireman in the audience gave her CPR until an ambulance could arrive. Fortunately, she recovered.
* In the first episode of ''[[The Wire]]'', the scene of McNulty urinating on train tracks and walking off while barely avoiding an oncoming train was done for real, as the last scene shot. In his commentary, David Simon talks about how worried everyone was that they'd finish filming their first episode by killing their star.
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* In 2008, at the first reunion concert for [[X Japan]], [[Yoshiki Hayashi]] collapsed on the drums during ''Art Of Life'' due to overwhelming pain from a neck condition (for which he would later obtain emergency surgery in 2009).
** During a 2010 [[X Japan]] performance, a pyro went off too close to Yoshiki and bassist [[Hiroshi Morie|Heath.]] Both were coated in smoke and soot, but were otherwise all right.
* During the video shoot of [[S Club 7|
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