Final Performances

[ElectroSunDog]

Loads of stars have kicked the bucket onstage, or shortly after. So without further adeiu, here is a list of  last films:


Brainscan: Natalie Wood (complete, contrary to popular belief)

The First Deadly Sin: Frank Sinatra

EPCOT film: Walt Disney (more info to follow)

Something's Gotta Give: Marylin Monroe (incomplete)

The Game Of Death: Bruce Lee (incomplete)

Ciao! Manhattan!: Sharon Tate

The Jungle Book: Verna Felton

Harlow: Ginger Rogers

The Harder They Fall: Humphrey Bogart

Nothing In Common: Jackie Gleason

The Shootist: John Wayne

Witness for the Prosecution: Tyrone Power

Avalance Express: Robert Shaw

The Crow: Brandon Lee

Eyes Wide Shut: (as director) Stanley Kubrick

Salo, the 120 Days Of Sodom: (as director) Paolo Pasolini

[Ash]

Actually I think it was "Brainstorm" instead of "Brainscan" with Natalie Wood.

[raj]

And of course Bela Lugosi in Plan 9

[Scott]

Yes to:

John Wayne in the Shootist
Bela Lugosi in Plan 9 From Outer Space

I'm a fan of Natalie Wood good answer with Brainstorm ASHTHECAT. I seen that one with Christiphor Walken.

[BoyScoutKevin]

A list of final performances would be almost endless, so here is a list of final performances that I have seen.

Lou Costello w/o Bud Abbott "The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock"
Sarah Allgood "Sierra"
Fay Bainter "The Children's Hour"
Richard Barthelmess "The Spoilers"
Alice Brady "Young Mr. Lincoln"
Nigel Bruce "Bwana Devil"
Harry Carey "So Dear to My Heart"
Ronald Colman "The Story of Mankind"
Jane Darwell "Mary Poppins"
James Dean "Giant"
Reginald Denny "Batman"
Stuart Erwin "The Misadventures of Merlin Jones"
Clark Gable "The Misfits"
James Gleason "The Last Hurrah"
Judy Holliday "Bells Are Ringing"
Leslie Howard "The Invaders"
Walter Huston "The Furies"
Buster Keaton "War Italian Style"
Guy Kibbee "Fort Apache"
Alan Ladd "The Carpetbaggers"
Charles Laughton "Advise and Consent"
Laurel and Hardy "Atoll K"
Carole Lombard "To Be or Not to Be"
Chico and Harpo Marx "The Story of Mankind"
Adolphe Menjou "Pollyanna"
Carmen Miranda "Scared Stiff"
Thomas Mitchell "Pocketful of Miracles"
ZaSu Pitts "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
Tyrone Power "Witness for the Prosecution"
Claude Rains "The Greatest Story Ever Told"
Sig Rumann "The Fortune Cookie"
Sabu "A Tiger Walks"
S. Z. "Cuddles" Sakall "The Student Prince"
Everett Sloane "The Disorderly Orderly"
Sir C. Aubrey Smith "Little Women"
Lewis Stone "All the Brothers Were Valiant"
Spencer Tracy "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
Monty Wooley "Kismet"
Ed Wynn "The Gnome Mobile"

[ulthar]

Walt Disney died before Jungle Book was complete ...

[Susan]

>>Ciao! Manhattan!: Sharon Tate <<

Huh? It was "12+1", and...i don't think she was even in Ciao! Manhattan!



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[ulthar]

Disney was not performer, but thought the door'd be open with the mention of Kubrick.

I think it's a bit sad Walt did not live to see "The Jungle Book" in final form as I believe it remains one of the best.

[Dunners]

Raul Julia, street fighter.

[The Burgomaster]

I always thought that THE GAME OF DEATH was just pieced together from scraps of old Bruce Lee footage.  I didn't think that he was actually involved in attempting to make another movie.  If you watch the movie, it seems like all of the shots of Bruce (and there are only a handful of them) are close-ups of his face or eyes that appear to be from other movies.  Most of the movie consists of another actor wearing sunglasses pretending to be Bruce Lee.

[Neville]

Add to the list Francisco Rabal in "Dagon", he died shortly after the shooting.

[trekgeezer]

Oliver Reed in Gladiator

Game of  Death is a real incomplete movie which culminates in a fight between Kareem Abdul-Jabar and Bruce. Kareem was Bruce's friend and student.  AMC has shown great portions of it.

[ulthar]

Vic Morrow, "The Twilight Zone"

[Susan]

>>Vic Morrow, "The Twilight Zone"<<

Now that was a horrible way to go...

[AndyC]

Susan wrote:

> >>Vic Morrow, "The Twilight Zone"<<
>
> Now that was a horrible way to go...

The movie, or the death?

My favourite is still Orson Welles in Transformers: The Movie