
Chandler died as a result of malpractice during spinal surgery. Nominated for an Academy Award in 1951 for his supporting role as Cochise in Broken Arrow.
Hollywood star of the 1950s and early 1960s, best known for his roles in Westerns, as well as war and action movies. June 17: Jeff Chandler, blood poisoning.His death was later partially attributed to the ingestion of amphetamines. Danish Olympic cyclist, collapsed from sunstroke during the 1960 Rome Olympics and fatally injured his head. Unknown date: Knut Jensen, overdose / head trauma.Killed herself two years later, at age 38. Published memoir Too Much, Too Soon in 1957, filmed in 1958 with Dorothy Malone as Diana and Errol Flynn as her father. Supposed inspiration for the Georgia Lorrison character in The Bad and the Beautiful, played by Lana Turner. Married three times, to various hangers-on and wifebeaters. Daughter of John Barrymore, a world-famous drunk himself, and niece of Lionel and Ethel Barrymore. Failed film and stage actress, and noted alcoholic. Gallimard died from his wounds several days later, Camus was killed instantly. The train ticket was later found in his pocket. Camus greatly disliked cars and wanted to ride to Paris by train, but was convinced by Gallimard to drive with him. Was in the car with Michel Gallimard, nephew of publisher Gaston Gallimard, on the way to Paris when the car swerved off the road and crashed into a tree. Won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957. Existentialist novelist and philosopher, author of The Stranger, The Plague and The Fall. January 4: Albert Camus, road accident.Took her life by an overdose of barbiturates at age 49.
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Her third offspring was actress Brooke Hayward, who wrote Haywire, an autobiography about her childhood, which was turned into a 1980 TV movie starring Lee Remick as Sullavan. Toward the end of her life Sullavan was going deaf and was greatly troubled by the mental illness of two of her three children. Was married to, among others, actor Henry Fonda (for two months) and director William Wyler (for sixteen months). Nominated for an Academy Award for Three Comrades in 1939, but best remembered for her lead role opposite James Stewart in The Shop Around the Corner. Hollywood star of the 1930s and 1940s, and theater actress until the 1950s. January 1: Margaret Sullavan, suicide by overdose.If your favorite dead celebrity isn't listed, or if you have any info to contribute, please /msg me. The focus is on actors, directors and other movie-related people, although singers, musicians, TV personalities, etc., are also included.

Homicides, suicides, overdoses, accidents and any sort of death before the (arbitrarily chosen) age of 50. Unusual, unnatural or untimely deaths of random celebrities between 19.
