Actors Seriously Injured On Movie Sets!

Boris Karloff[spinal fusion after making-Frankenstein]...Margaret Hamilton[hair burned while filming-The Wizard Of Oz]...Buddy Ebsen[skin poisoning-Wizard Of Oz]...Clint Eastwood[almost hanged filming-Hang Em High].

 

Tom Cruise jumping from one building rooftop to another during filming Mission Impossible the last film. Not sure on what injuries he sustained, but it had to hurt.

 

Vic Morrow

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jerol

 

That's the one that came to my mind.

 

Uma Thurman

 

This one is so interesting. I had no idea about all this until I watched that doc on Quentin. Uma got screwed over big time. Another reason to hate Weinstein.

 

Harrison Ford in Temple of Doom. Herniated disc.

 

1920s child actress Baby Peggy Montgomery (Diana Serra Cary...101 years young) talks about how her father Jack (a former cowboy who with his companions ended up as extras in a lot of westerns) was injured in Cecil B DeMille’s 1935 “The Crusades”. DeMille wasn’t too concerned with safety and Jack tried to organize a stampede to get even with DeMille

Dick York had a back injury on “They came to Cordoba” which several years later severely impacted his career.

 

mine too...one of the most tragic!

 

Kevin Smith, a veteran New Zealand actor best known for his role as Ares in the television series “Xena: Warrior Princess,” has died. He was 38.

 

Roy Kinnear -- known from Help! and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory -- fell off a horse and broke his pelvis during the making of The Return of The Musketeers in 1988. He died of a heart attack in the hospital the next day.

 

Jerry Lewis in Cinderfella. He ran up that big flight of stairs and had a heart attack as soon they cut the scene.

 

I wasn't aware he had died.
He was great in ' Help ' as the bumbling fumbling assistant to the scientist.who wanted Ringo's ring so badly because : " With a ring like that I could --dare I say it it?--- rule the world.!"
In a totally grittier role , Kinnear was very good in the Sean Connery war movie ' The Hill '

 

Brandon Lee in The Crow. Tragic mistake by the prop crew.

 

Broke an ankle

 

Michael J Fox almost really hanged during filming of Back to the Future III.

 

Not really injured (almost died) but how emotionally scarred was he for a while?
Ed Harris almost drowned on The Abyss.

 

that blew my mind! Damn...such neglect!

 

never knew that! WOW...

 

very interesting thread..never knew many of the injuries I'm reading here...have to dig deeper.

 

Q didn't come off that great either

mary also had a breakdown from the drowning scene she did, i think its in the documentary, they were put thru hell it seems

 

I always felt bad for Michael Massee. It wasn’t really his fault but it really tortured him for the rest of his life. And of course almost every headline after he died brings that up.

 

that was inexcusable...seriously, when one uses firearms in a movie there no room for mistakes...NONE!...the outcome is always bad...utter pure neglect.

 

Harold Lloyd lost a thumb and finger during a stunt gone wrong (1919!) and wore a prosthetic glove ever after.