Movie Scenes That Actually Killed Stunt Actors

Shark attacks, mid-air collisions, and plummeting to their death. Unfortunately, these stunt actors lost their lives making these movie scenes a reality.

#Movies #Stunts #Action

xXx (2002) | 0:00
Top Gun (1986) | 0:54
Shark! (1969) | 1:53
Deadpool 2 (2018) | 2:43
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995) | 3:43
The Expendables 2 (2012) | 4:40
The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982) | 5:56
For Your Eyes Only (1981) | 6:56
Red Cliff (2008) | 7:52
Comes a Horseman (1978) | 8:49
Delta Force II (1990) | 9:45
Hired to Kill (1990) | 10:45
The Right Stuff (1983) | 11:47
They Died With Their Boots On (1941) | 12:47
Troy (2004) | 13:49
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) | 15:03
Steel (1979) | 16:07
Von Richthofen and Brown (1971) | 17:10
Red Heat (1988) | 18:01

Voiceover by: Jordan Joshua

[Looper]

Please Note: We mistakenly said the Trojan War was between the Greeks and the Spartans and meant to say the Greeks and Troy. Our apologies.

RIP to the stunt actors featured in this video and the others we unfortunately have yet to cover, as stunt performers are the often-unsung heroes of cinema.

[devendrapandey]

Appreciation for all stunt actors who makes watching movie worth while

[stevenvicino]

You forgot Hells Angels, the Howard Hughes classic about WW1 aviation. Numerous stunt pilots were killed because Hughes insisted on realistic flight sequences.

[RReese]

You left stuntman Dar Robinson off the list. Dar died in a freak accident after completing a stunt for a movie called Million Dollar Mystery in 1986. I got to meet Dar about a year or so before he passed. Like most people in the business, he was a good guy, very accomplished, but pretty humble about his accomplishments. Gone too soon.

[andreaso]

18:05 I heard/read that the Stunt coordinator wanted to put some cushion under the snow to protect Arne and Sven from the cold. He fell dead while doing so, trying to protect the well-being of others. This makes it even more sad.

[autonomous]

Its actually so weird that ive seen so many movies, and loved them all these years, and never once knew that people died making the stunts happen.

[ultrametric]

No one died on "Shark!" - that was a publicity stunt.

[KyleCowden]

I met Art Scholl years before Top Gun. That experience was beyond fantastic. I remember at the time it was said the flat spin that was shown, and had been completed successfully, was requested to be done again as an inverted flat spin. This was something Scholl could do with his eyes closed. The theory at the time was reconfiguring the on board cameras shifted the CG so that the plane didn't respond or recover as expected.

Paul Mantz' death was another where they wanted "one more" shot. The "Phoenix" was actually the front half of the C-119 boom and wings while the back half was fabricated. It was mostly a plywood monocoque. It snapped off on a bounce and the "plane" flipped killing Mantz but not the actors along the wing.

[SiriusMined]

The plane wasn't recovered from the debris? I don't think you know what debris means

[crisespinoza]

You left out the helicopter crash on the set of The Twilight Zone movie that killed not only Vic Morrow but also two child actors and the helicopter crew.

[DrVenture]

It's unfortunate that any movie stunt can result in death. Dar Robinson (know for work in "Lethal Weapon") once said, "It's the simple stunts that get you killed" would himself die performing a routine motorcycle stunt. I think Hollywood's failed acknowledgement of the work these persons do deserves Academy appreciation long overdue.

[nataliestownsend]

Rest in peace to all these people on this video. My heart goes out to their family and friends. Thank god we still have their memories to keep them alive with videos like this. Keep up the good work, Looper channel your the best thank you for remembering them all

[dicksonfranssen]

Some of these deaths were caused by complete stupidity, where is the "safety" crew and how did the movie get insurance? The AJ Bakunas fall was just ego. Jumping 323 feet onto an airbag that wasn't rated for that? What a waste.

[Rigel_Chiokis]

When people complain about stunts being done with CG instead of doing them practical, I always point out that CG stunts have never killed anyone. Practical stunts have a long history of killing people, including children.

[AdamsOlympia]

If I was a stunt actor who died at work, I'd certainly wouldn't want my final scene to go to waste. I'm sure most stunt people would feel the same.
They're putting their life at risk to create amazing, realistic footage ...so if they sacrifice their life, at least that final sacrifice wouldn't be completely for naught.

[Munenushi]

if i may, i remember when Jackie Chan was in an interview around the time of him starting to do movies in the USA (eg. Rumble In The Bronx, etc) - he was telling of him learning the differences in movie making between the two countries at the time, saying

[my paraphrasing/summary]

Chan: "In China, I jump down many floors through many layers of [sugar-paned] glass, then land on many carboard boxes - it hurts but I am alive... I come to America and they put me in a big blue room with two blue boxes and say to me 'OK jump from this box to this box for stunt' - and I think to myself 'I could have been doing stunts like this?!?' wooow..."

heh

Much love and respect to all Stuntworkers, really

[BJIa]

I can now see why we are getting so much CGI and takes inside studios so that safety takes main point. Soon we will be able to green screen a lot of stuff so that future accidents will be rare. It’s good that the movies dedicated to the lost stunt workers I would like to see a picture of them so that we don’t forget their face.

[Blackout]

Scholl didn't die during the inverted stunt, he died in the Flat Spin stunt.

[cpuuk]

Re Expendables: Even though Jet Li wasn't involved in the bad stunt, he gave 50x more money to the stuntman's family than the Studio did.

[imnotmike]

So one of the actors in a movie about Achilles dying from an Achilles injury actually died from an injury to his Achilles tendon?