Lesser known suicides

Clara Blandick would indeed fit the category of "lesser known"

Henry, suck my Blandick.

Joyce Jameson, one of the "fun girls" always hitting on Barney Fife (but she always called him Bernie!) overdosed.

I'm still here!

Lesser known to me, Herve Villechaize, in 1993, self-inflicted gunshot wound. Left a suicide note saying he was despondent over longtime health problems.

Actress Peg Entwhistle killed herself by jumping off the H of the famous Hollywood sign way back in 1932 when she was only 24. She left a suicide note behind.

One wonders how she got up there in the first place.

R6 Should be Peg Entwistle. Made only 1 movie before she killed herself.

Jack Paar.

What would be a lethal prescription type combination to take, seconal etc are impossible to get.

Famous fashion designer Irene (Lentz/Gibbons) rented a room 1129 at the Knickerbocker Hotel and jumped from the window to her death.

She told Doris Day that she was very distraught because Gary Cooper, the only man she had ever loved, had recently died.

Paar died of ill health not suicide.

Bud Dwyer.

Margot Kidder

William Inge

[quote] Margot lived at the foot of Canyon Mountain, right outside of Livingston. Like much of Montana, the area was filled with wolves. But instead of fearing them, Margot loved them. She left meat out for the wolves so she could watch them come down the mountain and eat from the safety of her home... She'd asked her closest friends—if they stopped by her place and found her dead—to tell no one, place her naked body in a bedsheet, drag it up Canyon Mountain, and leave her for her other friends, the wolves.[72]

Peg Entwhistle

[quote]place her naked body in a bedsheet, drag it up Canyon Mountain, and leave her for her other friends, the wolves.

We'll pass.

I would do an R10, were I to suicide. Jumping from a considerable height, I mean.

Either that, or I would park my car by the lock n dam, get drunk to the point I could barely move and jump over the side.

Things are great at the moment but I prefer to plan for Worst Case Scenerio.

Saoirse Ronan should play Peg Entwistle in the movie.

Quite a resemblance.

Oops, I meant Dave Garroway.

Lucille Ball in Mame.

Peg kinda looks like Cynthia Nixon

Jessica Savitch's husband, a doctor, committed suicide by hanging in their DC home in 1981. He was only 45. She found him. A little over 2 years later Jessica died in the freak drowning accident.

A guy I went to high school with through himself in front of a train. Nobody really knew him all that well.

[quote]A guy I went to high school with through himself in front of a train.

Oh, dear!

Elizabeth Hartman played the blind girl in A Patch of Blue with Shelley Winters as her abusive mother, Sydney Poitier played her friend.

Black actress Dorothy Dandridge had a fairly successful career in Hollywood back in the day then fell on hard times.

She was found dead in her apartment at only age 42. A blood clot was initially thought to have killed her but barbiturate poisoning, 4 times the normal amount, was found in her bloodstream. She was despondent and it may have been suicide or an accidental overdose. Tragic at any rate.

Elizabeth Hartman was only 43 when she committed suicide.

Keith Andes, asphyxiation

R26 LOL Too many Friday night drinks. Why can't you edit posts on here?

Maggie McNamara ("The Moon is Blue," "Three Coins in the Fountain"), barbiturate overdose.

Ona Munson, barbiturate oberdose

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Dorothy Dandrige is such a tragic story. Breaks my heart.

R22 made me chuckle

Edward Platt (the Chief on GET SMART)

Ed Flanders (ST. ELSEWHERE)

Brian Keith (FAMILY AFFAIR)

R35 = MARY!!!

I'm getting Kirsten Dunst vibes from the Peg Entwhistle pic in R7.

JonBenet Ramsey, talking back to her Christian mother.

Peg Entwhistle is a lesser-known suicide?

Her leap off the Hollywood sign is fucking legend and the ultimate metaphor for failure and despondency in a cutthroat entertainment industry.

At age 72 actor David Carradine was found dead by hanging in the closet of his hotel room overseas. Was it suicide or autoerotic kink?

R41 It's Peg ENTWISTLE! No 'h'.

A list of people (mostly teenagers) who have committed suicide due to bullying.

Charles Boyer committed suicide?

Marilyn Monroe. Was it suicide? An accidental overdose? Or a sinister political plot to silence her?

Marilyn Monroe was murdered.

Not to be the thread police, but I would hardly call MM's death "lesser known," and the debate over her cause of death seems like a topic for a whole other thread

If in 2018 you still believe that Monroe was murdered..then you really know absolutely nothing about her except what you've read in tawdry grocery store tabloids.

Demi Moore's suicide started with The Scarlet Letter followed by a string other bombs.

She was a druggie and drinker and suffered from depression and anxiety. Doesn’t mean she wasn’t murdered.

Demi Moore's life force began to leave her once Ashton's cock was no longer plugging up her hole of loneliness and despair.

After reading this thread, I’m curious what DL’s idea of a “widely-known suicide” would be.

Marlon Brando's tragic daughter Cheyenne who hung herself at only age 25. So many family problems and Brando was a lousy father with too many children.

Is Donny Hathaway lesser known?

[quote]Saoirse Ronan should play Peg Entwistle in the movie.

What movie?

Star Wars, Rose

What a cheery little thread for a Friday evening!

And my contribution is Capucine. And Brando's daughter HANGED herself. She wasn't hung as her father reputedly was.

Maggie McNamara's suicide was especially shocking, and a waste. Also Jon Hall.

David Carradine's suicide (whether intentional or not) was tragic. It was made worse when joked about at the following Academy Awards. I thought it was probably one of the most tasteless moments during an Oscar telecast.

Wow, R34, Dorothy Winona had a LOT of middle names!

[54] Marlon Brando's tragic daughter Cheyenne who hung herself at only age 25. It's who HANGED herself.

Helena Belmonte, Filipina-American model and socialite, jumped from the 28th floor of the Renaissance Tower in Ortigas Center.

David Strickland, actor on the 90s sitcom Suddenly Susan.

Charles Rocket

Barbara Bates, the actress who played Phoebe, the devious teenage fan girl in the last scenes of "All About Eve," battled lifelong depression. She was despondent over the death of her husband and died of carbon monoxide poisoning in 1969. She was 43 years old.

Jonathan Brandis

Brian Keith was the stepson of Peg Entwhistle. There was an access road that led up to the Hollywood sign but it's been closed for many years.

Carroll O'Conner's son Hugh.

Sylvia Plath's son Nicholas hanged himself.

It's rumored that Jackie Onassis was an assisted suicide. Does that count?

Well, the Datalounge sure seems to know a lot about this topic.

I think Jean Seberg's ex husband, Romain Gary, also killed himself. And eventually so did their son.

R45, Boyer took poison after his wife of many years died. His character in "All This and Heaven Too," which was based on an actual 19th-century French scandal, did the same. Some years earlier Boyer's only child shot himself fatally.

Louis Jourdan's only son

Jennifer Jones' daughter

One of Gregory Peck's sons?

At least one of Bing Crosby's sons with Dixie Lee

Kirk Douglas' son (Eric?)

Mary Tyler Moore's son

Ray Milland's son

One of Judy Garland's sisters

Actor Carlos Thompson, widower of Lili Palmer

Billy Haines' widower (Jimmy Shields?)

Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl (ant paste)

Is Michael Hutchence a lesser known person? He did the suicide or was it auto-erotic asphyxiation thing like David Carradine.

R55 Donny Hathaway was a schizophrenic who gradually deteriorated. I don’t think he really knew what he was doing.

Actor/producer Richard Kollmar committed suicide five years after the mysterious death of his wife, DL fave Dorothy Kilgallen.

Mercedes McCambridge's son killed his wife, two daughters and himself in 1987.

"At least one of Bing Crosby's sons with Dixie Lee "

I thought they all killed themselves eventually?

Der Bingle, what a piece of work he was...

Bing Crosby's sons Dennis and Lindsay both committed suicide, while Phillip and Gary died in their 60s of cancer.

His kids with Kathryn are all still alive, probably because he was too old by then to be the psychotic bastard he had been to his first four children and their mother.

stand-up comic Richard Jeni

Is that really true about Keith Andes? What a shame. He was so hot.

R84 yes, he was suffering from cancer.

Which leads me to Richard Farnsworth (The Straight Story, Anne of Green Gables), who shot himself because of his incurable cancer just months after he lost the Oscar to Kevin Spacey.

Director suicides:

Tony Scott (Top Gun, True Romance, Crimson Tide)

James Whale (Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Invisible Man, Showboat)

W.S. Van Dyke (The Thin Man, Tarzan, San Francisco)

Richard Quine (Bell Book & Candle, Suzie Wong, How to Murder Your Wife)

I tried... but then I died anyway.

I guess Gig Young's wasn't a lesser known suicide... but I'll mention it anyway because I just happened to be walking down 57th street when they were taking his body away.

I had no idea WS Van Dyke killed himself. Looked it up and apparently he was a Christian Scientist who refused treatment for cancer, and when things got grim he offed himself.

So Robert Young tried to kill himself with car exhaust after calling a tow truck company to come help him with his car? Seems inefficient somehow.

I think Keith Andes was in his mid 80s.

Pedro Armendariz, one of the unlucky people involved in "The Conqueror," which was filmed in irradiated Nevada, committed suicide after his cancer was diagnosed.

R88, wow! Gig Young was a beautiful young man.

Re Gig Young: It as a murder/suicide. He killed his new wife first less than a month after the wedding, then shot himself.

Frank Sinatra got punched in the face by Rex Harrison for implying he was responsible for Carole Landis’ death. Then when he took the punch and laughed, Harrison punched him again,

Rex Harrison behaved so suspiciously after Landis's death that, even though Sinatra was an utter bastard, he may not have been wrong.

Inger Stevens, who shared a sexy hair cutting scene with Harry Belafonte in the post-apocalyptic THE WORLD THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL, ODed on barbiturates.

Albert Salmi, who was in the original "Bus Stop," with Kim Stanley, and was married for several years to Peggy Ann Garner, shot his estranged second wife, then himself. He had chronic depression.

R93, quite soon after Landis' death, Harrison and Llili Palmer, his wife, made a movie called "The Long Dark Hall," about a married man who is falsely accused of murdering his mistress. Seems hard to believe that, so maybe that's not exact

John F Kennedy. He suffered a lot of guilt after shaking his son to death (covered up of course) and he had a tiny ear bomb planted in his hair and when it exploded they blamed Oswald (again a cover up).

No, Mary Tyler Moore's son, Richie Meeker, did not commit suicide. He died when a gun he was playing with accidentally discharged.

English actor Alan Lake, the third husband of Diana Dors (aka the British Marilyn Monroe), shot himself several months after she succumbed to ovarian cancer. They had been married for 16 years.

Andrew Koenig played Boner, best friend of Kirk Cameron's character on Growing Pains. Andrew hanged himself.

Donald Trump died after falling into a money laundering machine.

R30, I had no idea about Keith Andes. Loved him in Clash By Night. His character could have been the rough asshole type but had some complexity to him.

Oh, wait: He killed himself at 85! That's not suicide-suicide, as Whoopi would say. I'll do that probably.

R100, his father was Walter Koenig, Chekov in Star Trek.

I think that when the person had a terminal illness, there's a qualitative difference.

Sawyer Sweeten, who played twin Geoffrey Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond, killed himself with a gun in 2015 at age 19.

R104: A twin. Gay?

Sawyer Sweeten reportedly had financial problems and an aunt said that depression and mental illness runs in the family.

Actor Rick Jason ("Combat!").

Lee Thompson Young, star of the Disney Channel's THE FAMOUS JETT JACKSON and a lead on RIZZOLI & ISLES, shot himself a few years back. He was bipolar.

So many barbiturate over dose deaths in the 50s--60s, hard to tell if they were accidental because the drugs were so strong and folks were not adequately warned or treated for dependency, or if these handy drugs just made it super easy for depressed people to off themselves. (Or to be helped along the OD path by others, in some instances.) I also wonder about falling deaths...there always seems to be room to consider a push rather than a jump.

Abbie Hoffman. He suffered from bipolar disorder

Jason Raize played the adult Simba in the Broadway stage musical version of The Lion King. He was just 28 years old when he hanged himself. There were rumors he was using drugs and was depressed. Sad.

Did anyone uncover why Tony Scott did it. At the time there was talk of brain cancer which the familty strongly denied.

This list contains a lot of "Who's that?" actors.

Jeff Loeffelhoz, an actor who chronicled episodes of backstage bullying before he died.

Yugoslav hottie Bekim Fehmiu, who shagged DL icon Olivia de Havilland in the infamously bad "The Adventurers" (which started and ended his Hollywood film career).

Shot himself in the head.

R94, Rachel Roberts, a former Mrs. Rex Harrison, also committed suicide.

R92, His real name was Byron Barr. "Gig Young" was the name of his character in his film debut, "The Gay Sisters". He liked the name and took it as his own.

BTW, "The Gay Sisters" starred Barbara Stanwyck.

Soap actor Nick Santino took an overdose of sleeping pills. He was despondent over euthanizing his beloved pitbull terrier, Rocco. "Today, I betrayed my best friend," his suicide note read. "Rocco trusted me and I failed him."

R118, Does Eric Braeden own a dog?

MM, accidental death brought about by an out of control, unprofessional quack, Dr Greenson, and her crazed bizarre housekeeper. What throws everybody off the track is Marilyn had several other brushes of taking too many sleeping pills,. What people never understand is MM had an encylopedic knowlege of prescription meds and knew precisely her tolerance, past episodes were bids for sympathy and attn. On the fatal night she wasnt aware of the interraction between nembutal and chloral hydrate and Eunice Murray may have given too high doseage of the chloral hydrate. MM had been taking a steady dose of nembutal thruout the day ( apparently not known to Greenson) to block out medicate the extreme unpleasantness of having told Murray it was her last day on the job and having told Greenson she was terminating therapy. It was a very complicated last few days in the life of MM and those around her failed her.

Bekim Fehmiu was hawt!

Some of the former NFL player suicides before Aaron Hernandez were lesser known.

Gwyneth Paltrow, died of ODing on fried chicken skin.

r118 So another death by pit bull...

Model/actress Lucy Gordon, she was one of the faces of Cover Girl in the late 90s

Then there are all the people who made "unsuccessful" suicide attempts. And some of,those were half hearted. When they weren't half hearted, it was because of the intervention of others that the attempt was unsuccessful. So those were almost-suicides.

Susan Hayward

Judy Garland

Alan Ladd the first time?

Other than Phil Hartman's wife, isn't it usually the male partner who causes the murder-suicide?

Ray Combs, Former Host of 'Family Feud,' Dead of Suicide... June 03, 1996

R89 Apparently Jean Seberg's son with Romain Gary (Alexandre Diego Gary) is still alive.

^ Oops, I meant to reply to R73.

[quote] Peg Entwhistle is a lesser-known suicide?

[quote] Her leap off the Hollywood sign is fucking legend and the ultimate metaphor for failure and despondency in a cutthroat entertainment industry.

r41, meet irony.

Irony, meet r41.

R130, Bette Davis often said that it was seeing Peg Entwistle in a play that convinced her to become an actress.

Peg Entwistle was once the stepmother of Brian Keith, who also committed suicide.

In 1979, actress Laurie Bird committed suicide by taking an overdose of Valium in the apartment she shared with Art Garfunkel in New York.

Dorothy Hale, Ziegfeld showgirl, jumped in 1938 from her luxury NYC suite wearing her favorite black dress. Clare Booth Luce asked Frida Kahlo to do a portrait to give to her mother, she painted the actual event and Clare was horrified and hid the painting for decades.

That Frida! What a caution!

Marie Osmond's son, Michael, jumped to his death at the age of 18.

[quote] "Re Gig Young: It as a murder/suicide. He killed his new wife first less than a month after the wedding, then shot himself. —Anonymous" R92

Boy, did I dodge a bullet.

Anderson Cooper's brother killed himself. Maybe not lesser known; rather well known.

Flipside: Judee Sill, a 70s singer whom Brian Eno said wrote a perfect song ("The Kiss"), is considered to have killed herself but it's disputed. It could have been an accidental overdose. What was taken to be a suicide note could have been lyrics and not a goodbye, cruel world.

Songwriter Bob Merrill (who collaborated on Funny Girl with Jule Styne but sometimes wrote the music as well as the lyrics) killed himself because of a terminal debilitating illness.

As I understand it, he drove into the Hollywood hills and used a shotgun.

Wow, R134, that’s a fascinating story — thank you for sharing!

^^^Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that Merrill wrote some of the Funny Girl music. His music-and-lyrics shows include New Girl In Town, Take Me Along, The Prince Of Grand Street, the one about Julie Wilson forced to sew for the Nazis, and others.

Edgar Rosenberg, second husband of Joan Rivers, overdosed. That was a shocker, if I recall.

R141, Carnival, as well, which included "Love Makes the World Go Round"

Clara Blandick, who played Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz, killed herself in 1962. Despondent over her deteriorating health, she committed suicide through asphyxiation.

Pete Duel, star of "Alias Smith and Jones" and "Love On A Rooftop". Gun shot.

Peter Duel was one of my earliest childhood mancrushes. I remember being so sad that he had killed himself.

Ziegfeld Girl, Allyn King, tried to maintain the strict weight and measurement demands as stipulated in her contract, by taking diet pills and nearly starving to death. This led to a two-year stint in a sanitarium. When she was released, she went to live with her aunt in Greenwich Village. Unable to meet her ideal weight, she leapt from her aunt's fifth story apartment and landed in the courtyard, breaking limbs and fracturing her skull. She died two days later in hospital.

Rita Hayworth's grandson. Andrew Embiricos? His mother was Yasmin Khan.

OT early in her career, Allyn King replaced in a Ziegfeld show Justine Johnson, who went on to have a career as a medical researcher and helped to invent the ubiquitous slow-drip IV and to discover a cure for syphilis. And was the first wife of Walter Wanger, who shot the maybe-lover of his wife Joan Bennett.

Richard Belzer's father and brother both committed suicide. That must take a brutal toll on him.

Bella Darvi, who was given her stage name by her mentors, DARryl Zanuck and his wife, VIrginia, committed suicide by turning on the gas on her stovetop in her Monte Carlo apartment. Her decomposed body was discovered ten days later.

A colorful personality, Bella lived with the Zanucks, and was for a time Virginia Zanuck's best friend and confidante until the missus discovered that Darvi and Zanuck were canoodling behind her back. Virginia threw her out and threatened that her former galpal would never work in Hollywood again. Darvi fled to France and Zanuck followed, but a year later, he would dump her over her indiscreet affairs with women. However, he would continue to bail her out of her gambling debts, until he had had enough and refused. She killed herself immediately afterwards.

Speaking about Darvi, whose most famous role was as the courtesan Nefer in "The Egyptian," co-star Jean Simmons reportedly sneered, "Now there was an actress who nefer was."

Capucine jumped off 8th floor apartment.

R149, If they looked like him, it's understandable.

I had no idea about Lee Thompson Young, R108. He was cute.

Actor David Strickland was on Suddenly Susan, flew to Las Vegas and partied for days with Andy Dick. Hired a prostitute, drank six beers and then hung himself with a bed sheet. Brooke Shields hired the detective who discovered his body. Always thought he was a cutie.

^A male or female prostitute?

Brian Keith from Family Affair

A huge loss in the world of cult/underground punk music, wild rebellious vocalist Mutsumi ”623” Takahashi of the all-female funk metal/noise/avante-garde band SUPER JUNKY MONKEY. It’s such a shame, she was so beautiful and fierce and unlike any other female performer before or since. She was only just 30 years old when she died and left her bandmates/friends totally heartbroken and in shock, with no one having any idea to this day why she committed suicide.

From the wiki:

[quote] On February 5, 1999, Mutsumi Fukuhara (nee Takahashi) committed suicide by leaping from the balcony of her apartment in Osaka, leaving behind her husband and one-year-old son. The other band members decided not to continue without her and instead moved on to other projects.

Leslie Cheung, very popular and cute bi/gay actor/singer, jumped after an affair ended. Was in Happy Together with Tony Leung.

James Leo Herlihy, the author of the novel "Midnight Cowboy." He was gay and a close friend of playwright Tennessee Williams, who served as his mentor. He took an overdose of pills at age 36.

Lupe Velez is one of my fave suicide stories. Took an overdose of sleeping pills, woke up feeling nauseated, ran to throw up in the toilet, and drowned there.

The drowning part has pretty much been disproved as urban myth. But she did die. She was a hot one. Had an affair with young Gaary Cooper and makeup had to cover the scratches she left. The two of them made a film called "Wolf Song. " There's a nude shot of him (but he's partially obscured by shrubs) in that.

She was also with Johnny Weissmuller (sp?) and he might have been the one with the scratches.

That was one of the bullshit stories that was in "Hollywood Babylon", that Lupe Velez, violently sick from ingesting a bottle of sleeping pills after eating a spicy last supper, ran to to the bathroom, slipped, and died with her head in the toilet bow. I wonder how Kenneth Anger thought that one up?

Correction: James Leo Herlihy died at 66, not 36. I guess more people have seen the movie than read the book, but the novel "Midnight Cowboy" is truly a memorable piece of work.

It was a big story at the time, but I don't know if many people today are aware of suicide of Pete Duel. He was only 31 when he killed himself with a gunshot to the head. It really was a shock, this handsome, talented, successful young actor destroying himself. Nobody knew that he really was a hot mess; alcoholic, prone to depression, and suffering epileptic seizures. He was trying to control his drinking but on the night he killed himself he was blind drunk, which I guess made him fool around with the gun. Pete Duel; so talented, so good looking, so doomed.

Actress Margaret Sullavan... barbituate (sp) overdose

Silent film actress Florence Lawrence, dubbed "The First Film Star," committed suicide by ingesting ant paste.

R166, In a New Haven hotel room during out of town previews of the play Sweet Love Remember'd. She was replaced by DL fave Arlene Francis, the wife of the play's co-producer, Martin Gabel.

By what means will Pete Davidson join this list?

Chester Morris, hunky leading man in the 30s, and later star of the "Boston Blackie" series, killed himself when facing a terminal illness.

[quote]Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

Roger Ailes, by means of a swan-dive through the French doors in his second-story bathroom, clad only in a monogrammed terrycloth bathrobe, his large skull splitting like an overripe cantaloupe on the brightly painted Spanish tiles around the pool

Don't do it, George. You're an Oscar° winner!

R172, I’ve heard that... I wonder if it’s true. It would not surprise me at all.

Silent movie star Max Linder (41), the first international superstar, in a supposed suicide pact with his young wife Hélène (19). They drank Veronal, injected morphine, and slashed their wrists. However, some believe that it was actually a murder-suicide, with Linder either murdering his young bride or coercing her into suicide.

R165 Pete Duel, a real cutie, shot and killed himself on December 31st, the last day of the year - I guess he went out with a bang (Ouch).

R32, barrel chested

JFK Jr. Lesser known suicides, OP said.

Lenny Kravitz. Too soon?

Adele Ritchie, former vaudeville star and one-time rival of Lillian Russell, was apparently incensed that her friend and companion, socialite Doris Miller received an invitation to a social event, and Ritchie did not. Ritchie shot poor Doris in the back, killing her, before turning the gun on herself.

A real bitchy Ritchie got twitchy, did she?1

So sorry because we've been through it but just 😂 at R118.

Jerzy Kosinski who wrote The Painted Bird and Being There. He took a lethal dose of booze and pills then wrapped a plastic bag around his head.

R176, Happy New Year!

Billy Bixbie's ex-wife, Brenda Benet. On April 7, 1982, she died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at her home in Los Angeles. She was 36. This was after their only son died in childhood. Very sad.

R98

That's what MTM wanted to believe; most thought the son's death was a suicide. MTM also refused to believe that her sister's death which was an OD was suicide. MTM claimed that sis didn't realize she'd taken all of the pills.

Pier Angeli

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Janet Leigh's father committed suicide at age 54 in 1961.

Margaret Sullavan committed suicide by ODing on New Years Day 1960 in her suite at the Taft Hotel in New Haven.

George Michael

William Powell's son committed suicide at age 43 in 1968.

Ned Doheny, his wife Lucy, and their five children moved into their new home, Greystone Mansion when tragedy struck. On the night of February 16, 1929, Doheny was found dead in a guest bedroom in the east wing of the mansion, alongside his longtime friend and hired assistant, Hugh Plunkett. Murder/ Suicide. They’re buried just feet from each other at Forest Lawn Glendale.

Brian Keith, who coincidentally was Peg Entwistle's step-son committed suicide with a gun when he could no longer stand the pain from his cancer.

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Charles Boyer's only child, son Michael committed suicide in 1965 at age 21, 13 years before his father did same.

Margeaux Hemingway

Hispanic Björk stalker. Sent her an acid spray package then killed himself. Wore camo makeup and shaved his head. You can find the full end video on certain sites. Disturbing. Richard LopeZ

Brenda Frazier

Wendy O. Williams

R198 Damn, I had to check out that video on liveleak and I didn't know he was actually gonna shoot himself in the head at the end. It wasn't really graphic but it's disturbing as fuck.

More of a forgotten with time vs. less known but still Freddie Prinze' suicide in 1978 was a big story at the time.

Dana Plato's son committed suicide 11 years after she did.

Plasmatics, Wendy O Williams. Gunshot.

Don Cornelius, the host of Soul Train. Ailing, and in increasing pain as he aged, he shot himself.

R199, per wiki, Brenda Frazier died of bone cancer at 60, but had made some 30 suicide attempts.

R171... That was George Sanders, I believe..

R207, Yes, after having been married to two of the Gabor sisters, Zsa Zsa and Magda.

R204... I didn't know that, even though her death was in 1998 (Googled it). One of my bosses back in the 80s was a big fan of the Plasmatics. He was a photographer at their concerts.

Ann Woodward, after learning that Truman Capote was about to rehash in Esquire Magazine the shooting death of her husband by her in the 1950s, when she thought he was a "prowler".

She would have died all over again when Dominick Dunne used her story for The Two Mrs. Grenvilles.

Michael Mantenuto, up-and-coming young actor/model who worked for D is ney and prior to that a star hockey prodigy in College. Poor guy had been in the Special Forces for several years on leaving the Entertainment business, and came back with major PTSD from which he seemed to be slowly recovering.

He was found in his car with a suicide note and a gun loaded with two bullets parked in a Washington Park lot, with a gunshot wound to the head. He left behind a wife and a young daughter, his battalion (he was a Sergeant) and a ton of grieving friends & former costars. He was only 35 when he died.

We had a slow DL thread about him a few years ago.

Hey, has any one mentioned Brian Keith???

Not lately. Go for it!

Brian Keith

WTF has happened to Datalounge...half the thread is about Brian Keith and Peg Entwistle....yet no mention of Nick Adams?

That wasn't deemed suicide, iirc. Either accident or murder.

Fred Herko in 1964. Part of the avant grade Andy Warhol crows. Drug adducted ballet dancer who in his shirt life did mange to start a ballet company. Leaped out of a window whilst rehearsing a dance in a friend' apartment. The leap was part of the dance, heck the "Fred Herko danced out of a window" quips about his suicide. Andy Warhol was said to lament that he wasn't there to film "the leap".

Helen Twelvetrees, popular film actress of the early 30s. An overdose in the 50s. Health problems,

Former CEO of the Red Robin restaurant chain:

Morbid question but I’ll ask; I wonder why - with some exceptions - the preferred methods of suicidal women are overwhelmingly ‘jumping from high places’ or poisoning/ODing, while men seem to favor shooting or stabbing themselves?

[quote]while men seem to favor shooting or stabbing themselves?

The hardcore one in that regard is Charles Rocket...he slit his own throat.

Speaking of Brian Keith, I just realized he died a year before the release of THE PARENT TRAP remake starring Lindsay Lohan. I wonder what he would've thought?

Frank Wolff.

Per wiki, his frequent co-star and roommate at the time of his death was smokin' Michael Forest.

NASCAR driver Dick Trickle. Called 911 and told them there was going to be a dead body, when dispatch asked whose body he replied, "mine".

He should be a DL icon just because of his name.

Margaret Ray, the woman who stalked David Letterman in the 1980s, kneeled in front of an oncoming train.

I have a biography of Pete Duel, "Pete Duel" by Paul Green. It's a good biography for anyone interested in him. This thread made me start reading through it again, and it mentioned that he was on an episode of "Mickey", a short lived tv series starring Mickey Rooney. Although Rooney was the star of the show, it featured a Chinese actor named Sammee Tong as Rooney's handyman. He was popular with audiences; he had a loyal fan base from his time on 'Bachelor Father." ABC was seriously leaning towards picking up the remaining six shows of the season when news came that Sammee Tong had committed suicide from an overdose. Heavy gambling debts and connections to the mob were cited as reasons. The show was cancelled. The official reason for the show's cancellation Tong's suicide. ABC said they would have picked up the show had he lived. Interesting that Duel would later end HIS life, and his death spelled the end of a tv series also.

Do we know where Dave was at the time, R227?

Singer/actress Debbie Weems of ”Captain Kangaroo” leaped to her death in 1978 after being released from a psychiatric ward. She was 27. Debbie’s Captain Kangaroo episodes contunued to air for months after her death.

R227, by the time of her suicide, Margaret Ray had moved on from stalking Letterman to stalking astronaut Storey Musgrave.

Well she was still crazy about stars...

Ray McDonald. Cute and charming supporting performer in MGM musicals of the 40s. Mel Torme who appeared with him in Good News said it was a suicide but McDonald's daughter said it was an accident.

Bobby Harron DW Griffith leading man. Shot himself at the age of 27 when charismatic popular Richard Barthelmess started getting his roles. But did he really or was this another accident?

Those of us who grew up in the '70s were told the cautionary tale of Diane Linkletter, who lept to her death while tripping on LSD. However, she may have been despondent and consciously suicidal, according to the last person to see her alive, Edward Durston. But then again, Durston was also the last person to see Carol Wayne alive before she drowned in Manzanillo Bay, so it could have been foul play.

R233, I thought Ray had some intestinal obstruction. Boy was he adorable in Good News. Past That Peace Pipe!

"Mickey" was a horrible show that had poor ratings.

One of Mickey Rooney's wives was the victim of a murder/suicide at the hand of her lover.

One time screen hunk Jon Hall ("Hurricane") was sick with bladder cancer when he shot himself in the head at the age 64.

Richard Farnsworth shot himself because he had terminal cancer

Jane Fonda's mother cut her own throat

Ted Turner's father shot himself

Katharine Hepburn's brother hanged himself possibly because he was gay

Spalding Gray jumped off the Staten Island Ferry after seeing the film 'Big Fish'. His mother had also committed suicide.

Spalding Gray had suffered a serious head injury in a car accident. Traumatic brain injury and suicide are strongly linked.

I think he was in poorly treated pain also.

R230...I always wondered what happened to Debbie from Captain Kangaroo.

I know, R242. Debbie just disappeared from the show. I didn’t know why until a few years ago, thanks to the Internet.

How creepy is it that they kept running her unaired shows after such a horrible death???

BBC radio presenter hanged herself after walking out of studio during her show

Vicki Archer, 41, had told colleagues at BBC Radio Shropshire that she needed "a break" and was feeling "upset"

So "All About Eve" had three suicides in the cast: George Sanders, Barbara Bates, and Marilyn Monroe (maybe).

I guess I don't get why it's so weird that they kept airing her show r243, I mean, people die mid movie or mid season all the time, they don't scrap their stuff because of it.

R246 maybe because it was a suicide as opposed to a natural death or illness?

I hnk it's great that they showed her work.

The big ginger bailiff on Judge Mathis, Brendan, jumped from his 24th floor balcony back in 2002 three days after Christmas.

George Dyer, Francis Bacon’s rough trade lover and muse, committed suicide days before Bacon’s retrospective opened in Paris. Daniel Craig portrayed him in the movie Love is the Devil.

Performance artist, Ana Mendieta went out the window and fell 33 floors to her death. She had been arguing with her husband, sculptor Carl Andre, just prior about him being more famous, and he said she killed herself because of it. He was tried for murder, but acquitted. Accident, suicide or murder?

Pier Angeli has been mentioned briefly. A once promising young Italian actress, she dated James Dean for a few weeks and lived for the rest of her life under the delusion that they were Romeo and Juliet, kept apart by her possessive mother. She married Vic Damone, and there was the urban legend that James Dean gunned his motorcycle in front of the church where the wedding was held, but that was never proven. Anyway, she grew dissolute as she grew older and never stopped talking about how James Dean had been the great love of her life: "love is behind me now, love died in a Porsche." But the great love affair was a figment of her imagination. She was a mere footnote in Dean's short life. He contemptuously called her "Miss Pizza." She died of a pill overdose at age 40.

Ana Mendieta was murdered. A woman was heard screaming "no, no!" before her fatal fall. Her fat pig of a husband, Carl Andre, had unexplained fresh scratches on his face at the time of her death. Her death was very suspicious, but Andre ended up getting off scot free. He's been called the O. J. Simpson of the art world.

Jeanne Hebuterne was painter Amedeo Modigliani’s common law wife and mother of his child. When he died, she jumped out the window eight months pregnant killing herself. The are united forever in Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

Burlesque dancer Faith Bacon, who claimed to have originated the fan dance that rival Sally Rand popularized, jumped out of her hotel window and died from her injuries later that night. Once a celebrated jazz age personality, Faith died at the age of 46 with only 85 cents to her name.

R245, Though not a suicide, Anne Baxter's death was sad. She suffered a stroke while Christmas shopping in NYC. I remember reading that she laid in the street before help arrived, those around her were not aware that she was an Academy Award winning actress. She remained on life support for a few days until her family pulled the plug. She was only 62.

Ruslana Koshunova

Ruslana jumped she was so beautiful.

Etiquette maven Amy Vanderbilt

Prince Rudolf von Hapsburg

R256: Why should an Oscar winner get special treatment? NB: My dad died after suffering a stroke while Christmas shopping, too, although he was in a store rather than the street.

[quote]Edward Platt (the Chief on GET SMART) Ed Flanders (ST. ELSEWHERE) Brian Keith (FAMILY AFFAIR)

Wow! I had no idea.

Jackson Browne's first wife. Model Phyllis Major. Pills.

Tony Scott, Ridley Scott’s brother jumped off a bridge in Los Angeles.

Walter Becker of Steely Dan: In 1978, Becker's girlfriend, Karen Roberta Stanley, died of a drug overdose in his apartment on January 30, resulting in a wrongful death lawsuit against him.

Then there's Brian Keith, but I don't think he knew Becker.

R260 ah, Mayerling. Aka the most tragic suicide in musical theater 😭

"Goodbye to all of you who have tried so hard to comfort me in my loss of William Haines, whom I have been with since 1926. I now find it impossible to go it alone, I am much too lonely."

Jimmie Shields' 1974 suicide note after the death from cancer in 1973 of his lover MGM star William Haines who pretty much gave up his movie star career to live openly with Shields.

Daniel Von Barger, Kruger on Seinfeld, tried to shoot himself years ago after losing toes to diabetes, finally died of it later.

Why do people kill themselves (or attempt to) when their health is declining?

Because maybe it's a slow very painful process that can cause untold misery for a long time to come?

For me just bring on that extra bit of morphine.

R269, it’s called “suffering.” I do appreciate your innocence, it’s refreshing.