Thanks for posting that last pic of Jim Morrison. He died foaming at the mouth in a urinal at Paris's Rock N Roll Circus night club...and NOT by drifting off mystically and magically in his warm Parisian bathtub.
Shame on Oliver Stone!
A lot of interesting photos, this is the reason I'm a
death hag. Very nice pictures.
Here is a picture of Timothy Leary on his death bed.
Last photo of George Harrison, taken just days before he died
Last photo (i think) of Paul Newman
Oliver Reed during shooting of Gladiator. Died while filming May 2/1999:
Wiley Post who was the first pilot to fly solo around the world and his good friend Will Rogers a famous comedian, humorist and social commentator were set out to fly around the world together. This photo (that’s Will Rogers in the hat and tie, standing on the wing) was taken on August 15, 1935 shortly before taking off from a lagoon near Point Barrow Alaska. During take off Post’s experimental Lockheed Explorer sea plane crashed when its engine failed killing both men.
Interesting Fact: The airport in Barrow Alaska was renamed Wiley Post - Will Rogers Memorial Airport.
Nancy Spungen, Picture was taken 9-26-1978
Died 10-12-1978
Wiley Post's plane was called the Winnie Mae. My grandmother was pregnant with my mom when it happened; she liked that name and two months after the crash, my mom got stuck with that name.
Here are two of the last pictures of the late, great, Curly Howard of the Three Stooges.
The first is from a lobby card of Malice in the Palace with Shemp. Curly had done a cameo after his retirement in Hold That Lion in 1947. In Malice (1949), Curly was to have a role as the cook in a seedy middle eastern restaurant. Curly's motor skills had so deteriorated that he was asked to stand down and Larry took over the role. That is Curly in the lobby card as the cook holding the butcher knife and you cannot tell that haggard, skinny man with the moustache is Curly.
The second photo was taken later in 1949 of Curly and his new daughter Janie. It is the last known photo of Curly. Curly lost his mind in the last two years of his life that no pictures were known to be taken of him prior to his death.
I have a photo of Shemp a week before he died, but I have to find it and scan it and I will post it later.
"Everybody is born, and everybody dies. Being born wasn't so bad , was it?"
Peter the Hermit
Here's Anissa Jones the day before she died
Here's Margaret Mitchell after she got hit by the car, as she lay dying
Here's Dudley Moore at his last public appearance
Lana Turner at one of her last public appearances in September of 1994, when she attened the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain to accept a lifetime achievement award.
Never saw this photo before! Thanks for posting it!
Another drunken piece of shit killing a great human being!
The photograph of Margaret Mitchell is so sad. It seems that someone should be down there beside her providing some sort of comfort to her in her final moments. Maybe she was beyond knowing but still with even the slightest chance that on some level she was aware at all of what was going on.
These pictures are brilliant. Thanks for posting them.
IIRC Barbara Streisand fired Dudley from a film she was producing because she thought he was drunk when in fact his fatal disease was begining to manifest itself.
"Everybody is born, and everybody dies. Being born wasn't so bad , was it?"
Peter the Hermit
Joe Strummer on 11/22/02 died 12/23/02
9:41am, Sept 11/01:
I wonder how true to life the film THE DOORS is?
The film about Jim Morrison starring Val Kilmer?
I didn't care for the story. But I loved Val Kilmer's performance.
But then I love Val Kilmer.
The 911 picture always makes me feel kind of sick. To think that this person went to work like any other day and then found himself faced with a choice of staying in a burning high rise or jumping to his death. It's heartbreaking.
Here's Dale Earnhardt and his wife shortly before he left for his fatal run
That is a good one of Dale and his wife.
Henry Fonda five months before he died
Not sure if this was posted since it's been awhile but...here is my beloved Judy a month before her death:
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]peek-a-boo!!
Channel 4 here in the UK made a programme based around that photograph a couple of years back. They tried to trace who the man was and tell his background story. Very interesting stuff. They also interviewed the photographer as well.
It's a moving and beautifully captured picture. It looks almost composed.
a very dead Jesse James dated April 3/1882
I posted a pic earlier in the thread that was suppose to be Jackie Gleason's last photo but the other day i came across his last pic.
It was taken in New Orleans in 1986 shortly after he was diagnosed with Colon and Prostate cancer which would kill him the next year
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