Franco Zeffirelli

popular name: Sal Mineo

date_of_death: February 12, 1976

age: 37

cause_of_death: Murder - stab wound to the heart

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Sal Mineo was a talented American actor who was best known for his role as John "Plato" Crawford in the drama film Rebel Without a Cause (1955), which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at age 17, making him the fifth-youngest nominee in the category. Mineo also starred in films such as Crime in the Streets, Giant (both 1956), Exodus (1960), for which he won a Golden Globe and received a second Academy Award nomination, The Longest Day (1962), John Ford's final western Cheyenne Autumn (1964) and Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971). In fact, he either starred or was featured in over 20 major films before his untimely murder. He also made dozens of appearances on dozens of TV shows including Combat!, Hawaii Five-0, My Three Sons and Mission Impossible. On the night of February 12, 1976, Mineo returned home from a rehearsal for the play P.S. Your Cat Is Dead at 10:00 pm. After parking his car in the carport below his West Hollywood apartment, he was stabbed in the heart by a mugger. Mineo was found lying and bleeding profusely in the parking alley by his neighbor Raymond Evans, who had heard his cries for help, but Mineo was only able to walk a few steps, after which he collapsed immediately and was pronounced dead at the age of 37 due to massive hemorrhage. He was laid to rest at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York.

popular name: Florence Lawrence

date_of_death: December 28, 1938

age: 52

cause_of_death: Suicide by poison (eating ant paste)

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Florence Lawrence was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress. She is often referred to as the "first movie star", and was thought to be the first film actor to be named publicly until evidence published in 2019 indicated that the first named film star was French actor Max Linder. At the height of her fame in the 1910s, she was known as the "Biograph Girl" for work as one of the leading ladies in silent films from the Biograph Company. She appeared in almost 300 films for various motion picture companies throughout her career.

popular name: Gaspard Ulliel

date_of_death: January 19, 2022

age: 37

cause_of_death: Brain trauma

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Gaspard Ulliel was a talented French actor and model who was known for having portrayed the young Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal Rising (2007), fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in the biopic Saint Laurent (2014), and for being the face of Chanel men's fragrance Bleu de Chanel for twelve years. He also voiced Jack Frost in the French version of Rise of the Guardians (2012), and portrayed Anton Mogart in the Disney+ miniseries Moon Knight (2022). Ulliel began acting at age 12. He won two Cesars, France's equivalent to the Oscars. In 2005 he won the Most Promising Actor Cesar for A Very Long Engagement. Twelve years later he won the Best Actor Cesar for Juste La Fin Du Monde (It's Only The End of the World), opposite Marion Cotillard and Lea Seydoux. He died tragically while on holiday with friends at the La Rosière resort in the Savoie region of the French Alps. The accident occurred in January 2022 when he collided with another skier on a blue ski run. Interesting to note that witnesses who saw the collision commented that neither skier collided very hard and the fall taken by Ulliel was routine to anyone who has skied on a blue run before.