Actors Who Didn't Live to See Their Final Films

Angus Cloud in Your Lucky Day

R.I.P.: July 31, 2023

Movie Release: September 23, 2023

Ray Liotta in Cocaine Bear

R.I.P.: May 26, 2022

Movie Release: [Cocaine Bear] February 22, 2023 [Fool's Paradise] May 12, 2023

Burt Reynolds in Defining Moments

R.I.P.: September 6, 2018

Movie Release: August 27, 2021

Chadwick Boseman in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

R.I.P.: August 28, 2020

Movie Release: November 25, 2020

Cameron Boyce in Descendants 3

R.I.P.: July 6, 2019

Movie Release: August 2, 2019

Luke Perry in Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood

R.I.P.: March 4, 2019

Movie Release: May 21, 2019

Bill Paxton in The Circle

R.I.P.: February 25, 2017

Movie Release: April 26, 2017

John Hurt in Damascus Cover.

R.I.P.: January 25, 2017

Movie Release: [My Name Is Lenny] June 9, 2017 [That Good Night] June 22, 2017 [Damascus Cover] September 2017

Anton Yelchin in Star Trek Beyond

R.I.P.: June 19, 2016

Movie Release: [Star Trek Beyond] July 20, 2016 [Porto] September 19, 2016 [Thoroughbreds] January 21, 2017 [Rememory] January 25, 2017 [We Don't Belong Here] April 4, 2017 [Dark] December 11, 2017

Alan Rickman in Alice Through the Looking Glass as Absolem (voice)

R.I.P.: January 14, 2016

Movie Release: May 10, 2016

Robin Williams in A Merry Friggin' Christmas

R.I.P.: August 11, 2014

Movie Release: [A Merry Friggin' Christmas] October 17, 2014 [Crystal the Monkey Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb] December 17, 2014

Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

R.I.P.: February 2, 2014

Movie Release: [The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1] November 10, 2014 [Part 2] November 4, 2015

Paul Walker in Fast & Furious 7

R.I.P.: November 30, 2013

Movie Release: [Brick Mansions] April 23, 2014 [Fast & Furious 7] March 16, 2015

James Gandolfini in The Drop

R.I.P.: June 19, 2013

Movie Release: [Enough Said] September 7, 2013 [The Drop] September 5, 2014

Cory Monteith in McCanick

R.I.P.: July 13, 2013

Movie Release: September 9, 2013

Bernie Mac in Soul Men

R.I.P.: August 9, 2008

Movie Release: [Soul Men] November 7, 2008 [Old Dogs] November 25, 2009

Brad Renfro in The Informers

R.I.P.: January 15, 2008

Movie Release: October 2008

Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight

R.I.P.: January 22, 2008

Movie Release: [The Dark Knight] July 14, 2008 [The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus] May 22, 2009

John Ritter in Bad Santa

R.I.P.: September 11, 2003

Movie Release: November 18, 2003

Richard Harris in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

R.I.P.: October 25, 2002

Movie Release: November 3, 2002

Oliver Reed in Gladiator

R.I.P.: May 2, 1999

Movie Release: May 1, 2000

Phil Hartman in Small Soldiers

R.I.P.: May 28, 1998

Movie Release: July 10, 1998

Chris Farley in Almost Heroes

R.I.P.: December 18, 1997

Movie Release: May 29, 1998

Tupac Shakur in Gang Related

R.I.P.: September 13, 1996

Movie Release: [Gridlock'd] January 29, 1997 [Gang Related] October 8, 1997

Raul Julia in Street Fighter

R.I.P.: October 24, 1994

Movie Release: December 23, 1994

John Candy in Canadian Bacon

R.I.P.: March 4, 1994

Movie Release: May 1995

River Phoenix in Dark Blood

R.I.P.: October 31, 1993

Movie Release: September 27, 2012

Brandon Lee in The Crow

R.I.P.: March 31, 1993

Movie Release: February 4, 1994

Robin Harris in Mo' Better Blues

R.I.P.: March 18, 1990

Movie Release: July 23, 1990

Richard Burton in Nineteen Eighty-Four

R.I.P.: August 5, 1984

Movie Release: October 10, 1984

John Cazale in The Deer Hunter

R.I.P.: March 13, 1978

Movie Release: December 8, 1978

Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon

R.I.P.: July 20, 1973

Movie Release: July 26, 1973

Spencer Tracy in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

R.I.P.: June 10, 1967

Movie Release: December 11, 1967

Clark Gable in The Misfits

R.I.P.: November 16, 1960

Movie Release: January 31, 1961

James Dean in Giant

R.I.P.: September 30, 1955

Movie Release: October 10, 1956