Gone Too Soon

7.6  

June 6, 1978 – July 27, 1988
Age: 10
Cause of death: murder (shot by father)

Notable role(s):
- Ducky in The Land Before Time
- Anne-Marie in All Dogs Go to Heaven

7.6  

December 27, 1975 – February 1, 1988
Age: 12
Cause of death: cardiac arrest caused by septic shock brought on by intestinal stenosis

Notable role(s):
- Carol Anne Freeling in the Poltergeist trilogy

7  

March 11, 1958 – August 28, 1976
Age: 18
Cause of death: accidental drug overdose (Cocaine, PCP, Quaaludes and Seconal were found in her body during an autopsy. The coroner who examined Jones reported she had died from one of the most severe drug overdoses he had ever seen.)

Notable role(s):
- Ava Elizabeth 'Buffy' Patterson-Davis on Family Affair (138 episodes)

6  

August 21, 1989 – May 24, 2008
Age: 18
Cause of death: murder (stabbed outside a bar in Sidcup, England when he intervened in a fight to protect his brother)

Notable role(s):
- Marcus Belby in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

8.9  

January 30, 1915 – June 8, 1934
Age: 19
Cause of death: automobile accident (the car left the highway, hit a telephone pole, bounced off a palm tree and hit a boulder)

Notable role(s):
- Toy in Wharf Angel
- Bangles Carson in Little Miss Marker

5  

January 10, 1982 – August 5, 2002
Age: 20
Cause of death: complications related to a congenital heart condition

Notable role(s):
- Timmy on Passions (132 episodes)

6.3  

March 25, 1956 – June 13, 1977
Age: 21
Cause of death: hemorrhagic necrotising pancreatitis (Garber had contracted hepatitis — probably from eating "bad meat" — while traveling in India in 1976, and it had already spread to his pancreas when his father brought him back to England the following year.)

Notable role(s):
- Michael Banks in Mary Poppins

3.9  

November 6, 1967 – July 18, 1989
Age: 21
Cause of death: murdered by Robert John Bardo, an obsessed fan who had been stalking her for three years

Notable role(s):
- Patti Russell on My Sister Sam (44 episodes)

7.1  

January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001
Age: 22
Cause of death: plane crash

Notable role(s):
- Trish O'Day in Romeo Must Die
- Queen Akasha in Queen of the Damned

Tara's rating:

6.3  

November 23, 1959 – November 4, 1982
Age: 22
Cause of death: murder (strangled to death by her former boyfriend)

Notable role(s):
- Dana Freeling in Poltergeist

5.9  

June 22, 1954 – January 29, 1977
Age: 22
Cause of death: suicide (shot himself with a small semi-automatic pistol)

Notable role(s):
- Chico Rodriguez on Chico and the Man (62 episodes)

7.9  

August 23, 1970 – October 31, 1993
Age: 23
Cause of death: drug overdose of heroin and cocaine

Notable role(s):
- Chris Chambers in Stand by Me
- Mike Waters in My Own Private Idaho

Tara's rating:

8.5  

February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955
Age: 24
Cause of death: car crash

Notable role(s):
- Cal Trask in East of Eden
- Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause
- Jett Rink in Giant

Tara's rating:

6.6  

July 25, 1982 – January 15, 2008
Age: 25
Cause of death: overdose, acute heroin/morphine intoxication

Notable role(s):
- Mark Sway in The Client
- Huck Finn in Tom and Huck
- Young Michael Sullivan in Sleepers
- Josh in Ghost World
- Marty Puccio in Bully

7.4  

June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996
Age: 25
Cause of death: murder (shot four times and died six days later of respiratory failure and cardiac arrest)

Notable role(s):
- Lucky in Poetic Justice
- Tank in Bullet

7.6  

March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937
Age: 26
Cause of death: cerebral edema, a side effect of renal or kidney failure

Notable role(s):
- Anne Courtland in The Secret Six
- Gwen Allen in The Public Enemy
- Vantine in Red Dust

7.4  

November 5, 1957 – October 18, 1984
Age: 26
Cause of death: firearms accident on the set of Cover Up

Notable role(s):
- Phineas Bogg in Voyager from the Unknown
- Phineas Bogg on Voyagers! (20 episodes)
- Mac Harper on Cover Up (7 episodes)

7.4  

January 24, 1943 – August 9, 1969
Age: 26
Cause of death: murder (stabbed multiple times)

Notable role(s):
- Janet Trego on The Beverly Hillbillies (15 episodes)
- Sarah Shagal in The Fearless Vampire Killers
- Jennifer North in Valley of the Dolls

6.7  

April 13, 1976 – November 12, 2003
Age: 27
Cause of death: suicide (hanging)

Notable role(s):
- Bastian Bux in The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
- Lucas Wolenczak on SeaQuest 2032 (57 episodes)

4.3  

December 16, 1982 – February 1, 2010
Age: 27
Cause of death: car accident

Notable role(s):
- Garrett Wells on Boston Legal (16 episodes)
- Terrell in G-Force

6.7  

December 14, 1973 - September 3, 2001
Age: 27
Cause of death: car accident

Notable role(s):
- Trini Kwan / The Yellow Ranger on Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (80 episodes)

5.7  

May 22, 1980 – May 20, 2009
Age: 28
Cause of death: suicide (hanging)

Notable role(s):
- Jennifer Dugan in Spider-Man 3

8.6  

April 4, 1979 – January 22, 2008
Age: 28
Cause of death: overdose, resulting from the abuse of prescription medications

Notable role(s):
- Patrick Verona in 10 Things I Hate About You
- Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain
- Joker in The Dark Knight

Tara's rating:

7.4  

February 1, 1965 – March 31, 1993
Age: 28
Cause of death: accidentally shot and killed in North Carolina while filming The Crow

Notable role(s):
- Eric Draven in The Crow

6.7  

October 14, 1969 – March 22, 1999
Age: 29
Cause of death: suicide (hanging)

Notable role(s):
- Todd Styles on Suddenly Susan (71 episodes)

7.7  

March 3, 1937 – c. March 1968
Age: 31
Cause of death: heart failure caused by an advanced hardening of the arteries due to longtime drug abuse

Notable role(s):
- Johnny in Song of the South
- Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island
- Peter Pan (voice) in Peter Pan

8.1  

May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926
Age: 31
Cause of death: Developed peritonitis after surgery for appendicitis and gastric ulcers. A few days later he was stricken with a severe pleuritis relapse that developed rapidly in his left lung.

Notable role(s):
- Ahmed, the Sheik's Son in The Son of the Sheik

8.3  

November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973
Age: 32
Cause of death: When the doctors announced Lee's death officially, it was ruled a "death by misadventure."

Notable role(s):
- Kato on The Green Hornet (26 episodes)
- Chen Zhen in Fist of Fury
- Tang Lung (a.k.a. Dragon) in Return of the Dragon

7  

November 10, 1977 – December 20, 2009
Age: 32
Cause of death: pneumonia, with secondary factors of iron-deficiency anemia and multiple drug intoxication

Notable role(s):
- Tai in Clueless
- Daisy Randone in Girl, Interrupted
- Fay Forrester in Riding in Cars with Boys

Tara's rating:

7.3  

May 28, 1970 – December 3, 2002
Age: 32
Cause of death: accidental heroin overdose

Notable role(s):
- Mark Healy on Roseanne (74 episodes)
- Allen Doyle on Angel (11 episodes)

7.6  

January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982
Age: 33
Cause of death: drug-related accident (speedball, a combined injection of cocaine and heroin)

Notable role(s):
- John Blutarsky in Animal House
- Various characters on Saturday Night Live (85 episodes)
- Jake in The Blues Brothers

6.8  

February 15, 1964 – December 18, 1997
Age: 33
Cause of death: cardiac arrest caused by a drug overdose

Notable role(s):
- Tommy in Tommy Boy
- Various characters on Saturday Night Live (99 episodes)
- Haru in Beverly Hills Ninja

8.1  

October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942
Age: 33
Cause of death: plane crash

Notable role(s):
- Irene Bullock in My Man Godfrey
- Jane Mason in Made for Each Other
- Maria Tura in To Be or Not to Be

6.5  

June 11, 1977 – June 20, 2011
Age: 34
Cause of death: alcohol-related car crash

Notable role(s):
- Himself on Jackass
- Himself in Jackass: The Movie, Jackass Number 2 and Jackass 3D
- Himself on Viva La Bam

7.5  

April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967
Age: 34
Cause of death: automobile accident

Notable role(s):
- Rita Marlowe in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
- Sandy Brooks in Promises! Promises!

6.2  

November 7, 1964 – May 8, 1999
Age: 34
Cause of death: suicide (overdose on prescription medication)

Notable role(s):
- Kimberly Drummond on Diff'rent Strokes (142 episodes)

8.2  

June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962
Age: 36
Cause of death: acute barbiturate poisoning, resulting from a "probable suicide"

Notable role(s):
- Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- The Girl in The Seven Year Itch
- Sugar Kane Kowalczyk in Some Like It Hot

Tara's rating:

7.2  

January 10, 1939 – February 12, 1976
Age: 37
Cause of death: murder (stabbed to death in the alley behind his West Hollywood apartment building)

Notable role(s):
- John 'Plato' Crawford in Rebel Without a Cause
- Angel Obregón II in Giant
- Dov Landau in Exodus

5.8  

December 23, 1971 – March 10, 2010
Age: 38
Cause of death: accidental overdose

Notable role(s):
- Sam in The Lost Boys

8  

October 9, 1940 - December 8, 1980
Age: 40
Cause of death: murder (shot by Mark David Chapman outside his New York City apartment building)

Notable role(s):
- John in A Hard Day's Night
- John in Help!

5.8  

October 10, 1965 – January 24, 2006
Age: 40
Cause of death: "nonspecific cardiomyopathy" (heart disease), with the prescription drug promethazine with codeine and an enlarged heart being possible contributing circumstances

Notable role(s):
- Willard Hewitt in Footloose
- Nice Guy Eddie Cabot in Reservoir Dogs
- Nicky Dimes in True Romance

6.6  

June 24, 1966 – November 1, 2006
Age: 40
Cause of death: murder, found hanging by a bed sheet from a shower rod in the bathtub

Notable role(s):
- Maria Coughlin in Trust
- Dawn in Waitress

5.3  

August 17, 1968 – February 14, 2010
Age: 41
Cause of death: suicide

Notable role(s):
- Richard 'Boner' Stabone in Growing Pains (25 episodes)

7.8  

January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977
Age: 42
Cause of death: The official coroner's report lists "cardiac arrhythmia" as the cause of Presley's death, but this was later admitted to be a ruse entered into by the Presley family along with autopsy physicians to cover up the real cause of death, a cocktail of ten prescribed drugs, taken in doses no doctor would prescribe.

Notable role(s):
- Clint Reno in Love Me Tender
- Vince Everett in Jailhouse Rock
- Chad Gates in Blue Hawaii

7.6  

June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989
Age: 42
Cause of death: ovarian cancer

Notable role(s):
- Various characters on Saturday Night Live (107 episodes)

7.4  

October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994
Age: 43
Cause of death: heart attack (died in sleep)

Notable role(s):
- Ox in Stripes
- Del Griffith in Planes, Trains & Automobiles
- Buck Russell in Uncle Buck

8  

July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981
Age: 43
Cause of death: accidental drowning

Notable role(s):
- Susan Walker in Miracle on 34th Street
- Judy in Rebel Without a Cause
- Maria in West Side Story
- Angie Rossini in Love with a Proper Stranger

8.3  

October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966
Age: 45
Cause of death: The autopsy report cited the cause of death as a heart attack brought on by "occlusive coronary artery disease." It is commonly believed that addiction was responsible for Clift's many health problems and his death.

Notable role(s):
- George Eastman in A Place in the Sun
- Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt in From Here to Eternity
- Perce Howland in The Misfits

6.8  

May 8, 1940 – December 31, 1985
Age: 45
Cause of death: plane crash

Notable role(s):
- Ricky Nelson on The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (432 episodes)
- Ricky Nelson in Here Come the Nelsons

4.1  

March 13, 1960 – August 16, 2005
Age: 45
Cause of death: car crash (car plunged 130 feet into the mouth of the Navarro River in Mendocino County, California)

Notable role(s):
- Lenny the Binoculars in Toy Story
- Heimlich in A Bug's Life
- Wheezy in Toy Story 2
- Jacques in Finding Nemo
- Red in Cars