Movies and TV shows with dying actors and actresses (days, the film, Family)

[carterstamp]

Originally Posted by Mouldy Old Schmo

Have you seen any movies or television shows featuring actors and actresses who were obviously showing signs of terminal illness?

Night at the Museum 3. Robin Williams looked terrible, Mickey Rooney even worse.

[tantan1968]

Jean Harlow and the movie "Saratoga". Now only was she sick during the filming but died before the movie was completed.

Not long before his death I can remember Gene Siskel sitting along side Roger Ebert reviewing the Jerry Springer flick "Ringmaster". Siskel was so ill it was very hard to understand what he was saying. Come to think of it I seem to recall Siskel asking Ebert who was Jerry Springer.

Back in the late 70's for some reason I can recall watching an interview on some talk show with Vivian Vance. Must had been a local TV talk show since her appearance isn't listed on IMDB. Anyway Vance was talking very slow and was shaking very badly. It wasn't long after I had seen the broadcast than Vivian Vance had died from cancer.

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

Originally Posted by carterstamp

Night at the Museum 3. Robin Williams looked terrible, Mickey Rooney even worse.

Robin Williams wasn't suffering from a terminal illness. And Rooney was an old man.

[pekemom]

Karen Carpenter went from slim to frightfully bony when appearing on
later shows to sing her songs....(anorexia).

[Delahanty]

I remember Cliff Arquette (as "Charley Weaver") returning to Hollywood Squares looking unrecognizable after a post-stroke weight loss. He died not long after, having suffered another stroke.

[tantan1968]

Bobby Van was dying from a malignant brain tumor when he was hosting the game show "Make Me Laugh" during the 1979/1980 TV season. When Van died in the summer of 1980 at the young age of 51 I can remember many were shocked as he didn't appear to be sick at all when he had hosted that game show.

[Delahanty]

Originally Posted by tantan1968

Bobby Van was dying from a malignant brain tumor when he was hosting the game show "Make Me Laugh" during the 1979/1980 TV season. When Van died in the summer of 1980 at the young age of 51 I can remember many were shocked as he didn't appear to be sick at all when he had hosted that game show.

I remember him. I didn't know that he was still working throughout his illness (Bert Convy, who hosted Win, Lose, or Draw died of the same thing at a relatively young age). Van's wife Elaine Joyce, who appeared with him often, married Neil Simon long ago.

[CoolZombie]

Originally Posted by tantan1968

Bobby Van was dying from a malignant brain tumor when he was hosting the game show "Make Me Laugh" during the 1979/1980 TV season. When Van died in the summer of 1980 at the young age of 51 I can remember many were shocked as he didn't appear to be sick at all when he had hosted that game show.

That's very disturbing that the other Make Me Laugh host Ken Ober on Comedy Central died when he was 52 under mysterious circumstances.

[Wild Flower]

Gilda Radner on the first Night of the Garry Shandling Show. I Miss Her!

If my phone let me view vidios, I would post of Shandling sharng about Gilda and that night. (Hint Hint Somebody )

[tantan1968]

Originally Posted by Delahanty

I remember him. I didn't know that he was still working throughout his illness (Bert Convy, who hosted Win, Lose, or Draw died of the same thing at a relatively young age). Van's wife Elaine Joyce, who appeared with him often, married Neil Simon long ago.

I remember Convy. He pretty much worked until the end.

I would imagine that Bobby Darin would fit in this thread considering that he had been in ill health for many of years but despite that Darin continued to do movies, putting out records, did the nightclubs and even hosted his own TV show just before his death in 1973.