History Main / FatalMethodActing

* In October 2022, longtime [=GenX=] Radio Suffolk DJ Tim Gough died after suffering from a heart attack while he was presenting his breakfast show his from his Lackford home.

* In October 2022, longtime [=GenX=] Radio Suffolk DJ Tim Gough died after suffering from cardiac arrest while he was presenting his breakfast show his from his Lackford home.

* In October 2022, [=GenX=] Radio Suffolk DJ Tim Gough died after suffering from cardiac arrest while he was presenting his breakfast show his from his Lackford home.

* In October 2022, [=GenX=] Radio Suffolk DJ Tim Gough died after suffering from cardiac arrest while he was presenting his breakfast show.

* On August 31, 2020, Ronald "Ronnie" [=McNutt=], a US Army veteran and podcaster from New Albany, Mississippi, shot himself in the head during a Website/{{Facebook}} livestream. The original one has since been taken down, but not before others began posting the grisly video on other websites such as [=TikTok=], which prompted a lot of criticism towards websites for not taking the videos down sooner.

* Actor Antony Wheeler accidentally hanged himself while performing Judas' climactic suicide scene in ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar''.

* Creator/JohnRitter was rehearsing on the set of ''Series/EightSimpleRules'' in September 2003 when he collapsed with a previously unknown heart problem. He died later that day. Ritter's death also resulted in the cancellation of ''WesternAnimation/CliffordTheBigRedDog'', as he voiced the titular character, and no one saw any point in continuing with him dead.

* ''Film/ShadowOfTheVampire'': The film depicts the (fictional) events that supposedly transpired during the filming of ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}''. The director, [[Creator/FriedrichWilhelmMurnau F. W. Murnau]] (played by Creator/JohnMalkovich) explains that the lead actor, Max Schreck, is trying to 'get into the role' by staying in character - and costume - at all times. Unfortunately, he ''doesn't'' mention that his 'Schreck' is actually a '''real vampire''' and that the deaths on camera would be very real as well.

* French virtuoso organist and composer Louis Vierne gave the performance of his life one evening at Notre Dame de Paris[[note]]His final piece was "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oYxTnCR_MM Stele [gravestone] for a Dead Child]]"[[/note]] - then collapsed and died of a massive stroke while preparing stops for his encore. He purportedly told his assistant, Maurice Duruflé, before beginning the concert: "I think that I'll die tonight." What is more likely is that his family and friends remember him saying he'd ''like'' to die at the Notre Dame organ console.

* Delayed example: Jackie Wilson, who collapsed during a concert from a heart attack. He suffered a severe blow to the head and fell into a coma. Despite some bouts of regaining consciousness, he never fully recovered and died eight years later. He was singing his big hit, "Lonely Teardrops," when he suffered the heart attack. Specifically, the line "My heart is crying, crying..."

** More trouble with Verdi: Conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli suffered a fatal heart attack while conducting a performance of ''Aida'' in 2001.
** And in September 2013, Argentinian singer Florencia Fabris, just 38, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXHYA40QnxE had a stroke onstage]] in the middle of Verdi's ''Requiem'' and died two days later.

** Ironically, Austrian tenor Josef Mann, who had been set to cover for Caruso during his illness (it was presumed he'd recover), really did die onstage during a performance of ''Theatre/{{Aida}}'' September 5, 1921. (More trouble with Verdi.)

* Ironically, Austrian tenor Josef Mann, who had been set to cover for Caruso during his illness (it was presumed he'd recover), really did die onstage during a performance of ''Theatre/{{Aida}}'' September 5, 1921. (More trouble with Verdi.)
* British tenor Walter Widdop died onstage too, after completing a concert performance. The audience was still applauding.

* At the end of the Mario Lanza film ''The Great Caruso'', the ailing title character collapses just as the curtain falls on his final performance in the opera ''Martha.'' This is followed by a final scene showing [[DueToTheDead mourners laying a wreath in front of his bust]], implying that he died on the stage. This is VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: the real Caruso died in bed in a Naples hotel nearly a year after his last performance (which was ''La Juive'', not ''Martha'').

* The first act of Flotow's RomCom opera ''Theatre/{{Martha}}'' ends with a confusing crowd scene with everyone dancing and rushing about, bumbling Uncle Tristano included. On February 10, 1897, French bass-baritone Armand Castelmary was playing Tristano at the Metropolitan {{Opera}} House, going all out with cute stage business. Just before the curtain fell he put his hand up to his head and looked confused, but nobody thought twice. And at the first curtain call, the audience saw Armand on his knees struggling to hold onto a table -- AllPartOfTheShow, right? It was a massive heart attack. The chorus women near him weren't fooled, nor was Armand's friend, tenor Jean de Reszke. He ran to Armand and embraced him, gently laying him on the floor as he died. The audience was not informed and [[TheShowMustGoOn they actually continued the performance]], with Armand's cover singer taking his place.

** In another, a [[{{Otaku}} rabid fan]] of {{tokusatsu}} is tricked into committing suicide in front of the [[Series/KamenRider Kamen]] [[CaptainErsatz Yaiba]] club he belonged to, and in the middle of a cosplay party, they had organized for fun. He was already not well in the head, and then he took a pistol and shot himself, thinking it was just a prop. [[spoiler: One of the leaders of the club was the culprit since said rabid fan stole his younger brother's prized memorabilia and caused the poor little boy to get hit by a truck while pursuing the thief.]]

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* Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravičius was murdered in April 2022 while filming his war documentary ''Mariupolis 2'' amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. His widow Hanna Bilobrova [[Main/PosthumousCollaboration completed the documentary]] using the footage that Kvedaravičius had filmed. A month and a half after his death, the finished ''Mariupolis 2'' premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Abracadaver", a magician named [[PunnyName Al Lusion]] was disrupted during his act by a little girl who accidentally caused him to fall into an iron maiden. Al comes BackFromTheDead as a zombie to exact his revenge and selects out Blossom, to whom the little girl bore an uncanny resemblance.

* Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravičius was murdered in April 2022 while filming his war documentary ''Mariupolis 2'' amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. His widow Hanna Bilobrova [[Main/PosthumousCollaboration completed the documentary]] using the footage that Kvedaravičius had completed. A month and a half after his death, the finished ''Mariupolis 2'' premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

* Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravičius was murdered in April 2022 while filming his war documentary ''Mariupolis 2'' amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. His widow Hanna Bilobrova [[Main/PosthumousCollaboration completed the documentary]] using the footage that Kvedaravičius had completed. Month and a half after his death, the finished ''Mariupolis 2'' premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

* Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravičius was murdered in April 2022 while filming his war documentary ''Mariupolis 2'' amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. His widow Hanna Bilobrova smuggled Kvedaravičius' footage out of Ukraine and [[Main/PosthumousCollaboration completed the film]]. A month and a half later, the finished ''Mariupolis 2'' premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.