Actor shot in head during play

[TxD]

A lucky man.

"Just after 5 p.m., Kellerman got on his knees and his co-star, William Bordy, 78, pulled the trigger on a .32-caliber revolver. To everyone’s shock the gun was anything but a prop, instead later found to be fully loaded.

Kellerman said doctors would later find the bullet tore into his skull, ricocheted off bone, then came back out and tore off a piece of his ear."

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[Oldgringo]

That would be a BUMMER!

[03Lightningrocks]

This is way beyond ignorant. Very lucky to be alive.

[Purplehood]

This garbage has happened in the industry before. I want to say this happened to an actor while making the movie, "The Crow". But I am not positive.

[txflyer]

There was one actor on a TV show (Jon-Erik Hexum) who killed himself with a blank. He was playing russian roulette with a blank, when it went off the force killed him. The few morons who don't treat guns with respect just give the rest of us good folks a bad name.

[txflyer]

This garbage has happened in the industry before. I want to say this happened to an actor while making the movie, "The Crow". But I am not positive.

Right movie. Brandon Lee was the actor (Bruce Lee's son).

[DONT TREAD ON ME]

morons.

[WarHawk-AVG]

This garbage has happened in the industry before. I want to say this happened to an actor while making the movie, "The Crow". But I am not positive.

Yah..Brandon Lee was killed by a piece of brass or something from a prop gun

Ah! Turns out it was a real bullet driven by a light black powder "blank" that killed him

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[dewayneward]

this has happened a number of times. It actually amazes me that some people can be so ignorant.

Yes, this happened in the crow to Brandon Lee, Bruce Lee's son. During one of the (many) fight scenes when Brandon's character is standing on a large table, the Bad guys unload on him. "Somehow", one of the guns had live rounds in it and he was killed. It was ruled a terrible accident.

I remember when I was a kid hearing about an actor on "the colby's" (I think it was a soap opera), put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. He lived for a little while, but died at the hospital. In this case, the gun was loaded with the correct "fake" bullets, but he didnt realize that there is still compression in the whatever its called. I remember that he said "I am going to kill myself" jokingly and pulled the trigger.

Further evidence that you should treat ALL guns as loaded and ready to roll. You should never assume any gun is unloaded. While guns ARE very safe and I have never heard of one going off on its own, but when the human equation comes in that there are problems.

The guy is VERY lucky he is alive.

[seamusTX]

I will be very surprised if a lawsuit does not come out of this.

For me, the takeaway lesson from this incident and others like it is never to participate in any event where someone is using a real firearm as a prop.

Even shooting a blank cartridge (primer only) is dangerously noisy in an enclosed space.

Starter pistols are available that have plugged barrels, or the actors could use a pellet gun and create the sound effect electronically or mechanically.

- Jim

[03Lightningrocks]

I remember when I was a kid hearing about an actor on "the colby's" (I think it was a soap opera), put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. He lived for a little while, but died at the hospital. In this case, the gun was loaded with the correct "fake" bullets, but he didnt realize that there is still compression in the whatever its called. I remember that he said "I am going to kill myself" jokingly and pulled the trigger.

I remember that one too. People were amazed that a blank could kill a person. The incident may have saved other lives since the publicity of it might have kept others from doing the same thing. It must really suck to realize the purpose of ones life was to teach others not to be stupid.

[BobCat]

Yes but it did not work. Publicity or not, some people don't learn and they keep doing it - or we would not have this thread.

[flintknapper]

I will be very surprised if a lawsuit does not come out of this.
- Jim

It would certainly make a good case. (unless the victim was a "mime", nobody likes a mime)

[Taxman]

I will be very surprised if a lawsuit does not come out of this.
- Jim

It would certainly make a good case. (unless the victim was a "mime", nobody likes a mime)

OOOO that was bad Flint

[KC5AV]

Even so, a mime is a terrible thing to waste.