british musician actor committed suicide

1918: Chung Ling Soo, magician (real name: William Ellsworth Robinson), died as a result of a bullet catch illusion going wrong on stage.The band reportedly continued playing music until the sinking ship's last moments in an effort to calm the passengers. 1912: Theodore Ronald Brailey, Roger Marie Bricoux, John Frederick Preston Clarke, Wallace Hartley, John Law Hume, Georges Alexandre Krins, Percy Cornelius Taylor, and John Wesley Woodward were the eight musicians hired to entertain on board the RMS Titanic.1911: On 9 May: Sigmund Neuberger, a vaudeville performer known as 'The Great Lafayette', died in Edinburgh's Empire Palace Theatre while performing his 'Lion's Bride' illusion after a stage lamp sparked a fire that killed Neuberger, his double, the lion, and ten other performers.1904: Emil Hasda, a Polish comic actor, took six curtain calls after a performance in Nimptsch, Germany (now part of Poland) on 11 April before shooting himself in the head in front of the audience, apparently because a female member of the company had rejected his marriage proposal.The audience, believing his collapse to be a stroke of brilliant acting, rewarded him with a loud ovation as the curtain was lowered. 1897: Operatic bass Armand Castelmary died onstage at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House during a performance of Friedrich von Flotow's Martha.1888: Frederick Federici had a heart attack as he descended through a trap door just after singing his last note as Mephistopheles in Gounod's opera Faust at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne.1882: The actress Annie Von Behren died during a performance of Si Slocum at Cincinnati's Coliseum when a firearm wielded by her co-actor, Frank Frayne, accidentally discharged, shooting her in the head.Stagehands mishandled her wires and sent her crashing upside down into a wall. 1873: The actress Matilda Pascaly died from injuries suffered on stage while playing the part of an angel in Don Juan de Maraña.Eventually rescued, he died on the way to the hospital. Although other members of the show eventually forced the animals back into an inner cage they dragged Macarte with them. Attacked by the lions, he attempted to fight them off with his sword and a pistol loaded with blanks but they overcame him. 1872: Lion tamer Thomas Macarte, known as Massarti the Lion Tamer, who had previously lost an arm when attacked by one of the lions, entered the lion's cage for a performance with a travelling menagerie in Bolton market on 3 January.The deadly flames spread to the other three sisters Hannah, Ruth, and Adeline when they tried to rescue their sibling. They were among eight dancers who died when Zelia Gale's gauze dress caught on fire from a gas tube.

1861: The four Gale sisters were a team of British ballerinas who were appearing at Philadelphia's Continental Theater.

Webster was badly burned and died three days later.

1844: Dancer Clara Vestris Webster's dress caught fire during The Revolt of the Harem at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.He had successfully leapt into High Falls one week previously. 1829: Sam Patch, an American daredevil, died in Rochester, New York, during a jump into the High Falls of the Genesee River.One of the six marksmen had mistakenly loaded his rifle with a live bullet. 1820: Madame Delinsky, the female half of a magic act, was accidentally shot and killed while performing the ' bullet catch' trick.He died of 'ossification of the heart' ( aortic stenosis) on 20 June having uttered his final words from the play 'May such befall me at my latest hour.

Cummins died on stage while playing the part of Dumont in The Tragedy of Jane Shore by Nicholas Rowe, at the Leeds Theatre in Hunslet. The superstition that green brings bad luck to actors is said to originate from the colour of the clothing he was wearing at the time of his death. However, he did not die on stage-as he was able to finish the play-but died a few minutes later at his home. 1673: Molière, the French actor and playwright, who suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis, died after being seized by a violent coughing fit while playing the title role in his play Le Malade imaginaire ( The Imaginary Invalid).The following list excludes deaths involving stunt persons, as they are listed separately. Through history, many entertainers have died while performing live or while recording a performance.

British musician actor committed suicide