Killed on set: Famous Hollywood tragedies

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With a cinematographer killed and a movie director wounded after US actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun during filming, we look at other deadly movie accidents.

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Gun related deaths go back to the dawn of cinema with extra Charles Chandler shot in the head in 1915 while filming the Cecil B. DeMille movie "The Captive". He died after a bullet was left in a rifle after soldiers shot at a door with live ammunition to give the scene more realism.

Director John Landis was later acquitted of the manslaughter of the 53-year-old star as well as the children, aged six and seven, in the first such case in Hollywood history.US actor Brandon Lee, a martial arts legend and the son of Bruce Lee, was shot and killed on the set of "The Crow" in 1993 in a case which set off a whirl of conspiracy theories about him being murdered by Hong Kong gangsters.

But investigators found his death was caused by negligence. An actor fired at Lee with a gun which was supposed to contain blanks. However, there was a bullet in the chamber and Lee, 28, died hours later from his injuries. Rumours of a "Curse of Batman" circulated after the 2007 death of stuntman Conway Wickliffe during a car scene of "The Dark Knight" was followed by the drugs overdose of Heath Ledger, 28, who played The Joker.

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