Watching Films Where The Main Actors and Actresses Have Died
By Brian
@wolfie34 (26771)
United Kingdom
August 30, 2009 4:51pm CST
Do you ever find it eerie or weird watching a film and you know that the main actors or actresses or both in some cases are actually dead?
Or do you not even think about it when watching an old film, or even a film where an actor or actress has recently died.
I was watching a Carry on Film today and it dawned on me that most of the cast are now dead, Sid James, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, the list goes on...
Do you watch old films with this in mind and feel sad that some of the great actors and actresses have now gone to the big silver screen in the skies.
It's like bringing them back to life in a way when we watch them on dvds etc and soon as the film finishes they have gone from this world.
Actors and actresses live on in movies even though they have died, weird eh?
If one of your favourite actors or actresses has died do you find it eerie watching them in films?
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
31 Aug 09
Hi wolfie34,
Feel a bit sad yes I really like all those you mention specially Charles Hawtrey when he used that catch phrase "oh hellooo" lol. Loved Hattie Jaques too she was really funny and Patricia Hayes who worked right up to her passing I believe she was a lady of great courage. Have seen photos of Diana Rigg and I think she wears well too. Patrick McGoohan with that performance in Braveheart you would have thought he would have gone on for ever. Steptoe and Son evokes that feeling too mainly because everything here is in Spanish and I miss English television specially Eurosport oops getting too sentimental now.
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@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
31 Aug 09
Wow, Diana Rigg when she was wearing her leather outfit in Avengers! Then Linda Thorson took over didn't she as Tara King. I miss those old shows, they are showing reruns of Steptoe on Sky, you dirty old man! Brilliant. Kenneth Williams was brilliant and who can forget that infamous laugh of Sid James!
@celestemichelle (429)
• United States
31 Aug 09
It doesn't bother me in old movies, or if it was an older actor. What really gets me is when actors die during the filming, or before the release, like Heath Ledger or Brandon Lee (from The Crow). Then I get kind of sad seeing their movies. I also get sad when I see reruns of the Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin. One of my uncle's friend's met him, and always talks about how friendly and happy Steve was.
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@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
31 Aug 09
No, that does not bother me. The one thing that does bother me is when I see movies with the World Trade Center in it. That is nightmarish to me. I know they are not going to remove those images and I would not want to ever forget what happened. But seeing those pictures ....
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@williamjisir (22819)
• China
31 Aug 09
Hello wolfie. I used to have some favorite actors and actresses that are now away from us, but I still miss them a lot and would like to watch them in the movies. It is a different feeling when we watch them in the movie screen as we know that they are not with us any longer. I appreciate the movies that have been invented that we can still see them alive...Take care, wolfie.
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@marguicha (215428)
• Chile
31 Aug 09
I love to watch agood old movie, but for me the actors and actress (when they really act) are not themselves but the characters they are playing. I have seen several times Gone with the wind. The first time I was a little girl and my mom took me when the movie had several years. The last time I took my eldest grandaughter. For me, it´s not Vivian Leigh but Scarlett O´Hara. And so on. And we are in the civil war, not sitting at a showroom.
Otherwise, I could not cry every time I watch Casablanca.
Take care.
Otherwise, I could not cry every time I watch Casablanca.
Take care.
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@Sandra1952 (6047)
• Spain
30 Aug 09
Yes, I feel sad. We've been watching the Carry On films today, and we said exactly the same. I feel the same whenever I see John Thaw on tv as well. However, although these people are no longer with us, they have left the legacy of their onscreen performance, which affords them a measure of immortality. In today's technological age, nobody need disappear from our screens for ever. I find that comforting, though it may be difficult for the actors families and friends.
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@eaforeman6 (8979)
• United States
30 Aug 09
It is always going to happen. O look at the loss when it is a case like Marilyn, so many greats, gone. It is wonderful that their work goes on and can be cherished, film is such a wonderful gift. I like seeing all the old films and so many of the greats.
@sweetie1026 (1718)
• Philippines
31 Aug 09
No not at all. In some way i find it amazing to still see them on films that they have been remembered of. It is some way of looking back at their achievements as actors and actresses and what have made them great ones. Like sort of respect for them especially if they are our idols or favorites. Great day to you, dear friend.
@suesan35 (478)
• Sri Lanka
1 Sep 09
If the actor or actress in the movie are people of my generation where I have either followed their stories or seen them on movies or heard them singing, I definitely feel sad. When I see Michael Jackson I feel terribly sad and the same goes for Princess Diana although she was not in the movies. But apart from that I don't really think about it.
