10 Child Actors Who Died too Young
Tara Correa-Mcmullen
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The young star died in 2005 at age 16. , whose character was killed by gang members, she had a similar fate when a shotgun blast ended her life.
Anton Yelchin
June of 2016, 27-year-old Anton Yelchin died after being struck by his car. He was behind his vehicle when it rolled backward down his steep driveway and pinned him to his brick mailbox and security gate. Yelchin was known for playing Pavel Chekov in the Star Trek reboot.
River Phoenix
The child star of Stand by Me died in 1993 at only 23, after using cocaine and morphine. It happened in front of The Viper Room, a legendary Sunset Strip music venue, while then-owner Johnny Depp was performing onstage with Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers. As news circulated through the club about Phoenix's collapse outside, the show stopped, but he was never revived.
Matthew Garber
The Mary Poppins star died in 1977 at age 21. While in India, contracted hepatitis which spread to his pancreas before he could return to London for treatment. The official cause of death listed on his death certificate is Haemorrhagic Necrotising Pancreatitis.
J. Madison Wright Morris
The Grace Under Fire actress died in 2006 at age 21. After having received a heart transplant in 2000 to correct a heart muscle disease, the young actress succumbed to a heart attack the day after her wedding.
Michael Cuccione
The 2ge+her star died in 2001 at age 16. Cuccione had survived Hodgkin's disease at age 9 after chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, but was left with a respiratory problem as a result of the treatments. After a minor car accident, the actor was hospitalized and never recovered, ultimately succumbing to respiratory failure.
Dorothy Dell
The Wharf Angel and Little Miss Marker actress died in 1934 at age 19. After avoiding death several times over the years, Dell was finally felled in an auto accident that killed her instantly.
Sammi Kane Kraft
The star of the Bad News Bears remake died in 2012 at age 20. The actress was a passenger in a car that rear ended a semi truck and subsequently another vehicle. She died at Cedars-Sinai hospital from injuries sustained in the accident.
Sawyer Sweeten
April 23, 2015: Sawyer Sweeten, who played Ray Romano's son on Everybody Loves Raymond, passed away from apparent suicide. The 19-year-old actor and his twin brother, Sullivan, played Romano's kids on the show from 1996 to 2005. According to one report, Sweeten was visiting his family in Texas when he went out on the porch and shot himself.
Dana Hill
The star of Shoot the Moon, Fallen Angel, and National Lampoon's European Vacation died in 1996 at age 32. Diagnosed in her youth with Type 1 diabetes, Hill slipped into a diabetic coma in May, suffered a massive stroke in June, and died in July.
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