On-screen, movies often portray all sorts of dangers, whether they involve shootouts, explosions, zombies, or even evil leprechauns who make terrible puns. However, filming those movies is supposed to be pretty safe. You don’t expect to be injured, or even killed, on the set of a movie.
Unfortunately, it does happen. Whether it was due to negligence, incompetence, or simply not giving a damn, some movie productions have proven to be downright dangerous, even lethal.
10. Across the Border
We should start at the beginning, with the earliest known death to occur while filming a movie in the US and, in fact, we’re not dealing with just one fatality, but two.
This happened all the way back in 1914, before Hollywood became the central hub of American filmmaking. The Colorado Motion Picture Company was shooting a western titled Across the Border, using a section of the Arkansas River in Cañon City, Colorado, as a stand-in for the Rio Grande. Their leading lady was Grace Forman, known professionally as Grace McHugh.
