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  1. 22 mar 2024 · Explored this curated list of child actors who died young, including Anton Yelchin, Heather O'Rourke, and more.

    • Heather O’Rourke
    • Gary Coleman
    • Corey Haim
    • Judith Barsi
    • Michelle Thomas
    • Matthew Garber
    • Sawyer Sweeten
    • Dana Plato
    • Lee Thompson Young
    • Rob Knox

    So much misfortune surrounds classic horror movie Poltergeist that many have declared the film and its sequels to be cursed. Most notably, both the young actresses who portrayed the children of the Freeling family died soon thereafter. First, 22-year old Dana actress Dominique Donne was murdered in 1982; then even more infamously Carol Anne actress...

    American actor Gary Coleman was ten years old when he shot to fame as the adorable Arnold in sitcom Diff’rent Strokes. Famed for his diminutive stature, many assumed the young actor was simply a late bloomer, but the truth was not so simple. Coleman suffered from a congenital kidney disorder, and as a side effect he kept his 4’8″ stature and childl...

    Born 23rd December 1971, Corey Haim became one of the most popular actors of his generation in the late 1980s. He co-starred in a series of films with his namesake Corey Feldman (including The Lost Boys), and the two became firm friends and a popular double act. Unfortunately, as well as sharing fame, the two Coreys also shared a variety of childho...

    A prolific child actor of the 80s, Judith Barsi’s death is without a doubt one of the most awful cases on this list. Born in June 1978, Barsi began taking small film and TV roles by the time she was six. Soon enough she was earning an estimated $100,000 a year, money which her parents came to depend on. Her father József Barsi was an abusive alcoho...

    Born September 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts, Michelle Thomas got into acting in her early teens, beginning with a 1983 TV commercial. She eventually worked her way up to taking supporting roles in two of the biggest sitcoms of the era: The Cosby Showand Family Matters. By the late 90s Thomas was a regular guest host on TV music show Soul Train, an...

    Matthew Garber has long been synonymous with his role as Michael Banks in beloved family classic Mary Poppins. Born in Stepney, London in 1956, Garber was just eight years old when he appeared alongside Julie Andrews in the Disney production. It was only his second film role after 1963’s The Three Lives of Thomasina; and he would take only one more...

    Sawyer Sweeten was born on 12th May 1995, alongside his twin brother Sullivan, in Brownwood, Texas. When the twins were six months old, the Sweeten family moved to Los Angeles, and the boys were soon sent out for child acting work. They got their first roles playing the twin sons of Ray Romano’s title character in sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, wh...

    Gary Coleman was sadly not the only young star of Diff’rent Strokes to go through serious hardship, and meet an early death. The same was also true of actress Dana Plato, who played Coleman’s adoptive sister Kimberly Drummond. Plato was 13 years old and had been acting for a few years when she was cast in the sitcom. Even in the early days of Diff’...

    Lee Thompson Young was born in Columbia, South Carolina in February 1984, and began pursuing acting aged 10. The young actor got his big break in 1998, when he was cast in the title role of Disney Channel series The Famous Jett Jackson. Young played Jett Jackson in three seasons and a TV movie, as well as appearing in another Disney Channel movie, ...

    English actor Rob Knox was born in Kent in 1989, and had made a few brief film and TV appearances before getting what should have been his big break. Knox landed the role of Hogwarts student Marcus Belby in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth film in the popular fantasy series. Although the character of Marcus did not appear in final ...

  2. 24 lug 2023 · Using news articles, interviews, and documentaries, among various other sources, Stacker assembled a list of 23 child actors who died young. Read on to see which stars didn't live to see 50.

  3. A deadpan, freckle-faced, curly red-haired, highly talented child actor of the late 50s, Rusty Hamer entered films and TV at age 5 and became a precocious TV celebrity the very next year, trading clever quips with volatile top comedian Danny Thomas as his smart-alecky son, Rusty Williams, on the ...

  4. 6 apr 2024 · The world of child stardom is full of tragedy, including but not limited to the heartbreaking stories of actors who died when they were still young.

  5. 1. Judith Barsi. Actress. The Land Before Time (1988) The only child of Jozsef Barsi and Maria Benko, Judith Eva Barsi beat 10,000-to-1 odds when she was discovered at a San Fernando Valley skating rink at age 5 1/2 in 1983 and mistaken for a three-year-old.

  6. 7 mar 2023 · Who is the most famous person who dealt with the death of their child? Anna Nicole Smith tops our list. Anna Nicole Smith's son Daniel died on Sept. 10, 2006 of a lethal combination of Zoloft, Lexapro, and methadone.