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May 28, 2018 · Actor Phil Hartman, shown in this undated NBC handout photo, was found shot to death in his home on May 28, 1998, along with his wife Brynn Hartman in a suspected murder-suicide.
May 28, 2023 · CNN —. Twenty-five years after Phil Hartman’s tragic death, his memorable comedic work still brings joy to audiences. Hartman was fatally shot by his wife Brynn Omdahl on May 28, 1998, before ...
18 hours ago · Phil Hartman was tragically murdered in 1998. (Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images) On 27 May, 1998, Omdahl had returned to her home and had an argument with Hartman, after ...
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May 29, 1998 · When police officers found comedian Phil Hartman at 6:45 this morning, he was dead, in his bed, from a gunshot wound. Moments earlier, his wife, Brynn, had shot herself to death in the same room ...
- Early Life
- Meeting His Next Wife
- ‘Saturday Night Live’
- A Future in Hollywood
- Red Flags
- Phil Hartman’s Death
Phil Hartman was born in Ontario, Canada on September 24, 1948. He lived in Canada until he was 10 years old, when his family moved to the United States. Attending California State University, Hartman graduated with a degree in graphic arts which he used to design album covers for bands until he transitioned into comedy. In 1975 he joined The Groun...
Shortly after his failed second marriage, Hartman met his future wife Brynn Omdahl, born as Vicki Jo, a model and aspiring actress. Mike Thomas, author of You Might Remember Me: The Life and Times of Phil Hartman, detailedthe pair’s meeting and foreshadowed the disastrous outcome of their partnership. According to Thomas, their relationship started...
It was in the early years of his third marriage that Hartman’s comedy career really took off. He was asked to join the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1986. He worked as both a writer and performer on the show until 1994. Hartman expressed to the Los Angeles Times that he joined SNL “because I wanted to get the exposure that would give me box-office...
Between leavingSaturday Night Live in 1994 and his death just four short years later, Hartman was involved with many different shows and movies. He continued working on The Simpsons, which he began in 1991. He voiced lots of the show’s characters like Lionel Hutz, Troy McClure, and Duffman. He greatly enjoyed working on the animated show. Biographe...
When Hartman and Omdahl first met she was sober, having struggled with drug and alcohol abuse in earlier years. Although it appears that she maintained her sobriety throughout most of Hartman’s time on SNL, the family had to move to California for his role on NewsRadio. This triggered Omdahl’s addiction. But even before this, she’d had many negativ...
After taking Zoloft, cocaine, and alcohol, Omdahl went into the bedroom at 3:00 am and shot Hartman three times. In shock from what she’d just done, she went to the house of Ron Douglas, a lover. Some reports say that she had been at his house earlier in the evening before returning home to Hartman. Omdahl told Douglas that she had killed her husba...
May 29, 1998 · May 29, 1998 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITERS. ENCINO —. Former “Saturday Night Live” comic Phil Hartman was shot to death early Thursday, apparently by his wife, who killed herself as police ...
May 28, 2018 · Phil Hartman was known for making audiences laugh on Saturday Night Live, but his death 20 years ago, on May 28, 1998, was truly shocking, an incident that rattled Hollywood and devastated his ...
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