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2013
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Published November 9, 2023. Updated November 10, 2023. Michael Massee was filming one of the final scenes of The Crow with Brandon Lee when a prop gun he was using fired a bullet fragment — leaving his co-star dead at the age of just 28. Michael Massee pulled the trigger. And the man on the other side of the film set collapsed.
The 28-year-old son of martial arts icon and legendary screen star Bruce Lee was killed in a freak accident on the set of “The Crow” on March 30, 1993, when fellow actor Michael Massee was ...
All told, Michael Massee had quite a career as a character actor; his ability to play bad guys, as he often did in movies and on TV, kept him employed for more than two decades after what happened on the set of "The Crow." Sadly, Massee died of stomach cancer on October 20, 2016, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 64 years old.
October 26, 2016 @ 5:12 PM. Michael Massee, who died Wednesday at the age of 61, is unfairly known as the man who killed Brandon Lee on the set of the 1994 film, “The Crow.”. According to the ...
Michael Massee, a character actor who played villains on television and film and who fired the gun on the set of “The Crow” that accidentally killed Brandon Lee in 1993, died on Oct. 20 in Los ...
Massee fired the improperly prepared prop gun that killed Lee on the set of “The Crow” in 1993. Lee, the son of martial arts star Bruce Lee, died in surgery on March 31, 1993. He was 28.
In 1993, Massee portrayed the character Funboy in the film The Crow, starring Brandon Lee. Massee was the actor who fired the shot that accidentally killed Lee on the set, as the result of an improperly prepared prop gun. Traumatized by the event, he returned to New York and took a year off from acting, and never saw the film.
