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- 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.
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Nov 9, 2023 · On March 31, 1993, Michael Massee accidentally killed Brandon Lee with an improperly prepared gun while filming “The Crow” — and it haunted him for the rest of his life.
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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 New York Times, Lee was...
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The death of Brandon Lee was one of the most heartfelt and tragic events of modern cinema. It was the one that created the myth of The Crow, as a film that expresses the real soul of Brandon, a film that really belongs only to him and should never be remade. There are also several legends spinning around that death, coming in part from the curse of...
The real scene in which Brandon Lee died is the one where his character, Eric Draven, was killed in his apartment, by the thugs who raped his girlfriend. In the original scene Funboy, the thug played by Michael Massee, used a gun wrapped in a grocery bag. The gun still had an old dummy bullet from a previous scene, and in order to make the scene mo...
The original scene is obviously not in the film (there is no image of a shot with the grocery bag). Someone says that the film with that scene was destroyed, some others that it was confiscated by the police for the investigations on his death. In the original scene of Eric Dravens death (the one above), Brandon Lee is first hit by a knife and then...
Brandon Lees death was filed as accidental. Both the mother and the true girlfriend of Brandon Lee, Eliza Hutton, although devastated by his death, were collaborative in completing the filming of The Crow. After the death of Brandon Lee, many studios refused to produce the film, considered now too difficult to propose to the public. Miramax was the...
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May 26, 2022 · Sadly, Massee died of stomach cancer on October 20, 2016, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 64 years old. Here's what happened to Michael Massee after his involvement in the accidental shooting death of The Crow actor Brandon Lee.
Aug 23, 2024 · Michael Massee revealed he suffered from 'nightmares' and had struggled to overcome his grief after the death of Brandon Lee on the set of The Crow in 1993.
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Oct 26, 2016 · Michael Massee, who accidentally fatally shot Brandon Lee on the set of their 1994 film "The Crow," in which he played Funboy, has died.
Oct 28, 2016 · 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...
