The Long Gray Line
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Audrey was an actress whose stage name was Ann Russell. She was in a plane piloted by actor Robert Francis that crashed into an empty parking lot after taking off from Burbank Airport. Francis, Dosch, and another passenger in the plane, Irving George Meyer were all killed in the accident.
The three people who were killed in the crash were actor Robert Francis, Ann Russell, and George Irving Meyer. FATAL WRECK SCENE -- Here is twisted wreckage of plane that crashed at Lockheed Air Terminal, killing three persons yesterday.
Narrative: Crashed on a parking lot after engine lost power. Actor Robert Francis (25) and actress Audrey Ann Dosch (24, Ann Russell). Film agent George Meyer (38). Owner golfer/actor Joe Kirkwood, Jr. Sources: Youngstown Vindicator 1 August 1955, p1+2. Revision history: Corrections or additions? ... Edit this accident description.
Robert Charles Francis (February 26, 1930 – July 31, 1955) was an American actor. He appeared in only four Hollywood films, all with military themes, before he was killed at age 25 in the crash of a small airplane he was piloting.
Mar 8, 2015 · Less than two weeks before he was scheduled to leave for Colorado, on Sunday, July 31, 1955, Francis was at the Lockheed Air Terminal (now Bob Hope Airport) in Burbank, Calif. With him were aspiring actress Ann Russell, 24, and Irving George Meyer, 38, a commercial pilot and Air Force veteran who flew B-29s during World War II.
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He and his friend, Joe Kirkwood, had just bought the Beechcraft plane and were taking it on a flight with two friends who were actors, Robert Francis and Ann Russell, as passengers. But the plane crashed on a Burbank parking lot.
Jun 16, 2018 · Meyer and Mrs. Audrey Ann Dosch, 24, who played some minor picture roles under the name of Ann Russell, also died in the crash. Funeral arrangements for all three were completed...
Jun 1, 2017 · Rather than attempt to make an emergency landing at a nearby cemetery, which was crowded with Sunday visitors, witnesses said Ann attempted to turn the plane, which stalled and crashed in a...
She died in a fiery crash of a four-seat Beechcraft Bonanza shortly after takeoff in Burbank, California on July 31, 1955 at approximately 5 p.m. The plane was flown by a newly-licensed pilot, actor Robert Francis.
