The Lady From Shanghai
1948
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Sloane committed suicide at age 55 on August 6, 1965; he took an overdose of barbiturates because he feared he was going blind as a result of glaucoma. Sloane's cremated remains are interred at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Feb 9, 2024 · Everett Sloane committed suicide by overdosing on barbiturates on Aug. 6, 1965, at the age of 55. He was reportedly distraught because he thought he was going blind.
Apparent suicide with bartiturates in Brentwood because he was afraid he was going blind. He and Rita Hayworth , who played his wife in the film, were memorialized in the glass-shattering mirror maze finale in the Orson Welles ' The Lady from Shanghai (1947) .
- October 1, 1909
- August 6, 1965
Citizen Kane (1941) Everett Sloane, the actor most known for playing Mr. Bernstein in Orson Welles classic Citizen Kane (1941) as a member of Welles' Mercury Players, was born in New York, New York on October 1, 1909. Sloane was bitten by the acting bug quite early, and first went on-stage when he was seven years old.
Known Movies -- An Apparent Suicide - The New York Times. Everett Sloane. Dies on 'Coast; Veteran Character Actor, 55; ' Citizen Kane' and 'Patterns' Were Best. Known Movies -- An Apparent...
In "Home From the Hill" (1960), Sloane played a half-blind character who commits suicide. Tragically, life imitated art in the actor's case. In August of 1965, after learning he was losing his eyesight, Sloane took his life with an overdose of sleeping pills.
WEST LOS ANGELES (UPI) —Veteran character actor Everett Sloane apparently committed suicide because he feared he was going blind, police Mid today. The 55-year-old Sloane. an associate of Orson Welles in the Mercury Theater and noted for his role in "Citizen Kane,” was found dead in the bedroom of his Sunset Boulevard home Thursday by his ...
