15 Premature Curtain Calls For These Actors

7. Martha Mansfield

Possibly one of the craziest and most unfortunate deaths on this list, Mansfield’s death in 1923 while on the set of The Warrens of Virginia seems unfathomable today. Dressed in a highly-flammable Civil War-era gown, a passerby flicked a cigarette and set her on fire. She succumbed to complications from severe burns the next day.