Update: October 26, 2016
Michael Massee, Actor Who Shot Brandon Lee in THE CROW, Dies at 61
Michael Massee, the actor who unfortunately will forever be known as the man who accidentally shot and killed Brandon Lee on the set of the 1994 film
The Crow, has died. He was 61.
Massee's death was first
announced by actor Anthony Delon and confirmed to
The Hollywood Reporter by a representative of his agent at Greene & Associates in Los Angeles. He and Delon recently worked together on the French TV series
Interventions. No details of his death were immediately available.
In just his second movie appearance, Massee was playing a character known as Funboy when he fired a revolver that had been improperly prepared by crewmembers at Brandon Lee, the son of famed martial arts star Bruce Lee. The round was live and struck Lee in the stomach, and he died after several hours of surgery on March 31, 1993. He was 28.
Massee was just following the script during filming at a studio in Wilmington, N.C. Shaken by the incident, he took a sabbatical from acting that lasted more than a year. “I don’t think you ever get over something like that,” he said.
Massee later played Ira Gaines, an American mercenary and former Navy SEAL, on the first season of the Fox drama
24 and portrayed Charles Hoyt, the scalpel-wielding killer known as the Surgeon, on the TNT crime drama
Rizzoli & Isles.
He also appeared as Gustav Fiers, aka The Gentleman, in
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and its 2014 sequel.
His film résumé also included the David Fincher films
Seven (1995) and
The Game (1997) as well as
One Fine Day (1996),
Amistad (1997),
Lost Highway (1997),
The Florentine (1999),
Corky Romano (2001),
Catwoman (2004) and
The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Michael Massee, Actor Involved in Fatal Accident During Filming of 'The Crow,' Dies at 61