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Saturday, August 17, 2024
Steve Cochran
After appearing in a number of feature films in the 1940s and 50s, Steve Cochran appeared more on TV in the 60s. A notorious womanizer, he fell ill on a sailting trip with three women and died at 48.
Notorious womanizer or not, Steve Cochran's death is particularly gruesome and HOLLYWOOD BABYLON-esque in its details:
Not only was one of his three female companions only 14 (they were supposedly traveling with him from Acapulco to Costa Rica to appear in a film), the ship lost one of its two masts in a storm a few days into the trip. Cochran suddenly took ill with an acute lung infection and died two days later.
None of the three female paasengers had any idea how to sail the crippled ship, so they were trapped there with his decomposing body for ten days until they were picked up by a passing boat. Cochran's body was left on the boat, which was eventually found drifing off the coast of Guatemala.
A contemporary of Steve Cochran was actor Eric Fleming who also had a tragic death. While filming a movie on location in Peru 1966, he was swept away by a river current and drowned when the canoe he was in capsized….:(
Notorious womanizer or not, Steve Cochran's death is particularly gruesome and HOLLYWOOD BABYLON-esque in its details:
ReplyDeleteNot only was one of his three female companions only 14 (they were supposedly traveling with him from Acapulco to Costa Rica to appear in a film), the ship lost one of its two masts in a storm a few days into the trip. Cochran suddenly took ill with an acute lung infection and died two days later.
None of the three female paasengers had any idea how to sail the crippled ship, so they were trapped there with his decomposing body for ten days until they were picked up by a passing boat. Cochran's body was left on the boat, which was eventually found drifing off the coast of Guatemala.
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Gruesome episode.
DeleteIf anyone had raw sex appeal it was him.
ReplyDeleteRight.
DeleteA contemporary of Steve Cochran was actor Eric Fleming who also had a tragic death. While filming a movie on location in Peru 1966, he was swept away by a river current and drowned when the canoe he was in capsized….:(
ReplyDeleteSad story.
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