movies where a plot line centers around an (in the movie) actor's real life illness
 

If I'm not mistaken Jason Robards was dying from cancer and played the part in Magnolia

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Tom Hanks in Philadelohia...in real life he was suffering from fallen arches.



I got nothing. I think this may be a short thread.

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Not if we include alcoholic actors who played alcoholics... or drug addicts.

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So true. :thumbsup:

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Wasn't John Wayne terminal when he played the dying gunfighter in "The Shootist"?

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The French film Savage Nights (1992) was about a character who is HIV positive and played by Cyril Collard, who was HIV positive and died a year later.

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Christopher Reeve in "Rear Window" (remake)

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Sarah Jessica Parker in 'Seabiscuit'

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:lol:

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Did the Edward G. Robinson character in Soylent Green have cancer? I think Robinson died a couple weeks after the film was finished.

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Michael Cuccione in 2gether

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Never gets old.

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No, he had not been diagnosed with that particular cancer yet, and lived 3 more years.

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Does Robert Downey Jr. in 'Less Than Zero' count?

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Andre the Giant's acromegaly in Princess Bride.

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Kirk Douglas after his stroke in Diamonds.

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When Jan-Michael Vincent was filming some low budget action movie in the early 90s, he was in a nasty car crash and suffered severe facial injuries. Since they couldn't afford to wait, the script was rewritten to involve a car crash to explain why he suddenly became so grotesque.

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'Blow'.

Only it was the director Demme, and he died from a coke overdose not too long after. He was making a film about his disease. Good movie too.

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Sarah Jessica Parker walks into a bar. The bartender says "Why the long face?":rimshot:

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Come on guys, the ultimate one in this category (if you count injuries as illnesses) is Harold Russell who played Homer Parrish in "The Best Years Of Our Lives". It's a great movie and Harold won two Oscars for the part.

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As long as we're considering actors' injuries, how about Mark Hamill. I didn't research the details of this, but I believe a similar thing happened to him (car accident), resulting in some facial injuries, which were then worked into the beginning of ESB by having him be the victim of a Wampa attack.

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You've got your facts a little screwed up. In real life Mark Hamill actually was attacked by a wampa. It happened in Malibu.

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Also, Grandma Walton on the Waltons.

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Will you fuckers lay off Sarah Jessica Parker already? Her suicide scene in "The Ring" is one of the last decade's most riveting screen performances...

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Not exactly illness or a movie :) but Ossie Davis' death scene on 'The L Word' was pretty close to his real life death. Both time-wise and how it happened.
A great final performance.