1. – Allan Jones, Show Boat, 1936. With seven films behind him, he had been talked of at Universal for Gaylord Ravenal when – in the midst of an affair (opposed by his studio) with Carole Lombard – he died in the strangest “accident” in Hollywood history. He was in a studio visiting a photographer pal who lit a match for his cigarette on the stock of an antique French dueling pistol. The flame set off a charge in the gun and a lead pistol ball struck Columbo in the forehead. His mother was never told and kept receiving postcards from his “ world tour” until her own 1944 death.
Birth year: 1908Death year: 1934Other name: Casting Calls: 0