18 Memorable Moments Actors Appeared In Movies After They Died

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While I remain inconsolable at the recent passing of Dame Angela Lansbury, there is comfort to be taken in learning that the actor, who does not has never officially retired, will appear on screen one last time in Rain Johnson's upcoming Benoit Blanc Hug Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which is getting a limited theatrical release ahead of its debut on Netflix in December. Joining her, fittingly enough, will be the late Stephen Sondheim, who also filmed a cameo (Sondheim, of course, gave Lansbury one of his most iconic stage roles as Mrs. Lovett in the original production. from Broadway by Sweeney Todd.)

Posthumous film appearances often give unintended hints of tragedy, whether because the performers in question went before their time or, in some cases, were taken by accidents or negligence during production. It's much easier to see the last roles like those of Lansbury and Sondheim, who died at 91 and 96, as the last farewells of talents who continued to work (thankfully, it seems) until the very end. . We should all be so lucky. He...