Commorientes: “simultaneous deaths”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ante: (no longer productive<\/a><\/em>) Prior to in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Needed a fancy word that makes no sense to document the order of passing of the characters of the 1964-1967 sitcom Gilligan’s Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n James Gilmore Backus<\/a>; Thurston Howell III<\/em>: July 3, 1989; 76 years old<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alan Hale Jr.<\/a>; Captain Jonas “The Skipper” Grumby<\/em>: January 2, 1990; 68 years old<\/p>\n\n\n\n Natalie Shafer<\/a>; Eunice “Lovey” Howell<\/em>: April 10, 1991; 90 years old<\/p>\n\n\n\n Charles Carlton Maxwell<\/a>; Radio Announcer<\/em>: August 7, 1993; 79 years old<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bob Denver<\/a>; Willy Gilligan<\/em>: September 2, 2005; 70 years old<\/p>\n\n\n\n Russel David Johnson<\/a>; “The Professor” Roy Hinkley<\/em>, Ph.D: January 16, 2014; 89 years old<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dawn Elberta Wells<\/a>; Mary Ann Summers<\/em>: December 30, 2020; 82 years old<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tina Louise<\/a>; Ginger Grant<\/em>: Still Alive<\/p>\n\n\n\n I had an idea a long time ago to find movies where a high percentage of the main actors that were present in the film were deceased, thus making the film somewhat more relevant to watching. The problem came with data in movies, as all<\/em> the people who were a part the production could either be in a main or minor role and there was no source of data with only main characters or characters with >50% screentime to determine this morbid ratio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Performing the same calculation with Series-based productions where the performer is in X out of Y episodes gives a better breakdown which is why Charles Maxwell “The Radio Announcer” is present in the list above. Gilligan’s Island is 87.5% deceased (7\/8 performers) instead of 85.7% deceased (6\/7 performers) by this metric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In all this rambling my wife made me aware of this conversation in the movie Dazed and Confused<\/a> about Gilligan’s Island:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nThe Kill Order<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Dead Movies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Dazed and Confused (1993)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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