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I gather (I was born in 1982 so don’t remember this first hand) that Eric Morecambe’s last live tv appearance/interview discussed Cooper’s death, and how he’d hate to “go that way”. Eric died of a heart attack backstage following filming.
On 15 April 1984, Cooper collapsed from a heart attack in front of millions of television viewers, midway through his act on the London Weekend Television variety show Live From Her Majesty's, transmitted live from Her Majesty's Theatre.[15]
You don’t see it if they’ve been dead hours or at a wake...that’s death. Full fledged death. But it’s that split second, when you’re seeing the precise moment they make the actual transition from alive to inanimate, which we rarely get to see, is what’s so jarring and terrifying.
The story of magician Tommy Cooper, who suffered a fatal heart attack during a performance, while the audience thought it was part of his act.
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Tommy Cooper was a Welsh prop comedian and magician. As an entertainer, his appearance was large and lumbering at 6'3", and he habitually wore a red fez when...
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16 mars 2021 · After Cooper hit the ground, Alasdair McMillan, the show’s director, cued the orchestra to play, and the channel cut to an unplanned ad break. Cooper had suffered a massive heart attack in front of a live auditorium and over a million TV viewers. How else would you expect him to go? Cooper’s death rocked the nation.
15 avr. 2014 · Indeed, Cooper – who had a statue of his likeness unveiled in his hometown by Sir Anthony Hopkins in 2008 – suffered from crippling stage fright and imbibed huge amounts of alcohol to combat it.
