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27 years ago, comedian Chris Farley’s life came to a tragic end. The Wisconsin-born star was discovered dead in his Chicago apartment from an apparent drug overdose on Dec. 18, 1997. He was 33 ...
On December 18, 1997, at 2:00 p.m. EST, Farley was found dead by his younger brother John in his apartment in the John Hancock Center in Chicago, at the age of 33. [57] An autopsy revealed that Farley had died of an overdose of a combination of cocaine and morphine , [ 58 ] commonly known as a " speedball ".
The new documentary, I Am Chris Farley, honors the comedic icon's life. At the Hollywood premiere, 18 years after drug overdose death, Chris Farley remembered: 'He was actually a shy, sensitive guy'
On December 18, 1997, comedian Chris Farley was found dead in his apartment on the 60th floor of the building. [28] [29] On March 9, 2002, part of a scaffold fell 43 stories after being torn loose by wind gusts around 60 mph (100 km/h) crushing several cars, killing three people in two of them.
Chris Farley, 33, American comedian and actor (Saturday Night Live, Tommy Boy, Black Sheep), drug overdose. [91] Harriet Holter, 75, Norwegian social psychologist. Michel Quoist, 76, French catholic priest, theologian and writer, pancreatic cancer. [92] George Tsutakawa, 87, American painter and sculptor. James Kemsey Wilkinson, founder of Wilko.
In 1990, Chris Farley joined the show and made a name for himself playing a Chippendales dancer opposite Patrick Swayze. He also played a motivational speaker named Matt Foley and the host of the ...
Farley died on Dec. 18, 1997 of a drug overdose in his Chicago apartment. His official cause of death was credited to a lethal combination of cocaine and morphine. He was just 33 years old.
December 18 – Comedian and Saturday Night Live actor Chris Farley is found dead from a drug overdose in his apartment on the 60th floor at John Hancock Center in Chicago, Illinois. December 19 – James Cameron's Titanic, the highest-grossing film of all time until Avatar (2009), premieres in the U.S.