Trivia: youngest best actor academy award winner to die

Dying young is supposed to make you famous. While dying before the age of 62 is not exactly young, can you do the trivia questions?

Only six best actor academy award winners died before the age of 62 .
(1)???? ????
(2)Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips died June 9, 1958 at age 53
(3)Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen died January 14, 1957 at age 57
(4)Clark Gable in It Happened One Night died November 16, 1960 at age 59 
(5)Gary Cooperin Sergeant York & High Noon died May 13, 1961 at age 60
(6)???? ???? died January 14, 1977 at age 60

Who was the youngest? What movie was he in?
The other actor who died at age 60 was the only actor to die before receiving his award. What was his name? What movie was he in?


Only four best actress academy award winners died before the age of 62 (these are the movies and the date they were awarded the award.
(1)Born Yesterday March 29, 1951 died at 43
(2)The Country Girl March 30, 1955m, died at 52
(3)Gone with the Wind February 29, 1940 & A Streetcar Named Desire March 20, 1952, died at 53
(4)I Want to Live! April 6, 1959, died at 57

What were the names of these four actresses.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman won best actor for Capote (2005) and died at the age of 46 years
Peter Finch in Network died of a heart attack while promoting the film


Peter Finch died on 14 January and Heath Ledger died on 28 January. They are the only two actors who won acting awards and died before receiving them.
They are both Australian.
Heath is not part of this trivia contest as he won Best Supporting Actor


The Best Actresses I will put in spoilers

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Philip Seymour Hoffman won best actor for Capote (2005) and died at the age of 46 years
Peter Finch in Network died of a heart attack while promoting the film


Peter Finch died on 14 January and Heath Ledger died on 28 January. They are the only two actors who won acting awards and died before receiving them.
They are both Australian.
Heath is not part of this trivia contest as he won Best Supporting Actor


The Best Actresses I will put in spoilers

Born Yesterday March 29, 1951 died at 43

Judy Holliday

The Country Girl March 30, 1955m, died at 52

Grace Kelly

Gone with the Wind February 29, 1940 & A Streetcar Named Desire March 20, 1952, died at 53

Vivien Leigh

I Want to Live! April 6, 1959, died at 57

Susan Hayward

Sorry Paco, I enjoy trivia questions, but don't tend to be on the boards on the weekends. I would have guesed since accidents would probably be the main cause of an early demise.

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I would have guesed

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James Dean or Steve McQueen

since accidents would probably be the main cause of an early demise.

Your candidates didn't win the best actor award.

Dying before the age of 62 is not exactly young, with the exception of PSH who died of a drug overdose, the other five died from heart attacks, cancer and brain tumor.

Only six best actor academy award winners died before the age of 62 .
(1)Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote died February 2, 2014 at age 46 of "acute mixed drug intoxication, including heroin, cocaine, ...".
(2)Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips died June 9, 1958 at age 53 of brain tumour and cerebral thrombosis
(3)Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen died January 14, 1957 at age 57, a heavy smoker and drinker, developed cancer of the esophagus.
(4)Clark Gable in It Happened One Night died November 16, 1960 at age 59 of coronary thrombosis, ten days after suffering a severe heart attack
(5)Gary Cooperin Sergeant York & High Noon died May 13, 1961 at age 60 of prostate cancer
(6)Peter Finch Network died January 14, 1977 at age 60 of heart attack

Out of 88 Best Actor awards 46 men have died (with 4 winning 2 times: (Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Marlon Brando, and Fredric March)

The remaining 38 awards went to 32 different actors sorted byAge
88.3 Sidney Poitier | Lilies of the Field April 13, 1964 37 years, 53 days
85.3 Gene Hackman | The French Connection April 10, 1972 42 years, 71 days
84.4 Robert Duvall | Tender Mercies April 9, 1984 53 years, 95 days

78.1 Jack Nicholson | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest March 29, 1976 38 years, 342 days
78.1 Jack Nicholson | As Good as It Gets March 23, 1998 60 years, 335 days

77.8 Dustin Hoffman | Kramer vs. Kramer April 14, 1980 42 years, 250 days
77.8 Dustin Hoffman | Rain Man March 27, 1989 51 years, 231 days

77.4 Anthony Hopkins | The Silence of the Lambs March 30, 1992 54 years, 90 days
76.4 Jon Voight | Coming Home April 9, 1979 40 years, 101 days
75.6 F. Murray Abraham | Amadeus March 25, 1985 45 years, 152 days
75.1 Al Pacino | Scent of a Woman March 29, 1993 52 years, 338 days
71.8 Robert De Niro | Raging Bull March 31, 1981 37 years, 226 days
71.4 Ben Kingsley | Gandhi April 11, 1983 39 years, 101 days
70.7 Michael Douglas | Wall Street April 11, 1988 43 years, 199 days
67.6 Richard Dreyfuss | The Goodbye Girl April 3, 1978 30 years, 156 days
66.7 Jeremy Irons | Reversal of Fortune March 25, 1991 42 years, 187 days
65.5 Jeff Bridges | Crazy Heart March 7, 2010 60 years, 93 days
65.2 William Hurt | Kiss of the Spider Woman March 24, 1986 36 years, 4 days
63.9 Geoffrey Rush | Shine March 24, 1997 45 years, 261 days
62.6 Roberto Benigni | Life Is Beautiful March 21, 1999 46 years, 145 days
60.4 Denzel Washington | Training Day March 24, 2002 47 years, 86 days

58.9 Tom Hanks | Philadelphia March 21, 1994 37 years, 255 days
58.9 Tom Hanks | Forrest Gump March 27, 1995 38 years, 261 days

58.1 Daniel Day-Lewis | My Left Foot March 26, 1990 32 years, 331 days
58.1 Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood February 24, 2008 50 years, 301 days
58.1 Daniel Day-Lewis | Lincoln February 24, 2013 55 years, 301 days

55.8 Kevin Spacey | American Beauty March 26, 2000 40 years, 244 days

54.8 Sean Penn | Mystic River February 29, 2004 43 years, 196 days
54.8 Sean Penn | Milk February 22, 2009 48 years, 189 days

54.7 Colin Firth | The King's Speech February 27, 2011 50 years, 170 days
53.9 Forest Whitaker | The Last King of Scotland February 25, 2007 45 years, 225 days
51.4 Nicolas Cage | Leaving Las Vegas March 25, 1996 32 years, 78 days
51.1 Russell Crowe | Gladiator March 25, 2001 36 years, 352 days
47.5 Jamie Foxx | Ray February 27, 2005 37 years, 76 days
45.6 Matthew McConaughey | Dallas Buyers Club March 2, 2014 44 years, 118 days
42.9 Jean Dujardin | The Artist February 26, 2012 39 years, 252 days
42.1 Adrien Brody | The Pianist March 23, 2003 29 years, 343 days
33.4 Eddie Redmayne | The Theory of Everything February 22, 2015 33 years, 47 days

Clark Gable was another actor who was
constantly worried about money. He
was convinced he was going broke
when he was worth millions. That
and smoking 4 packs a day did him
no favors. Loretta Lynn is the same
way, always thinking she'll be
poor again any day.