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Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film … Post was not sent - check your email addresses! © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. ... Gunnar Tjörnebo died in 2009. Brianne Gould Brianna 5 Episodes (2009-2009) Guest Stars. $18 Million Gunnar Washington Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family Gunnar Washington is an actor, known for Meet the Browns (2009). For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click Comments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed Actor Jon-Erik Hexum accidentally shot himself on set of his TV show Cover Up with a gun which was loaded with blanks Michael Washington, pictured in 1985, received Hexum's heart and said he felt 'connected' to the actor Actor Jon-Erik Hexum accidentally shot himself on set of his TV show Cover Up with a gun which was loaded with blanks Hexum pictured with Cover Up co-star Jennifer O'Neill - who also accidentally shot herself two years prior at her home in New York The show continued after Hexum's death with replacement actor Antony Hamilton but was cancelled after one season Hexum's girlfriend Elizabeth Dailly, pictured with the actor in 1984, said the star was 'accident prone' The 26-year-old's life support machines were turned off six days after the tragic shootingThe story of Jon-Erik Hexum - the actor whose heart saved the life of a pimp New Jersey-born Hexum starred in TV movie Making of a Male Model alongside British telly icon Joan Collins Gunnar Washington Celebrity Profile - Check out the latest Gunnar Washington photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at Rotten Tomatoes! I’m sending my mother to the store to buy books, to buy this, to buy that. So when I heard he got hurt, I never thought it would have been life-threatening, in a million years.”And in a case or what Elizabeth calls “divine intuition”, the then 23-year-old Elizabeth cancelled lunch with her friend to visit Hexum on the set the day he died.She said: “I felt like it was more important to visit him that day than to have lunch with my friend.“It was always a weird thing to me that I cancelled that lunch meeting because I got to see him and thank god that I did because I got that moment with him that was so special.”But within an hour of Elizabeth leaving the set, Hexum was in a coma and fighting for his life.Aside from Washington, one of Hexum's kidneys saved the life of a five-year-old boy while his skin was grafted onto a three-year-old child who had suffered horrific burns.Both of the 26-year-old's eyes were donated – one went to a 66-year-old man while the other was given to a young girl.Hexum's former friend and room-mate Nick Alan said that he was with the actor when he signed up to become an organ donor.Speaking with The Sun Online, photographer Nick said: “When I was living with Jon-Erik my little cousin needed a liver transplant – the donor was around nine-years-old - and I said to Jon-Erik 'it's amazing that some kid has to die to allow my cousin to live.

View rank on IMDbPro Filmography. We've received your submission.This is the astonishing story of a Hollywood leading man who killed himself playing Russian roulette on a TV show and whose heart saved the life of a Las Vegas pimp.After a meteoric rise in the world of showbiz, Jon-Erik Hexum’s life was cut short on Oct. 18, 1984, when he put a .44 Magnum, which was loaded with blanks, to his head and pulled the trigger.The 26-year-old actor had been filming a scene on his own television show, CBS spy adventure “Cover Up,” where he played an undercover CIA agent posing as a male model.Hexum grew increasingly frustrated with delays in filming the scene and began playing with the gun, spinning the barrel like a game of Russian roulette.In what has been described as a tragic accident, the actor playfully spun the barrel, which had one cartridge inside, placed the gun to his temple and pulled the trigger.The gun discharged a wad of paper that shattered his skull, forcing a bone fragment the size of a small coin into the center of his brain.After losing several pints of blood on the way to the hospital, the actor underwent five hours of surgery and was placed on life support.Six days later, Hexum was declared brain-dead and his organs were harvested with the permission of his devastated family.The New Jersey-born star’s heart was transplanted into the chest of Michael Washington, a Vietnam War hero who also owned an infamous escort service known as Swinging Suzy’s in Las Vegas.Washington — who was twice awarded the Purple Heart, for those injured in battle — became obsessed with the actor toward the end of his life.Speaking with the Sun Online, actor and Hexum archivist Doug Eames said Washington contacted him several times before the war hero died in 2002.Eames said: “I asked Washington if he felt any kind of psychic or spiritual connection with Jon-Erik after having received his heart when we spoke.”“Washington seemed a bit surprised by my question and said that he hadn’t had any supernatural experiences following the transplant, but that he just felt a great desire to find out everything he could about Jon-Erik and his life.”Both Hexum and Washington were raised by single mothers after their fathers ran out on them at a young age.Washington was interviewed on CBS news show “West 57th” in 1985 and said he felt “connected” to Hexum.He said: “I’m alive because of him, so now I want to know about Jon-Erik Hexum.”“So now I’m asking questions. The evicted houseguest says the game has evolved from 'ruthless' to 'calm' See all photos. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Directed by Tyler Perry.