Rudolph Valentino
67 years
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Poll: Movie Legends with the Highest Death-Over-Life Years Differences
These movie stars either died very young, a long time ago, or both, and have now been dead much longer than they were alive.
The Death-Over-Life (DOL) number indicates how much longer they've been gone compared to how long they lived. For example, Humphrey Bogart died at 58 in 1957, and as of 2024, it's been 67 years since his death, making Bogart's DOL number 9 (67 minus 58).
Here are the movie stars with the highest DOL numbers, sorted from highest to lowest. Which one is your favorite?
After voting, you might discuss the list here
(to condense the list, we limited it to primarily movie stars, excluding singers who became actors and omitting child actors to avoid trivializing the gravity of their untimely deaths)
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Lingyu Ruan
64 years -
Jean Harlow
61 years -
Carole Lombard
48 years -
Lon Chaney
47 years -
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
45 years -
James Dean
45 years -
Françoise Dorléac
35 years -
Sharon Tate
29 years -
Douglas Fairbanks
29 years -
Marilyn Monroe
26 years -
Jayne Mansfield
23 years -
Sabu
22 years -
Tyrone Power
22 years -
Bruce Lee
18 years -
Linda Darnell
17 years -
Dorothy Dandridge
16 years -
Errol Flynn
15 years -
Hattie McDaniel
13 years -
Montgomery Clift
12 years -
Sal Mineo
11 years -
Wallace Beery
11 years -
John Belushi
9 years -
Alan Ladd
9 years -
Humphrey Bogart
9 years -
River Phoenix
8 years -
Judy Garland
8 years -
Jean Seberg
5 years -
Ann Sheridan
5 years -
Judy Holliday
5 years -
Clark Gable
5 years -
Brandon Lee
3 years -
Vivien Leigh
3 years -
Gary Cooper
3 years -
Oliver Hardy
2 years
