Missing people
People who went missing or disappeared, and may still be alive (more or less plausible).
People who would be over 100 years old are not included on this list.
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- Director
Sergei Bodrov Jr. was born on December 27th, 1971 to producer and director Sergei Bodrov. He made his film debut in his father's Prisoner of the Mountains (1996) (Prisoner of the mountains) for which he won a Nika. From then on Sergei's career began. In 1997 he played a lead role in Brother (1997) which turned him into a star and made him one of the most known and beloved Russian actors.
He followed up the role with Brat 2 (2000) in 2000. He made his directorial debut in 2001 with Sisters (2001). The movie was a hit with audiences and critics alike.
In 2002 he was supposed to direct a movie, "Messenger", for which he traveled to the Caucasus mountains. On September 20th 2002, an avalanche due to a glacier slide came down from the mountains. Bodrov and his production group are still reported missing, believed killed. He is survived by his wife and two children, a four year old daughter and a two-month old son.Disappeared in the Kolka-Karmadon rock ice slide in North Ossetia-Alania, Russia in 2002. Most likely dead, but his body was never found. The avalanche killed 125 people, including Bodrov's film crew of 27.- Ylenia Carrisi was born on 29 November 1970 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress, known for Champagne in paradiso (1984), La ruota della fortuna (1987) and Verstehen Sie Spaß? (1980). She died on 31 December 1993 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.Was last seen in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is possible that she jumped into the Mississippi River and was washed to sea.
- Actor
- Cinematographer
American actor and journalist. Born to famed swashbuckling movie hero Errol Flynn and actress Lili Damita, Sean Flynn was the object of contention between the divorced couple for his entire life. Raised primarily by his mother, he was alternately ignored and fought for by his father, who engaged in a years-long custody battle with Damita. Sean grew up in Palm Beach, Florida and attended Palm Beach Private School and prep school Lawrenceville. Summers he spent with his father in Jamaica or on the elder Flynn's yacht. He enrolled at Duke University, but soon thereafter accepted a contract to appear in a sequel to his father's hit film Captain Blood (1935), The Son of Captain Blood (1962). He made a few more films in Europe, in all of which he was extraordinarily handsome but not particularly skilled or at ease before the camera. He became bored with acting and then went to Africa in 1965. There he worked for a time as a game warden and hunter in Kenya. The Vietnam war was heating up, and in 1966 Flynn went to cover the war as a photographer-correspondent for Paris-Match. He was wounded in the knee in March. He left Vietnam long enough to appear in a final film, Singapore, Singapore (1967), and to cover the Arab-Israeli war of 1967. He then returned to Vietnam in 1968, where he sold photographs and news stories to most of the major news organizations and made plans for a documentary film on the war. His exploits and those of his colleagues made them somewhat legendary figures in military and journalism circles. In April, 1970, while covering the widening of combat to the border areas of Cambodia, Flynn and colleague Dana Stone disappeared. They were presumed captured by elements of the North Vietnamese, the Viet Cong, or the Khmer Rouge .. Although some reports indicated they may have survived as prisoners for as much as another two months, Flynn and Stone were never definitively heard from again after April 6, 1970, and were almost certainly executed by captors.Working as a photojournalist, Flynn disappeared on Highway 1 in Cambodia, while searching for Viet Cong members to photograph. Together with Dana Stone, he was taken captive by the Viet Cong, but what happened afterwards is unknown.- Jodi Huisentruit was born on 5 June 1968 in Long Prairie, Minnesota, USA. She died on 27 June 1995 in Mason City, Iowa, USA.Was reported missing after failing to show up for work as a news anchor. Her personal items were spread out outside her apartment in Mason City, Iowa, suggesting a struggle had taken place. Witnesses had observed a white van, but the car has never been identified.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
After going through severe depression due to personal and professional problems, Kiran left India for USA, where he allegedly worked as a taxi driver in New York for a while. Could now possibly be living in a mental illness institution in Atlanta, Georgia.- Actor
- Composer
- Writer
Daniel Küblböck was born on 27 August 1985 in Hutthurm, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor and composer, known for Daniel the Wizard (2004), Deutschland sucht den Superstar (2002) and Daniel Küblböck: Ein Stück von Dir (2013). He died on 9 September 2018 in Labrador Sea, Canada.Jumped overboard from the cruise ship AIDAluna in the Labrador Sea, while travelling as a private passenger from Hamburg to New York. His body was never found, and is most likely dead.- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Producer
Missing, presumed dead, near Tanumshede on the Swedish west coast. While doing research for an upcoming movie and taking photos, Daniel Lind Lagerlöf disappeared from two other members of the crew, and has not been seen since 6 October 2011.
The search for Lind Lagerlöf was cancelled after more than two days extensive search with police, sea rescue service and military in the rather limited area where he disappeared. It is believed that he has fallen into the sea and perished.Disappeared while scouting a filming location near Tanumshede, Sweden. It is likely that Lagerlöf slipped on the rocks, and was washed to sea.- Was last seen in 1987 when she was hiking in the Arizona Desert. Allegedly lived in Sacramento, California in 1990, but her whereabouts after that are unknown.
- Born in Bremerton, Washington. Joe started working locally in Seattle on videos and commercials. He moved to Los Angeles where he immediately landed a role in The Fan (1996), starring Robert DeNiro and Wesley Snipes. Other film roles quickly followed. His Television credits include "Touched By An Angel", "Promised Land", "Lois & Clark", "In The House", "Mad TV", "A Stranger In Paradise" and "Gun" (with Carrie Fisher and Kirsten Dunst). In addition, Joe has done numerous Commercials and Voice-Overs and even recorded "The Land Before Time" Sing-A-Long Tape and CD.Disappeared in Bremerton, Washington in 2006, leaving behind a note in his car that could be seen as a suicide note.
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- Director
- Producer
Zahir Raihan was born on 19 August 1935, as Mohammad Zahirullah, in the village Majupur, now in Feni District, Bangladesh. After the Partition of Bengal in 1947, he, along with his parents, returned to his village from Calcutta. He obtained Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Bengali from Dhaka University. He had been married twice, to Sumita Devi in 1961 and Shuchonda in 1968, both of whom were film actresses.
Zahir Raihan received his post graduate degree in Bengali Literature. Along with literature works Raihan started working as a journalist when he joined Juger Alo in 1950..Later he also worked in newspapers, namely Khapchhara, Jantrik, and Cinema. He also worked as the editor of Probaho in 1956. His first collection of short stories, titled Suryagrahan, was published in 1955. He worked as an assistant in the film Jago Huya Sabera in 1957. This was his first foot print in film. He also assisted Salahuddin in the film Je Nodi Morupothay. The filmmaker Ehtesham also took him for his movie A Desh Tomar Amar, for which he wrote the title song. In 1960 he arrived as a director with his film Kokhono Asheni. In 1964, he made Pakistan's first colour movie, Sangam, and completed his first CinemaScope movie, Bahana, the following year. He was an active worker of the Language Movement of 1952 and was present at the historical meeting of Amtala on 21 February 1952. The effect of language movement was so high on him that he made his legendary film "Jibon Theke Neya" based on it. He also took part in the "Gano Obhyuthyan" in 1969. In 1971 he joined in the Liberation War of Bangladesh and created documentary films on this great event.During the war of liberation Raihan went to Kolkata where his film "Jibon Theke Neya" were shown. His film was highly acclaimed by Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha and Ritwik Ghatak. Though he had his financial problem going on that time, he gave all his money to the Freedom Fighters trust that he got from the show.
Raihan disappeared on 30 January 1972 trying to locate his brother, the famous writer Shahidullah Kaiser, who was captured and killed by the Pakistan army and/or local collaborators during the final days of the liberation war.It is believed that he was killed with many others when armed Bihari collaborators and soldiers of Pakistan Army in hiding fired on them when they went to Mirpur, a suburb of the capital city of Dhaka that was one of few strongholds for Pakistani/Bihari collaborators at that time.Disappeared in Bangladesh in 1971, while looking for his brother who had been captured by the Pakistani army. It is likely that he was shot and killed in Mirpur, Bangladesh.- Actress
Jean was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1923. She graduated from Franklin High School in Los Angeles in 1941. Soon, Jean was working as a model for a local clothing firm. Later, she was a dancer with the Earl Carroll Theatre. Jean got married to Dexter Benner, and they had a daughter, Christine, in 1944. Two years later, in 1946, she had a bitter court battle with her ex-husband regarding the custody of their young daughter. In 1948, ruling a daughter's place is with her mother, a judge awarded full custody to Jean. Sultry and statuesque, Jean, a divorced mother and nightclub dancer, struggled to make it as an actress; she was a bit player and uncredited extra in movies and early television. In 1949, she met Kirk Douglas on the set of Young Man with a Horn (1950), which was released February 9, 1950. On October 7, 1949, when she was 3 months pregnant, she disappeared. A note was found in her purse that read: "Kirk, Can't wait any longer. Going to see Dr. Scott. It will work best this way while mother is away." All the police found was her purse and this cryptic note -- Jean had vanished without a trace. Her disappearance is still an unsolved mystery.Disappeared in Los Angeles, California in 1949, after leaving home to work on a night shoot for a movie. There were no records of her doing any shoots that night, and she was observed standing outside the Farmers Market, an area of food stalls, early in the morning. Her purse was found later, and it included a note mentioning a Kirk and a Dr. Scott, neither whose identity has been revealed. Actor Kirk Douglas was questioned by the police in the case.- Bambi Woods was born on 12 July 1955 in Pierre, South Dakota, USA. She is an actress.Disappeared completely from the public eye in the mid-80s. There has been speculations that she died of an overdose in 1986, but in the mid-90s a private investigator claimed she lived an ordinary life in Des Moines, Iowa, wanting nothing to do with her former career as an adult entertainment actress.
- Cinematographer
On June 30, 2005, he went missing after going on an overnight fishing trip on a sport fishing vessel out of San Pedro, California. In January, 2009, he was found by "Dateline NBC" investigators living in a beach town in Mexico under the name of Pat Kim. He has been working on a yacht carrying tourists in and out of a marina just along the coast from Sayulita. In April 2009, lead investigator Philip R. Klein released the following statement: "Since the airing of the Dateline NBC story and the media coverage of this story from around the world - we the investigators in the case would like to say "thank you" to all of you from around the world that have helped us track Mr. McDermott down. Our team cannot ever say enough thanks to the people and governments of the United States, Mexico, Brazil and Panama. As well, INTERPOL and other federal agencies that has communicated and assisted us in this case.- Actress
Tammy Lynn Leppert was an American beauty queen and model. She had a few acting roles in the early 1980s but mysteriously disappeared at the age of 18. Her disappearance has generated much publicity, and her case remains open.
In 1965, Leppert was born in Rockledge, Florida. The city was a fashionable resort town in the late 19th century and early 20th century. By the 1960s, it had turned into a bedroom community for the nearby Kennedy Space Center. Leppert was a curly-haired blonde girl with hazel eyes. Around 1969, the 4-year-old Leppert participated in her first beauty contest.
Leppert spent most of her childhood in near-constant competition for beauty pageants. She is estimated to have been a contestant in about 300 beauty pageants and to have won about 280 crowns. She started a modeling career in her late childhood and continued modeling into her teen years. In 1978, her photos appeared in the magazine "CoverGirl".
Leppert had aspirations for an acting career, though she lacked formal training in acting. In 1980, she had a bit part in the teen-oriented comedy-drama film "Little Darlings". The film's plot revolved around two teenage girls who placed a bet on which of them would lose her virginity first, while several other girls took an interest in their contest.
In 1983, Leppert appeared as a female participant in a boxing match featured in the sex comedy "Spring Break". After the end of the film's shooting, Leppert decided to party. She went unaccompanied to a weekend party but reportedly had a disturbing experience there. After she returned home, Leppert started displaying signs of paranoia and persecutory beliefs. She was convinced that somebody would try to kill her and started taking precautions to prevent anyone from placing poison in her food and drink.
Leppert's last acting role was in a key scene of the crime drama film "Scarface". Her role was that of a bikini-clad girl who intentionally distracts the lookout car, preventing its occupants from intervening in a torture scene. Leppert reportedly displayed irrational behavior on the film's set and was escorted to her home after the fourth day of filming.
After Leppert stopped working on "Scarface", Leppert's mother became convinced that something was wrong with her daughter. She arranged for Leppert to undergo a medical evaluation in a medical center. After staying there for 72 hours, Leppert was released. The examining doctor found no signs of drug or alcohol use in Leppert, and she appeared to be physically healthy.
On July 6, 1983, Leppert arranged for a male friend to drive her to an unspecified location. They argued during the drive, and the friend dropped her off at Cocoa Beach, Florida, not far from Leppert's residence. He was the last person to see her alive. Leppert vanished without a trace, and the police and FBI soon started investigating her disappearance. As of the early 2020s, the investigative authorities have acquired a DNA profile of Leppert, but they do not have her dental records and fingerprints.
The FBI has theorized that Leppert was killed by serial killer Christopher Wilder (1945-1984), an amateur photographer who habitually targeted models and beauty contestants to rape and kill. Wilder lived in Florida from 1969 to 1984, and he went on a cross-country crime spree a few months following Leppert's disappearance. However, there is no physical evidence tying him to the case. Another major suspect was John Brennan Crutchley (1946-2002), a convicted rapist and kidnapper who was also suspected of being both a serial killer and a professional spy. Crutchley moved to Florida in 1983 and resided in the same county as Leppert. However, authorities were never able to prove that Crutchley had ever killed anyone.
Leppert's disappearance has ensured enduring fame from her, and she is often featured in true-crime books and documentaries. Various investigative authorities have repeatedly announced possible new leads when unidentified female corpses with superficial similarities to Leppert have been discovered. Between 1984 and 2014, the remains of 13 different women were compared to physical samples from Leppert, but none of them was an exact match. It is not clear whether Leppert is still alive or long gone.- Shahidullah Kaiser was born on 16 February 1927 in Feni, Bengal Presidency, British India [now in Feni, Bangladesh]. He was a writer, known for Sareng Bou (1978) and Songsoptok (1987). He was married to Panna Kaiser and Zohra Khatun. He died on 14 December 1971 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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- Editor
Raymundo Gleyzer's parents were Jews who were involved with theater, but after they separated the boy got work as a cameraman to support himself and his mother, who he stayed with.Which led to a short involvement at the La Plata film school.Gleyzer soon realized he wanted to get right out into the real world and document the situations of the peasants in his country and the failure so far of revolutionary movements like those in Mexico to help such people.His later involvement with radical political activism led to his disappearance in the 1970s with likely participation from the US Central Intelligence Agency.- Actor
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Richey Edwards was an actor and composer, known for Dirty Weekend (1993), Twin Town (1997) and House of America (1997). He died on 1 February 1995 in London, England, UK.- Bison Dele was born on 6 April 1969 in Fresno, California, USA. He died on 7 July 2002 in Tahiti.
- Oscar Zeta Acosta is known for Revolt of the Cockroach People.
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- Stunts
- Actor
Art Scholl was born on 24 December 1931 in Granville, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), The Right Stuff (1983) and Explorers (1985). He died on 16 September 1985 in Pacific Ocean.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Alain Kan was born on 14 September 1944 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Les faits Karl Zéro (2007), Alain Kan: Star ou rien (1973) and Top à... (1972). He died on 14 April 1990 in Rue de la Pompe - Paris Métro station, Paris, France.- Actress
- Additional Crew
Carmen Bueno was born on 16 July 1950 in Santiago, Chile. She is an actress, known for The Promised Land (1973), A la sombra del sol (1974) and El primer año (1972).- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Sound Department
Jorge Müller Silva was born on 10 January 1947 in Santiago de Chile, Chile. He is a cinematographer, known for La expropiación (1974), A la sombra del sol (1974) and September 11 (2002).- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Jim Sullivan was an American singer and songwriter born in Nebraska in 1940. He grew up a working class family in the Linda Vista area of San Diego California and was the quarterback of his high school football team. He played in a band called The Survivors and married the homecoming queen. In 1968 he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in music. He released two albums before disappearing without a trace in New Mexico on March 6th 1975, It is unknown what became of him.