Top 10 Posthumous Film Roles
In honor of Bernie Mac's last performance, in Soul Men, TIME looks back at the most memorable posthumous movie performances of all time.
He was the first great film idol, the first great on-screen lover, the first great icon of movie sexuality. To women (and not a few men), he oozed a lithe, intense, smoldering eroticism. So when he passed away on August 23, 1926 while on a promotional tour for Son, the sequel to 1921's The Sheik, people went crazy. He was 31, dead of peritonitis and a perforated ulcer. Thousands came out to mourn him and, for years afterward, a mysterious veiled woman in black would leave red roses on his Hollywood tomb.
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