Movie Accidents

1. While filming, Tom Hanks cut his leg. Two weeks later, the swelling on his leg persisted, and Hanks was confined to a hospital for three weeks to treat an infection that could have killed him from blood poisoning.

2. While filming a driving scene in Mexico, Uma Thurman sustained a concussion and injured her knees when she lost control of the car and crashed into a palm tree.

3. Harrison Ford fractured a bone in his leg while filming at Pinewood Studios after a hydraulic door fell on him, and was taken to a hospital to receive treatment.

4. While filming in Barbados, Daniel Craig knocked out two of his front teeth. The damage was so severe that Craig's dentist had to be flown in from London to fix caps into his mouth.

5. During a tense argument scene, Leonardo DiCaprio smashed his hand on a table, inadvertently slicing his hand on a crystal cordial glass.

6. Brad Pitt tore his left Achilles tendon during production.

7. A truck driven by Jason Statham lost its brakes and fell into the Black Sea. Statham was able to swim out of the accident unharmed.

8. Joseph Gordon-Levitt lost control of his bicycle and collided with the back of a taxicab before flying towards its rear windscreen.

9. Brandon Lee was accidentally shot and killed with a .44 magnum gun that was intended to fire blanks but contained a bullet left behind after a dummy round had been inserted and removed.

10. While filming the water-chamber escape scene, Isla Fisher nearly drowned when her shackles got stuck in the chamber for less than three minutes.

11. Kate Winslet suffered pneumonia from filming the water scenes after she refused to wear a wetsuit under her dress.

12. During a fight scene, Michelle Yeoh tore an ACL on her knee after a bad landing and had to be flown all the way from China to Maryland for surgery.

13. Bob Hoskins was stabbed four times, electrocuted, and was nearly drowned. During one scene, Hoskins broke a finger when the door of a van slammed on his hand.

14. Bruce Willis lost two-thirds of his hearing after firing a gun loaded with extra-loud blanks from underneath a table.

15. During a torture scene where he was tied to a chair, George Clooney suffered head and spinal injuries and memory loss when he hit his head on the floor after the torturer knocked his chair over.

16. Demanding a sense of realism, Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren agreed to legitimately spar with each other. Stallone was airlifted from Canada to California, and placed on intensive care for eight days after Lundgren delivered a hard punch to his chest, causing his heart to swell and his blood pressure to exceed 200.

17. Production was stalled for two weeks because Al Pacino accidentally burned his hand by holding a barrel of a gun that had been fired.

18. Two children and actor Vic Morrow were killed by a helicopter during production when it was caught in the pyrotechnics flying low at 25 feet.

19. Jodie Foster was mauled by a lion on the set. The event has since caused Foster to suffer from ailurophobia.

20. While filming, a prop-gun fired by Alec Baldwin killed the cinematographer and injured the director.