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Chris Penn
BornOct 10, 1965
DiedJan 24, 2006
Age40
Stiff · January 24, 2006

Chris Penn

Born Christopher Shannon Penn

Is it irony that he died accidentally at 40, and that his last role was in a film called The Darwin Awards? We're just asking.

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Yes, confirmed September 30, 2005
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Chris Penn
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actor, film, television

Guess the stiff · died 2022

The father of the French New Wave made Breathless, invented the jump cut and spent the next sixty years making films that critics adored and audiences walked out of in shifts. He insulted Truffaut, Spielberg and most of the people who paid for his movies, and at 91 he chose an assisted death in Switzerland, ending on the abrupt cut he always loved. Fin.