19. Amanda Blake
Amanda Blake was a beloved actress best known for her role in the western television series Gunsmoke. She died in 1989 as a result of complications from having AIDS. She was 60 years old at the time of her death and it wasn’t made public about how she might have contracted this disease, although the common belief is that she contracted the disease from her husband Mark Spaeth who passed away in 1985. Blake had also suffered from oral cancer due to heavy smoking and became a supporter of the American Cancer Society.
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18. Kevin Peter Hall
Many people might not recognize this mild mannered actor, but they would certainly know the title character he played in the movie Predator. Under an intense costume and loads of makeup, Kevin Peter Hall was just as large in life as his alien character that had hunted down Arnold Schwarzenegger and his comrades. He died in 1991 from pneumonia that had been the result of AIDS. It turned out that he had contracted HIV through a blood transfusion.
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