By Anadya Narain
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Here are the Indiana Jones actors, from Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, The Last Crusade, and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, you may not know passed away.
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Ronald Lacey (Major Arnold Toht)
Ronald Lacey, the British actor who portrayed Lost Ark's Major Arnold Toht, suffered from bowel cancer and died of liver failure at the age of 55 in 1991.
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Denholm Elliott (Marcus Brody)
Brody was a great source of support, to Dr. Jones and was played with excellent comical rhythm by Denholm Elliott who passed away of tuberculosis in 1992.
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Roy Chiao (Lao Che)
Che was portrayed by Roy Chiao, a Shanghai-born actor who died of heart disease in 1999, at the age of 72.
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D.R. Nanayakkara (Shaman)
Don Ruter "D.R." Nanayakkara was cast in his final role, as the village Shaman in Temple of Doom.He contracted AIDS and died 12 months in 1989.
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Sean Connery (Henry Jones, Sr.)
Sean Connery's work as the first Dr. Jones resulted in a blockbuster film. He died peacefully in his sleep of pneumonia and heart failure o in 2020.
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River Phoenix (Young Indy)
River Phoenix payed young Indiana Jones in The Last Crusade. In 1993 at the tender age 23, River Phoenix tragically died of a drug overdose.
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Amrish Puri (Mola Ram)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom's main baddie played by Amrish Puri. In 2005, after a fall in his home, Puri died of a brain hemorrhage.
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