Gilda Radner in Saturday Night Live (Feb. 21, 1976)
Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)
Film Deaths[]
None.
TV Deaths[]
- Saturday Night Live (Oct. 25, 1975) [Square Dancer]: Shot to death, along with the other dancers, when the square-dance caller (Dan Aykroyd) tells them to shoot each other.
- Saturday Night Live (Nov. 8, 1975) [Woman #1]: Eaten by the Land Shark (Chevy Chase) when she answers the door.
- Saturday Night Live (Nov. 22, 1975) [Second Woman]: Eaten by the Land Shark (Chevy Chase) when she answers the door.
- Saturday Night Live (Feb. 21, 1976) [Lucy Nitti]: Machine-gunned by John Belushi during the raid on Desi Arnaz's hideout.
- Saturday Night Live (May 15, 1976) [Hearing Test Applicant #2]: Shot in the back by police in the crossfire of a shoot-out with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, as the oblivious Gilda thinks all the noise is just part of a hearing test.
- Saturday Night Live (Oct. 23, 1976) [Suki Bird]: Killed (off-screen) in combat in Vietnam; her death is mentioned in Don Pardo's voice-over narration as he reveals each character's fate. (Thanks to Tommy)
- Saturday Night Live (Mar. 11, 1978) [Gilda Radner]: In a sketch set in the future, she dies (off-screen) under unspecified circumstances some time before the sketch begins; her death is mentioned when John Belushi reminisces about his dead castmates while visiting the cemetery.
Notable Connections[]
- Ex-Mrs. G.E. Smith.
- Mrs. Gene Wilder.