Roles or appearances by famous people when they were ill or dying

Guess Who’s NOT Coming To Dinner?

It was brave for Hudson to appear publicly. It put a face on AIDs. It made a difference.

Tammy Faye Bakker. She did this interview the day before dying from cancer. Despite the condition she was in, she insisted upon doing this interview.

Seeing Guy Pearce in "The Time Machine" (2002) I thought he was dying of AIDS, he looked incredibly emaciated. Maybe he just became vegan or something. He's still around now, maybe he was saved by the cocktail. He was married to the same unknown woman for many years, until 2015.

During Eva Cassidy's legendary Live at Blues Alley concert she was sick with a cold and, unknown to her at the time, cancer which she died of nine months later.