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Looking for reviews of Jon-Erik Hexum movies? Cinafilm has a total of 143 reviews across 3 movies.
Movies starring Jon-Erik Hexum have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 57%.
The Bear - released in 1984 - is Jon-Erik Hexum's highest rated movie, with a score of 67% based on 2 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Jon-Erik Hexum is A Little Sex - released in 1982 - with a score of 38% based on 8 reviews.
In the early 1980s, this ruggedly handsome young man of Norwegian parentage was seen as the "next big thing" - then suddenly he was dead from an accident via a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Hexum was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey, where he was a musically gifted student at school playing both the horn and the violin in the school orchestra, and even the piano at home. He then attended Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, before transferring across to Michigan State University studying bio-medical engineering and then switching over to philosophy.
While at MSU, Hexum played football, and DJ'd at several local radio stations under the name of "Yukon Jack", before being discovered by John Travolta's manager, Bob LeMond. Hexum allegedly turned down plenty of opportunities to appear in shows such as The Dukes of Hazzard (1979), CHiPs (1977) and many daytime soap operas before finally making his debut in the television series Voyagers! (1982) as time traveler Phineas Bogg. He was then cast as hunk Tyler Burnett alongside Joan Collins in Making of a Male Model (1983), and then as ex-Green Beret Mac Harper in the television series Cover Up: Pilot (1984).
However, on October 12, 1984, after a long and draining day's shooting on the set of Cover Up: Pilot (1984), Hexum became bored with the extensive delays and jokingly put a prop .44 magnum revolver to his temple and pulled the trigger. The gun fired, and the wadding from the blank cartridge shattered his skull, whereupon the mortally injured Hexum was rushed via ambulance to hospital to undergo extensive surgery. Despite five hours of work, the chief surgeon, Dr. David Ditsworth, described the damage to Hexum's brain as life-ending.
One week later, on October 18, he was taken off life support and pronounced dead. However, Hexum's commitment to organ donation meant five other lives were assisted or saved with organs harvested from him. The youthful and charming Hexum was dead at only 26 years of age.
Jon-Erik Hexum has acted in films with Michael Caine, Dyan Cannon, Wendie Malick and Wallace Shawn.
Jon-Erik Hexum has worked with these film directors: Sidney Lumet, Richard C. Sarafian and Bruce Paltrow.
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