According to Los Angeles County coroner’s officials, British film director and producer Tony Scott, famed for such Hollywood blockbusters as ‘Top Gun,’ ‘Days of Thunder,’ ‘Beverly Hills Cop II,’ and ‘The Taking of Pelham 123,’ fell to his death from the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro.
Anthony David Leighton Scott was an English film director, producer, actor, and editor who was born on June 21, 1944. Top Gun (1986), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Days of Thunder (1990), The Last Boy Scout (1991), True Romance (1993), Crimson Tide (1995), Enemy of the State (1998), Man on Fire (2004), Déjà Vu (2006), and Unstoppable (2010) were among his many successful action and thriller films.
Sir Ridley Scott’s younger brother, Scott, was a film director. They were both graduates of London’s Royal College of Art, and they were part of a group of British film filmmakers that made it big in Hollywood after starting out in television commercials. Tony and Ridley were both awarded the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema in 1995. The BAFTA Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment was given to them in 2010.
Scott committed suicide by jumping off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles’ San Pedro port district on August 19, 2012, at approximately 12:30 p.m. PDT. Investigators from the Harbor Division of the Los Angeles Police Department discovered contact information in a note left in his car on the bridge and a note for his family left at his business.
