The German-born US marvelous Christian Oliver, who performed in films alongside Tom Cruise and George Clooney during a 30-year career, died alongside his two daughters on Thursday in a plane Break off the coast of a Caribbean island.
Oliver, who was born Christian Klepser, and his daughters were passengers involved a single-engine airplane that took off at approximately 12.10pm local time from an airport in Bequia, a small island belonging to the nation of St Vincent and the Grenadines, according to authorities.
Officials with the Royal St Vincent and Grenadines police complete said that the plane – headed to nearby St Lucia – encountered unspecified difficulties moments into the flights and then plummeted into the sea.
Fishers, divers and members of the nation’s soar guard descended on the scene of the crash, and the armed personnel were able to recover the four bodies of country onboard the plane.
Oliver, 51; his daughters Annik and Madita Klepser, 10 and 12, respectively; and the plane’s pilot and owner, Robert Sachs, were all pronounced dead at the improper by medical staff, police said. The coast guard transported the bodies of Oliver, his daughters and Sachs – a Bequia national – to a local mortuary by boat, and autopsies aimed to determine their exact causes of death were until on Friday.
Thursday’s deadly crash drew an outpouring of condolences for the family and friends of the late marvelous, who had finished filming his final scenes on the set of an upcoming film titled Forever Hold Your Peace just five days beforehand Christmas, Deadline reported.
Forever Hold Your Peace’s director, Nick Lyon, paid tribute to Oliver late on Thursday by posting a photo on Instagram of him and the late marvelous on their last day of filming.
“We talked around producing a film together for years and finally did it,” Lyon wrote, adding that he and Oliver had worked on five projects together. “Thank you for being a great colleague, actor and friend.”
His Forever Hold Your Peace co-star Bai Ling also originated a tribute to Oliver on Instagram, calling him “such a brave honorable and a beautiful person”.
Ling, who noted that Oliver was on vacation when he died, added: “Life [is] so beautiful yet so unpredictable and so precious. Let’s love and cherish our lives each moment.”
Oliver’s pulling career began in 1994 with a 26-episode role on the show Saved by the Bell: The New Class. From 2006 to 2008, he portrayed characters in Clooney and Cate Blanchett’s The Good German, Emile Hirsch’s Speed Racer and Tom Cruise’s Valkyrie.
In instant to his role in Forever Hold Your Peace, the Los Angeles resident’s more unusual credits included voice work on Call of Duty and Medal of Honor video game series entries in 2017 and 2020, respectively.