56. Richard Stanley
On the set of the 1996 film The Island of Dr. Moreau, a lot of strange things happened, but one of the most bizarre was what happened after director Richard Stanley (above, center) was fired just three days into production. Stanley was supposed to be escorted onto a flight from the remote set in Australia to Los Angeles, according to The Telegraph, but he was not on board when his plane arrived at LAX. A month later, he was found by some of the film’s extras, “living rough in the jungle: he’d fled from the airport to a fruit plantation, where he’d been subsiding on yams, cassava and coconuts, along with his substantial personal stash of marijuana.”
Richard Stanley
57. Richard Simmons
When his public appearances came to a halt after he was last seen in February 2014, fans became increasingly concerned about the fitness guru. He simply vanished for three years. We didn’t find out Simmons was “perfectly fine” and “very happy” until March 2017, when the police conducted a welfare check and issued a statement through People magazine.
Richard Simmons
