The Great Actor: Although he'd only starred in a handful of films, most of them positioning as a heart-throb lead, Heath Ledger's death at the age of twenty-eight really shook people. Whether he was playing a chilled outcast or gay cowboy he showed a proper acting prowess that some of his contemporaries lacked. Many people regard Ledger's final role as his Academy Award winning turn as the Joker in The Dark Knight and while that certainly will be his enduring legacy, there was one final performance after. The Terrible Final Role: Tony - The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus Ledger died partway through shooting Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, which left the Python-cum-director in a rather tricky spot. Unlike Phillip Seymour Hoffman in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay or Brandon Lee in The Crow there wasn't enough of Ledger's part filmed to CGI in the rest, but at the same time production had gone too far to have (what would have been a disrespectful) total recast. In the end Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell were brought in to play representations of Tony in the titular Imaginarium. While that certainly made the film coherent, it did neuter Ledger's performance and leave us with something not quite up to the director's best.
