The movie and tv actor Christian Oliver, his two youngsters and a pilot have been killed on Thursday when the small aircraft they have been touring in crashed throughout a flight to the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, the police mentioned.
Mr. Oliver, 51, who appeared in “The Good German,” “Pace Racer” and the TV sequence “Saved by The Bell: The New Class,” and his daughters have been the one passengers within the single engine aircraft touring from Bequia, an island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, when it crashed into the ocean at noon, the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Power mentioned in a press release on Thursday.
Along with Mr. Oliver and his daughters, Annik Klepser, 10, and Madita Klepser, 12, the pilot, Robert Sachs, was additionally killed, the police mentioned. Fishermen and divers recovered the our bodies and turned them over to the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Coast Guard, the police mentioned in a press release on Friday.
The plane “skilled difficulties and plummeted into the ocean” shortly after taking off from J.F. Mitchell Airport in Bequia, the police mentioned. There was no additional details about the reason for the crash, which is below investigation, they mentioned.
Mr. Oliver was born in Germany and had twin citizenship there and in the USA, his agent in Berlin, Caprice Crawford, mentioned in an e mail on Friday. He used the title Christian Oliver in his skilled work relatively than his full title, Christian Oliver Klepser, and divided his time between Los Angeles and his house nation, she mentioned.
Mr. Oliver labored with Steven Soderbergh within the 2006 movie “The Good German,” with a forged that included George Clooney and Cate Blanchett. His different initiatives included a job in “Valkyrie” with Tom Cruise in 2008 and “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future,” in 2023, for which he offered voices.
He had simply completed taking pictures a brand new film, “Without end Maintain Your Peace,” and posted {a photograph} from the set on social media a few week in the past.
Earlier this week, Mr. Oliver posted his final {photograph} “from someplace in paradise.”
Mr. Oliver was co-producing “Without end Maintain Your Peace,” a narrative about marriage fraud, with the director Nick Lyon. Mr. Lyon mentioned in an interview on Friday that Mr. Oliver had texted him on Thursday morning about his plan to return to the USA to work on a scene on Friday.
“It was a giant challenge for us,” mentioned Mr. Lyon, who had additionally labored with Mr. Oliver on “Hercules Reborn” in 2014. “We had talked about it for years.”