Remembering 1980s star Corey Haim 15 years after his passing: How did he die, did he date Victoria Beckham?
Lost Boys star Corey Haim was only 38 years old when he died after collapsing in his mother’s apartment.
1980s actor and heartthrob Corey Haim died on March 10, 2010 and a post-mortem examination found that he died of pneumonia, which was not directly linked to drug abuse. The actor, who was 38, at the time of his death, did have low levels of drugs in his blood, but not “at a level that would have contributed to his death”.
Craig Harvey, the spokesman for the Los Angeles coroner said at the time that Corey Haim’s lungs were damaged and his heart and liver enlarged. For those of you who are not familiar with Corey Haim, he was a Canadian-born actor, who was born in Toronto on December 23, 1971.
Corey Haim was only 10 years old when he appeared in commercials and made his film debut in the 1984 drama Firstborn, before appearing in Firstborn, he had been a regular on the Canadian TV series A Time to Live. Corey Haim went on to appear as the dying son of Liza Minnelli’s character in the TV movie A Time to Live and also played the role of Sally Field’s son in Murphy’s Romance.
After appearing in the 1986 movie Lucas, playing the role of a teen in love with an older girl, critic Roger Ebert said of Corey Haim that “If he can continue to act this well, he will never become a half-forgotten child star, but will continue to grow into an important actor. He is that good.”
