Tony Scott, Director of ‘Top Gun,” ‘Crimson Tide,’ ‘The Hunger,’ Commits Suicide

The New York Times reports that director Tony Scott, 68, died after jumping off the Vincent Thomas Bridge spanning San Pedro and Terminal Island in Los Angeles Harbor on Sunday. The younger brother of producer/director Ridley Scott, Tony Scott directed such male action films as “Top Gun” and “Days of Thunder” with Tom Cruise as well as four films with Denzel Washington – “Unstoppable,” “Crimson Tide,” ”Man on Fire,” Deja Vu” and “The Taking of Pelham 123.” Scott, married to actress Donna Scott with whom he had twin sons, left suicide notes in his car and office. While Tony Scott’s 1983 debut supernatural film “The Hunger” with David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve may have bombed at the box office, Scott created one of the most iconic lesbian scenes on film with Deneuve seducing a young Susan Sarandon – a luxurious scene that still gets the heart racing.