Stunts gone wrong

Jolie may have sustained a nasty whack on the head while filming Salt, but she was released from hospital and returned to filming on the same day. Not all actors have been so lucky when performing their own stunts...
• No-one remembers Twilight Zone: The Movie, but they do remember the horrific stunt-gone-wrong on set: when an explosion detonated too close to a low-flying helicopter, the rotary blades decapitated star Vic Morrow.

• Robert Downey Jr broke Halle Berry’s arm filming a scene for underwhelming 2003 horror/thriller Gothika. A real-life Iron Man, then.

• Funnily enough, Brad Pitt injured his Achilles tendon playing Achilles in Troy, pushing filming back several weeks.

• Sly Stallone literally broke his neck filming forthcoming muscle-fest The Expendables. Well okay, it was a fracture, but it put the Italian Stallion out of action for three weeks.