Chuck Russell, director of the film "The Mask", died. I was 74 years old

Mthe director of films like “The Mask” or “Eraser”. Chuck Russell was 74. 

According to TMZ, who was the first to release the news, the director died suddenly in his home in the San Diego region on Wednesday, July 22nd. The information was confirmed by the family. 

It is also known that firefighters were called to their residence on Wednesday afternoon after a call to report an emergency involving an unconscious man.

So far, the cause of death is unknown, and the family has decided to travel to California for answers, and TMZ is still ahead.

Chuck Russell was born on May 9, 1958. After studying at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, the director debuted with the 1987 film “Ell Street Nightmare III”. 

Then followed films such as "The Killer Bubble", from 1988, or "The Mask", from 1994, with Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz as protagonists.

Later collaborations with other great names such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, in the 1996 film "Eraser", or with Dwayne Johnson in "The Scorpion King", 2002 came in.

As People magazine recalls, Chuck Russell was 14 years away from cinema, having returned to seventh art in 2016 with the film “Time for Revenge”, which has John Travolta as its protagonist. 

John Travolta and the director crossed paths again in the 2022 film "A Dangerous Paradise", which had cast, among many other names, actor Bruce Willis. By the way, this was one of Bruce Willis' last works at the cinema before moving away from the art world because of the disease. The actor, remember, was diagnosed with frontal temporal dementia in 2023. 

Chuck Russell's latest project was "Witchboard", a horror film that was released in 2024. 

The director leaves his wife, Ania Zeyne, with whom he was married for 19 years, and his three sons, Logan, Riley and Carlyn.