The 'unpredictable' condition that killed 'devastatingly handsome' actor Cary Grant
stroke as a "serious life-threatening medical condition" that occurs when the blood supply to part of the brain is cut off. Back in 1986 the Quad-City Times reported that the actor's stroke occurred shortly before he was meant to make an appearance at a fundraising event in Iowa, USA. Taken immediately to St Luke's Hospital, the star's condition was described as "comatose" and around nine o'clock that evening the star was pronounced dead.