Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Ledger-helmed music video set for release

|
|
 
  
Australian actor Heath Ledger, shown in a scene from "Brokeback Mountain" in this undated publicity photo, died at the age of 28 on January 22, 2008. Ledger was found dead at a downtown Manhattan residence in a possible drug-related death, police said. (UPI Photo/Focus Features/Handout/Files) 
License photo
Published: Aug. 4, 2009 at 1:25 PM

LONDON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- A Modest Mouse music video Australian actor Heath Ledger directed before he died is to be released on the Internet.

Ledger died last year of an accidental prescription drug overdose, leaving unfinished the animated "King Rat" video, which is intended to raise awareness about commercial whaling off the coast of Australia, the BBC said.

A video company, in which the actor had been a partner, completed the clip in his honor and is set to debut it on iTunes Wednesday, with the first month's proceeds going to the non-profit Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the British broadcaster said.

Topics: Heath Ledger
© 2009 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Protesters, police clash at NATO summit Notable deaths of 2012 2012 Billboard Music Awards
The 137th Preakness Stakes Annual Solar eclipse occurs in U.S. Chen Guangcheng arrives in the U.S.
Additional Entertainment News Stories
1 of 29
Members of the Army's Old Guard place flags at Arlington National Ceremtery
View Caption
U.S. flags are seen in the rucksack of a soldier with the Army's 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, as he places flags at gravesites in Arlington National Cemetery as part of the Flags-In Memorial Day ceremony on May 24, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. American flags were placed at each of the more than 220,000 grave markers in honor of those who served and Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietshc
fark
Photoshop this multicolored specimen having a snack
Couple married for 65 years reveals secret of marital bliss: wearing matching outfits wherever they...
Behold a pale horse
Maine soft-shell lobsters are in early this year. Marine biologists require more clarified butter...
The Death List: Cars that aren't coming back for 2013. Subby will sob for Saab, the rest shall not...
Come listen to a story about a man named John / A poor farmer, barely kept his family fed / Then...