Last Years and Death
He retired due to illness, after playing a bit part in David and Bathsheba in 1951. Kenneth Anger, in his 1988 book Hollywood Babylon II, claimed that Zucco died in a madhouse, convinced that he was being haunted by H.P. Lovecraft's creation Cthulhu, and that Zucco's wife and adult daughter committed suicide in response to the loss. However, in reality, Zucco died from pneumonia in an assisted-living facility in 1960, aged 74. His daughter died of cancer in 1962, and his widow died from natural causes in 1999 (aged 99).
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