A BBC star died more than £200,000 in debt in a fatal car crash, which left his passenger requiring almost 100 stitches. Born in the United States, Bonar Colleano rose to fame in films including Pickup Alley, A Matter of Life and Death and Eight Iron Men, but also starred in BBC shows like its Sunday-Night Theatre programme in 1958.

His final role came that same year, when Bonar starred as Joe Longo in Death Over My Shoulder. At the time of his death, the actor was starring in a Liverpool production of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter, and was heading back to his hotel from rehearsals with fellow cast member Michael Balfour, in his sports car.

Colleano was just 35 at the time when his Jaguar XK140 crashed through fencing and onto an embankment at the junction of Corporation Road and La

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