James Emswiller, 61, was taking a smoke break on a balcony in between filming Fred Rogers biopic You Are My Friend when bystanders “heard a noise” before discovering he had fallen.
An Emmy-winning sound mixer has died on the set of a new Tom Hanks film after falling from a two-storey building.
Hanks stars as US TV personality Fred Rogers in the new biopic opposite The Americans star Matthew Rhys and Chris Cooper.
The film is currently set to be released in the UK on 1 November 2019.