Christian Oliver, ‘Speed Racer’ Actor, Dies in Plane Crash

Mr. Oliver's two youthful little girls and a pilot were likewise killed in the accident, the police in the Caribbean country of St. Vincent and the Grenadines said on Thursday.

The film and TV entertainer Christian Oliver, his two youngsters and a pilot were killed on Thursday when the little plane they were going in crashed during a trip to the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, the police said.

Mr. Oliver, 51, who showed up in "The Great German," "Speed Racer" and the television series "Bailed out by luck: The New Class," and his girls were the main travelers in the single motor plane going from Bequia, an island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, when it collided with the ocean at noontime, the Imperial St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Power said in an explanation on Thursday.

Notwithstanding Mr. Oliver and his girls, Madita Klepser, 10, and Annik Klepser, 12, the pilot, Robert Sachs, was additionally killed, the police said. Anglers and jumpers recuperated the bodies and surrendered them to the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Coast Watchman, the police said in a proclamation on Friday.

The airplane "experienced hardships and plunged into the sea" not long after taking off from J.F. Mitchell Air terminal in Bequia, the police said. There could have been no additional data about the reason for the accident, which is being scrutinized, they said.

Mr. Oliver was brought into the world in Germany and had double citizenship there and in the US, his representative in Berlin, Impulse Crawford, said in an email on Friday. He involved the name Christian Oliver in his expert work as opposed to his complete name, Christian Oliver Klepser, and split his time between Los Angeles and his nation of origin, she said.

Mr. Oliver worked with Steven Soderbergh in the 2006 film "The Great German," with a cast that included George Clooney and Cate Blanchett. His different tasks remembered a job for "Valkyrie" with Tom Journey in 2008 and "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Predetermination," in 2023, for which he gave voices.

He had recently wrapped up shooting another film, "Everlastingly Stay quiet," and posted a photo from the set via virtual entertainment about seven days prior.

Recently, Mr. Oliver posted his last photo "from some place in heaven."

Mr. Oliver was co-delivering "Everlastingly Stay quiet," a tale about marriage misrepresentation, with the chief Scratch Lyon. Mr. Lyon said in a meeting on Friday that Mr. Oliver had messaged him on Thursday morning about his arrangement to get back to the US to work on a scene on Friday.