Anthem magazine called James Ransone “the perennial cool guy”, though it wasn’t quite that simple. Ransone, who has taken his own life aged 46, was a coiled, wiry actor whose remorseless stare and brooding good looks were complicated by a jangling vulnerability.
He was a stalwart of modern horror, cropping up in a string of lucrative shockers. The most successful, with a box-office gross of more than $450m, was It Chapter Two (2019), which completed a two-part adaptation of Stephen King’s novel about a group of friends terrorised since childhood by a murderous clown.
