Corey Haim starred in a number of 1980s films, such as Lucas, Silver Bullet, Murphy's Romance, License to Drive and Dream a Little Dream.
83 Facts About Corey Haim
2.
Corey Haim had an older sister, Cari, and a younger half-brother, Daniel Lee, from his father's second marriage.
3.
Corey Haim was first raised in Chomedey, Laval, Quebec, and later grew up in Willowdale, Toronto.
4.
Corey Haim attended several schools in both Thornhill, Ontario, and North York, Ontario until grade eight.
5.
Corey Haim made his feature film debut in the 1984 thriller Firstborn as a boy whose family comes under threat from his mother's violent boyfriend, played by Peter Weller.
6.
Weller collared Corey Haim, threw him up against a wall, and demanded Corey Haim never speak to him after a take.
7.
Corey Haim later admitted that he was terrified by the experience.
8.
Weller apologized to Corey Haim, saying method acting caused his actions.
9.
In 1985, Corey Haim appeared in supporting roles in Secret Admirer and Murphy's Romance, the latter with Sally Field, of whom he was reportedly in awe.
10.
Corey Haim played a paraplegic 10-year-old boy who warns his uncle that their town is being terrorized by a werewolf.
11.
Corey Haim began to gain industry recognition, earning his first Young Artist Award for the NBC movie A Time to Live, in which he played Liza Minnelli's character's dying son.
12.
At the time, Corey Haim's father was acting as his manager.
13.
Corey Haim turned down a role for Haim in The Mosquito Coast, which was later taken by River Phoenix.
14.
Corey Haim turned 14 on the set in Chicago, and fell in love with Green, who played his romantic interest in the film.
15.
Corey Haim later said he would not have changed his decision.
16.
In 1987, Corey Haim had a featured role as Sam Emerson, the younger of two brothers, a comic-reading teen turned vampire hunter in Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys.
17.
Corey Haim achieves his wish-fulfillment fantasy of turning his life around on one wild night.
18.
Corey Haim was receiving nearly 2,000 fan letters a week and worked to avoid the potentially "psycho" girls who circled the block where he lived in an apartment downstairs from his mother's.
19.
Four days before the shoot commenced on January 7,1988, Corey Haim broke his leg.
20.
Corey Haim later said that License to Drive was his "breaking point" for becoming addicted to drugs.
21.
Corey Haim later said that he was terrified of going onstage afterward, and had resolved never to go on any stage ever again.
22.
Corey Haim set up a pre-recorded drug advice line for teens.
23.
Corey Haim admitted on The Arsenio Hall Show that he was high while giving the advice.
24.
In 1990, Corey Haim co-starred with Patricia Arquette in the sci-fi actioner Prayer of the Rollerboys, performing many of his own stunts in a tale of a teen who goes undercover to expose a racist gang leader.
25.
However, as his problems with drugs continued, Corey Haim began to lose his core audience.
26.
Corey Haim's performances suffered, and his film career in the 1990s declined into direct-to-video releases.
27.
Green said his experiences of working with Corey Haim was a duality between a sweet, hardworking professional who loved acting and a tormented addict.
28.
Corey Haim recalled filming with Haim during the day and spending the nights with him in the emergency room, "hooked up to an IV, begging doctors for a different prescription, then going back to work again the next day".
29.
In December 1992, Corey Haim partnered in a lease-option on a 1922 Hancock Park mansion with his business manager, a party promoter named Michael Bass who had served two years in jail after a conviction for fraud.
30.
Corey Haim visited Mannheim, Germany, in 1994 to sign a deal with the German record label Edel and recorded an album there.
31.
In 1995, Corey Haim unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Robin in Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever.
32.
Corey Haim had a small role in the television film Merlin: The Quest Begins.
33.
Corey Haim nearly went broke after he pulled out of the film Paradise Bar in 1996.
34.
Corey Haim was sued by Lloyd's of London for $375,000 for failing to disclose his drug addiction as a pre-existing medical condition on the insurance form.
35.
Corey Haim filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July 1997.
36.
Corey Haim's listed assets included $100 in cash, the red 1987 Alfa Romeo Spider featured in Corey Haim: Me, Myself, and I, $750 worth of clothing, a $31,000 pension fund, and royalty rights worth $7,500.
37.
In 1999, Corey Haim shot a troubled low-budget independent film called Universal Groove in Montreal, using then-emerging digital technology.
38.
Corey Haim played a film director interacting with eight characters over the course of one night on the techno club scene.
39.
Corey Haim attempted to return to the industry in 2000 with the direct-to-video thriller Without Malice, with Jennifer Beals and Craig Sheffer.
40.
Corey Haim hoped that playing the role of an ex-addict who conceals a murder with his sister's fiance would offer him a transition from teen fare.
41.
The film was made in Waskesiu, Saskatchewan, where crew members recalled Corey Haim's propping up the town's only bar until the early hours.
42.
Corey Haim was disoriented and unintelligible for some of his interviews.
43.
Corey Haim was seen compiling a promotional clip reel for casting agents, and a pawnbroker recalled his begging for $3 to buy a slice of pizza.
44.
Aged 29, Corey Haim spent four days at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch with Feldman.
45.
Able to poke fun at himself, Corey Haim made a cameo appearance in David Spade's Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, a film about a former child star, which included an array of actual former child stars, including Feldman.
46.
Corey Haim appeared in spoof horror movie The Back Lot Murders.
47.
In December 2006, Haim began taping a reality show titled The Two Coreys, which reunited him with Feldman.
48.
At its advent, Corey Haim bought himself and Feldman matching Tiffany rings.
49.
Corey Haim was nominated for a Viewer's Choice Award at the 22nd Annual Gemini Awards in Canada for his role in the show.
50.
Corey Haim later was scheduled to film a cameo appearance, but turned up on the set obviously under the influence and was unable to remember his lines.
51.
In July 2008, Haim completed filming on the gambling comedy Shark City in Toronto with Vivica A Fox, Carlo Rota and David Phillips.
52.
Mac pledged that if Corey Haim stayed clean, he would allow him to come on tour and perform with him.
53.
In 2009, Crank: High Voltage was released, which saw Corey Haim sporting a blonde mullet alongside Jason Statham, Amy Smart and Dwight Yoakam.
54.
Corey Haim completed two films scheduled for a 2010 release: the thriller American Sunset, in which he played a man who is abducted in the search for his missing wife, and Decisions, shot in December 2009, in which his character is a cop working with troubled kids.
55.
Corey Haim was attached to several films scheduled to go into production in 2010.
56.
Corey Haim requested a "clean set" from producers to reduce temptation, although his fellow cast members commented on his hyperactivity and need for attention.
57.
In February 1993, Michael Bass reported to police that Corey Haim had threatened him during an argument.
58.
Corey Haim was taken in by singer-songwriter G Tom Mac, who wrote "Cry Little Sister" for The Lost Boys soundtrack.
59.
Corey Haim struggled with substance abuse for most of his life.
60.
Corey Haim was already drinking beer in his early teens on the set of Lucas in 1985, and a year later, he tried marijuana on the set of The Lost Boys.
61.
Corey Haim asserted that the filming of License to Drive was his "breaking point" for becoming addicted to drugs.
62.
On his return from a Hawaiian family vacation in May 1989, Corey Haim told the press that he had been clean for a month after going cold turkey without the help of a substance-abuse program.
63.
Corey Haim spent time in rehabilitation and was placed on prescription medication, which he began to abuse.
64.
Corey Haim was rushed to the UCLA Medical Center where doctors managed to stabilize him.
65.
Two weeks earlier, from July 23,2001, Corey Haim had spent some time in Sherman Oaks Hospital.
66.
Corey Haim stated that at one point, he did not leave his apartment for three and a half years and ballooned from 150 to 302 pounds.
67.
Feldman added that he did not consider Corey Haim to be "a safe person to have around my wife and child at the moment".
68.
Corey Haim's agent stated that the doctor was reluctant to drop Corey Haim from his current level to zero pills, fearing a seizure, and took him to an addiction specialist to get mental help.
69.
Corey Haim was involved with Who's the Boss actress Alyssa Milano from 1987 to 1990.
70.
Milano and her parents, together with his manager at the time, unsuccessfully tried to get Corey Haim help for his addiction.
71.
Corey Haim was engaged to Baywatch actress Nicole Eggert, with whom he starred in Blown Away and Just One of the Girls.
72.
Corey Haim was briefly engaged to actress Holly Fields in 1996 and to model Cindy Guyer in 2000.
73.
Corey Haim claimed that many of his statements were false and added that Feldman was looking for attention and money.
74.
Corey Haim had been ill with flu-like symptoms for two days before his death.
75.
Los Angeles police initially stated that Corey Haim's death appeared to be an accidental overdose; bottles containing Valium, Vicodin, Soma and Haloperidol were retrieved.
76.
Corey Haim's agent discounted the possibility of an overdose, citing his recent drive toward clean living and affirming that he had been completely drug-free for two weeks.
77.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced that his office was investigating Corey Haim's death, saying an unauthorized prescription in his name had been found among fraudulent prescription pads ordered from San Diego.
78.
County Coroner's office autopsy report revealed that Corey Haim died of diffuse alveolar damage and pneumonia, together with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and coronary arteriosclerosis.
79.
Corey Haim had claimed to each that he was not seeing any other doctors, and many reported feeling "duped" by him.
80.
Corey Haim died with very little money, and his mother initially announced that the cost of his funeral would be covered by public funds provided by the city of Toronto as is customary in destitute cases.
81.
Corey Haim's body was buried at Pardes Shalom Cemetery in Maple, Ontario.
82.
Corey Haim was omitted from the "In Memoriam" tribute montage at both the 17th Screen Actors Guild Awards and the 83rd Academy Awards in the year following his death.
83.
Haim was the subject of a TV program, Autopsy: The Last Hours of Corey Haim, which premiered on November 23,2016, on the Reelz channel.