Malkovich Rescue: Actor Helps Save Elderly Man's Life After Horrific Fall, John Malkovich is being hailed as a hero after he helped save an Ohio man’s life after he tripped, fell and cut his throat. The actor was on a cigarette break when this happened, but he didn’t hesitate to come to his rescue.
Jim Walpole, 77, and his wife Marilyn, 79, from Ohio were on vacation; they were leaving a restaurant when Jim had the terrible fall that could have cost him his life.
Speaking to The Star by telephone, he says he’s happy Malkovich was on a cigarette break because who knows what might have happened until the paramedics arrived on the scene, had he not been there to intervene.
“I’m forever grateful to him, he really helped me out,” Walpole says.
The actor wasn’t the only one to think fast (and act just as fast) to help the man in trouble: Chris Mathias, a doorman at the King Edward Hotel, was also outside when he fell and noticed how badly he needed assistance.
He rushed over to where Walpole had fallen and found him in a pool of blood, he recalls for the same media outlet.
“I believe [Malkovich] was having a cigarette and witnessed the whole thing happening, he placed his hand and started applying pressure to the man’s neck didn’t let go until the ambulance arrived,” Mathias explains.
“I was bleeding so bad on my neck and Chris bought him a towel and John kept pressure on my bleeding neck and then Quinn kept me from turning over and made me stay there until EMS arrived,” Walpole says of how the two worked together to help him.
Walpole received 10 stitches for the gash on his throat and was told that if it was “an 8th of an inch further,” he would have been in serious trouble.
Malkovich’s publicist refused to comment on the story, The Star says.
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Malkovich Rescue: Actor Helps Save Elderly Man's Life After Horrific Fall
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