Donald Sutherland on Robert Shaw's death

So tragic that he died so young.

I have read a couple of accounts of what happened the day he died. They don't necessarily conflict, but each contain different details.

Donald Sutherland had this to say in 2005 in an interview with The Guardian about Robert Shaw:

(quoting The Guardian):

"He (Sutherland) has a sudden, slightly awestruck flashback to the ferocious Robert Shaw.

"Shaw! He was something else. He died so young and so in character. He was being driven somewhere in Ireland, and he started to have his heart attack and he jumped out of the limo, literally running away from death, throwing up as he goes, running through a field. It was just exactly the way he was when he was alive, very fierce and combative. He was like John Cassavetes that way."

I also read a slightly different account elsewhere: "While living in Ireland and taking a hiatus from working, Shaw was driving from Castlebar to his home in Tourmakeady, Ireland with wife, Virginia, and young son, Thomas, after spending the day playing golf with friends on a local course as well as shopping with her in the town. As they approached their cottage, he felt chest pains which he claimed to Virginia that they had started earlier that day while he was playing golf but the pains subsided. He pulled the car over a few hundred yards from his cottage and told her he would get out and walk them off. After taking four or five steps from the parked car, he collapsed by the side of the road in which his wife ran to the cottage to phone for help. An ambulance arrived 15 minutes later where Shaw was taken to Mayo General Hospital in Castlebar where he was pronounced dead on arrival."

Perhaps they are both the same story but told from different viewpoints.