Chuck Lamb quit his job as an IT engineer to pursue playing dead. Today, he earns up to $1,500 a day for playing the dead guy in various films and TV shows.

It all started one evening when Chuck was watching an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In the next one week, he set up his own website and uploaded a series of photos and videos with elaborate setups and one common element – “dead guy Chuck”. [His wife,] Tonya was creat[ed] the scenes, making fake blood and having Chuck pose as being run over, crushed under a garage door, electrocuted by a toaster, and more.

The videos went viral and the website (deadbodyguy.com) had over 50 million views shortly after its launch in 2005.

Soon, casting agents were approaching him to play soon-to-be-murdered characters on TV. So far he’s done 25 different acting jobs

Chuck Lamb via Oddity Central for the full story and more photos.