History Main / ChronicallyKilledActor

** He also manages to get killed as Robert Aske (the leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace) in the 2003 ''Henry VIII'' miniseries.

--->'''Honest Trailers''': Ride along on an adventure where any lead character can die, whether you're Sean Bean, [[spoiler:[[Creator/MichelleFairley Sean Bean's wife]], [[Creator/MarkAddy Sean Bean's best friend]], [[Creator/RichardMadden Sean Bean's son]], [[Creator/OonaChaplin Sean Bean's daughter-in-law]], Sean Bean's family dogs, or Sean Bean's unborn grandkid.]] [[ArcWords All men must die]]...who are in any way close to Sean Bean![[note]]And this precedes ''another'' [[Creator/ArtParkinson of Sean Bean's sons]] -- as well as [[Creator/KitHarington his nephew-raised-as-a-son who comes back to life]] -- dying in the subsequent seasons![[/note]]

** Even the advertising of some of his recent projects has gotten into this: TNT's advertisements for their TV series ''Series/{{Legends}}'' featured the hashtag #[=DontKillSeanBean=].
** ''Series/TheFrankensteinChronicles'' plays with this further by not only killing him, [[spoiler:he and his body parts are also incorporated into the first successful creation of the titular kind of monster. While he eventually recovers his sense of identity, he nevertheless decides ThatManIsDead]].

--->'''Honest Trailers''': Ride along on an adventure where any lead character can die, whether you're Sean Bean, [[spoiler:Sean Bean's wife, Sean Bean's best friend, Sean Bean's son, Sean Bean's daughter-in-law, Sean Bean's family dogs, or Sean Bean's unborn grandkid.]] [[ArcWords All men must die]]...who are in any way close to Sean Bean![[note]]And this precedes ''another'' of Sean Bean's sons -- as well as his nephew-raised-as-a-son who comes back to life -- dying in the subsequent seasons![[/note]]

* Speaking of Creator/SeanBean, the poster boy of this:
** Watching his star-making performance in ''Series/{{Sharpe}}'' while aware of this reputation can get pretty surreal. Scenes where the original audience would have been confident in our hero's PlotArmor -- such as his (faked) execution in ''[[Recap/SharpeS2E3SharpesHonour Sharpe's Honour]]'' -- can become surprising nail-biters today.
** A popular meme lampshading this trope is ''Richard Sharpe: So badass being played by Sean Bean couldn't kill him.''
** Creator/MichaelBiehn and Creator/SeanBean appear on ''Series/{{Curfew}}''. Bean's character dies at the end of the [[spoiler:third]] episode while Biehn's dies within ten minutes of his introduction.
** He gets killed off in the TV MiniSeries ''Literature/{{Scarlett}}'' also.
** He also manages to get killed as Robert Aske (the leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace) in the 2003 ''Henry VIII'' miniseries.
** His death as Ned Stark in the first ''season'' of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' was surprisingly shocking to fans of the show (less so to fans of the then 15-year-old [[Literature/AGameOfThrones book]]).
--->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOoA1OtcNjM Lary Williams]]:''' ''(sputters in disbelief)'' How is it that...the character that you portray as the central main character...as the protagonist of this fucking series...not to mention, Sean Bean is probably the highest...is probably among the highest if not '''THE''' highest paid actor on your payroll... He's on all the advertisements. Your press photos. He's on the goddamn cover of the '''''FUCKING BOOK!''''' And he doesn't make it past season one?
*** Also "Red Wedding" related, this quote from WebVideo/HonestTrailers:
--->'''Honest Trailers''': Ride along on an adventure where any lead character can die, whether you're Sean Bean, [[spoiler:Sean Bean's wife, Sean Bean's best friend, Sean Bean's son, Sean Bean's daughter-in-law, Sean Bean's family dogs, or Sean Bean's unborn grandkid.]] [[ArcWords All men must die]]...who are in any way close to Sean Bean![[note]]And this precedes ''another'' of Sean Bean's sons -- as well as his nephew-raised-as-a-son who comes back to life -- dying in the subsequent seasons![[/note]]
** Actually defied in ''Series/{{Snowpiercer}}'' at the end of season 3. Bean, as the villainous Mr. Wilford at the mercy of the protagonists, is deliberately put in suspended animation rather than killed for fear of making a martyr out of him.
** Even the advertising of some of his recent projects has gotten into this: TNT's advertisements for their TV series ''Series/{{Legends}}'' featured the hashtag #[=DontKillSeanBean=].

* Indira Varma has racked up a few. Among her most notable performances she’s died in ''Series/GameOfThrones, {{Series/Rome}}'', and ''{{Series/Torchwood}}''. Extra credit for the last one, having died ''twice''.

* Both Creator/MichaelBiehn and Creator/SeanBean appear on ''Series/{{Curfew}}''. Bean's character dies at the end of the [[spoiler:third]] episode while Biehn's dies within ten minutes of his introduction.

** It's taken UpToEleven in ''VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd'', where [[spoiler:his character, Hector Alcázar, was DeadAllAlong and may not have even been involved in the backstory at all]].

* Actress Jasmine Guy doesn't necessarily die chronically, but several films/series immediately preceding or following ''Seires/ADifferentWorld'' have killed her characters off. Namely, "Dominic La Rue" in ''Film/HarlemNights'', "Roxie" in ''Series/DeadLikeMe'', and "Grams" in ''Series/TheVampireDiaries''. In the latter two series, her character continues to exist after being killed, however.

* Creator/HoukoKuwashima has a mild reputation with how she has a 'Star of Death' following her, which causes a lot of her characters to die messily. This is most prevalent in the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise where she starred in the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED SEED]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Duology]], both of her characters (Fllay and Stellar) had incredibly tragic death.

* Creator/HoukoKuwashima has a mild reputation with how she has a 'Star of Death' following her, which causes a lot of her characters to die messily. This is most prevalent in the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise where she starred in the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED SEED]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Duology]], both of her characters (Fllay and Stellar) had incredibly tragic death. Or heck, if you look at her debut role as Yurika from ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'', while she survived the TV series, in the movie, she got killed off...

[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]

* Creator/KevinBacon started his career with a grisly death in ''Film/FridayThe13th1980'', and since many of his roles ever since are villainous, has emassed more than ten kills - aside from things like ''Film/{{Flatliners}}'', where he's one of a group of medical students [[FlatlinePlotline experimenting with clinical death]].
* Creator/JonathanBanks has a such a reputation for biting it on-screen that his girlfriend gave him a "death reel" of his various characters' last moments over the years as a 40th birthday present. Notably [[DefiedTrope defied]] when he voiced [[TheCommissionerGordon Commissioner Gordon]] in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'', where he not only survives the entire game, but he's one of the few heroic characters in the series to [[EarnYourHappyEnding earn a happy ending]].
* Creator/DaveBautista, and it's usually a big attack that fits such a large man dying (he's pulled off a train in ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', shot after a long fistfight in ''Film/BladeRunner2049'' and a helicopter fighter with a zombie in ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'', disintegrated in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''...).
* Creator/SeanBean, who also happens to be the most well-known example.
-->'''Website/YouTube Commenter:''' Kid named after Sean Bean — dies immediately.\\
'''Commenter:''' If Sean Bean was in a horror movie [[BlackDudeDiesFirst with a black guy]], who would die first?\\
'''Commenter:''' Sean Bean would [[{{Blackface}} play the black guy]].
** There's a list of his on-screen deaths [[http://www.compleatseanbean.com/deathbycow.html here]] as of 2009. Interestingly, it also provides a surprisingly large list of roles he ''[[AvertedTrope survives]]''. But still, you know it's impressive when someone can put together a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEhtsgu6bJg 4-minute death montage]] and still be accused of missing a few examples.
** ''Film/SilentHillRevelation3D'' becomes borderline hilarious thanks to this trope. Chronically Killed Actor, plus a character that [[DoomedByCanon dies in the original source material]], somehow equals SparedByTheAdaptation?
** Watching his star-making performance in ''Series/{{Sharpe}}'' while aware of this reputation can get pretty surreal, too. Scenes where the original audience would have been confident in our hero's PlotArmor -- such as his (faked) execution in ''[[Recap/SharpeS2E3SharpesHonour Sharpe's Honour]]'' -- can become surprising nail-biters today.
** A popular meme lampshading this trope is ''Richard Sharpe: So badass being played by Sean Bean couldn't kill him.''
** Parodied in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'''s take on "Jack and the Beanstalk." Bean appears in three panels and is shot dead by an orc archer in the second.
--->'''Wizard:''' Hrmph. I suppose I should have seen that coming.
** Which makes his role in ''Film/{{Troy}}'' almost a CastingGag: He plays Odysseus. [[spoiler:The only main character who ''doesn't'' die.]]
** And on the small-screen, his death as Ned Stark in the first ''season'' of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' was surprisingly shocking to fans of the show (less so to fans of the then 15-year-old [[Literature/AGameOfThrones book]]).
--->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOoA1OtcNjM Lary Williams]]:''' ''(sputters in disbelief)'' How is it that...the character that you portray as the central main character...as the protagonist of this fucking series...not to mention, Sean Bean is probably the highest...is probably among the highest if not '''THE''' highest paid actor on your payroll... He's on all the advertisements. Your press photos. He's on the goddamn cover of the '''''FUCKING BOOK!''''' And he doesn't make it past season one?
** He gets killed off in the TV MiniSeries ''Literature/{{Scarlett}}'' also.
** Also "Red Wedding" related, this quote from WebVideo/HonestTrailers:
--->'''Honest Trailers''': Ride along on an adventure where any lead character can die, whether you're Sean Bean, [[spoiler:Sean Bean's wife, Sean Bean's best friend, Sean Bean's son, Sean Bean's daughter-in-law, Sean Bean's family dogs, or Sean Bean's unborn grandkid.]] [[ArcWords All men must die]]...who are in any way close to Sean Bean![[note]]And this precedes ''another'' of Sean Bean's sons -- as well as his nephew-raised-as-a-son who comes back to life -- dying in the subsequent seasons![[/note]]
** Ironically, there's only one character killed in ''Film/NationalTreasure'', in which Sean Bean played the villain. And it was ''not'' Bean's character.
** Subverted in ''Film/{{Pixels}}''. Knowing his reputation, you expect his character to die when the VideoGame/{{Centipede}} is after him, but against all odds, he survives.
** In ''Film/TheMartian'', Bean plays the base commander of the Mars mission gone awry. [[spoiler: And he lives, although he is forced to commit ''career'' suicide after okaying an extremely risky maneuver to get the stranded astronaut back from Mars behind his bosses' backs. The maneuver works, but he still has to fall on his sword to save NASA's reputation.]]
** The reaction to Sean Bean being cast as the English dub voice of the father of the protagonist from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' in the prequel movie ''[[Anime/KingsglaiveFinalFantasyXV Kingsglaive]]'' was that Square Enix basically spoiled his fate in the game proper in advance. [[spoiler:Sure enough, he dies at the end of the film which occurs concurrently with the first chapter of the game.]]
** That's not the only video game in which Sean Bean dies. Back in 2006, Sean Bean voiced Emperor Martin Septim in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion''. Septim performs a HeroicSacrifice at the end of the main quest.
** He gets framed for murder and hanged in ''Series/TheFrankensteinChronicles''. [[spoiler:Then gets brought back to life.]]
** Averted in ''Film/JupiterAscending''. [[MentorOccupationalHazard Not for]] [[SuicideMission lack]] [[LastStand of trying]].
** Played straight in ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} VI'', of all things. He's the {{Narrator}}, but he also voices a character in the intro movie. Said character dies.
** There was a character named "Shawn Bawn" in ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}''. He's been a type of undead called "Decrypted" since his introduction except in flashbacks/prequels/interquels, but in the forums, it wasn't considered a question of ''if'' he would die ("re-die"?) so much as ''when''.
** He [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ5Bu02IwGk plays the first]] [[TemporaryOnlineContent Elusive Target]] in ''VideoGame/Hitman2'', so he may or may not die depending on the player's skills. Ironically enough, his character is a rogue spy infamous for constantly cheating death.
** TNT's advertisements for their TV series ''Series/{{Legends}}'' featured the hashtag #[=DontKillSeanBean=].
** In 2019, Bean [[https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/2019/09/20/game-of-thrones-ned-stark-death-sean-bean-turn-down-roles/ revealed in an interview]] that he had begun to turn down roles where he died in order to try and avert this.
* Richard Beymer. Let's see: Shot in ''Film/WestSideStory1961'', dies in ''Film/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank'', shot again on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''... as a consolation prize, he achieved immortality on ''Series/TheXFiles''.
* Creator/MichaelBiehn. Frequently in the military. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyqPSLis1mM Frequently dies.]] On the rare occasions when he survives (e.g., ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' or ''Film/NavySeals'') he ends up badly wounded before the final reel.
** In ''Film/Alien3'' he even manages to die ''before the movie begins''. Although ''VideoGame/AliensColonialMarines'' later attempted to retcon this by [[VoodooShark having him switched with someone else beforehand]].
** Gets a TooDumbToLive moment in ''Series/TheMandalorian''. His character, Lang, talks about how his employer's cause isn't one worth laying down his life for while in a showdown with the title character... only to pull an ISurrenderSuckers and try to shoot Mando with a sidearm that the latter's armor could easily NoSell. It goes as well as you'd expect.
* Creator/HumphreyBogart was this in his early career as a character actor, in which he mostly played gangsters that got killed at the end: ''Film/{{Dead End|1937}}'', ''Film/AngelsWithDirtyFaces'', ''Film/KidGalahad'', ''The Big Shot'', ''Film/TheReturnOfDoctorX'', ''Film/ThePetrifiedForest'', ''Film/VirginiaCity'', and more. He gets killed in ''Film/HighSierra'', which was his breakout role as a leading man, and after that he kept getting killed: ''Film/PassageToMarseille'', ''Film/{{Sirocco}}'', ''Film/TheDesperateHours'', ''Film/TheTwoMrsCarrolls'', and ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre''.
** Ironically, Bogart's stardom is the reason he doesn't die onscreen in ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre''. Producers thought him dying would tank the film.
* Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter, most notably in ''Film/HarryPotter'', ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', and ''Film/DarkShadows''. Usually, her character had it coming.
* Creator/ClancyBrown, as he's usually a bad or very suspicious guy. And given his prolific voice actor career, he has many deaths in animation and video games too.
* Creator/SteveBuscemi, when he's not either the OnlySaneMan or protected by the LunaticLoophole. It was once observed that each time he dies in a [[Creator/TheCoenBrothers Coen brothers]] movie, his remains get smaller and smaller (as seen when the other characters scatter his character's ashes at the end of ''Film/TheBigLebowski'').
-->"When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed. I really thought that after getting killed on ''Series/TheSopranos,'' I should not accept scripts where I die. I mean, there's nowhere to go after getting killed by Tony Soprano. But then I got offered this great part in ''Film/TheIsland''. I didn't even make it a third of the way through the movie."
** The very same ''Film/TheIsland'', it is amusing to note, also featured another death of Sean Bean.
* Creator/GaryBusey has a lot of deaths under his belt, mostly stemming from villain roles. Notable examples include ''Film/LethalWeapon'', ''Film/Predator2'', ''Film/PointBreak'', ''Film/UnderSiege'', the list goes on.
** Reportedly, he was the last actor to have died on ''Series/{{Gunsmoke}}''.
* Laetitia Casta gets it an awful lot on-screen -- she's stabbed in ''Gitano'', shot in ''Rue des plaisirs'', executed in the Italian miniseries ''Luisa Sanfelice'', killed in a car crash in her first American movie ''Film/{{Arbitrage}}''...
* Creator/AdolfoCeli can never seem to last to the credits. ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'', ''Film/DangerDiabolik'', and ''Film/TheNextMan'' are only a few examples.
* Creator/ShinichiChiba doesn't fare much better outside of the martial arts genre, dying in ''The Yakuza Papers: Hiroshima Deathmatch'', ''Dragon Princess'', ''The Resurrection of Golden Wolf'', ''G.I. Samurai'', ''Shogun's Ninja'', the NHK historical drama ''Furin Kazan'' [[note]]granted, he was portraying TheMentor to UsefulNotes/TakedaShingen, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itagaki_Nobukata Itagaki Nobukata]], with MentorOccupationalHazard firmly in play[[/note]] and ''Film/LegendOfEightSamurai'' and getting a BolivianArmyEnding in ''Samurai Reincarnation''.
* Most of Creator/ChowYunFat's Hong Kong and Chinese roles had him dying near the end of the thing, primarily because CYF is good at playing {{tragic hero}}es.
* Creator/KimCoates dies ''much'' more often than he survives. His death reel has [[http://www.kimcoatesdeathreel.com/ its own website]] and includes 32 deaths, but there are so many that the maker of that video is apparently contemplating doing a follow-up death reel with 20+ ''more'' deaths. Curiously, whenever he co-stars with Creator/SeanBean, Kim always survives.
* Creator/BillyConnolly has made light of this in some of his standup routines.
-->'''Billy:''' I'm a huge filmstar...but you have to hurry to the movies because I usually die in the first fifteen fucking minutes. I'm the only guy I know who '''died''' in a fucking ''Muppet'' movie![[note]]''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'', for the curious[[/note]]
* Creator/ElishaCookJr was known as Hollywood's "fall guy" for several years in the Golden Age of Hollywood for dying in a surprising amount of movies (usually in the role of an IneffectualSympatheticVillain or a shady mercenary). Cook even stated in an interview that he might have died in "fifty, a hundred... at least that many."
* Creator/TomCruise is usually an aversion, with [[http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/edge-of-tomorrow-tom-cruise-on-dying-for-doug-liman-in-sci-fi-thriller/#/0 an article]] noting how he only died in ''Film/{{Collateral}}'' and ''Film/{{Valkyrie}}'' (though the latter was ForegoneConclusion as it is [[HistoricalFiction based on historical events]]) ''before'' a role basically built around [[TheManyDeathsOfYou repeated deaths]] in ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow''. (this, of course, ignores his DeathByCameo in ''Film/YoungGuns'', and ''Film/{{Taps}}'', his second overall movie role, where he's riddled with bullets in a KillEmAll ending) And in both of Cruise's 2017 movies, he dies - although [[Film/TheMummy2017 in one he's revived]], and [[Film/AmericanMade the other]] has [[GoryDiscretionShot it occurring off-screen]].
* Creator/WillemDafoe, both when he plays good and bad guys. Most notably in ''Film/WildAtHeart'' ([[YourHeadAsplode accidentally blows his head off with a shotgun]]), ''Film/SpiderMan1'' (impaled), ''Film/{{Platoon}}'' (shot fleeing from NVA soldiers, complete with CrucifiedHeroShot), ''Film/ShadowOfTheVampire'' (disintegrated in sunlight) ''Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist'' ([[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} crucified]]), and more recently ''Film/JohnWick'' (beaten down by a Russian Mafiya boss, then shot). He also plays real-life filmmaker Creator/PierPaoloPasolini in a 2014 biopic, a man famous for being brutally murdered.
* Creator/BenicioDelToro, more often than not. Not counting ''Film/BigTopPeeWee'', his very debut involves dying trying to kill Film/JamesBond in ''Film/LicenceToKill''. Then comes ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'', ''Film/{{Snatch}}'', ''Film/SinCity''...
* Creator/RobertDeNiro, [[http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=20140 who had died on-screen 15 times by 2010]], and has since added deaths in movies such as ''Film/{{Machete}}'' and ''Film/{{Joker}}''. It's usually due to being either the villain (''Film/CapeFear'', ''Film/{{Heat}}'') or someone with a hard life that caps accordingly (''Film/TheMission, Film/MaryShelleysFrankenstein'').
* Creator/JohnnyDepp started his career [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984 being killed by Freddy Krueger]]. He followed it by playing protagonists with plot relevant deaths (''Film/DeadMan'', ''Film/{{Transcendence}}'', ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest''), historical figures bound to die (''Film/PublicEnemies'', ''The Libertine''), {{Villain Protagonist}}s who earn their deaths (''Film/TheAstronautsWife'', ''Film/{{Sweeney Todd|TheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet}}''), or [[DeadStarWalking small roles just to bite it]] (''Film/TwentyOneJumpStreet'', ''Film/IntoTheWoods'').
* Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio: ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead'', ''Total Eclipse'', ''[[Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet Romeo + Juliet]]'', ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'', ''Film/BloodDiamond'', ''Film/TheDeparted'', ''Film/ShutterIsland'' (sort of), ''{{Film/Inception}}'' (also sort of), ''Film/JEdgar'', ''Film/DjangoUnchained'', ''Film/{{The Great Gatsby|2013}}'' and ''Film/DontLookUp''.
* With 7 deaths, Mike Doyle claims that it is easier to [[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/arts/television/03doyl.html?_r=4&ref=arts die with your eyes open.]] The only person not used to it, according to him, is his mother.
* Kevin Durand has a few under his belt too: ''Film/WalkingTall'', ''Film/SmokinAces'', ''Film/ThreeTenToYuma2007'', ''Film/IAmNumberFour'', ''Film/ResidentEvilRetribution'', ''Film/{{Noah}}'' (2014), among others. Although not actually seen, it is heavily implied Fred Dukes was killed by Sabretooth in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''. On TV, there's also ''Series/{{Lost}}''.
* Creator/CleaDuVall, in a career spanning over 80 roles, has died in almost a quarter of them.
-->"I feel like I'm always doing dramas where I'm getting killed or crying. I've been decapitated, I've been murdered by a serial killer, I've been killed by my husband, I've been disappeared by a ghost..."
* Noticeably averted by Creator/ClintEastwood, who in his six-decade career has only been killed four or five[[note]]possibly six, considering his character in ''Film/EscapeFromAlcatraz'' most likely drowned in the attempt, though if a letter allegedly written by John Anglin is anything to go by it's just as likely he lived free under a pseudonym for 46 more years following the escape[[/note]] times. He dies in ''Film/TheBeguiled'', ''Film/HonkytonkMan'', ''Film/TheBridgesOfMadisonCounty'' (this one, off-screen) and ''Film/GranTorino'', and ''Film/HighPlainsDrifter'' hints that his character may have been DeadAllAlong.
* Creator/IdrisElba has a bunch of roles that involve getting killed off, including ''Series/TheWire'', ''Film/AmericanGangster'', ''{{Film/Prometheus}}'', ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' and ''Film/PacificRim''. After four appearances in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, even surviving the quite death-heavy ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', Elba's Heimdall dies right in the opening scene of ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''.
* Creator/GideonEmery may also count, as [[http://garnetvengeance.tumblr.com/post/15661153807/the-many-deaths-of-gideon-emery this list of his many character deaths]] would indicate.
* Jeff Fahey has died in ''Film/{{Darkman}}'' and a bunch of other movie and TV roles. Notably, his character Dale dies in ''The Sweeper''.
* Creator/ElleFanning has an impressive death count considering her age. She’s died in ''Film/LiveByNight, Galveston, Film/TheNeonDemon'' and ''Film/{{Twixt}}'' so far.
* Creator/BenFoster, due to frequent villain roles: ''Film/{{Hostage}}'', ''Film/ThreeTenToYuma2007'', ''Film/TheMechanic2011'', ''Film/ThirtyDaysOfNight'', ''Film/{{Warcraft}}''...
* Being an aversion, Creator/JodieFoster dies in feature film roles only ''twice'', but her one on-screen death (in ''{{Film/Elysium}}'', where [[spoiler:Foster's Delacourt is stabbed with a mirror shard by mercenary Kruger (Sharlto Copley)]]) is very graphic.
* Creator/DwightFrye's roles consisted of two things: playing weirdos who die.
* Classic French actor Creator/JeanGabin seems to die in every other movie he starred in during the '30s. These films include (but are not limited to) ''Pépé le Moko'', ''Le Quai des brumes'', ''Film/LaBeteHumaine'', and ''Le Jour Se Lève''.
* Creator/JudyGarland is another aversion. Her sole death scene was in ''Film/LittleNellieKelly'', one of two things for which the film is notable (the other being a scene where she sings "Singin' in the Rain" ten years before Gene Kelly made his film of the same name).
* Creator/GiancarloGiannini. Most notably, eaten by a mutant cockroach in ''Film/{{Mimic}}'', hung and disemboweled in ''Film/{{Hannibal}}'' and shot in ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' in a RedemptionEqualsDeath case. [[Film/{{Batman 1989}} Even when he's dubbing someone else, he ain't safe.]]
* Creator/TerryGilliam in the Creator/MontyPython films: Apart from Patsy, all his characters in ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' die (including in a CreatorCameo); he's one of the crucified in ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian''; and in ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'', he's disemboweled for a liver donation and is among the people who eat a rotten salmon mousse.
** And ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', which featured a lot of his Monty Python compatriots. Though this was very temporary. [[DeathSeeker And, allegedly, quite frequent for him]].
* Creator/JeffGoldblum technically has ''four'' deaths in ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1978'' (in order the first two attempts at Pod!Jack, Jack himself, and his pod person replacement). From there, other characters of his who bite the dust -- usually disreputable sorts -- are [[Film/{{Silverado}} Calvin "Slick" Stanhope]] (HoistByHisOwnPetard of the knife in his boot), [[Film/TheFly1986 Seth Brundle/Brundlefly]] (MercyKill shotgun blast to the head), [[NoNameGiven the Pianist]] in ''The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish'' (tried to WalkOnWater and failed, though this might be suicide), [[Film/DeepCover David Jason]] (shot), Agent Fulbright (''Fay Grim''; car bomb), [[Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel Deputy Kovacs]] (knife attack, and this was after his poor cat was slain), [[Film/{{Mortdecai}} Milton Krampf]] (stabbed), and [[Film/HotelArtemis "Niagara"]] (throat ripped out). He's also played two characters who die but recover -- Film/MisterFrost's ''physical'' body dies but since he's actually {{Satan}} he can just pull a GrandTheftMe, and the plot of ''Literature/{{Hideaway}}'' kicks off when Hatch Harrison is medically brought back from the dead after drowning in a car accident. As a hoodlum in ''Chain of Fools'', he suffers a RasputinianDeath as a RunningGag. Ironically enough, he averts this in one of his biggest roles, [[Film/JurassicPark Ian Malcolm]], who was SparedByTheAdaptation (the literary Malcolm's death even gets retconned in [[Literature/TheLostWorld the sequel]]).
* Creator/EvaGreen is known for two things - [[MsFanservice being very pretty]] and dying a lot in movies and TV Shows. ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', ''Film/DarkShadows'', ''Film/ThreeHundredRiseOfAnEmpire'', ''Film/SinCityADameToKillFor'', ''Series/PennyDreadful'' - Just to name a few. She even {{lampshaded}} this in an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivVHmLq2TnA interview]] with W Magazine.
--> I die a lot in movies and I don't know why. It's a big rehearsal for me, yeah.
* Starting with ''Film/WagTheDog'', Creator/WoodyHarrelson has suffered 12 deaths by gunshot (in the same year, he [[Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes had]] [[Film/ThreeBillboardsOutsideEbbingMissouri two]] self-inflicted). He also died by explosion twice (''Film/TheThinRedLine'' and ''Film/TwentyTwelve'') and had his head bitten off (''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage'').
* Over the course of her career, Creator/DanielleHarris has played characters who have been killed off. Then again, that's what happens when you're a horror movie star.
* Creator/EthanHawke, specially as he is an AscendedFanboy of horror films. In ''Film/TwentyFourHoursToLive'', he dies twice and is revived both times.
* Creator/JohnHawkes has actually had to say "I don't die in ''every'' movie I appear in."
* Creator/LanceHenriksen, [[MoneyDearBoy who works a lot]], and often doesn't get to the end, helped by often playing the villain. Even in an animated role, as he voices Tarzan's gorilla father in [[WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}} the Disney movie]] and is shot by the bad guy. He and Creator/BillPaxton also hold one of the most interesting distinctions: They are the only two actors to have been killed by an Franchise/{{Alien}}, a {{Franchise/Terminator}} and a {{Franchise/Predator}}. However, Bill was killed ''on-screen'' by all three -- when Lance's character is shot in ''Film/TheTerminator'', the camera only shows the robot.
* Creator/CiaranHinds has died in movies like ''Film/RoadToPerdition'', ''Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance'', ''Film/InBruges'' and ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'', and also his more famous TV roles like ''Series/{{Rome}}'' (as UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar) and ''Series/GameOfThrones''.
* Creator/JohnHurt died over forty times in his career, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHk-ooDV2HE as attested by a video on his official YouTube channel.]] He even died in a ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Pyramid}} documentary]]''! Even when he didn't die, he often [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows lived up]] [[Series/DoctorWho to his name]]. [[http://nerdist.com/does-sean-bean-really-die-more-than-other-actors/ The research linked atop this article]] has him as the highest death count, and that Hurt and Sean Bean have about the same proportion of being killed on-screen (a third of their roles, which in Hurt's case is over 120 movies!). This is even lampshaded in his cameo in ''{{Film/Spaceballs}}''.
-->'''Kane''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHbT6BjFvcA Oh no. Not again...]]
* Creator/MichaelIronside. His deaths are often quite gory and messy, and he loses a limb or two in the process. Even in ''Film/TheMachinist'', in which he doesn't die, he still loses an arm. Someone even made a reel of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAFwgWdLceQ Michael Ironside Always Losing Body Parts]].
* Creator/OscarIsaac dies an awful lot, even in cases such as ''Film/SuckerPunch'', where he is stabbed in the fantasy world but survives in reality. He even appears to be a DecoyProtagonist who apparently bites it in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' before a triumphant return. Amusingly, in a case of WhatCouldHaveBeen, Poe Dameron was originally supposed to die, but it was rewritten due to awareness of this trope being in effect.
* Creator/SamuelLJackson, according to his page. It helps that when he's not playing a villain, it's DeadStarWalking ("''Film/DeepBlueSea''! [[Series/ChappellesShow They ate me! A fucking shark ate me!]]"). And no, [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas he's not safe in video games]]. His appearances in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse [[ZigZaggedTrope zig-zags]] his status, with him being killed in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' but being resurrected in ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.
* Porn star Ron Jeremy dies in pretty much every non-pornographic movie he stars in.
* In 2016, Creator/FelicityJones appeared in three movies: ''Literature/{{Inferno|2013}}'', ''Film/RogueOne'' and ''Film/AMonsterCalls''. She doesn't survive any of them (although in the third, she dies offscreen, aside from a fatal fall while appearing in a nightmare sequence).
* Creator/UdoKier is known for his memorable death scenes, from suicide via film projector in ''[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS1E8CigaretteBurns Cigarette Burns]]'', to being burned alive by the sun in ''Film/{{Blade}}'', to having his liver removed via spear in ''Film/FleshForFrankenstein'', to death by [[RazorFloss mono-filiment whip]] in ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic''. [[http://cinemorgue.wikia.com/wiki/Udo_Kier Here is the full list.]]
* Creator/KlausKinski, especially in his early movies. He was one of the actors who appeared most in the Edgar Wallace series and his characters never got to see the end of the one they appeared in.
* Creator/ChiakiKuriyama is known both for starring in low-profile horror flicks and dying dramatically in them. About the only media she does not die in are J-dramas and Japanese dubs of foreign media.
* Up until recently, Creator/OlgaKurylenko's roles generally consisted of her having sex and then getting killed (rare exception: ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', where the other girl sleeps with Film/JamesBond and dies, while Kurylenko does neither and survives). This is taken to its logical conclusion in ''Film/SevenPsychopaths'', where she spends her ten minutes of screentime having sex and getting killed.
* When she first started out, Music/QueenLatifah seemed to get killed a lot; she was in three movies in quick succession (''Set It Off'', ''Film/TheBoneCollector'' and ''Film/{{Sphere}}'') where she was respectively shot, stabbed and killed by jellyfish.
* The great Creator/ChristopherLee, a serious contender for [[http://cinemorgue.wikia.com/wiki/Christopher_Lee the greatest amount of recorded screen deaths]]. A side effect of being TypeCast as so many bad guys, as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr-GMvJ4sZY here]]. Even the odd heroic character of his isn't safe, as films like ''Film/NightOfTheBigHeat'' and ''Film/{{Airport 77}}'' demonstrate. Also provides the page quote. According to his autobiography, he once caught his kids watching late-night TV and playing a guessing game called "How Will Daddy Die This Time?"
* Creator/JaredLeto dies in many of the films in which he appears (''Film/PanicRoom'', ''Film/TheThinRedLine'', ''Film/{{Alexander}}'', ''Film/AmericanPsycho'', ''Film/LordOfWar'', ''Prefontaine'', ''Film/DallasBuyersClub'') and even in the ones in which he doesn't something horrible usually happens to him (his character is subject to a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in ''Film/FightClub'' and ends up looking like [[http://haphazardnessryan.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/fightclub_272pyxurz.jpg this]], while his character in ''Film/RequiemForADream'' gets one of his arms amputated). Leto was even killed in a music video for his own band, Music/ThirtySecondsToMars. ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'' is a variant, as Leto plays the TropeNamer for "[[JokerImmunity villain who always comes back]]", and his apparent death by HellishCopter doesn't stick.
* In the same vein as Christopher Lee, another two horror legends are ranked pretty high in the death count, Creator/BelaLugosi (who even in ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'', a [[FakeShemp fake posthumous role]], has his character bite it) and Creator/VincentPrice (dies even in [[WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective animated]] [[WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler roles]]).
* Creator/KatieMcGrath has had [[http://cinemorgue.wikia.com/wiki/Katie_McGrath five gruesome deaths in film and TV]], most notably in ''Film/JurassicWorld'' (where she is snatched by a pterosaur who then tries to drown her... only for a huge mosasaur to eat both).
* Creator/{{Steve McQueen|Actor}} died in ''Film/HellIsForHeroes'', ''Film/TheWarLover'', ''Film/TheSandPebbles'' and ''Film/TomHorn''. Surprisingly, he does ''not'' die in ''Film/TheGreatEscape'', a war film in which most of the cast is notoriously murdered in the finale in a recreation of an actual historical event.
* When his role is more substantial than a cameo, Music/MeatLoaf gets killed quite a bit. In ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', it happens close to dinner. With an icepick.
* Creator/DinaMeyer dies an [[http://cinemorgue.wikia.com/wiki/Dina_Meyer awful lot]], and it's usually bloody (one was even in a ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' movie).
* Creator/MadsMikkelsen made his Hollywood debut getting killed in ''Film/KingArthur''. He's ever since amassed villains who die (including a [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 Bond villain]] whose death isn't even the climax of the movie), a return to his home Denmark only to get beheaded in ''Film/ARoyalAffair'', and a sympathetic role in ''Film/RogueOne'' also not saving him. While the title character of ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' is presumably SavedByCanon, the series still ends with Mikkelsen falling down a cliff.
** He manages to survive as the lead of ''Film/TheSalvation'', but this requires 90% of the rest of the cast to be sacrificed, including fellow CKA Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
* Creator/SiennaMiller herself is not an example. But in a weird variation, her love interests have a habit of getting killed off: ''Film/AmericanSniper'', ''{{Film/Foxcatcher}}'', ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' (and [[Film/GIJoeRetaliation the sequel]] too technically, even if she isn't in it), ''Film/LayerCake''...
** The same extends to Creator/ShaileneWoodley, most of whose major roles feature her as a character whose friends and family end up dying around her. ''Film/TheDescendants'', ''{{Film/Divergent}}'', ''Film/TheFaultInOurStars''. ''Film/TheSpectacularNow'' doesn't feature a death, but her boyfriend nearly gets into a car crash. Had the final ''Divergent'' movie [[OrphanedSeries been made]], [[spoiler: she finally would have gotten to die]].
* Music/KylieMinogue. Even though she hasn't starred in many roles, she dies in the majority of them. In ''Film/HolyMotors'', she is DrivenToSuicide; in ''San Andreas'', she is among the casualties of an earthquake; in ''Cut'', she is slashed to death. Not to mention her role in a special ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode, "[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned Voyage of the Damned]]", where her character dies as well, and her role in the video of "Where the Wild Roses Grow", where she is killed by Music/NickCave's character. Ironically, her most well-known character, [[Film/StreetFighter Cammy White]], survives the events of her movie.
* Creator/JeffreyDeanMorgan, in most of his television roles (such as ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', ''Series/GreysAnatomy'', and -[[PosthumousCharacter posthumously]] - on ''Series/{{Weeds}}''), and both ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' and ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''.
* Creator/LiamNeeson, which makes his character in ''Film/LesMiserables1998'' being SparedByTheAdaptation all the more surprising and ironic. Even in [[VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}} video games]], he ain't safe. Granted, many of Neeson's roles do fit the MentorArchetype, [[MentorOccupationalHazard which has its disadvantages]]. It's then quite hilarious that he plays Aslan in ''Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'' who is a famous Jesus allegory ([[BackFromTheDead involving exactly what you're thinking of]]), and then there's ''{{Film/Widows}}'' - where [[spoiler: he's FakingTheDead but gets killed off anyway]].
* That nice looking guy Danny Nucci has died in ''Film/{{Eraser}}'', ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'', ''Film/TheRock'', and many more films.
* Creator/GaryOldman has too many to count (to the point Cinemorgue has Oldman in a coffin on its main page), but it started with playing real-life people like Music/SidVicious and Joe Orton and then playing villains, which meant getting killed a lot. Even his more sympathetic characters buy the farm sometimes, like [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Sirius Black]] or Theatre/{{Rosencrantz|AndGuildensternAreDead}} (although the latter was a ForegoneConclusion). And like Creator/LiamNeeson, [[VideoGame/CallOfDuty his deaths aren't restricted to outside of video games]], either.
** While he doesn't die in ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'', he does [[FakingTheDead fake his death]] at one point in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''.
* Creator/AlPacino has at least 14 on-screen deaths, often for being in the wrong side of the law (''Film/{{Scarface}}, Film/DickTracy''). Twice it was in the hands of friend Robert De Niro, in ''Film/RighteousKill'' and ''Film/TheIrishman''.
* David E. Paetkau is one of the horror genre's whipping boys, having been offed in several horror movies he appeared in, including, most famously, ''Film/FinalDestination2''.
* Creator/JoePantoliano (probably best known as Cypher from ''Film/TheMatrix'') gets killed in most of his major film roles and quite brutally on ''Series/TheSopranos''. The chronologically-reversed Christopher Nolan film ''Film/{{Memento}}'' even ''starts'' with his character's brains blown out!
* The late Creator/BillPaxton, who essentially never played a character that's survived him appearing in anything with Michael Biehn, and holds the distinction of being killed by an ''Film/{{Alien|s}}'', a ''Film/{{Predator|2}}'', '''and''' ''Film/TheTerminator'' (Creator/LanceHenriksen is the only other person to share the title, and his death to a Terminator was [[GoryDiscretionShot offscreen]]). Like Tom Cruise, he died many times during ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow''. Then there's ''Film/NavySeals'' and ''Film/{{Tombstone}}'' (where his character Morgan Earp was DoomedByCanon). Granted, if Michael Biehn's not in the movie, his characters don't die nearly as often (one notable exception being on TV, ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''). He was even shot and killed at the end of ''Series/{{Big Love}}'', in which he played a polygamous family man who owned a home improvement store.
* Creator/BradPitt has at least ten deaths, a few of them esoteric (''Film/CoolWorld'', where he dies but is revived as a cartoon; ''Film/MeetJoeBlack'', where after death his body is taken over by TheGrimReaper; ''Film/FightClub'', where he's an evil split personality who vanishes after the original shoots himself) and includes an amusing DeathByCameo in ''Film/{{Deadpool 2}}''.
* Creator/ChristopherPlummer, including two animated ones in ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}''. Along with action deaths such as ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', Plummer is also prone to being struck by disease -- his Oscar-winning role in ''Beginners'' has him falling victim to lung cancer. His final film, ''Film/KnivesOut'', features him as the murder victim.
* Creator/CCHPounder. She starred in movies such as ''Film/RoboCop3'', ''Film/DemonKnight'', ''Film/FaceOff'', and ''Film/EndOfDays'', and she dies in those four. Also, her character in ''Series/TheShield'' ends the series suffering from a terminal disease.
* The late Harve Presnell had a reputation for getting killed on camera a lot: getting shot in ''Film/{{Fargo}}'', beaten to death in ''Film/FaceOff'', a memo spike in an episodes of ''Series/{{Monk}}'', sky-jumped sans parachute in ''Series/ThePretender'', and probably many more.
* Creator/DanielRadcliffe is being slowly but surely molded into one, as seen in ''December Boys'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' (granted, his character ''did'' have it coming, having suckered Lisa into becoming a vampire and not letting her back out once she starts to have second thoughts), and ''Film/TheWomanInBlack'' (also featuring a survival by fellow CKA Ciaran Hinds). Additionally, in the infamous ''Film/SwissArmyMan'' he's already dead. Technically, he also died in ''Film/HarryPotter'', although [[BackFromTheDead not permanently]].
* Creator/RobertRedford has inverted and defied this for the most part, which is why ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'' has its BolivianArmyEnding ([[InvertedTrope he claimed that Redford characters don't die to achieve such an ending for the film]]). It should be noted that the first of his characters to ever die was ''Film/{{The Great Gatsby|1974}}''.
* Creator/EdwardGRobinson and Creator/JamesCagney were quite often sentenced to death by the Hays Office, their only crime being that they were also typecast as gangsters. They generally only survived after making a HeelFaceTurn.
* Giovanni Lombardo Radice, most infamously with a drill to the head in ''Film/CityOfTheLivingDead''.
* Creator/AlanRickman, in ''Film/DieHard'', ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'', ''Film/HarryPotter'', ''Truly Madly Deeply'', RealLife, etc.
* Creator/EricRoberts. His StarMakingRole was as an infamous MurderSuicide perpetrator in ''Film/{{Star 80}}'', and the subsequent TypeCasting as a sleazy guy usually ensures he will get killed at some point. Even if he doesn't die in any given movie, his fate will probably be ambiguous, as demonstrated when [[spoiler:Sal Maroni gets involved in a car accident and at the very least suffers further injuries]] in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. Interestingly, he [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie once played]] TheMaster in ''Doctor Who,'' which is rather funny since that character has incredible JokerImmunity.
* Creator/MichelleRodriguez tends to pick roles of the VasquezAlwaysDies kind, although she now has a few aversions, two because [[Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries the]] [[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious franchises]] went on long enough that she got resurrected. Her ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'' resurrection saw her brought back as a pair of clones...''both of which died''. In some films such as ''{{Film/SWAT}}'' and ''{{Film/Machete}}'' she appears to die [[spoiler: but survives]].
* Chico Roland, a TokenMinority African-American actor in many Japanese films from the 50s to the 80s, usually died horribly in most of his appearances, for example, getting his tongue telepathically ripped out by Creator/HiroshiFujioka in ''ESPY'', Getting skeletonized TWICE in ''Series/WarriorOfLoveRainbowman'', being killed in a laboratory explosion in ''Series/KamenRiderSuper1'', being emasculated by Sonny Chiba in one of the most infamous scenes from ''Film/TheStreetfighter''... about the only roles where he did not die a horrible death are as an MP in Toshio Masuda's ''The Imperial Japanese Empire'' and ''Prophesies of Nostradamus''.
* Creator/DarylSabara with ''Film/Halloween2007'', ''Film/AprilShowers'', ''Film/WorldsGreatestDad'', ''Film/AfterTheDark'', and ''Film/TheGreenInferno''.
* Creator/ElizaScanlen's career has only just recently taken off, but right away she got a streak of three movies (''Film/LittleWomen2019'', ''Film/BabyTeeth'', ''Film/TheDevilAllTheTime'') and [[Series/SharpObjects a TV show]] where her character doesn't make it. [[https://www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/article/50192/1/eliza-scanlen-babyteeth-little-women-spring-2020-issue An article on her]], understandably called "Live, Die, Repeat", has Scanlen noting this. Once the trailer for her film ''Film/{{Old}}'' appeared, Twitter was abuzz hoping she would not die in it - alas, it was not to be.
* Creator/LievSchreiber, in ''Film/{{Scream 3}}'', ''Film/{{Salt}}'', ''Film/{{Sphere}}'', ''Film/{{Phantoms}}'', ''Film/TheManchurianCandidate'', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'' etc.
* Averted by Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger in films outside the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' franchise with the only non-''Terminator'' film in which his character dies being ''Film/EndOfDays''. At most, ''Film/TheRunningMan'' has the producers of the DeadlyGame faking his death by pasting Arnold's face on someone else.
* Creator/AndySerkis dies a lot when he plays [[SerkisFolk motion-captured characters]], as they tend to either be monsters or villains. Even his non-motion-capture roles aren't safe. In the period of 2017 to early 2018, he's had [[Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes three characters]] [[Film/TheLastJedi die in]] [[Film/BlackPanther2018 a row]] (and the first of these three isn't a villain).
* If she's not ''the'' lead performer, there's a good, if not 100%, chance that Creator/SueShiomi will die in her movies (particularly if it's an actioner), as seen in ''Film/TheStreetfighter'', ''The Franchise/{{Streetfighter}}'s Last Revenge'', ''Golgo13: Kowloon Assignment'', ''Shogun's Ninja'', and ''Film/LegendOfEightSamurai''. Usually, her death is a result of [[VasquezAlwaysDies being an]] ActionGirl [[VasquezAlwaysDies in a film that also features a more feminine supporting character]].
* Creator/GarySinise has at least nine, mostly for playing the bad guy. ''Film/ForrestGump'' offers a variation, where Lt. Dan's ancestors [[IdenticalGrandson who look just like him]] die in battle, but he himself doesn't and takes long to accept life again.
* Tom Sizemore bites the bullet in most films he appears in, particularly when they're crime dramas. A short list: ''Film/TrueRomance'', ''Film/{{Heat}}'', ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'', ''Film/RedPlanet'', ''Film/NaturalBornKillers'', ''Film/DevilInABlueDress'', ''Film/EnemyOfTheState'' and ''Film/WyattEarp'' among others. Oddly, Sizemore manages to make it out of the rather casualty-heavy ''Film/BlackHawkDown'' nearly unscathed.
* During UsefulNotes/NaziGermany times, Swedish-German actress [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristina_Soderbaum Kristina Söderbaum]] tended to play characters who'd melodramatically die at the end of their films, sometimes via [[DrivenToSuicide suicide by drowning]]. She was even given the EmbarrassingNickname ''die Reichswasserleiche'' ("Drowned Corpse of the Reich") for it.
* Averted by Creator/SylvesterStallone (the only movie where he dies on-screen is ''Film/DeathRace2000''[[note]]Sly had filmed the scene where Franchise/{{Rambo}} dies in ''Film/FirstBlood'', before everyone decided he was better off SparedByTheAdaptation.[[/note]]), who even tried to change the ending of ''Film/{{FIST}}'' so his character Johnny Kovak wouldn't get killed -- he failed, but the film freezeframes just as a gunshot is heard so Johnny technically doesn't bite it onscreen. It's telling that Creator/JoeEszterhas, who wrote the original script (guess who shares screenplay credit) and the novelization, saw to it that Johnny had a more protracted demise in the latter.
* Creator/PeterStormare, starting with a CruelAndUnusualDeath in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' which Creator/StevenSpielberg said was to compensate how he didn't die in ''Film/{{Fargo}}'' despite his cruel character deserving to do so. He's since played many bad guys with appropriate kills, such as ''Film/EightMM '', ''Film/BadBoysII'' and ''Series/PrisonBreak''.
* Creator/DonaldSutherland has over ''20'' deaths on his resume, with many of his later roles seeing his character end up suffering a nasty case of MentorOccupationalHazard. He's not even safe in comedy films, as appearances in movies like ''Film/{{Beerfest}}'' and ''Film/HorribleBosses'' can attest.
* Creator/HilarySwank. It was once remarked, after ''Film/MillionDollarBaby'''s release, that she seems to have made a career out of being beaten to death. Her third attempt at going after the Oscar was in ''Amelia'', about a woman who mysteriously vanished.
* Creator/QuentinTarantino, tends to [[CreatorCameo cast himself in small roles]] in his movies, generally as [[TakeThatMe stupid and unpleasant]] characters who are [[DeathByCameo rapidly killed off]]. Which makes a certain amount of sense -- limiting your onscreen time by having your character die means you don't have to do two jobs for the entire shoot. The few times he's appeared as an actor in films he didn't direct have also tended to involve violent deaths. The biggest, if not only, exception is ''Film/PulpFiction'', where he aids and abets the main characters and is handsomely rewarded for it.
* Creator/CharlizeTheron, in ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCornIIIUrbanHarvest'', ''2 Days in the Valley'', ''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate'', ''Film/ReindeerGames'', ''The Yards'', ''Sweet November'', ''Film/{{Monster}}'', ''Head In The Clouds'', ''Film/{{Hancock}}'', ''Film/TheRoad'', ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'', ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman'' and ''Film/TheHuntsmanWintersWar''. In two of these, she gets better, but as if to make up for that, in the ''Huntsman'' films her character gets killed ''twice''. With a record like that, Charlize should be considered Sean Bean's DistaffCounterpart.
* To be a fan of Creator/DannyTrejo is to watch a movie he's in bearing the additional burden of hoping his character doesn't die early in the film. WordOfGod is that Trejo, himself a reformed criminal himself who came close to facing the death penalty once (and that one time where death row was a possibility convinced him to turn his life around), intentionally asks that his bad guy characters end up either dead or in prison since he wants people to get the idea that crime doesn't pay.
* Creator/ConradVeidt got cast as doomed tragic heroes or villains so often he rarely survived a movie without dying. His female fans started a "Don't Let Conrad Veidt Die On The Screen" club in 1941 and lobbied Creator/{{MGM}} to give him parts in which he wouldn't get killed at the end. It didn't help.
* Creator/MaxVonSydow died a lot. He is especially prone to MentorOccupationalHazard. He noted that this was a peculiar form of age-related typecasting.
--> “As you get older, you get offered old characters and very often old people die in the middle of the script. It’s sad, but it’s not very interesting.”
* Creator/ChristopherWalken has ''[[https://cinemorgue.fandom.com/wiki/Christopher_Walken over 20 deaths]]'', usually when he's playing the villain. But even straighter cases are not safe, such as his [[StarMakingRole Star Making]] and Oscar-winning role in ''Film/TheDeerHunter''.
* Creator/DenzelWashington. Most notably, won [[Film/{{Glory}} two]] [[Film/TrainingDay Oscars]] playing guys who die, and out of seven nominations, only ''Film/TheHurricane'' and ''Film/{{Flight}}'' had Washington's character surviving. ''Film/DejaVu2006'' has the amusing variation of Denzel performing HeroicSacrifice yet still surviving due to TimeyWimeyBall.
* Creator/BruceWillis, whose [[Film/TheSixthSense biggest box office success]] was playing a ghost, and has more than ten other on-screen deaths. Notable is ''{{Film/Looper}}'' where [[spoiler: his past self commits to suicide to kill the future version, effectively dying twice]].
* Creator/OwenWilson notably died in movies for three years in a row: 1997's ''Film/{{Anaconda}}'', 1998's ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'', and ''Film/TheHaunting1999.''
* Creator/AnnaMayWong felt doomed to have "the woman who died a thousand deaths" on her tombstone, and she wasn't very far off--institutional racism in Hollywood during her time relegated her to Madama Butterfly-type or DragonLady roles that inevitably ended in death. Ironically she died right before she was about to play a character who didn't - ''Literature/FlowerDrumSong'''s Madam Liang. She's about to kill herself in ''Film/ShanghaiExpress'' too [[spoiler: but instead kills the villain and saves the day!]] Further irony is that the role she was infamously snubbed for (O-Lan in ''Literature/TheGoodEarth'') dies in the course of the story, but the role she was offered and turned down (an unsympathetic concubine called Lotus) survives.
* A {{Mook}} with a particularly distinctive beard and moustache appeared in several popular action films like ''Film/JohnWick'', ''Film/TheEqualizer'', and ''Film/TheAccountant''; they're all played by the same actor, [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1324884/ Tait Fletcher]], who's an MMA fighter and stunt man.
* Creator/IngridPitt often played a vampire or a villain who died horribly after ''Film/TheVampireLovers'' made her British horror's favorite LesbianVampire. ''Film/CountessDracula'' doesn't end with her dying, but she's in a cell for her crimes and execution is presumably going to follow.
* Creator/UlrichTukur has played four characters who [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide]] -- Kurt Gerstein in ''Film/{{Amen}}'' (hangs himself), Henning von Tresckow in the TV film ''Stauffenberg'' (blows himself up with a grenade), Erwin Rommel in ''Film/{{Rommel}}'' (ingests a cyanide pill) and Gérard Hutchinson in ''Film/TheAxe'' (shoots himself). Three of them were UsefulNotes/WorldWarII [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German officers]] who did something against the [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Nazi regime]], and the fourth shoots himself with a pistol from the era (a ''Lüger'' [=P08=]).
* Creator/ChristophWaltz has died eleven times, including ''Film/TheGreenHornet'', ''Literature/WaterForElephants'', ''Film/DjangoUnchained'', ''WesternAnimation/Epic2013'', ''Film/TheZeroTheorem'' (though his consciousness lives on in a virtual reality simulation), ''Film/BigEyes'', ''[[Film/HorribleBosses Horrible Bosses 2]]'', ''Film/TheLegendOfTarzan'' and ''Film/NoTimeToDie''.

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* The French film ''Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma'', directed by Agnès Varda in honour of the centenary of cinema in 1995, features a funny conversation between Michel Piccoli and Creator/GerardDepardieu in which they discuss the many varied ways in which they died unnatural deaths with clips of their death scenes from various movies, including Piccoli eating himself to death and dying with a long loud fart in ''Film/LaGrandeBouffe'' and Depardieu being burned at the stake in ''Film/TheReturnOfMartinGuerre''.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
!!!'''Actors:'''

As of December 2016, the [[http://nerdist.com/does-sean-bean-really-die-more-than-other-actors official count can be found here.]]

!!'''As this is a DeathTrope, expect unmarked spoilers. Beware.'''

!!Examples:

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

* Creator/ChristophWaltz has died eleven times, including ''Film/TheGreenHornet'', ''Literature/WaterForElephants'', ''Film/DjangoUnchained'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic}}'', ''Film/TheZeroTheorem'' (though his consciousness lives on in a virtual reality simulation), ''Film/BigEyes'', ''[[Film/HorribleBosses Horrible Bosses 2]]'', ''Film/TheLegendOfTarzan'' and ''Film/NoTimeToDie''.

* Creator/UdoKier is known for his memorable death scenes, from suicide via film projector in ''Film/CigaretteBurns'', to being burned alive by the sun in ''Film/{{Blade}}'', to having his liver removed via spear in ''Film/FleshForFrankenstein'', to death by [[RazorFloss mono-filiment whip]] in ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic''. [[http://cinemorgue.wikia.com/wiki/Udo_Kier Here is the full list.]]

* Alan Dale has now died of a heart attack on three different shows (''Series/{{Neighbours}}'', ''Series/TheOC'' and ''Series/UglyBetty''), and, oddly enough, each show had his character in a relationship with a gold-digger and in a strained relationship with his adult children at the time. He's also shot dead on ''Series/{{Lost}}''. On ''Series/Dynasty2017'' meanwhile, his characcter is killed in a car crash. (Averted on ''Series/TwentyFour'' of all things.)

* Alan Dale has now died of a heart attack on three different shows (''Series/{{Neighbours}}'', ''Series/TheOC'' and ''Series/UglyBetty''), and, oddly enough, each show had his character in a relationship with a gold-digger and in a strained relationship with his adult children at the time. He's also shot dead on ''Series/{{Lost}}''.

* Creator/JaimeMurray has died in ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'' (ok she gets better but still), ''Series/SpartacusGodsOfTheArena'', ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' and ''FrightNight 2''. Several jokes were made when Hustle finished that she had actually survived the show's run.

* Indira Varma has racked up a few. Among her most notable performances she’s died in ''{{Series/Game of Thrones}}, {{Series/Rome}}'', and ''{{Series/Torchwood}}''. Extra credit for the last one, having died ''twice''.
* Creator/JaredHarris has died multiple times across multiple series and films. His most famous deaths have been [[Series/MadMen suicide by hanging]] ([[Series/{{Chernobyl}} twice!]]), [[Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows being thrown over a waterfall by Sherlock Holmes]], and [[Series/TheCrown2016 lung cancer triggered by smoking and unexpectedly having to be king during World War II]], but he's been killed at least a dozen times by his count:

* Creator/UdoKier is known for his memorable death scenes, from suicide via film projector in ''Film/CigaretteBurns'', to being burned alive by the sun in ''Film/Blade'', to having his liver removed via spear in ''Film/FleshForFrankenstein'', to death by [[RazorFloss mono-filiment whip]] in ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic''. [[http://cinemorgue.wikia.com/wiki/Udo_Kier Here is the full list.]]

* Creator/SeanBean, who also happens to be the TropeCodifier.

** Her reputation must have been quite known amongst anime fandom that when ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'' is announced to have a voice dubbing via ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'' ([[spoiler:and that's the game with highest mortality count for its protagonists]]), they picked her to do Tailtiu; the GenkiGirl who's [[spoiler:considered to have [[KillTheCutie the most heartwrenching unavoidable death]] amongst the death tolls of the game.]]

Websites such as [[http://cinemorgue.fandom.com/wiki/Cinemorgue_Wiki Cinemorgue]] help put together [[https://cinemorgue.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Actors_with_10_or_more_deaths which actors are bound to this]].

As of December 2016, the [[http://nerdist.com/does-sean-bean-really-die-more-than-other-actors/ official count can be found here]].

Websites such as [[http://cinemorgue.fandom.com/wiki/Cinemorgue_Wiki Cinemorgue]] help put together which actors are bound to this.

* Creator/DaveBautista, and it's usually a big attack that fits such a large man dying (he's pulled off a train in ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', shot after a long fistfight in ''Film/BladeRunner2049'', disintegrated in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''...).

* Her frequent costar during the heyday of her career, Creator/ShinichiChiba, doesn't fare much better outside of the martial arts genre, dying in ''The Yakuza Papers: Hiroshima Deathmatch'', ''Dragon Princess'', ''The Resurrection of Golden Wolf'', ''G.I. Samurai'', ''Shogun's Ninja'', the NHK historical drama ''Furin Kazan'' [[note]]granted, he was portraying TheMentor to UsefulNotes/TakedaShingen, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itagaki_Nobukata Itagaki Nobukata]], with MentorOccupationalHazard firmly in play[[/note]] and ''Film/LegendOfEightSamurai'' and getting a BolivianArmyEnding in ''Samurai Reincarnation''.

* Creator/ElleFanning has an impressive death count considering her age. She’s died in ''Live By Night, Galveston, The Neon Demon'' and ''Twixt'' so far.

* Creator/CiaranHinds has died in movies like ''Film/RoadToPerdition'', ''Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance'', ''Film/InBruges'' and ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' to his more famous TV roles like ''Series/{{Rome}}'' (as UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar) and ''Series/GameOfThrones''.

* When she first started out, Queen Latifah seemed to get killed a lot; she was in three movies in quick succession (''Set It Off'', ''Film/TheBoneCollector'' and ''Film/{{Sphere}}'') where she was respectively shot, stabbed and killed by jellyfish.

* Sienna Miller herself is not an example. But in a weird variation, her love interests have a habit of getting killed off: ''Film/AmericanSniper'', ''{{Film/Foxcatcher}}'', ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' (and [[Film/GIJoeRetaliation the sequel]] too technically, even if she isn't in it), ''Film/LayerCake''...

* Creator/LiamNeeson, which makes his character in ''Film/LesMiserables1998'' being SparedByTheAdaptation all the more surprising and ironic. Even in [[VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}} video games]], he ain't safe. Granted, many of Neeson's roles do fit the MentorArchetype, [[MentorOccupationalHazard which has its disadvantages]]. It's then quite hilarious that he plays Aslan in ''Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'' who is a famous Jesus allegory ([[BackFromTheDead involving exactly what you're thinking of]]) and then there's ''{{Film/Widows}}'' - where [[spoiler: he's FakingTheDead but gets killed off anyway]].

--> "So far I've been shot 6 times, (by a Gatling gun, & by a U-Boat), eaten by sharks, hurled over the Reichenbach Falls, bludgeon with a chair leg, roasted by Mt. Vesuvius, hung twice, & died in my sleep. But my personal favourite — being split in half by the space-time continuum."

* Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio: ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead'', ''Total Eclipse'', ''[[Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet Romeo + Juliet]]'', ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'', ''Film/BloodDiamond'', ''Film/TheDeparted'', ''Film/ShutterIsland'' (sort of), ''{{Film/Inception}}'' (also sort of), ''Film/JEdgar'', ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' and ''Film/{{The Great Gatsby|2013}}''.

* Creator/HoukoKuwashima has a mild reputation with how she has a 'Star of Death' following her, which causes a lot of her characters to die messily. This is most prevalent in the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise where she starred in the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED SEED]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Duology]], both of her characters (Fllay and Stellar) had incredibly tragic death. Or heck, if you look at her debut role as Yurika from ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'', while she survived the TV series, in the movie, she got StuffedIntoTheFridge...

* Creator/DenzelWashington. Most notably, won [[Film/{{Glory}} two]] [[Film/TrainingDay Oscars]] playing guys who die, and out of seven nominations, only ''Film/TheHurricane'' and ''Film/{{Flight}}'' had Washington's character surviving. ''Film/DejaVu'' has the amusing variation of Denzel performing HeroicSacrifice yet still surviving due to TimeyWimeyBall.