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Actors that die the most in movies
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- Leonardo DiCaprio – Dies 9 times
The Quick and the Dead
Total Eclipse
Romeo + Juliet
Titanic
Blood Diamond
The Departed
J. Edgar
Django Unchained
The Great Gatsby
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- Tim Curry – Dies 10 times
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Clue
Legend
Congo
The Shadow
Oliver Twist
The Colour of Magic
McHale's Navy
Charlie's Angels
Scary Movie 2
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- Bruce Willis – Dies 11 times
Billy Bathgate
Mortal Thoughts
Death Becomes Her
Twelve Monkeys
The Jackal
Armageddon
The Sixth Sense
Hart's War
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Sin City
Grindhouse: Planet Terror
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- Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard has been in the movie business since 1968, and he sure knows how to go out with a bang! He's died in at least 12 films, including:
The Hunt for Red October
Savior
Ronin
Deep Blue Sea
No Good Deed
Dogville
Helen of Troy
King Arthur
Angels & Demons
Melancholia
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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- Danny Trejo's characters have met their maker in over 10 of his films! Here's just a small taste of the complete rundown:
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
Desperado
Heat
From Dusk till Dawn
Anaconda
Point Blank
The Replacement Killers
XXX
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Halloween
Predators
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- Johnny Depp – Dies 12 times
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Platoon
Freddy's Dead
Ed Wood
Dead Man
The Astronaut's Wife
From Hell
The Libertine
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Public Enemies
The Brave
21 Jump Street
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- Now let's talk about Gary Oldman. You've probably seen him around, though you may not have known it was him. He's a master of disguise; he rarely looks the same twice!
He may not repeat looks, but there is one thing that he definitely has done more than once: drop dead in a movie! He's actually succumbed to fate in, count 'em, 12 different films:
The Book of Eli
State of Grace
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Fifth Element
Leon
Air Force One
True Romance
Lost in Space
JFK
Sid and Nancy
Hannibal
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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- It's a good thing that death on film doesn't last forever! If that were the case, Robert De Niro would've had to leave the movie business decades ago.
Check out this sampling of his most hazardous career moments:
Bloody Mama
Bang the Drum Slowly
Mean Streets
1900
Brazil
The Mission
Cape Fear
This Boy's Life
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Heat
The Fan
Jackie Brown
Great Expectations
15 Minutes
Hide & Seek
Machete
New Year's Eve
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- Sometimes, an actor can't help but play roles that will ultimately end in death. Take Gary Busey, for instance. His face is perfect to play the "bad guy" part, so it isn't a total shock that he's passed away on screen so many times since the 1960s.
Here are just some examples of films in which he's croaked:
The Magnificent Seven Ride
Lolly-Madonna XXX
Hex
The Buddy Holly Story
Straight Time
Lethal Weapon
Hider in the House
Predator 2
Point Break
Wild Texas Wind
The Firm
Under Siege
Drop Zone
Surviving the Game
Man with a Gun
Lethal Tender
The Rage
Soldier
The Gingerdead Man
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- Mickey Rourke is another actor who, like Gary Busey, was built to play the bad guy. Therefore, just like his creepy counterpart, he has died in a lot of movies, too:
A Prayer for the Dying
Rumble Fish
Johnny Handsome
Picture Claire
Iron Man 2
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Sin City
Killshot
Passion Play
Immortals
Double Team
Francesco
White Sands
Bullet
Fall Time
Desperate Hours
The Last Outlaw
Spun
Man on Fire
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- Sean Bean, whom you may have watched meet his untimely end in the first season of 'Game of Thrones,' has bit the dust in over 20 movies and TV series throughout his career. Yikes! That's a lot of death.
It would probably be much easier to list the movies he hasn't died in, but what fun would that be? I'll break it down by category, so you guys can really get a taste of Bean's massive death count.
Movies (Including made-for-TV and straight-to-DVD):
Caravaggio
War Requiem
The Field
Lorna Doone
Patriot Games
GoldenEye
Airborne
Essex Boys
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Don't Say a Word
Equilibrium
The Island
Far North
The Hitcher
Outlaw
Cash
Death Race 2
Black Death
Age of Heroes
TV Miniseries:
Tell Me That You Love Me
Clarissa
Scarlett
Henry VIII
Red Riding
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Legendary horror film actor Vincent Price has since passed away in real life, but as an actor, he was no stranger to death. His characters died in over 30 movies between 1939 and 1990, including:
Tower of London (1939)
Green Hell
Brigham Young
The Long Night
Rogues' Regiment
Dangerous Mission
The Mad Magician
The Ten Commandments
The Bat
House of Usher
Master of the World
The Pit and the Pendulum
Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile
Tales of Terror
Tower of London (1962)
Diary of a Madman
The Haunted Palace
Twice-Told Tales
The Comedy of Terrors
The Last Man on Earth
The Masque of the Red Death
The Tomb of Ligeia
Witchfinder General
More Dead Than Alive
Scream and Scream Again
Cry of the Banshee
Theatre of Blood
Scavenger Hunt
House of the Long Shadows
The Great Mouse Detective
From a Whisper to a Scream
Catchfire
Edward Scissorhands
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- Bela Lugosi, who became famous for playing horror roles just like Vincent Price, appeared in over 100 films in his career. With that many credits to his name, and getting a lot of work in the horror genre, he was bound to rack up quite a list! All in all, he died in at least 36 movies.
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If you thought Sean Bean, Vincent Price, and Bela Lugosi's death numbers were high, think again! The true King of Movie Deaths is John Hurt, whose characters have ended up six feet under in at least 40 movies and miniseries since his career began in the 1960s. If you want to know what it's like on the other side, he's probably the man to ask!
Movies he's died in:
The Wild and the Willing
Sinful Davey
A Man for All Seasons
10 Rillington Place
The Ghoul
East of Elephant Rock
Spectre
Alien
The Elephant Man
Heaven's Gate
The Osterman Weekend
The Hit
After Darkness
The Black Cauldron
Jake Speed
Spaceballs
Aria
Deadline
Little Sweetheart
Scandal
L'Oeil qui ment
Monolith
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Contact
The Climb
All the Little Animals
You're Dead
Lost Souls
Hellboy
Pride
Tabloid
The Proposition
V for Vendetta
Outlander
Boxes
An Englishman in New York
Ultramarines
Whistle and I'll Come To You
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
TV miniseries:
I, Claudius