# 100 Greatest Movie Deaths -- add your favorite! (SPOILERS) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 6, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520 "2003-07-06T05:37:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520/41 "2003-07-06T19:57:12Z")
(Can’t remember the characters name, played by Paul Rubens) in Buffy the Vampire Slayer…30 minutes and counting over the top. Bambi, in Bambi meets Godzilla. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520/42 "2003-07-06T19:58:59Z")
Kurtz, The Chief, Clean in Apocalypse Now Butch and Sundance Victor Franco in The Dirty Dozen ---
**Author:** ![Bugnorton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bugnorton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bugnorton)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520/43 "2003-07-06T20:38:40Z")
Tom Hulce (title character) in Amadeus John Gielgud - Hobson - Arthur and…best ever…Janet Leigh as Marion Crane in Psycho ---
**Author:** ![SuperNova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SuperNova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNova)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520/44 "2003-07-06T20:47:19Z")
Obi-Wan in the first Star Wars (if you can call that a death). ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520/45 "2003-07-06T20:49:16Z")
Bette Davis’ brain tumor in Dark Victory (1939) Joan Crawford’s ocean suicide in Humoresque (1946) Constance Talmadge in Intolerance (1916) Anita Page’s staircase tumble in Our Dancing Daughters (1928) the whole damn cast of Broken Blossoms (1919) Greta Garbo’s icy drowning in The Flesh and the Devil (1927) ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520/46 "2003-07-06T20:51:21Z")
The terminator from _The Terminator_ (Shot, run over, blown up, burned, blown in two, crushed in a hydraulic press). The General in _Fist of Legend_ (whipped with a belt, same belt used to slit his throat with his own sword). Cody Jarret in _White Heat_ (shot by police). Tommy De Vito in _Goodfellas_ (shot in the back of the head as he believes he’s about to become a “made” man). Unidentified gang member in _American History X_ (skull crushed agains a curb). Seita and Setsuko in _Grave of the Fireflies_ (starvation) Tony Montana in _Scarface_ Numerous characters in _Shindler’s List_, but three moreso than the others: The one armed man clearing snow, an anonymous woman tying her shoes, and the little girl in the red coat. Raymond Lemoore in _The Vanishing_ (won’t reveal how, it’s too good to spoil). Mickey Goldmill in _Rocky III_ (heart attack). But the single greatest death in cinematic history has to be Lila Crane in _Psycho_. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520/47 "2003-07-06T21:02:42Z")
\*\*Von Ryan’s Express Dracula Frankenstein The Wolfman The Mummy The Hideous Sun Demon\*\* ---
**Author:** ![bibliophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bibliophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophile)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520/48 "2003-07-06T21:04:57Z")
I have to go with Steve Buscemi’s death in Fargo. It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, so I don’t remember the character’s name off the top of my head, but I don’t think anyone will ever forget the wood chipper. ---
**Author:** ![Verminous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Verminous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Verminous)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520/49 "2003-07-06T21:09:00Z")
I liked the Kurgan’s death in the original Highlander movie. Sticking out his tonque and acting like the overall madman that he was up until the end. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520/50 "2003-07-06T21:10:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Number Six \* > \*\*Cody Jarret in _White Heat_ (shot by police). > \*\* My choice, also, but really, though he was shot, he was killed when the tank of chemicals blew up. Top of the world to you, too. 🙂 Cagney also died great deaths in **The Public Enemy** (his corpse delivered to his mother) and **The Roaring Twenties** Boris Karloff in **Scarface** , murdered while bowling. The ball is scored as a strike. The end of Rico in **Little Caesar** The death of Eddie Mars in **The Big Sleep**. And Harry Jones, for that matter – forced to drink poison. Deaths in the older Hollywood gangster films had _style_. **Psycho** is also a good choice, though it’s been done to death since then. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520/51 "2003-07-06T21:30:13Z")
I don’t know the character’s name, but his death in **Out of Sight** is priceless. the big muscle of the group runs up the stairs to help his friend, trips, and shoots himself in the mouth. Just so simple and unexpected and true to life, it’s gotta get on the list somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520/52 "2003-07-06T21:30:15Z")
You are correct, thanks for the correction. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520/53 "2003-07-06T21:32:50Z")
Oh yeah…and the death of Evil Ash in **Army of Darkness**. Love the way the skull cap pops open and the train sounds just as he gets launched off a catipult on a bag of lit gun powder. Good times! ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520/54 "2003-07-06T21:35:22Z")
You are correct, thanks for the correction. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520/55 "2003-07-06T21:38:01Z")
That double post was addressed to RealityChuck, although I suppose if I wanted to add a surreal flavor to this thread I could continue postin it after every single reply. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520/56 "2003-07-06T21:42:54Z")
Stephen Boyd, as Messala, in Ben-Hur. Him stretched out on that table, all cut up and bloody, but still hissing out hatred when he tells Judah(Charlton Heston), where his mother and sister can be found. Then that long last breath sighing out of him. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520/57 "2003-07-06T21:48:25Z")
**Baker** Something in your wording made me remember one that mustn’t be left out: Spacey’s charcacter in _L.A. Confidential_ Jack or Jake Vincennes. That death scene was perhaps the most chillingly underplayed such thing I have ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520/58 "2003-07-06T21:50:35Z")
I forgot the death of the bad assassin guy in **Deep Rising**. Goofy sidekick is running around trying not to get eaten, when he sees the bad guy staring at him. There’s a moment of panic until he sees bad guy is already halfway eaten by the monster and can’t speak. Goofy sidekick says something to the effect of “good riddance,” and starts to walk away, but feels guilty. He gives a gun to the assassin so he can shoot himself and get out of his misery. Assassin stares at it for a moment with a look that’s something like gratitude, then points it at goofy sidekick and starts firing. (It’s empty, of course). Assassin just keeps pointing the gun and clicking as the monster finishes eating him. Classic bad-guy death. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520/59 "2003-07-06T22:17:03Z")
Colm Meany in _Under Siege_ gets an I-beam dropped on him, lengthwise, standing up. Ew! ---
**Author:** ![bibliophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bibliophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophile)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520/60 "2003-07-06T22:36:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El Elvis Rojo \* > \*\*I don’t know the character’s name, but his death in **Out of Sight** is priceless. the big muscle of the group runs up the stairs to help his friend, trips, and shoots himself in the mouth. Just so simple and unexpected and true to life, it’s gotta get on the list somewhere. \*\* That was White Boy Bob. I’m usually pretty good at remembering character’s names, but today, at least with my own suggestions, I’m drawing a blank. Must be the heat. Anyway, there’s the guy in The Crow who falls from the roof and gets impaled on the metal point of the fence. You have to give it points just for the eeewww factor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-greatest-movie-deaths-add-your-favorite-spoilers/186520.md?page=4)