100: Anonymous Swordsman in Indiana Jones (gunshot wound)
99: Terminator and T1000 in Terminator II (vat of molten metal)
98: Irene Walker in Prizzi’s Honor (knife)
97: Lady Jane Grey in Lady Jane (execution)
96: Sonny Corleone in The Godfather
95: Karl Malden in Nevada Smith (gunshot wounds to knees and elbows)
94: Gene Simmons in Wanted Dead or Alive (grenade in mouth)
93: Billy Zane in Dead Calm (disintegrated by flare)
92: Maximus and Commodus in Gladiator (fight to their mutual deaths)
91: Anonymous guard in Silence of the Lambs (hanging)
90: Italian detective in Hannibal (hanged and disembowled)
89: Boromir in The Fellowship of the Ring (injured in fight with orcs)
88: Little Bill in Unforgiven (gunshot wound to the head)
87: Tyler Durden in Fight Club
86: Marvin in Pulp Fiction
85: Christian Slater in Heathers
84: Lawyer dude from Jurassic Park (eaten by T-Rex)
83: Kane in Citizen Kane
82: Spock in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (radiation poisoning)
81: Fredo Corleone in The Godfather II
80: John Coffey in The Green Mile (execution)
79: Danny Vinyard and anonymous gang member in American History X (gunshot wound and skull crushed, respectively)
78: Clayton in Disney’s Tarzan (hanging)
77: RAM in Tron
76: Queen in Akira Kurosawa’s Ran
75: Michael Ironside in in Scanners
74: John Hurt in Alien
73: Nicky Santoro in Cansino (beaten and left to die in a grave)
72: Neil McCauley in Heat
71: John Wayne in The Cowboys
70: John Wayne in The Shootist
69: Donnie in Donnie Darko (crushed by plane engine)
68: Sal Mineo in Rebel Without A Cause
67: Bambi’s Mother in Bambi (gunshot wound)
66: Old Yeller in Old Yeller (gunshot wound)
65: Sean Connery in The Untouchables
64: Mr. Blond in Resevoir Dogs (gunshot wound)
63: Betty/Diane in Mulholland Drive (self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head)
62: Bruno in Strangers on a Train (crushed by out-of-control merry-go-round)
61: Sergeant Howie in The Wicker Man
60: Al Pacino in Scarface (multiple gunshot wounds)
59: Optimus Prime in Transformers the Movie
58: Girl in opening scene and Shaw in Jaws (eaten by shark)
57: Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (stab wound)
56: Hans Gruber in Die Hard (fall from great height)
55: Bardolph in Henry V (execution)
54: Kenny in South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
53: Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner
52: The medic, Melosh, and Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan (belly wound, knife to the heart, gunshot wound respectively)
51: Major Kong, the B-52 pilot in Dr. Strangelove
50: Stansfield in The Professional (blown to itty-bitty bits)
49: Todd in Final Destination (accidental strangulation in the shower)
48: Paul Rubens in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
47: Bambi in Bambi meets Godzilla
46: Kurtz, The Chief, Clean in Apocalypse Now
45: Butch and Sundance in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (multiple shotgun wounds)
44: Victor Franco in The Dirty Dozen
43: Tom Hulce in Amadeus
42: John Gielgud in Arthur
41: Janet Leigh as Marion Crane in Psycho (stabbed to death)
40: Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: A New Hope (killed by Darth Vader)
39: Bette Davis in Dark Victory (brain tumor)
38: Joan Crawford in Humoresque (ocean suicide)
37: Constance Talmadge in Intolerance
36: Anita Page in Our Dancing Daughters (fall down staircase)
35: Entire cast of Broken Blossoms
34: Greta Garbo in The Flesh and the Devil (drowning)
33: The Terminator in Terminator (ultimately done in by hydraulic press)
32: The General in Fist of Legend (throat slit with own sword)
31: Cody Jarret in White Heat (shot by police and blown up by exploding chemicals)
30: Tommy De Vito in Goodfellas (gunshot wound to back of the head)
29: Seita and Setsuko in Grave of the Fireflies (starvation)
28: The one armed man clearing snow, an anonymous woman tying her shoes, and the little girl in the red coat in Schindlers List (Holocaust)
27: Raymond Lemoore in The Vanishing
26: Mickey Goldmill in Rocky III (heart attack)
25: Steve Buscemi in Fargo (encounters wood chipper)
24: The Kurgan in Highlander
23: James Cagney in The Public Enemy
22: James Cagney in The Roaring Twenties
21: Boris Karloff in Scarface (murdered while bowling)
20: Rico in Little Caesar
19: Harry Jones and Eddie Mars in The Big Sleep
18: White Boy Bob in Out of Sight (accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head)
17: Evil Ash in Army of Darkness
16: Messala in Ben-Hur
15: Vincennes in L.A. Confidential
14: Colm Meany in Under Siege (I-beam falls on him lengthwise)
13: Data and Shinzon in Star Trek: Nemesis
12: Gus Macrae in Lonesome Dove
11: Alice and Uncas in Last of the Mohicans (suicidal leap from cliff and killed in battle, respectively)
10: Lester Burnham in American Beauty (gunshot wound to the head)
9: Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction (gunshot wound to the gut)
8: Jack Forrester in Jagged Edge (shot to death)
7: The Marshall in The Quick and the Dead (shot by his daughter)
6: Warren Beatty and Faye Dunnaway in Bonnie and Clyde (multiple gunshot wounds)
5: Howard Beale in Network (multiple gunshot wounds)
4: HAL in 2001 (“Daisy, Daisy…”)
3: Thelma and Louise in Thelma and Louise (suicidal drive over a cliff)
2: Darth Vader in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (dies in his son’s arms)
Realized I had a duplicate entry for American History X, so went back and revised. So #1 is still available. Gandalf doesn’t count because he never really died (ghosts and such count, so Darth and Obi-Wan’s appearances are all right, but if it only looks like the character dies than it doesn’t count).
