# Celebrities killed on TV or movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 26, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-killed-on-tv-or-movies/794753 "2017-08-26T19:07:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Gretchion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8edcca/32.png) [@Gretchion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gretchion)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-killed-on-tv-or-movies/794753/41 "2018-06-14T16:50:31Z")
Neil Patrick Harris in the second Harold and Kumar movie. Well, at least until he cockblocked Jesus and got kicked out of heaven. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-killed-on-tv-or-movies/794753/42 "2018-06-19T16:14:36Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Bill Murray in Zombieland. Two years too soon. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-killed-on-tv-or-movies/794753/43 "2018-06-19T16:50:50Z")
Do you count John Malkovich’s body being repeatedly occupied by other characters in _Being John Malkovich_? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-killed-on-tv-or-movies/794753/44 "2018-06-19T21:38:06Z")
Since there have been several zombie references already, I’d like to mention [George RR Martin’s cameo](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/watch-george-r-r-martins-zombie-cameo-in-z-nation-20151028) in the post-apocalyptic series _Z Nation_, in which the zombified corpse of Martin blithely autographs any book put in front of him. His human captor is stockpiling signed Martin novels for “when eBay comes back”. > [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > William Shatner was on some TV show where he clutched his chest and said “Oh sweet merciful death.” I don’t think it was Police Squad, but it’s been a really long time and those are the only details I remember. Well, if it was animated, there was a Shatner parody (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) on an early episode of _Family Guy_, who dies after being run over by Meg. His last words, as I recall, were “Beam me up… God.” Shatner himself played the bad guy (“General Mortars”) in the parody film _Loaded Weapon 1_. I recall him dying after being shot in the chest but if he had any last words, they escape me. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2018, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-killed-on-tv-or-movies/794753/45 "2018-06-20T12:06:57Z")
Paul Simon once on Saturday Night Live, '85-'86 season. He gets on an elevator and “Sound of Silence” is the elevator music–forever, because he’s in Hell! Another SNL skit 10-15 years later featuring Hanson, also involving an elevator playing their big hit, but only two of the three Hansons actually die. Will Ferrell as a terrorist is somehow involved. Snoop Dogg in an Orbit Gum commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-killed-on-tv-or-movies/794753/46 "2018-06-20T13:06:13Z")
Kingsman: The Secret Service has an interesting near miss. Early in the movie, Mark Hamill plays a scientist who gets killed. Doesn’t fit, obviously, but… In the comic, the character playing that role is…Mark Hamill. The actor. Who would play the character who replaced him in the story. ---
**Author:** ![Goodnight-Loving](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9fc29f/32.png) [@Goodnight-Loving](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goodnight-Loving)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-killed-on-tv-or-movies/794753/47 "2018-06-20T13:23:50Z")
Borderline maybe: Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Terry Gilliam (the Animator) suffers a fatal heart attack. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-killed-on-tv-or-movies/794753/48 "2018-06-20T22:49:33Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > Another SNL skit 10-15 years later featuring Hanson, also involving an elevator playing their big hit, but only two of the three Hansons actually die. Will Ferrell as a terrorist is somehow involved. From 1997: [Helen Hunt was the host](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/97/97ihanson.phtml) and she and Ferrell played a couple out for revenge on the Hansons for _MMMbop!_ Isaac and Zac Hanson are soon rendered catatonic but Taylor (“the middle one”) is unaffected. The Hansons eventually escape the elevator and Hunt executes Ferrell, who has succumbed to the tune’s catchy rhythm. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-killed-on-tv-or-movies/794753/49 "2018-06-21T12:11:52Z")
Pepper Mill and I saw **Deadpool 2** last night. In one utterly hilarious bit in the mid-credits scene at the end (that was apparently a late addition)\* they show Deadpool blowing out Ryan Reynolds’ brains as he reads a copy of the script for **Green Lantern**. \*[Deadpool 2 (2018) - Trivia - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5463162/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv) ---
**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:** [June 21, 2018, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-killed-on-tv-or-movies/794753/50 "2018-06-21T13:10:54Z")
The obscure boyband group Varsity Fanclub appeared in an episode of _The Middleman_ as that week’s villain. The five members of the band were revealed to be alien dictators pretending to be human. They were destroyed at the end. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-killed-on-tv-or-movies/794753/51 "2018-06-26T19:05:24Z")
Jean Claude Van Damme, played by Jean Claude Van Damme, was killed off in an episode of Las Vegas. They had some wacky deaths on that show (like Lara Flynn Boyle’s recurring character being blown off the roof of the casino because she’s so thin), but usually it wasn’t someone playing themselves, just normal characters. But not here, in this universe JCVD wound up dead. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-killed-on-tv-or-movies/794753.md?page=2)