# Same Actor TWICE (or more) dies the SAME UNUSUAL Death? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 10, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-twice-or-more-dies-the-same-unusual-death/467261 "2008-10-10T00:37:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-twice-or-more-dies-the-same-unusual-death/467261/21 "2008-10-10T22:21:07Z")
I am not absolutely sure of this one but here goes, Robert Duvall dies as Jesse James shot in the back in _The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid_ and dies as Ned Pepper being shot in the back in _True Grit_. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-twice-or-more-dies-the-same-unusual-death/467261/22 "2008-10-10T22:25:46Z")
Not quite death, but… In _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_ (1971), when **Gene Wilder** (playing Willy Wonka) greets Mike Teevee, Mike is dressed in cowboy garb, draws on him and pretends to shoot him. In _Blazing Saddles_, he tells the story of how everyone wanted a duel with the Cisco Kid, until he was shot by a six-year-old kid. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-twice-or-more-dies-the-same-unusual-death/467261/23 "2008-10-10T22:47:28Z")
Richard Widmark was twice stabbed by a bunch of sharp knife-like weapons. In _Murder on the Orient Express_ he was the person murdered in the train car by almost everyone in the train car stabbing him. In _The Alamo_, he was Jim Bowie and a bunch of Mexican soldiers stabbed him with bayonets. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-twice-or-more-dies-the-same-unusual-death/467261/24 "2008-10-10T23:51:02Z")
Sorry about showing up again, but another one came to me on the way home. For most people, at least, being stabbed to death by a sword would be unusual. Not so for Basil Rathbone, however, He was skewered in _Captain Blood_ by Errol Flynn, in \*The Adventures of Robin Hood \*by Errol Flynn and in _Romeo and Juliet_ by Leslie Howard. He was also killed by Tyrone Power in _The Mark of Zorro_. I forgot about that one. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-twice-or-more-dies-the-same-unusual-death/467261/25 "2008-10-11T02:57:57Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > One itsy bitsy problem.Hannah doesn’t die in _Kill Bill_. 😛 She just loses an eye; Michael Madsen dies by snakebite.And there’s your problem! 😉 one of us needs to watch this movie again… ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-twice-or-more-dies-the-same-unusual-death/467261/26 "2008-10-11T19:49:23Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > For most people, at least, being stabbed to death by a sword would be unusual. True, but it is not an unusual _movie death_. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-twice-or-more-dies-the-same-unusual-death/467261/27 "2008-10-12T00:55:06Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > True, but it is not an unusual _movie death_. Come on, before \*Pirates of the Caribbean \*when was the last time you saw some one stabbed by a sword in a film? (Well, maybe that Russel Crowe Captain Aubrey thing, but that was more slash than stab) And to have someone on the receiving end of one four times — that’s unusual. And I didn’t even throw in him being stabbed and killed by the heroine of _Frenchman’s Creek_ (granted that was a dagger not a sword). I mean four times. I don’t think Jack Elam was on the deadly end of a gun fight that many times. OK, OK Rathbone was one of the only actors in Hollywood who could fence well enough to look like he could kill a hero so he did have to die that way a number of times. Still that in itself made it unusual. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-twice-or-more-dies-the-same-unusual-death/467261/28 "2008-10-12T07:13:10Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > Come on, before \*Pirates of the Caribbean \*when was the last time you saw some one stabbed by a sword in a film? _Gladiator_ and _Serenity_ come to mind, then there’s the various _Blade_ films. . . ---
**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:** [October 12, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-twice-or-more-dies-the-same-unusual-death/467261/29 "2008-10-12T17:49:46Z")
She doesn’t do the dying, but in 1984 Kate Capshaw was in two movies where the villain kills somebody by reaching into their chest with his bare hand, pulling out the guy’s heart\*, and showing it to him, yet the victim doesn’t actually die until a little later (even though having your heart torn out is generally instantly fatal). **Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom** and **Dreamscape** \*Which is pretty hard to do with your bare hand. Try it (on somebody you don’t like very much) ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-twice-or-more-dies-the-same-unusual-death/467261/30 "2008-10-13T13:52:55Z")
I have one: Henry Thomas Legends of the Fall Tangled up in a barbed wire fence and shot Gangs of New York Impaled on a metal fence and shot [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-twice-or-more-dies-the-same-unusual-death/467261.md?page=1)