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.
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.
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.
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.
one of us needs to watch this movie again…
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.
Gladiator and Serenity come to mind, then there’s the various Blade films. . .
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)
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