# The Opposite Sean Bean - actors who never die in movies(open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 7, 2013, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629 "2013-10-07T22:21:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629/41 "2013-10-08T13:27:34Z")
Michael Caine? He had a fake death in one film that I remember, but I can’t remember him actually dying. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629/42 "2013-10-08T13:48:01Z")
> [@JacobSwan](#): > > Michael Caine? > He had a fake death in one film that I remember, but I can’t remember him actually dying. Dude. I just mentioned \*Get Carter \*a few posts back. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629/43 "2013-10-08T14:23:40Z")
Adam Sandler - not matter how much we may wish death upon his characters. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629/44 "2013-10-08T14:35:03Z")
> [@JacobSwan](#): > > Michael Caine? > He had a fake death in one film that I remember, but I can’t remember him actually dying. His fake death in SLEUTH is, in fact, followed by a real death. Things likewise end badly for him in DEATHTRAP. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629/45 "2013-10-08T14:49:40Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > And possibly Minority Report, though it would be death only via eternal suspension. > > Does he die in Collateral? Tom also died in Young Guns. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629/46 "2013-10-08T14:53:37Z")
> [@White SIFL](#): > > Tom also died in Young Guns. Also in Taps. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629/47 "2013-10-08T15:32:48Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > Adam Sandler - not matter how much we may wish death upon his characters. Technically speaking, he dies in _Click._ ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629/48 "2013-10-08T15:58:21Z")
As some have mentioned, as soon as you expand the pool of potential actors to be basically any tip-billing actor (including comedians) it starts to get to be a pretty large pool. I’m going to limit my offerings to action/horror/thriller stars for this thread… OK, I’d say that, without doing an exhaustive check, Jackie Chan probably has not died in very many movies. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629/49 "2013-10-08T16:21:24Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > His fake death in SLEUTH is, in fact, followed by a real death. Things likewise end badly for him in DEATHTRAP. He also died in **Blood and Wine**. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629/50 "2013-10-08T16:23:26Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > He also died in **Blood and Wine**. Heck, he won an Oscar for dying in **The Cider House Rules**. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629/51 "2013-10-08T17:20:42Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > This is a straw-man…er, straw-woman comparison. Sean Bean has died in so many movies he’s become a meme; he’s hardly a baseline case for contrasting male vs female cinemortality. Which is one reason I suggested using only 25% of his cinemortality (great word) as the basis for intergender comparisons. And even that drastic lowering of the bar hasn’t produced a truly comparable case of female cinemortality, AFAICT. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629/52 "2013-10-09T01:51:20Z")
Waitaminute…has Pierce Brosnan ever died onscreen? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629/53 "2013-10-09T04:01:15Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Waitaminute…has Pierce Brosnan ever died onscreen? Fourth Protocol. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629/54 "2013-10-09T11:59:56Z")
> [@White SIFL](#): > > Tom also died in Young Guns. Tom Cruise was in Young Guns??? ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629/55 "2013-10-09T13:50:51Z")
Another Tom Hanks death: Road to Perdition. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629/56 "2013-10-09T13:56:04Z")
> [@](#): > > Well, as it happens I’m watching an Austin Powers movie and he just died. No, wait, he’s fine. No, no, I was right, he’s d-- no, still alive. Suffering but still alive. Not long now. Now he’s definitively dead. Positively. > No, wait, I was wrong, he’s still-- now he’s dead. No, no he isn’t. Not yet. Well, that took care of it, now he’s dead for su-- oh, for god’s sake! What about Mike Myers (The non-Halloween one) ? ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629/57 "2013-10-09T14:00:26Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > Tom Cruise was in Young Guns??? [Yes, for about 1 second](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PhHSiOcZv-4/T7sfaxpDPuI/AAAAAAAAI4s/GM0KlvQX7SE/s1600/pdc_tomcruiseyoungguns.png). He gets shot by Charlie at the end of movie when they’re all running out of the burning house. ---
**Author:** ![Gretel\_burps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Gretel\_burps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gretel_burps)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629/58 "2013-10-09T14:13:49Z")
how 'bout Bradley Cooper? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629/59 "2013-10-09T14:16:25Z")
> [@Labtrash](#): > > What about Mike Myers (The non-Halloween one) ? We get voiceover from the narrator as **54** ends while viewing Mike Myers: _“You see, Steve Rubell had a dream – but like with all dreams, you wake up to reality … in reality, the party was over.”_ The lights then dim entirely on Mike, and we’re helpfully informed that _“Steve Rubell died in 1989. He was 45 years old.”_ ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629/60 "2013-10-09T14:29:10Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > I way doubt it. According to [GeekSpeak](http://www.geekspeakmagazine.com/archive/issue16/features/the_many_deaths_of_sean_bean_1.htm), Sean Bean has died in at least 25 movies as of 2011. That would mean Rodriguez would have to have died in at least 6 movies to make the cut. > > I’m not at all familiar with [Rodriguez’ filmography](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0735442/) except for _Avatar_, but I’ve seen nothing to indicate that she’s got six big-screen last moments to her credit. Well, she died twice in two different Resident Evils (for a total of 4 deaths), but they recently brought her back to life in the Fast & Furious series, so I don’t know if that invalidates the earlier death. And she died in Bloodrayne, Avatar, and the series Lost. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-opposite-sean-bean-actors-who-never-die-in-movies-open-spoilers/670629.md?page=4)