Steven Seagal never dies…except in Executive Decision.
And, after forever out of the movie theaters…he dies in Machete, where he is the villain.
After he gets slashed open…“This? This ain’t shit.”
Looking through his IMDB listing, I think he died at the end of The Mosquito Coast, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.
He perpetrated a Get Carter remake, didn’t he? I refuse to watch that in principle, but anybody who wants to suffer through the existential horror that was the whole concept of remaking the Mike Hodges masterpiece with Stallone, could tell us if they kept the original ending.
Yes he died in that one. The original schlocky (but much better) version. It was before he was famous and it was a pretty small role.
A more movie-savvy poster will have to check this up for me, but ISTM that Robert Downey Jr. must have at least the highest, if not an infinite, ratio of onscreen very-very-NEAR deaths to onscreen ACTUAL deaths. Why, in the roles of Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes alone he’s made it into the “so close to dead that everyone seriously thought he actually was dead” category multiple times.
Dunno, but either way, I think female stars’ onscreen death records and death avoidance records have to be scored separately from male ones’. Female stars just don’t get the same opportunities to die onscreen that male ones do.
Frinstance, if you can point me to an actress approximately as well known as Sean Bean who has even a QUARTER of the dying roles that he’s had, I will—well, I’ll admit I was wrong, that’s what I’ll do. But I don’t think it’ll happen.
They did not.
Michelle Rodriguez?
Does he die in Cellular? He’s the villain.
And apparently Jason Statham died in Ghosts of Mars.
I way doubt it. According to GeekSpeak, 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 except for Avatar, but I’ve seen nothing to indicate that she’s got six big-screen last moments to her credit.
Meryl Streep has died 11 times.
Yes. Yes he does.
Cinemorgue doesn’t seem to have any listings for Billy Crystal.
(Not that he’s exactly a big action star, or anything.)
Will Farrell?
Mmm, not to nitpick for loopholes, but I’d seriously question the notion of Streep being “approximately as well known as Sean Bean”: she has, in fact, been a significantly bigger star for significantly longer.
Streep is not only ten years older than Bean is, but has been a major actress in major films since The Deer Hunter in 1978. ISTM that Bean didn’t reach anything remotely comparable to Streepian levels of recognition till the 1990’s.
And even so, even counting “deaths” like those in Bridges of Madison County and Julie and Julia where Streep’s character was alive for the entire story arc of the movie set in the historical past and is revealed to have died of natural causes only in the context of a narrative framing device set much later—which I’d say is stretching the concept of “character dying in a movie” nearly to breaking point!—counting all that, Streep still has fewer than half as many onscreen deaths on her resume as Bean does.
Nope. I still maintain that there is no level playing field when it comes to actors of different genders kicking the bucket in movies.
Bob Hope
Jerry Lewis
Charlie Chaplin
Not 100% sure but comedians dying onscreen, even in serious roles, is rare.
Follow-up after discovering Cinemorgue: Six big-screen if you count a couple of videogame tie-in flicks, which I think is pushing it too far.
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.
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!
I have two, count’em, two Billy Crystal deaths in one single short film:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/0247468f28/when-harry-met-sally-2-with-billy-crystal-helen-mirren
Booo-yah! Still no anti-Bean!
Bud Abbott, maybe? (Lou Costello died in The Time of Their Lives, and was a ghost for most of the movie).