Sean Bean is pretty famous for dying in a ton of movies, including many very interesting deaths, like his satellite death in James Bond and his Boromir death in Lord of the Rings.
What actor has a lot of appearances, but either never or hardly ever dies?
I was thinking of Tom Cruise, who dies in Collateral. I’m not sure what else he has died in, but he has a lot of credits. No surprise, Collateral is also one of the few films he is the bad guy in, though he is a villain in Tropic Thunder and lives through that.
Bill Murray rarely dies in movies, does he? He died in Zombieland, though. Anything else?
Yup, and those were prominent deaths. But just as Sean Bean’s characters don’t always die, Hanks’ characters usually, but don’t always, live. As you noted in your OP, “either never or hardly ever dies?”
I would disqualify him. Despite 900 appearances, he is not really in many of those films for more than a second. Sometimes, it’s just off-screen audio prerecorded.
Jackie Chan is a good one. He might be the winner for real, proper roles and almost no deaths.
Harrison Ford died in What Lies Beneath. Oh, and The Force Awakens.
I think we need a stricter standard for the anti-Bean than for the Bean, because most characters, in most movies, don’t die. Especially if you have an actor who specializes in a nonviolent genre like romcoms, or the like.
As you noted in your OP, “either never or hardly ever dies?”