Until The Day the Clown Cried gets an official release, I’m going with Jerry Lewis.
I think he dies at the end of F.I.S.T. but maybe it’s uncertain? That’s the only one I could think of off the top of my head but he’s made a ton of movies I’ll never watch.
I still think we’ll see it, though was it even fully filmed?
Entirely possible. I’ve not seen it, and I was just quoting what Google AI told me. Your memory is equally plausible.
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Okay, looking at the video posted by Elmer, you are right and Google is wrong.
And also replying to many others…
If there’s one thing I’ve learnt on this thread, it’s that I need to watch more Sean Connery films haha! I had no idea how often he died (I knew about the Bond one but it slipped my mind because it is so unusual).
Kevin Bacon, obviously (because he’s famously/infamously been in a lot of films). He’s died… maybe a couple times that I can remember (The River Wild and X-Men First Class).
I think he’s also roughly equivalent to Sean Bean in terms of celebrity (solid B-lister, occasional lead, and with plenty of roles alongside or opposite A-listers). By contrast, the Toms are mega-stars.
He was in Friday the 13th and got an arrow head through the throat. He’s also in Flatliners, where they all die and come back to life.
I’m not sure he survived Animal House either, he appears to have died in the panic, flattened like a cartoon character.
Putting my increasingly unreliable memory to the test here, doesn’t Keanu join the suicide party in 47 Ronin?
Ok, so for anti-Sean-Bean situation … I don’t remember ever thinking much about this whole thing until Game of Thrones, where (if you hadn’t read the book, at least) it really seemed like “Here’s a big-name(ish) recognizable actor who’s leading this show” and then whomp they kill him right off at the beginning. Then folks started noticing that yeah, he kinda always dies!
So would a real anti-Sean-Bean then need to have a film or show where they’re “supposed” to be killed right away but then end up unexpectedly being the lead? And then you think, ‘oh yeah, they never die…” As has been said earlier that scenario’s probably fairly common considering that looking like a character’s going to die is just part of the language of drama/conflict, but it squarely (IMO) eliminates characters like John Wick or James Bond, etc.
How about Cary Grant? His character dies (before the film begins, I think) in Topper, because he’s one of the ghosts. But I can’t think of another in which he dies. Not even in Gunga Din, apparently.
Kevin Bacon is killed in Sleepers, by two of his childhood victims who are now grown up and looking for revenge.
That was a great movie.
James Mason dies in a few movies, but lives in most of his significant ones
He dies off-screen in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Desert Fox.
According to the internet he dies in Salem’s Lot; Frankenstein – The True Story, Odd Man Out, The Fall of the Roman Empire, and Cold Sweat. He also dies in A Star is Born
But he lives in A Journey to the CEnter of the Earth, North by Northwest, The Last of Sheila, Lolita, Murder by Decree, and The Verdict, aming a great many others.