Mr. Lorre’s screen deaths include (but are not necessarily limited to):
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) Island of Doomed Men (1940) The Face Behind the Mask (1941) The Cross of Lorraine (1943) Confidential Agent (1945) The Chase (1946) Der Verlorene (1951)
I was gonna say Gene Kelly, but he dies in Les Girls (1957) and (I think) in What a Way to Go (1964), among possible others. Pretty sure Fred Astaire died once or twice late in his career as well. Deanna Durbin or Sonja Henie are probably good bets for this, though both may fall short of “has a lot of film appearances” criteria.
The Fourth Protocol had him second-billed to Michael Caine, with Brosnan as the secret agent who, uh, pretty much succeeds at every covert-ops task he’s been assigned, almost like he’s James Bond or something; the problem is, he wasn’t told that it’s a suicide mission…
Surprised nobody has answered this correctly yet. The actor who has appeared opposite Sean Bean for a lot of appearances and never died is Daragh O’Malley.
Ok, but hear me out… contrast that with the entire Sharpe’s series.
The man (Bean) literally survives the Napoleonic Wars, from the Peninsular Campaign to freaking Waterloo (and apparently also post-war service in India!). So clearly some substantial exceptions to the death/survival rule are permitted?
Late 80s drinking game involved trying to keep up with Arnold’s kill count in Commando, Raw Deal, Conan and the like. From a sheer kills vs times killed, he’s gotta be up there. Especially if his T800 deaths only count as one. And he’ll be back!
Oh, he got a terrific briefing on how to go undercover in a specific city, and how to surreptitiously meet with — or walk away from, and later meet with the replacement for — each smuggler who can only get caught with one can’t-prove-anything component of an atomic-bomb mechanism to be assembled in your apartment; when you get the order, press the two-hour countdown-timer button right here. Two hours should be enough for you to easily get, what fifty miles away? I mean, if you’re near a highway, you could probably make it a hundred miles away; just don’t drive fast enough to get pulled over, is all.
The idea, of course, is: it’s not a “two-hour timer” button; it’s The Button.
The movie differs significantly from the book in that it condenses and combines characters, much more than is normally done. Forsyth’s saga involves a great many people, each playing short roles during the course of the story, so that the action and viewpoint changes from character to character to character. Moviemakers don’t generally like that – they like it if you establish few main characters and stick with them. So Michael Caine’s role in the film, for instance, actually combines several individuals in the book.
