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Movie Stars Who Die the Most. Not an article for people who hate spoilers, because it lists the movies in which characters die.

Also, the list includes only male actors currently working. No actresses at all, which is a real pity. And no Bogart, Cagney, Peter Lorre….

Nor does it include Sean Bean, who apparently has a clause in all his contracts that would force the studios to quadruple his pay should be survive to the end credits.

Or Samuel L. Jackson, who is both a great actor and a star, and who dies a lot.

So maybe it includes only male actors currently working who have a movie coming out soon enough that they’re on the list to be mentioned in Premiere. A title too long to fit the marquee.

Also, I myself would have included the great bit of trivia that John Wayne died in only one of his films — the last.

So what actresses have died the most often on film? What are the greatest death scenes in film history? What movies have more than one great death scene?

For the last category, I’d say that Repo Man has at least three great (and hilarious) death scenes:

  1. “People just explode.”
  2. “I blame society.”
  3. “I showed them — I had a lobotomy.”

The greatest thing
in the world
is the Alphabet
as all knowledge
is contained therein
except the wisdom
of putting it together.
—from an old German bookplate