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What actor holds the record for most celluloid deaths?
I'm looking for the one actor that has died in more films than anyone else.
(stage work doesn't count since you can die up to 10 times a week in Hamlet)
(stage work doesn't count since you can die up to 10 times a week in Hamlet)
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It seems the Japanese actor Seizo Fukumoto specialises in dying, and has died more than 20,000 times on film and TV, mostly in the Samurai genre.
There's no count of how many times he's actually died, but apparently he's done nearly a 100 movies and died in most if not all of them! Sometimes he plays several small parts, and dies more than once in the same movie.
He appeared in The Last Samurai, starring Tom Cruise.
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There's no count of how many times he's actually died, but apparently he's done nearly a 100 movies and died in most if not all of them! Sometimes he plays several small parts, and dies more than once in the same movie.
He appeared in The Last Samurai, starring Tom Cruise.
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Among Hollywood A-list, king of celluloid deaths is
Robert DeNiro (14 Deaths)
Movies: Bloody Mama, Bang the Drum Slowly, Mean Streets, Brazil, The Mission, Cape Fear, This Boy’s Life, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Heat, The Fan, Jackie Brown, Great Expectations, 15 Minutes, Hide and Seek
Robert DeNiro (14 Deaths)
Movies: Bloody Mama, Bang the Drum Slowly, Mean Streets, Brazil, The Mission, Cape Fear, This Boy’s Life, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Heat, The Fan, Jackie Brown, Great Expectations, 15 Minutes, Hide and Seek
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Sean Bean has died at least 21 times onscreen. Caravaggio (1986), War Requiem (1989), The Field (1990), Lorna Doone (1990), Clarissa (1991), Patriot Games (1992), Scarlett (1994), Goldeneye (1995), Airborne (1998), Essex Boys (2000), Don’t Say a Word (2001), Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Equilibrium (2002), Henry VIII (2003), The Island (2005), Outlaw (2007), The Hitcher (2007), Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009), Ca$h (2010), Black Death (2010), and A Game of Thrones (2011).
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Well, I had to simply cut-paste from this site, because it's so good... Enjoy!
Movie Stars Who Die the Most:
1. Will Smith (2 Deaths)
http://www.premiere.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/will-smith/596822-1-eng-US/Will-Smith.jpg
Death Toll: Seven Pounds, I Am Legend
Close, But No Flatline: Smith “died” temporarily in Hancock, but was revived – therefore, it doesn’t count.
2. Harrison Ford (2 Deaths)
http://www.premiere.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/ford/596827-1-eng-US/ford.jpg
Death Toll: The Mosquito Coast, What Lies Beneath
Cheater: Ford was made immortal (albeit briefly) in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
3. Mel Gibson (3 Deaths)
http://www.premiere.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/braveheart/596832-1-eng-US/Braveheart.jpg
Death Toll: Mrs. Soffel, Hamlet, Braveheart
Glutton for Punishment: Although he only notched three deaths, Mel’s torture numbers are bigger: Lethal Weapon, Conspiracy Theory,Braveheart, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Payback.
4. Tom Cruise (4 Deaths)
http://www.premiere.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/tom-cruise/596837-1-eng-US/Tom-Cruise.jpg
Death Toll: Taps, Vanilla Sky, Collateral, Valkyrie
Death Before Dishonor: Cruise’s most violent offing was definitely Taps. At the end of the movie where he played the military academy hothead, he lost it, opened fire with an M-60, and got thoroughly perforated by National Guard artillery.
5. Robert Downey Jr. (5 Deaths)
http://www.premiere.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/roberjr/596842-1-eng-US/roberjr.jpg
Death Toll: Less Than Zero, Natural Born Killers, Richard III, The Gingerbread Man, U.S. Marshalls
Doppelkiller: Downey was killed – by himself – in The Singing Detective, but it’s a hallucination sequence.
6. George Clooney (5 Deaths)
http://www.premiere.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/gc/596887-1-eng-US/GC.jpg
Death Toll: Return to Horror High, Red Surf, The Perfect Storm, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Syriana
In the Can: Although Clooney notched a couple of early movie deaths, his character actually survived in Return of the Killer Tomatoes.
7. Denzel Washington (7 Deaths)
http://www.premiere.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/denzel/596932-1-eng-US/denzel.jpg
Death Toll: Cry Freedom, Glory, Heart Condition, Malcolm X, Fallen, The Preacher's Wife, Training Day, Man on Fire
Count It: Denzel gets half an entry for both Heart Condition (played a ghost) and The Preacher’s Wife (played an Angel).
8. Christian Bale (8 Deaths)
http://www.premiere.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/bale/596927-1-eng-US/Bale.jpg
Death Toll: Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna, Henry V, The Secret Agent, Mary Mother of Jesus, Shaft, Harsh Times, The Prestige, 3:10 to Yuma
Dual: Bale got to have it both ways in The Prestige. Those who saw it know what we're talking about.
9. Dustin Hoffman (9 Deaths)
http://www.premiere.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/hoffman/596922-1-eng-US/hoffman.jpg
Death Toll: Midnight Cowboy, Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?, Lenny, Death of a Salesman, Billy Bathgate, Hook, Wag the Dog, Perfume, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
Most Creative Death: In Hook, Hoffman was eaten to death by a reanimated crocodile.
10. Jack Nicholson (9 Deaths)
http://www.premiere.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/nicholson/596917-1-eng-US/nicholson.jpg
Death Toll: Easy Rider, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Passenger, The Shining, Batman, Hoffa, Mars Attacks!, The Departed, The Bucket List
R.I.P.: Nicholson’s deaths all tend to be horribly violent – shot to death, dropped from high places, beaten to death – with the exception of The Bucket List, where his character was beaten to death with a bucket.
11. Al Pacino (9 Deaths)
http://www.premiere.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/pacino/596912-1-eng-US/pacino.jpg
Death Toll: Scarface, Dick Tracy, The Godfather: Part III, Carlito’s Way, Donnie Brasco, Insomnia, People I Know, The Recruit, Righteous Kill
Funny How: Al has twice been killed by comedians (John Leguizamo in Carlito’s Way and Robin Williams in Insomnia).
12. Brad Pitt (9 Deaths)
http://www.premiere.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/pitt/596907-1-eng-US/Pitt.jpg
Death Toll: A River Runs Through It, Kalifornia, Legends of the Fall, The Devil’s Own, Meet Joe Black, Troy, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Burn After Reading, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Nice Try: Brad “died” in two additional movies - Cool World and Fight Club. But in one he’s instantly revived as a cartoon and in the other he never actually existed.
13. Johnny Depp (9 1/2 Deaths)
http://www.premiere.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/depp/596902-1-eng-US/depp.jpg
Death Toll: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Platoon, Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, Ed Wood, Dead Man, The Astronaut’s Wife, From Hell, The Libertine, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (This one gets a half because he comes back to life in the third movie.)
Red Sea: Johnny holds the honor of bloodiest death on this list – in his debut movie, he played an Elm Street teen who was sucked into his bed by Freddy Krueger and turned into a giant plasma fountain.
14. Bruce Willis (11 Deaths)
http://www.premiere.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/willis/596897-1-eng-US/Willis.jpg
Death Toll: Billy Bathgate, Mortal Thoughts, Death Becomes Her, Twelve Monkeys, The Jackal, Armageddon, The Sixth Sense, Hart’s War, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, Sin City, Grindhouse: Planet Terror
Till Death…: Bruce was killed twice by his ex-wife, Demi Moore (Mortal Thoughts and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle)
15. Robert DeNiro (14 Deaths)
http://www.premiere.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/deniro/596892-1-eng-US/DeNiro.jpg
Death Toll: Bloody Mama, Bang the Drum Slowly, Mean Streets, Brazil, The Mission, Cape Fear, This Boy’s Life, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Heat, The Fan, Jackie Brown, Great Expectations, 15 Minutes, Hide and Seek
You, You’re Good: DeNiro was killed by Pacino in Heat, and Pacino was killed by DeNiro in Righteous Kill.
Do visit the site and read the comments section... there's many more, such as Di Caprio - he died three times in Titanic, The Departed, and Blood Diamond. And there's the likes of Christopher Lee with 10 consecutive deaths only as Dracula; plus deaths in sagas such as James Bond, Star Wars, Frankenstein, Fu Manchu, several non-continued horror stories (The Terror of the Tongs, The Skull, Dr. Terror, etc)...
Also, Donald Pleasence died at least 18 times:
1. Circus of Horrors (1960) 2. The Great Escape (1963) 3. Fantastic Voyage (1966) 4. Will Penny (1968) 5. Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1973) 6. I Don't Want to Be Born (1975) 7. Deep Cover (1980) 8. The Pumaman (1980) 9. Alone in the Dark (1982) 10. Warrior of the Lost World (1983) 11. Phenomena (1985) 12. Treasure of the Amazon (1985) 13. Specters (1987) 14. River of Death (1989) 15. American Rickshaw (1989) 16. Ten Little Indians (1989) 17. Shadows and Fog (1992) 18. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
Whew! That's a lot of deaths... even if they're only n-screen. But the record-holder is probably Seizo Fukumoto. Sample the following:
"Seizo Fukumoto has died 20,000 agonizing deaths. He’s been gored by samurai and gunned down by gangsters. His bloodied body has slammed into trees, tumbled down stairs and crashed through sliding paper-and-wood doors.
As Japan’s top “kirareyaku,” which translates into “sliced-up actor,” Fukumoto dies for a living. When Japanese directors need somebody to kill, he’s the man they call.
“My job is to make the good guy shine,” Fukumoto said in an interview. “The more spectacular my on-screen death, the better he looks.”
http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/040329/040329_seuziFukumoto_hmed_5p.hmedium.jpg
Movie Stars Who Die the Most:
1. Will Smith (2 Deaths)
Death Toll: Seven Pounds, I Am Legend
Close, But No Flatline: Smith “died” temporarily in Hancock, but was revived – therefore, it doesn’t count.
2. Harrison Ford (2 Deaths)
Death Toll: The Mosquito Coast, What Lies Beneath
Cheater: Ford was made immortal (albeit briefly) in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
3. Mel Gibson (3 Deaths)
Death Toll: Mrs. Soffel, Hamlet, Braveheart
Glutton for Punishment: Although he only notched three deaths, Mel’s torture numbers are bigger: Lethal Weapon, Conspiracy Theory,Braveheart, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Payback.
4. Tom Cruise (4 Deaths)
Death Toll: Taps, Vanilla Sky, Collateral, Valkyrie
Death Before Dishonor: Cruise’s most violent offing was definitely Taps. At the end of the movie where he played the military academy hothead, he lost it, opened fire with an M-60, and got thoroughly perforated by National Guard artillery.
5. Robert Downey Jr. (5 Deaths)
Death Toll: Less Than Zero, Natural Born Killers, Richard III, The Gingerbread Man, U.S. Marshalls
Doppelkiller: Downey was killed – by himself – in The Singing Detective, but it’s a hallucination sequence.
6. George Clooney (5 Deaths)
Death Toll: Return to Horror High, Red Surf, The Perfect Storm, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Syriana
In the Can: Although Clooney notched a couple of early movie deaths, his character actually survived in Return of the Killer Tomatoes.
7. Denzel Washington (7 Deaths)
Death Toll: Cry Freedom, Glory, Heart Condition, Malcolm X, Fallen, The Preacher's Wife, Training Day, Man on Fire
Count It: Denzel gets half an entry for both Heart Condition (played a ghost) and The Preacher’s Wife (played an Angel).
8. Christian Bale (8 Deaths)
Death Toll: Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna, Henry V, The Secret Agent, Mary Mother of Jesus, Shaft, Harsh Times, The Prestige, 3:10 to Yuma
Dual: Bale got to have it both ways in The Prestige. Those who saw it know what we're talking about.
9. Dustin Hoffman (9 Deaths)
Death Toll: Midnight Cowboy, Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?, Lenny, Death of a Salesman, Billy Bathgate, Hook, Wag the Dog, Perfume, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
Most Creative Death: In Hook, Hoffman was eaten to death by a reanimated crocodile.
10. Jack Nicholson (9 Deaths)
Death Toll: Easy Rider, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Passenger, The Shining, Batman, Hoffa, Mars Attacks!, The Departed, The Bucket List
R.I.P.: Nicholson’s deaths all tend to be horribly violent – shot to death, dropped from high places, beaten to death – with the exception of The Bucket List, where his character was beaten to death with a bucket.
11. Al Pacino (9 Deaths)
Death Toll: Scarface, Dick Tracy, The Godfather: Part III, Carlito’s Way, Donnie Brasco, Insomnia, People I Know, The Recruit, Righteous Kill
Funny How: Al has twice been killed by comedians (John Leguizamo in Carlito’s Way and Robin Williams in Insomnia).
12. Brad Pitt (9 Deaths)
Death Toll: A River Runs Through It, Kalifornia, Legends of the Fall, The Devil’s Own, Meet Joe Black, Troy, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Burn After Reading, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Nice Try: Brad “died” in two additional movies - Cool World and Fight Club. But in one he’s instantly revived as a cartoon and in the other he never actually existed.
13. Johnny Depp (9 1/2 Deaths)
Death Toll: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Platoon, Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, Ed Wood, Dead Man, The Astronaut’s Wife, From Hell, The Libertine, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (This one gets a half because he comes back to life in the third movie.)
Red Sea: Johnny holds the honor of bloodiest death on this list – in his debut movie, he played an Elm Street teen who was sucked into his bed by Freddy Krueger and turned into a giant plasma fountain.
14. Bruce Willis (11 Deaths)
Death Toll: Billy Bathgate, Mortal Thoughts, Death Becomes Her, Twelve Monkeys, The Jackal, Armageddon, The Sixth Sense, Hart’s War, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, Sin City, Grindhouse: Planet Terror
Till Death…: Bruce was killed twice by his ex-wife, Demi Moore (Mortal Thoughts and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle)
15. Robert DeNiro (14 Deaths)
Death Toll: Bloody Mama, Bang the Drum Slowly, Mean Streets, Brazil, The Mission, Cape Fear, This Boy’s Life, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Heat, The Fan, Jackie Brown, Great Expectations, 15 Minutes, Hide and Seek
You, You’re Good: DeNiro was killed by Pacino in Heat, and Pacino was killed by DeNiro in Righteous Kill.
Do visit the site and read the comments section... there's many more, such as Di Caprio - he died three times in Titanic, The Departed, and Blood Diamond. And there's the likes of Christopher Lee with 10 consecutive deaths only as Dracula; plus deaths in sagas such as James Bond, Star Wars, Frankenstein, Fu Manchu, several non-continued horror stories (The Terror of the Tongs, The Skull, Dr. Terror, etc)...
Also, Donald Pleasence died at least 18 times:
1. Circus of Horrors (1960) 2. The Great Escape (1963) 3. Fantastic Voyage (1966) 4. Will Penny (1968) 5. Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1973) 6. I Don't Want to Be Born (1975) 7. Deep Cover (1980) 8. The Pumaman (1980) 9. Alone in the Dark (1982) 10. Warrior of the Lost World (1983) 11. Phenomena (1985) 12. Treasure of the Amazon (1985) 13. Specters (1987) 14. River of Death (1989) 15. American Rickshaw (1989) 16. Ten Little Indians (1989) 17. Shadows and Fog (1992) 18. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
Whew! That's a lot of deaths... even if they're only n-screen. But the record-holder is probably Seizo Fukumoto. Sample the following:
"Seizo Fukumoto has died 20,000 agonizing deaths. He’s been gored by samurai and gunned down by gangsters. His bloodied body has slammed into trees, tumbled down stairs and crashed through sliding paper-and-wood doors.
As Japan’s top “kirareyaku,” which translates into “sliced-up actor,” Fukumoto dies for a living. When Japanese directors need somebody to kill, he’s the man they call.
“My job is to make the good guy shine,” Fukumoto said in an interview. “The more spectacular my on-screen death, the better he looks.”
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If you are talking about the Actor who died the most times I would say "Basil Rathbone". He was always the nasty and got his just desserts.
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8 deaths for Basil Rathbone listed here:
http://www.geocities.com/cinemorgue2/basilrathbone.html
There may be more that have been missed?
I know he played many a villain... but didn't he also do a kick-ass job as Sherlock Holmes? He can't ALL bad?! lol!
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Now here's quite a site:
http://www.cinemorgue.com/
I counted 17 deaths for Michael Caine, and 24 for Christopher Lee. (25 if you count the Special Edition DVD of Lord of the Rings.)
Alas there's no list of the most frequent diers.
Thanks for the list. I know there seems to be some accuracy issues with this subject. I always thought Michael Cain was up there on the list... also what about Kevin Costner? He hasn't done a million movies, but he seems to die in most of them...
I think I remember him dying in the Last Samurai. That's cool info! Thanks!
It would be interesting to find who holds the spot in Europe, America, Bolywood, or other film markets too!
I wonder if the 20,000 figure for Seizo Fukumoto is right.
He'd have to had died more than twice a day over 40 year career to have achieved that!
There's an intersting list here:
http://www.premiere.com/Feature/Movie-Stars-Who-Die-the-Most
But as per the comments on the article it doesn't seem to be entirely accurate. Going by what it says Robert De Niro has clocked up 14 deaths, but someone in the comments says Christopher Lee has had 26.
Though there are probably some bit part actors that have outdone that.
Will be interesting to see if anyone can dig up anything more definite.