10 Actors With The Most Movie Deaths

3. Bela Lugosi - 36 Fatalities

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And of course, where there is Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi can't go without mention, being the ultimate in old school villains who defined monsters for a whole generation. Being the big bad comes with a price, of course, meaning Bela Lugosi came to a grisly end more often than not across his sprawling career - biting the dust almost as much as he bit necks when playing Dracula.

With 36 on screen fatalities out of his 116 movies, Lugosi started off humbly with stakes to the chest in the aforementioned Dracula and getting his neck snapped by a gorilla, of all people, in the 1931 movie Murders In The Rue Morgue.

Even though Lugosi tragically died of a heart attack, he still got his final movie deaths thrown in by Plan 9 From Outer Space in 1959, in which he gets treated to a double whammy of being hit by a car, resurrected, and then turned into skeleton by alien deactivation. Well, that's one way to go out.

 
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