2. John Hurt
Notable Deaths Include: Alien, Spaceballs, The Wild And The Willing, Gideons Way, Sinful Davey, 10 Rillington Place, The Ghoul, I, Claudius, East Of Elephant Rock, Speectre, Watership Down, The Elephant Man, Heaven's Gate, The Osterman Weekend, The Hit, After Darkness, The Black Cauldron, Jake Speed, Aria, Deadline, Little Sweetheart, Scandal, Monolith, Tabloid, Contact, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Hellboy, The Proposition, Beyond The Gates, V For Vendetta, Masters Of Science Fiction, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Lost Souls, Outlander, Sailcloth, Whistle And I'll Come To You When you think of John Hurt, you probably don't think of an actor who has spent a career being mutilated on screen quite as much as you think "lovely old British bloke," but Hurt has been, uh...
hurt... a lot. In more than 40 of his movie appearances to date, John Hurt has ended up dead. Despite the fact that the actor is often brought in to be a movie's calming or intellectual presence, he also makes a great bad guy (he's posh and English, which helps on that front). And bad guys, as you full well know, rarely make it through alive. Hurt's most famous movie death, of course, also happens to be one of the famous movie deaths of all time (if not
the most famous), in which the actor is literally bust wide open by a monster known as "the chestburster" in Ridley Scott's seminal sci-fi classic
Alien. Though his character his offed rather early, the death remains truly iconic even today.
Hurt even opted to die again in exactly the same way when he parodied this role in Mel Brooks'
Spaceballs. Man just likes gettin' his chest burst, I guess. It's what he does best.