7 Actors Whose Characters Die With Astonishingly Obscene Regularity

4. Sean Bean

Confirmed Deaths: 25 Rough, gruff and eminently killable, the only surprise is that Bean didn't appear higher on the list. The Yorkshireman seems to meet his doom in every major feature he has been in. In fact, I remember coming out of Ronin thinking that the only reason that he didn't cark it in that film was that he was utterly wasted in terms of screen time. Given another few minutes he would surely have been shot/burst into flames/chocked on an ice cream etc. I've included appearances in mini-series here, partly because it makes no difference to Bean's position on the final list and partly because he keeps up a quite hilarious record in on-screen misfortune throughout. Famous Examples Bean began his long career in the shadow of the Grim Reaper in Caravaggio, where he is murdered by the eponymous painter. He went on to be shot by a wooden Harrison Ford in Patriot Games, and murder a remarkable amount of people as the homicidal titular character in The Hitchhiker, before being offed right at the end of that particularly unpleasant caper. Bean's most high-profile deaths are arguably in two of his cult roles. As Boromir in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, he is peppered with arrows, though as every Tolkien bore will tell you, the version of the characters death was better in the book. As Ned Stark in the HBO adaptation of Game of Thrones, Bean was involved in a genuine water cooler moment as the treacherous Joffrey has Ned beheaded for treason. While Bean is famous for dying often, it's inarguable that some of his most famous moments do feature him hurtling into oblivion. Most Memorable Death Scene It is to be expected that you're not going to appear in a Bond film as a villain and have your character gently pass away in their sleep, but the fate that befell Bean's 006 in Goldeneye was ridiculous even for the idiotic spy franchise. 006 fights with Bond atop an antenna cradle 500 feet in the air, before falling and waiting for the exploding cradle to explode and crush him. That's right, he survives a 500 FEET FALL, only to be crushed to death. That's a bad, ludicrous death.