10 Actors Pissed Off By Their TV Character Deaths
6. Jeffrey Nordling (Larry Moss) - 24
Jeffrey Nordling appeared in most episodes of 24's seventh season as FBI stuffed shirt Larry Moss, a character who in the series' typical tradition went from being a dull bureaucrat highly suspicious of Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) to one who supported him and, predictably, paid the mortal price for it.
Moss gets suffocated to death by Jack's pal-turned-foe Tony Almeida (Carlos Bernard) near the end of the season, a fact that Nordling himself was disappointed with.
Yet Nordling wasn't merely miffed at losing a lucrative TV gig, but the moral messaging behind the decision to kill him:
"My only problem with it [is that] you kill off the two characters that are the moral compasses in the show [the other being Bill Buchanan, who died earlier in the season]. The ones that are saying, 'No, you can't do this.' There is somebody there that stands for that, and Larry Moss stood for that.
Every time Jack or Renee would say, 'We don’t have a choice,' he would say, 'Yes, of course you have a choice. You obey the rule of law; that's what your choice is.' To kill off those two characters, I find disappointing."
He isn't wrong, honestly.