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This is when an actor or actress appears in any number of movies, and there's a huge number in which their character doesn't live to see the end of the film. Of course, it doesn't have to be that; there can be a few [[Disney Death
See also [[Vasquez Always Dies]], when actresses that play [[Action Girl]]s meet this fate, and [[Black Dude Dies First]], when it's a black actor that gets offed more often than he likes.
See [https://web.archive.org/web/20131114201043/http://www.cinemorgue.com/ this site] for a look into more actor deaths in movies and TV-series.
{{deathtrope}} '''<big>YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.</big>'''
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{{quote|'''Parody Hitler:''' I should have known. Sean Bean... that guy is a two-legged spoiler!}}
** Summed up with two delightful [[YouTube]] comments.
{{quote|'''User 1:''' If you have a [[Black Guy Dies First|black man]] and [[Sean Bean]] in horror move, who dies first?
'''User 2:''' Sean Bean would play the black guy. }}
** Bean's survival to the end of 2015's ''[[The Martian]]'' has prompted some movie-goers to jokingly insist that he dies in a horrific golfing accident as the credits roll.
** ''Is It Canon?'' had [http://isitcanon.com/index.php?date=2017-06-22 fun] with "[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|Boromir's]] job interview".
* [[Robert De Niro]]. In a double subversion, De Niro '''AND''' Sean Bean were in ''[[Ronin (film)|Ronin]]'', and '''neither''' died.
* [[Benicio Del Toro]].
* [[In-Universe]], Mortimer from ''[[The Fantasticks]]''. He specializes in death scenes, and is known as "the man who dies."
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* [[Leonardo DiCaprio]].
* [[Denzel Washington]].
* [[Johnny Depp]] has expired in quite a few films, including ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' (his movie debut), ''[[Platoon]]'', the aptly titled ''[[
* [[Chiaki Kuriyama]] is known both for starring in low-profile horror flicks, and dying dramatically in them. About the only media she does not die in are J-dramas.
* [[Steve Buscemi]] is king of this trope, when he's not either the [[Only Sane Man]] or protected by the [[Lunatic Loophole]]. It was once observed that each time he dies in a [[Coen Brothers]] movie, his remains get smaller and smaller (as seen when the other characters scatter his character's ashes at the end of ''[[The Big Lebowski]]'').
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* With 7 deaths, Mike Doyle claims that it is easier to [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/arts/television/03doyl.html?_r=4&ref=arts die with your eyes open.]
* Michael Biehn. Frequently in the military. Frequently dies. On the rare occasions when he survives (eg. ''Aliens'' or ''[[Navy Seals]]'') he ends up badly wounded before the final reel.
** On a related note, Bill Paxton, who's essentially never played a character that's survived him appearing in anything with Michael Biehn, and holds the distinction of being killed by an ''[[Alien]]'', ''[[Predator]]'', '''and''' ''[[The Terminator]]''.<ref>Lance Henriksen (Bishop in ''Aliens'') is the only other person to hold the distinction</ref>
* Klaus Kinski, especially in his early movies. He was one of the actors who appeared most in the Edgar Wallace series and his characters really never got to see the end of the one they appeared in.
* [[Danielle Harris]] has, over the course of her career, played characters who have been knifed, strangled, and otherwise bumped off. Dem's the breaks when you're a horror movie star, however.
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* [[Gideon Emery]]. Just... [http://garnetvengeance.tumblr.com/post/15661153807/the-many-deaths-of-gideon-emery Gideon Emery].
* [[Daniel Radcliffe]] is being slowly but surely molded into one, as seen in ''[[December Boys]]'', ''[[The Simpsons]]'' (granted, his character ''did'' have it coming, having suckered Lisa into becoming a vampire and not letting her back out once she starts to have second thoughts), and ''[[The Woman in Black]]''.
** Technically he also died in ''[[Harry Potter]]'', although [[Back
* [[Terry Gilliam]] in the [[Monty Python]] films (apart from Patsy and an [[Insert Cameo]], all his characters in ''[[Monty Python and
* Tom Sizemore bites the bullet in most films he appears in, particularly when they're crime dramas. A short list: ''[[True Romance]]'', ''Heat'', ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'', ''[[Red Planet (film)|Red Planet]]'', ''[[Natural Born Killers]]'' and ''Wyatt Earp'' among others. Oddly, Sizemore manages to make it out of the rather causality heavy ''[[Black Hawk Down]]'' unscathed.
** I wouldn't call being shot in the neck and having a bullet come within 3 millimeters from your jugular "unscathed".
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== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* [[Michael Shanks]] is this for TV roles - ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', ''[[Smallville]]'', ''[[Back
* [[Jamie Bamber]], who has seen about half a dozen of his characters get killed off. Two ([[Horatio Hornblower|Archie Kennedy]] and [[Law and Order UK|Matt Devlin]]) died in an eerily similar manner ([[Blood From the Mouth]], [[Heroic Sacrifice]]), and two more (on ''[[Cold Case]]'' and ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]'') were [[Posthumous Character|*already* dead]] when the show started.
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* Italian actor Giuseppe "Beppe" Fiorello, brother of far-more-known showman Rosario Fiorello, is ''infamous'' for this, so much that he dedicated - with his bro - an entire stand-up sketch to parody and lampshade this trope, when Rosario's holding a dying Beppe in his arms. And they milk [[Death Is Dramatic|death being overly dramatic]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|for all it's worth.]]
{{quote|'''Beppe:''' ''"You... you know, [[Lampshade Hanging|the moment my share reaches its top is whenever I die.]]"''}}
* [[David Bowie]] could qualify as this if you just considered his '''musical''' output. The protagonist in "We Are Hungry Men" is ''eaten'' by those men, [[Concept Album|Ziggy Stardust]] dies at the hands of his own fans, his businessman in the "Jump They Say" video is [[Driven to Suicide]], and one of his [[Loads and Loads of Roles]] in his [[Rock Opera]] ''1. Outside'' is a murder victim. One of his first film roles was as a painting come to
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