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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.
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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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* 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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