If Sean Bean is on your screen, either at home in front of the TV or out with your girlfriend watching a flick at your local cinema, rest assured that he’s probably not going to make it through the entire film. Well, usually portraying a major role, many times a villain, he’ll be there for most of the way, before getting killed off just before the credits start rolling.
This troubling trend began in 1986 with his role in the movie Caravaggio, and it seems film directors, script writers and film casters have fallen in love with the idea of killing his characters off.
Caravaggio (1986)
War Requiem (1989)
The Field (1990)
Lorna Doone (1990)
Tell Me That You Love Me (1991)
Clarissa (1991)
Patriot Games (1992)
Scarlett (1994)
GoldenEye (1995)
Airborne (1998)
Essex Boys (2000)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Don’t Say a Word (2001)
Equilibrium (2002)
Henry VIII (2003)
The Island (2005)
Far North (2007)
Outlaw (2007)
The Hitcher (2007)
Red Riding: The Year of our Lord, 1973 (2008)
Ca$h (2010)
Death Race 2 (2010)
Black Death (2010)
Age of Heroes (2011)
Game of Thrones (2011)
Being more famous and more popular has not helped Sean Bean’s character remain alive by the end of his films.
