Sean Bean's Film Deaths

Movie: Caravaggio1986

Role:Ranuccio

Death: CaravaggioA biopic of Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio gave Sean Bean his first onscreen death. His character, Ranuccio, had his throat slit after getting into a love triangle.

Movie:War Requiem1989

Role:Unnamed German Soldier

Death: War RequiemThe story in War Requiem lacks spoken dialogue. The lyrics and music guide the narrative.Benjamin Britten'sWar RequiemAn opera. Bean's character dies after a bayonet pierces his hand and body.

Movie:The Field1990

Role:Tadgh McCabe

Death:The FieldA family of Irish farmers struggles to keep their land. Bean plays a son trying to help his father keep the field. Tadgh's father then goes mad, driving all his livestock off a cliff into the sea. Tadgh tries to stop this, gets trampled, and falls off the cliff by cows.

Movie:Lorna Doone1990

Role:Carver Doone

Death:In this 17th-century British TV movie, Lorna Doone should marry her cousin, Carver, but loves another man, John (Clive Owen). Carver resists when Lorna marries John; he shoots her on her wedding day (she lives). Carver gets caught and punished, drowning in a mire.

TV Show:Clarissa1991

Role:Robert Lovelace

Death:This three-part British mini-series is based on a Samuel Richardson novel, thought to be the longest novel by word count in English, set in the 18th century. Bean plays Robert Lovelace, a privileged bad boy who targets Clarissa. Their romance is sweet until Lovelace plans to rape Clarissa for revenge on her family. Lovelace faces payback in a duel with his friend Jack, who ironically uses a rapier to wound him.

Movie: Patriot Games1992

Role:Sean Miller

Death:Bean's role in thisblockbuster thrillerintroduced him to US audiences. He plays Sean Miller, an antagonist against America's favorite hero, Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford). Miller is an Irish Republican Army leader whose assassination plot fails because Ryan stops it. Miller fights Ryan in a speedboat brawl and lands some punches, but the hero always wins. Miller dies when an anchor explodes and impales him.

TV Show:Scarlett1994

Role:Lord Fenton

Death:ScarlettA six-hour miniseries based on Alexander Ripley's follow-up novel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind.Gone With the Wind. Bean plays Lord Fenton, a man who rapes a servant (Mary) and Scarlett O'Hara. Mary stabs Fenton, and Scarlett faces trial for the murder. Mary only confesses after Scarlett is found guilty.

Fun fact, the series stars Timothy Dalton, who played James Bond, while Bean played Bond's partner-turned-nemesis inGoldeneye.

Movie:GoldenEye1995

Role:Alec Trevelyan, 006

Death:Bean plays a traitorous MI6 agent and Bond villain in Pierce Brosnan's first 007 film. Trevelyan and Bond start as friends. After being left for dead in a failed mission, Trevelyan makes big plans to take over the world. Trevelyan dies when a massive, burning antenna crushes him.

Movie:Airborne(1998)

Role:Dave Toombs

Death:Bean plays another villain in this little-seen Steve Guttenberg action movie. Bean's character, Toombs, is a British arms dealer. He dies from a gunshot to the chest. It is not an interesting death.

Movie:Essex Boys(2000)

Role:Jason Locke

Death:This British crime thriller loosely follows real events. Bean plays a ruthless drug kingpin in Rettendon, Essex, about 40 miles east of central London. Bean gets shot in the head while sitting in a Range Rover during a drug deal gone wrong.shot in the headwhile sitting in a Range Rover during a drug deal gone wrong.

Movie:The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring(2001)

Role:Boromir

Death:Boromir, a Fellowship member, desires the ring's power and tries to steal it from Frodo. Despite this wrong move, he dies a hero's death. Searching for Frodo, Boromir fights Uruk-hai to save Merry and Pippin. Even Boromir's strength cannot stop Saruman's mutant army. He dies from many arrow wounds.Merry and Pippin. Even a fighter of Boromir's strength, however, cannot handle Saruman's mutant army. He dies from numerous arrow wounds.

Movie:Don't Say a Word(2001)

Role:Patrick Koster

Death:After playing a sympathetic character in The Lord of the Rings, Bean returned to antagonism in the thriller Don't Say a Word.Lord of the Rings, Bean went back to antagonism in thrillerDon't Say a Word, also starring Michael Douglas and Brittany Murphy. His character, Koster, is the head of a gang of thieves who steal a $10 million gem. Double-crossing happens, and Koster loses the bounty but tries to get it back. The ruthless killing machine is buried alive in the film's climax.

Movie:Equilibrium(2002)

Role:Cleric Errol Partridge

Death:Imagine a world where emotion is a sin. No art, no music, and no love. In Equilibrium, Bean plays Cleric Errol Partridge, a police officer who punishes those who feel. Things change when he falls in love and reads poetry. His partner, played by Christian Bale, discovers his sins and shoots and kills Partridge as he learns life can be wonderful.Equilibrium, Bean plays Cleric Errol Partridge, a member of a policing body who punishes those who feel. Things change when he falls in love and starts to read poetry. His sins are discovered by his partner, played by Christian Bale, who shoots and kills Patridge, just as he is discovering how wonderful life can be.

TV Event:Henry VIII(2003)

Role:Robert Aske

Death:Bean plays a lawyer and leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace, who has major issues with the King of England, in this two-part British television serial. Aske is accused of being a traitor, which he is, and receives a traitor's death sentence. He is hanged by chains.

Movie:The Island(2005)

Role:Dr. Bernard Merrick

Death:This Michael Bay film about clones puts Bean in the role of a scientist who keeps clones alive for rich people, should they need an organ or limb. Two clones, Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson, escape the evil doctor and later go back for their friends. McGregor's character becomes Merrick, and the bad guy does not end well. A grappling hook shoots Dr. Merrick through the neck, hanging him by a cable.

Movie:Far North(2007)

Role:Loki

Death: Far NorthThe film lacks much talking. The cinematography, especially the Arctic tundra shots, looks beautiful. Bean plays Loki, an injured soldier. Two women in the Arctic take him in. Loki and the younger woman, Anja, start a romance. This clashes with the passionless, guarded, older Saiva (who was rejected by her tribe).

To stop the lovers from going back to civilization, Saiva kills Anja. Then, she pretends to be Anja to trick Loki into having sex with her. Loki finds out what happened and runs into the tundra, naked, and freezes to death.

Movie:Outlaw(2007)

Role:Danny Bryant

Death:Danny Bryant (Bean) returns to London after serving in the Falklands, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He finds his city filled with crime and corruption. He meets other unhappy citizens and forms a vigilante group called the Outlaws. Bryant leads the group. He dies from multiple bullet wounds during a gunfight with the police while trying too hard to be a hero.

Watch the video around 7:40 for Bean's death.

Movie:The Hitcher(2007)

Role:John Ryder/The Hitcher

Death:Bean plays the deranged Hitcher, a serial killing psychopath, in this slasher remake of the 1986 film of the same name. The Hitcher slaughters innocent families and takes no prisoners while hunting a couple that escaped his grasp. A would-be victim gets a shotgun and blows away.

Movie:Red Riding 1974(2008)

Role:John Dawson

Death:This is the middle episode of the three-part TV show adaptation of David Peace's book.Red Riding Quartet, which aired in the UK.

Bean plays John Dawson, a shady real estate agent. A reporter named Eddie Dunford (Andrew Garfield) thinks Dawson causes many murders and missing girls. One girl was found on Dawson's property. She was raped, tortured, and killed. Dunford confronts Dawson about the murders, shoots him dead, and then drives his car into traffic.

Movie:Ca$h(2010)

Role:Pyke Kubic / Reese Kubic

Death:Bean plays a double role inCa$hReese and Pyke Kubic play twin brothers. Sam (Chris Hemsworth) finds money on a suitcase full of Reese's cash. Pyke learns about the money Sam and his wife spent. Pyke makes them bad guys to pay back the missing funds. Sam gets tired of being a lackey and shoots Pyke dead.

Movie:Death Race 2(2010)

Role:Markus Kane

Death:This direct-to-DVD sci-fi prequel toDeath Race(2008) starring Jason Statham features Bean as a not-so-smart, totally heartless mob boss. Luke, one of his men, gets arrested after a robbery. Kane offers a $1,000,000 bounty for anyone who kills him. Bean takes a bullet to the chest from Triad, one of Luke's prisoners/Death Race buddies.

Movie:Black Death(2010)

Role:Ulrich

Death:Bean plays a soldier during the Bubonic plague in England. Ulrich and his men seek a remote village rumored to be plague-free. They believe a necromancer keeps the disease away. The film mixes horror and political thriller elements, exploring religion, power, information, and belief.

Bean's character dies a graphic death. Horses quarter him, pulling him apart while running in opposite directions. Ulrich already had the plague, so this gruesome death might have been less cruel.

Movie:Age of Heroes(2011)

Role:Major Jack Jones

Death:This British war film is based on actual events from James Bond author Ian Fleming's WWII commando unit. Bean plays Jones, the head of a top black ops unit. At the end of the movie, the ever-heroic Jones engages in a fire fight with German solders. He yells for his unit to retreat while he and two other men stay to fight. Do we see Jones take a bullet and die? No. Can we assume that he doesn't survive? Yes.

TV Show:Game of Thrones(2011)

Role:Lord Eddard Stark

Death:This death many remember but least expect. What show kills its hero in the first season? Now we know no character is safe from Game of Thrones, but watching Lord Stark get beheaded was jaw-droppingly shocking.