Best Movie Death Scenes
Submitted by Oedipus on Thu, 11/03/2005 - 10:46
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- Padmé Amidala (Natalie Portman) in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
- Ole 'Swede' Andersen (Burt Lancaster) in The Killers (1946)
- Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) in The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
- Ben (Duane Jones) in Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- Bill (David Carradine) in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
- Charley Bowdre (Casey Siemaszko) in Young Guns (1988)
- Richard Brewer (Charlie Sheen) in Young Guns (1988)
- Budd (Michael Madsen) in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
- 'Dum-Dum' Clarke (Jack Lambert) in The Killers (1946)
- Big Jim Colfax (Albert Dekker) in The Killers (1946)
- Cop killed by Otis Driftwood (Bill Moseley) in House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
- Mary Corleone (Sofia Coppola) in The Godfather: Part III (1990)
- Don Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in The Godfather: Part III (1990)
- Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) in The Godfather (1972)
- Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) in Psycho (1960)
- Jacqueline De Bellefort (Mia Farrow) & Simon Doyle (Simon MacCorkindale) in Death on the Nile (1978)
- Detective Will Dormer (Al Pacino) in Insomnia (2002)
- Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) in Million Dollar Baby (2004)
- Frank (Henry Fonda) in Once Upon A Time in the West (1968)
- Wayne Gale (Robert Downey, Jr.) in Natural Born Killers (1994)
- Louis Gara (Robert De Niro) in Jackie Brown (1997)
- George (Josh Peck) in Mean Creek (2004)
- Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox) in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
- The Invisible One (Claude Rains) in The Invisible Man (1933)
- Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) in Citizen Kane (1941)
- Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness) killed by Darth Vader in Star Wars (1977)
- Léon (Jean Reno) in Léon (1994)
- Mei (Zhang Ziyi) in House of Flying Daggers (2004)
- Tony Montana (Al Pacino) in Scarface (1983)
- Dr. Robert Morgan (Vincent Price) in The Last Man on Earth (1964)
- Rico AKA Little Caesar (Edward G. Robinson) in Little Caesar (1930)
- Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio) & Juliet (Claire Danes) in Romeo + Juliet (1996)
- Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson) in Soylent Green (1973)
- Gus Smith (William Bendix) in Lifeboat (1944)
- Willy (Walter Slezak) in Lifeboat (1944)
- Wilson lost at sea in Cast Away (2000)
- Trelkovsky (Roman Polanski) in The Tenant
- Marcel, the husband (Dominique Lamure) in 8 Women (2002)
- Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) & Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
- Little Maria (Marilyn Harris) in Frankenstein (1931)
- Warden Norton (Bob Gunton) in The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
- The Wicked Witch (Margaret Hamilton) in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
- J.D. Reston (Christian Slater) in Mindhunters (2004)
- Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson) in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
- Jeff (Joey Kern) in Cabin Fever (2002)
- Carol Beldon Miniver (Teresa Wright) in Mrs. Miniver (1942)
- Melanie (Bridget Fonda) in Jackie Brown (1997)
- Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson) in Jackie Brown (1997)
- Dan Madigan (Richard Widmark) in Madigan (1968)
- Selina Kyle (Michelle Pfeifer) in Batman Returns (1992)
- Max Shreck (Christopher Walken) in Batman Returns (1992)
- Eric Knox (Sam Rockwell) in Charlie's Angels (2000)
- Alex McSween (Terry O'Quinn) in Young Guns (1988)
- Murphy (Jack Palance) in Young Guns (1988)
- John Tunstall (Terrence Stamp) in Young Guns (1988)
- Mother Firefly (Leslie Easterbrook) in The Devil's Rejects (2005)
- Baby Firefly (Sheri Moon Zombie), Otis Driftwood (Bill Moseley), and Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig) in The Devil's Rejects (2005)
- Abraham Lincoln (Joseph Henabery) in The Birth of a Nation (1915)
- Gogo Yubari (Chiaki Kuriyama) in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
- Dean Pritchard (Jeremy Piven) and Mark (Craig Kilborn) in Old School (2003)
- Jennifer Cavalleri Barrett (Ali MacGraw) in Love Story (1970)
- Joseph 'Blue' Palasky (Patrick Cranshaw) in Old School (2003)
- Reverend Lenox Thomas (Richard Pryor) in Which Way Is Up? (1977)
- Johnny Cabot (Johnny Cash) in Five Minutes To Live (1961)
- King Kong in King Kong (1933)
- King Kong in King Kong (2005)
- Kenny McCormick (Matt Stone) in South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999)
- Father Robert Malone (Adrian Hough) in The Fog (2005)
- Professor Charles Rankin (Orson Welles) in The Stranger (1946)
- Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo) in Breathless (1960)
- Merrick Jamison-Smythe (Donald Sutherland) in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
- Amilyn (Paul Reubens) in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
- Charles 'Chuck' Tatum (Kirk Douglas) in Ace In the Hole (1951)
- Homer Bannon (Melvyn Douglas) in Hud (1963)
- Gloria Beatty (Jane Fonda) in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
- Garland Humphrey 'Red' Lynch (Ross Martin) in Experiment in Terror (1962)
- Lorna Fleming (Irene Manning) in The Big Shot (1942)
- Johnny McQueen (James Mason) in Odd Man Out
- Kathleen Sullivan (Kathleen Ryan) in Odd Man Out
- Joseph 'Duke' Berne (Humphrey Bogart) in The Big Shot (1942)
- Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle (Humphrey Bogart) in High Sierra (1941)
- Alan Squier (Leslie Howard) in The Petrified Forest (1936)
- Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford) in All the King's Men (1949)
- Dr. Adam Stanton (Shepperd Strudwick) in All the King's Men (1949)
- Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) in Fight Club (1999)
- Nick Robey (John Garfield) in He Ran All the Way (1951)
- Debby Marsh (Gloria Grahame) in The Big Heat (1953)
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May I suggest?
Major Valentina Koslova (Diane Venora) in The Jackal (1997).
I need to see The Jackal (1997) again, I don't really remember anything about it, except that it has Bruce Willis and Jack Black in it.
Oooo, good call on Lincoln; that entire sequence is the best part of the movie!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Yes. I also liked when the two guys died in the battlefield but I can't remember their names.
That is also a pretty powerful scene. Something tells me I'm glad not to be living my little ol' life during the Civil War...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
An interesting list that I don't think I would enjoy cloning. Robert De Niro in Jackie Brown and Melvin Douglas in Hud would make my top 20 though. But I'd ruin the list by including stuff like Susan Hayword in Backstreet or Meg Ryan in City of Angels.
If I could suggest just one not already included on your list - it would be Jack Palance in Shane.
While these are all great death scenes, and I have seen most of these being a movie buff, I have to add on Laurence Fishburne in Apcolypse Now. It was amazingly real and one of the best death scenes I have ever seen. It ranks in the top 3 in my book.
What does everyone else think?