Most deaths in a movie career
Who
Christopher Lee
What
61 total number
Where
Not Applicable ()
When

The British actor Christopher Lee (1922–2015) "died" in at least 61 of the 200+ movies in which he appeared. Lee's characters have been hanged, defenestrated, struck by lightning, staked, stabbed (the most common cause of his demise), shot, burned, electrocuted, dissolved, crushed, blown up, beheaded, bitten by a snake and crashed into the Moon. This number includes the instances in which the Dracula star started the movie undead and was later dispatched, and when he dies more than once in the same movie.


According to research published on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), Lee is ahead of Vincent Price and Dennis Hopper (both on 48 deaths), John Hurt (43), Boris Karloff (42), Lance Henriksen and Danny Trejo (41), Eric Roberts (38), Bela Lugosi (36), Mark Hamill (30), Michael Biehn (29), Mickey Rourke (28) and Sean Bean (25). This research refutes the widely reported "fact" that British actor Sean Bean has been killed off more than anyone else.