![]() It’s a sad fate, I must say, for an actor I once thought so invincible. Age of Heroes (2011) Jones: Presumably dies (off-screen) after being. The video catalogs Bean dying 22 times in all. Sean Bean (1959 - ) Caravaggio (1986) Ranuccio: Throat slit by Nigel Terry. And we haven’t even arrived at what befalls him in the land of ring-clutching hobbits and vainglorious last stands. He’s tethered to horses who tear his limbs apart. He’s dropped from a helicopter onto a radar dish and then crushed by scaffolding. ![]() Well, he gets shot a lot of times in various states of surprise or resignation. Just count the different ways our Yorkshire gallant kicks the bucket: He gets shot in the head while holding a book. Harry Hanrahan, an expert viral video maker, caught onto this and gives us a masterpiece of editing, set evidently to the score from the zombie-killing video game Dead Island. Point is, Sean Bean acts in a lot of things and dies in a lot of things. (MORE: Top 10 Ridiculously Violent Movies) But in the last ten years he has become one of our most trusted and best dramatic actors: a delicate, magnificent performer who has won several awards for it. (A turn of events that sparked Internet reactions like this one, though this guy could have done himself a favor - and spared us - by taking a peak at the book.) Sean Bean was formerly known as an action hero a Hollywood tough guy who usually died before the credits rolled. And, as the stoic Ned Stark, he dramatically loses his head toward the end of the first season of HBO’s Game of Thrones. As we all know, he’s the fallible warrior who gets shot up with arrows by a top-knotted super orc in the first installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Not so, it seems, for the rest of Bean’s oeuvre. The other thing Bean’s Sharpe did was never die. Over the years, Beans characters from films and TV shows have been turned into several noteworthy memes, such as One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor and. Follow first encountered the steely gaze and weary scowl of Sean Bean when he played the roguish, dashing Richard Sharpe - the protagonist of a series of nearly two dozen novels by Bernard Cornwell, a giant of British historical fiction, that became a terrifically entertaining run of TV shows in the ‘90s.Ī rakish ne’er-do-well who rises through the ranks of the redcoat army, Bean’s Sharpe did all the things classic imperial heroes do: he outwitted dastardly natives in the colonies, unmanned Napoleon’s French dragoons and charmed fiery-eyed Iberian vixens eager for some Anglo-Saxon liberation.
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