The hero dies in this one (MAJOR SPOILERS)

Who: Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles)
How: Aged


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Who: Spartacus (Kirk Douglas)
How: Crucified


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Who: Sergeant Neil Howie (Edward Woodward)
How: Burned alive inside a large wicker statue of a man


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Who: Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze)
How: Shot by a thug

Who: Thomas Van Hazebrouck (Michel Bouquet)
How: Shot


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Who: Léon (Jean Reno)
How: Shot by Stansfield

Who: Mufasa (James Earl Jones)
How: Thrown off a cliff by Scar and run over by a stampede of antelopes

Who: William Wallace (Mel Gibson)
How: Beheaded, his body is quartered


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Who: Mercutio (Harold Perrineau), Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Juliet (Claire Danes)
How: Mercutio is stabbed by Tybalt with a shard of glass, Romeo takes a poison, Juliet shoots herself in the head

Who: Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio)
How: From hypothermia

Who: Adrian Caparzo (Vin Diesel), Irwin Wade (Giovanni Ribisi), John H. Miller (Tom Hanks)
How: Caparzo is wounded by a sniper in the arm and slowly bleeds to death, Wade, is fatally wounded in the ensuing skirmish, Miller is shot and mortally wounded while attempting to blow the bridge

Who: Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis)
How: Killed by Vincent and was unknowingly dead the entire time

Who: The Lisbon sisters: Therese (Leslie Hayman), Mary (A.J. Cook), Bonnie (Chelse Swain), Lux (Kirsten Dunst), and Cecilia (Hanna R. Hall)
How: Cecilia jumped out of her bedroom window and impaled herself on an iron fence, Therese took sleeping pills, Bonnie hanged herself in the basement, Mary stuck her head in the gas oven, and Lux died of carbon monoxide poisoning by leaving the car engine running in the garage

Who: Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank)
How: Killed by John Lotter and Tom Nissen

Who: John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan)
How: Executed in the electric chair

Who: Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey)
How: Shot by Colonel Frank Fitts


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Who: Charlotte Fielding (Winona Ryder)
How: From a heart neuroblastoma

Who: Selma Ježková (Björk)
How: Executed through hanging

Who: Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe)
How: Mortally stabbed in his side with a stiletto by Commodus before the fight


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Who: Satine (Nicole Kidman)
How: From tuberculosis

Who: Sara Deever (Charlize Theron)
How: From the Hodgkin's lymphoma (terminal cancer)

Who: Danny Walker (Josh Hartnett)
How: Shot

Who: Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) and her children, Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley)
How: Grace smothered both children with a pillow and then, realizing what she had done, shot herself

Who: Daniel Balint (Ryan Gosling)
How: Dies in the explosion in the temple where he and fellow skinheads planted a bomb under the pulpit

Who: Jamie Elizabeth Sullivan (Mandy Moore)
How: From leukemia

Who: Noah (James Garner) and Allie Calhoun (Gena Rowlands)
How: Noah had a heart attack, and Allie was suffering from Alzheimer's disease

Who: Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank)
How: Breaks her neck, resulting in quadriplegia with no hope for recovery, develops bedsores, and finally Frankie administers a fatal injection of adrenaline to help her die

Who: Hector (Eric Bana), Achilles (Brad Pitt)
How: Achilles kills Hector, Paris shoots Achilles in his vulnerable heel and then several times in the torso, Achilles then dies of his wounds

Who: Marv (Mickey Rourke), John Hartigan (Bruce Willis)
How: Marv is executed n the electric chair, Hartigan shoots himself in the head

Who: Kong
How: Attacked by the Army's Curtiss Helldivers, hit by several bursts of gunfire

Who: Everyone. No, seriously, most characters die. Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio), Trooper Brown (Anthony Anderson), Trooper Barrigan (James Badge Dale), Sullivan (Matt Damon)
How: Costigan and Brown are shot by Barrigan, Barrigan is then shot by Sullivan, and then Dignam shoots Sullivan

Who: James Brocklebank (Leo Bill), Nancy Brocklebank ((Kate Fahy)
How James stabbed Nancy, his mother, with a knife, then stabbed himself



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Who: Leslie Burke (AnnaSophia Robb)
How: Drowned in the creek (possibly due to head injury)

Who: Gerry Kennedy (Gerard Butler)
How: From a brain tumor

Who: Robbie Turner (James McAvoy) and Cecilia Tallis (Keira Knightley)
How: Robbie died at Dunkirk of septicemia while awaiting evacuation, and Cecilia died as one of the 65 flood victims in the Balham tube station of the London Underground during The Blitz

Who: Benjamin Barker/Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp) and Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter)
How: Mrs. Lovett is locked in the oven, Todd is throat slit by Toby

Who: Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin)
How: Shot


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Who: Sirius Black (Gary Oldman)
How: Avada Kedavred by Bellatrix Lestrange

Who: Tim Thomas (Will Smith)
How: Committed suicide by taking a bath with ice water and box jellyfish

Who: Marley
How: Develops arthritis and deafness upon aging, suffers from two attacks of gastric dilatation volvulus, is then euthanised

Who: Robin Ramzinski (Mickey Rourke)
How: From a heart attack


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Who: Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan)
How: Raped and stabbed by George Harvey


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Who: Albus Dumbledore (Michael Gambon)
How: Avada Kedavred by Severus Snape

Who: Dobby the Elf (Toby Jones)
How: Mortally wounded by Bellatrix Lestrange's dagger

Who: Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman)
How: Stabbed herself with a shard of glass

Who: Kate Fitzgerald (Sofia Vassilieva)
How: From acute promyelocytic leukemia and renal failure


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