TV actor killed off on screen for the 25th time leaving fans of BBC drama ‘furious and devastated’
TV and film’s Mr Expendable Sean Bean has been killed off again — for the 25th time.
The actor has gained a cult following because so many of his characters have met sticky ends.
He thought he’d escaped death in his role as pacifist Douglas Bennett in BBC1’s World on Fire — spending the first series well away from the World War Two front line.
Series two began on Sunday but viewers were stunned when Douglas went missing — then learned he had been killed by a German bomb dropped on Manchester.
One fan tweeted: “They’ve killed off Sean Bean. I am f***ing furious and devastated.”
Another said: “They’ve contributed to the list of shows that killed off Sean Bean.”
In 2014 fans set up the #Don’tkillseanbean movement — with the star, 64, posing in T-shirts bearing the hashtag. His first screen death was in 1986 movie Caravaggio.
He was bumped off as a Bond baddie in 1995’s GoldenEye, as warrior Boromir in the first Lord of the Rings movie in 2001 and Game of Thrones’ Ned Stark in 2011.
In 1991’s The Field cows drove him off cliffs.
Sean once said of his deaths: “I had to cut that out and start surviving, otherwise it was all a bit predictable.”
No1 living film “Has-Bean” is US star Danny Trejo with 41 deaths. The late Christopher Lee reached 70.