Depending who you talk to in the film industry - has died 24 or 25 times on screen. His characters often make their unfortunate exits in memorable and impactful franchises like "Lord of the Rings," "Game of Thrones," and "James Bond". even reports that the iconic actor is "best known for ."

And given Bean's incredible talent - it does seem a travesty that his performances regularly end in the demise of memorable characters. Bean is a great actor whose versitility has seen him gain fans of both epic movies and popular television franchises. The dying routine has become a bit of a meme influence and even sparked a hashtag - #DontKillSeanBean.

The actor has lived out some extravegant deaths on screen - including getting peppered by arrows, torn apart by horses, flung off a great height and buried alive. Other deaths have seen him shot over half-a-dozen times, impaled on several other occasions by objects as diverse as a sabre and an anchor plus a memorable time when he drowned.

Then there was the time he was forced off a cliff by stampeding cattle. It seems writers and directors take great pleasure in coming up with innovative ways to kill the actor - a man described as a down-to-earth and likeable person.

• Don't Say a Word
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Equilibrium
• GoldenEye
• The Island
• Game of Thrones
• Outlaw
• Airborne
• Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
• Essex Boys
• Ca$h
• Patriot Games
• Black Death
• Henry VIII
• Clarissa
• Caravaggio
• War Requiem
• The Field
• Lorna Doone
• Scarlett
• The Hitcher

It seems as though the actor himself is also sick of playing dead. He has now reportedly turned down roles where his death is inevitable if he feels the storyline for this occurance proves to be too predictable. He doesn't want to simply appear on screen for fans to correctly guess that he is going to be 'killed off.'

Bean said: "I've turned down stuff. I've said, 'They know my character's going to die because I'm in it!' I just had to cut that out and start surviving, otherwise it was all a bit predictable."

Bean worked as an apprentice in his father's welding firm before pursuing acting. He was accepted Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, graduating in 1983.

His professional stage debut as Tybalt in "Romeo and Juliet" at the Watermill Theatre occurred in the same year. His film debut was in Derek Jarman's Caravaggio (1986), where he played Ranuccio Tomassoni and started his theme of dying on set.

Bean met his end in Caravaggio by having his throat slit - the first of many on screen deaths. Three years later Bean was bayoneted in the film War Requim which obviously caused him to die.

The actor may now be taking steps to restrict the ways and amount of times he dies on screen but considering his deaths go all the way back to the mid-1980s, it's going to take a while before he's able to make a mark on his reputation for on-screen dying!