Top 25 deadliest actors of all time by on-screen kills in movies


Published on January 01, 2014 by Dr. Randal S. Olson

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Over the weekend, I discovered a web site where a group of dedicated film fanatics have been systematically counting on-screen kills for various actors for several years. I immediately set out to scrape all of the data from their web site and forums so I could visualize it and see what we could learn. I posted the data online to save everyone else the chore of repeating the scrape.

Below is the second in a series of visualizations I created, showing the top 25 deadliest actors by on-screen kill counts. If you would like to feature any of these visualizations on your own web site, please contact me first.

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Some interesting facts


Uma Thurman ranks in as the deadliest woman with 77 on-screen kills.


Arnold Schwarzenegger's highest single-film kill count comes from Commando (1985), where in the final island scene he racked up 74 kills: 2 throats slit, 51 people shot, 1 person stabbed, 2 people stabbed by circular blades, 5 people blown up by grenades, 5 people blown up by rocket launcher, 7 people blown up by planted explosives, and 1 unfortunate person impaled.


The highest kill count by any one person in a film was attained by Tomisaburo Wakayama, who scored a shocking 150 kills in Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974).


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