Anthony James

Anthony James in The Teacher

Anthony James (1942 - 2020)

Film Deaths

• High Plains Drifter (1973) [Cole Carlin]: Strangled by Clint Eastwood.
• The Teacher (1974) [Ralph Gordon]: Stabbed in the side by Angel Tompkins as he tries to rape her.
• Ravagers (1979) [Ravage Leader] Thrown into a fire by Richard Harris and then blows up when the ship explodes.
• The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) [Hector Savage]: Bursts (off-camera) when Leslie Nielsen sticks a fire hose into his mouth and fills him with water at the end of a fight. We only hear the explosion from inside Priscilla Presley's apartment (Played for comic effect).
• Unforgiven (1992) [Skinny Dubois]: Shot in the chest by Clint Eastwood in Anthony's saloon (for allowing a dead Morgan Freeman to be propped up in a coffin outside his saloon).

TV Deaths

• The Big Valley: The Lady Killer (1967) [Bart Bleeck]: Shot to death in a shoot-out with Lee Majors and Richard Long. (Thanks to Harry)
• Cimarron Strip: The Deputy (1967) [Benji]: Highly strung and suffering with a weak heart, he ends up in jail where his former gang mate J.D. Cannon is now the deputy. Cannon scares him so much that Percy Herbert finds him dead in his cell from a heart attack. (Thanks to Brian)
• Gunsmoke: O'Quillan (1968) [Chickenfoot]: One of Victor French's drovers, as James Arness shoots French dead, Anthony goes to pull his own gun but is shot off his horse by Buck Taylor. (Thanks to Brian)
• Search: The Clayton Lewis Document (1973) [Alfred Barnworth]: Shot by gunman hired by Rhonda Fleming after talking to Craig Stevens.
• Charlie's Angels: Angels in Chains (1976) [Karl Stern]: Killed in a car crash, along with David Huddleston, while they're chasing Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson, and Jaclyn Smith.
• Victory at Entebbe (1976) [Gamal Fahmy]: Machine gunned by the Israeli commandos as he and his fellow terrorists are holding hostages.
• V: The Conversion (1984) [Laird]: Shot in the chest with a ray-gun by Jeff Yagher, while Anthony is trying to kill Jeff and Jennifer Cooke.

Gallery

Anthony James' death in The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear