Giancarlo Esposito

Film Deaths[edit | edit source]

Maximum Overdrive (1986) [Videoplayer]: Electrocuted by a sentient arcade game. NOTE: In the unreleased director's cut, he survives and escapes the truck stop unnoticed.
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991) [Jimmy Jiles]: Machine gunned by Daniel Baldwin.
Bob Roberts (1992) [Bugs Raplin]: Shot to death (off-screen) by an extremist vigilante, after Giancarlo had been framed and cleared for (non-fatally) shooting Tim Robbins. We learn of his death when Brian Doyle-Murray hears the news.

Phoenix (1998) [Louie]: Shot with a shotgun (off-camera) by Anthony LaPaglia. (We only see Anthony fire his gun and hear Giancarlo's body fall)
Chupacabra Terror (2005) [Dr. Peña]: Killed when attacked by Mark Viniello.

Back in the Day (2005) [Benson Cooper]: Shot to death by Ving Rhames.
Son of Batman (2014; animated) [Ra's al Ghul]: Fatally burnt from in attack by Thomas Gibson. He dies before he can reach his Lazarus Pit.

The Jungle Book (2016) [Akela]: Voicing a wolf, he is thrown off a cliff by Shere Khan (voiced by Idris Elba).
The Show (2017) [Mason Washington]: Commits suicide by blowing himself up in front of a studio audience. He is later revealed to have imagined his death and he survives the movie in reality.

Miami Vice: Nobody Lives Forever (1985) [Ricky]: Shot in the back with a shotgun by Michael Carmine as Giancarlo tries to flee from Michael as Martin Ferrero looks on Shock.

Ghost Whisperer: Fury (2006) [Ely]: Bludgeoned to death 30 years before the episode begins by Aaron Paul with a lamp stand. He appears in flashbacks, and as a ghost to his grandson (Noah Gray-Cabey) and Jennifer Love Hewitt until he crosses over.

Breaking Bad: Face Off (2011) [Gustavo "Gus" Fring]: Fatally wounded in an explosion, along with Mark Margolis and Ray Campbell, after Mark deliberately triggers a bomb planted on his wheelchair by Bryan Cranston; Esposito manages to walk out of the room (revealing that half of his face was torn off in the blast) and straighten his tie before collapsing to the ground.

The Get Down: Gamble Everything (2017): [Ramon Cruz]: Commits suicide by shooting himself in the head.

Westworld: Reunion (2018) [El Lazo]: After being programmed to do so by Anthony Hopkins, Giancarlo taunts Ed Harris then kills himself by shooting himself in the head.

Creepshow: Gray Matter/The House of the Head (2019) [Doc]: Devoured offscreen by a transformed Jesse C. Boyd.