James Gandolfini (1961 - 2013)
Film Deaths[]
- (1991)The Last Boy Scout [Marcone's Goon]: Dies when his car falls off a cliff after he swerves out of the way in a game of chicken with Bruce Willis along with Frank Ferrara.
- A Stranger Among Us (1992) [Tony Baldessari]: Killed in a car crash, when Melanie Griffith shoots at him as he’s driving towards her in a stolen taxi, prompting him to swerve and drive into a store front window. He dies after Griffith opens the driver’s side door and holds his hand.
- True Romance (1993) [Virgil]: Shot in the chest with his own shotgun by Patricia Arquette in her hotel room, after first being bashed on the head with a toilet-tank lid, burned with the lit spray from an aerosol can, and stabbed in the back with a corkscrew.
- Terminal Velocity (1994) [Ben Pinkwater]: Slashed to death (off-screen) by the propellers of a wind turbine/aero generator when Charlie Sheen pulls the ripcord of James' parachute, causing him to be sucked back into the propellers (while James is bear-hugging Charlie during a struggle). On impact we cut to Charlie's shocked reaction (followed by a shot of the gory propellers).
- The Juror (1996) [Eddie]: Throat slit (off-screen) by Alec Baldwin in James' apartment; his body is shown afterwards.
- Night Falls on Manhattan (1997) [Joey Allegretto]: Commits suicide by shooting himself while sitting in his car.
- 8mm (1999) [Eddie Poole]: Beaten to death with a gun butt by Nicolas Cage in a warehouse. His body is later seen when Cage sets it on fire.
- The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) [David 'Big Dave' Brewster]: Stabbed in the neck by Billy Bob Thornton during a struggle in James' office in the department store.
- The Mexican (2001) [Winston Baldrey]: Shot to death by Brad Pitt (as James swings round with a gun). His body is later seen when Julia Roberts sees him on hearing the shots.
- Romance and Cigarettes (2005) [Nick Murder]: Dies of cancer (off-screen).
- Violet & Daisy (2011) [Michael]: Shot in the head (off-camera) by Saoirse Ronan, as James lies in bed and accepts his fate; we only hear the shot from the other room. His body is partially shown (just a close-up of his hands resting on his chest) later on as the police investigate.
- The Drop (2014) [Cousin Marv]: Shot numerous times while he is sitting in his car by a Chechen gangster. (this film was released a year after his real life death).
Television Deaths[]
- The Sopranos: Toodle-Fucking-Oo (2000) [Tony Soprano]: In a dream sequence Lorraine Bracco is having, he gets into a car crash with a big rig that propels his body out of the car. James survives the episode in reality.
- The Sopranos: Funhouse (2000) [Tony Soprano]: Blown up in a dream sequence by Tony Sirico after James douses himself with gasoline and Sirico lights a match and James blows up after briefly talking to Sirico and the gang. James survives the episode in real life and wakes up from the nightmare.
- The Sopranos: Made in America (2007) [Tony Soprano]: Possibly shot to death (off-screen) by a hitman while eating at a diner with his family. The scene cuts to black possibly indicating that James's vision had gone black. The scene is left ambigious for the viewer to decide on his fate.