John Astin

Film DeathsEdit

Night Life (1989) [Verlin Flanders]: Dies when his torso explodes after the undead Mark Pellegrino and his other zombie friends force a tube down his throat and pump air into his body at a gas station/car mechanics as his nephew (Scott Grimes) secretly looks on.

School of Life (1995) [Stormin' Norman Warner]: Dies of a heart attack while accepting an award on stage. (Thanks to Neil)

The Frighteners (1996) [The Judge]: Plays the ghost of a 19th-century gunfighter; he "dies" once again after confronting the Soul Collector (who cuts his spine in half with a scythe).

The Wild Wild West: Night of the Tartar (1967) [Count Nikolai Sazanov]: Stabbed in the chest in a fight with Robert Conrad.

Rod Sterling's Night Gallery: Pamela's Voice (1971) [Jonathan]: Dies (off-screen) as a result of heavy drinking and overeating; he appears as a ghost in the funeral home throughout the episode, and his body is shown when he looks in the coffin and discovers it's his own funeral.

Rod Sterling's Night Gallery: Hell's Bells (1971) [Randy Miller]: Killed when his car runs off the road on a steep hill and explodes. He spends the rest of the film in an abstract version of hell where he would be surrounded by boring things for all eternity.

Rod Sterling's Night Gallery: The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (1972) [Munsch]: Drained of life (off-screen) by Joanna Pettet. Neither his death nor his body is shown; we only learn of his death when James Farentino confronts Joanna about it.
Burke's Law: Who Killed Alexander the Great? (1994) [Alexander]: Shot in the chest (off-screen) by Tom Bosley. His body is shown afterwards when Peter Barton and Roddy McDowall discover in his house. (Originally, his body is shown when a coffin (for his performance) gets pulled out of the fountain and opened but was in a trance until Tom shot him later.)

Murder, She Wrote: Film Flam (1995) [Fritz Randall]: Poisoned (off-screen) with an overdose of sleeping pills by Kim Darby. His body is shown afterwards when Angela Lansbury discovers him.

Ex-husband of Patty Duke

Former Stepfather of Sean Astin