Sean Bean reveals his top 5 favourite death scenes

For an actor, nothing beats being able to act out a great death scene. Whether it's a play, a TV show, or a movie, a good death is the ultimate show stealer. Performers relish such dramatic opportunities because they are often few and far between for most of them.

But then, Sean Bean is not most performers.

(Warning: Spoilers of several Sean Bean films and television shows to follow.)

Hot on the heels of his memorable exit from HBO's epic fantasy series "Game of Thrones," actor Sean Bean gained internet infamy thanks to a morbid show reel recounting his countless movie and television death scenes. As the reel violently demonstrates, Bean's characters have died in more than a quarter of his nearly 100 credited movie and TV roles. Watching a Sean Bean film? Don't get too attached to his character, since there's a high chance he'll be meeting with some terrible end.

Already a popular internet trope thanks to memes like "One does not simply walk into Mordor..." and "Imminent Ned Stark," the actor added the nearly one million views of the "Sean Bean dies in every movie" video to his web cred last year. Reporters have asked Bean about the video — and about his characters' propensity for gruesome endings — from time to time, but no one has really sat down with the famously mortal English actor to talk about his favourite personal death scenes -- until now.

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In an interview with the U.K.'s Little White Lies, Bean recounted his top five deaths while promoting his latest film "Silent Hill: Revelation," a movie in which he is almost guaranteed to die, given his track record.

"It's funny... you never really get used to dying. There's no set formula for it and no two death scenes are the same. You've just got to do what feels right in the moment and make it as convincing as possible," Bean told Little White Lies. "It's an important moment; you've got to really think about it. I'm not an expert on death scenes, though. Or maybe I am."

In no particular order, here are Bean's picks:

"Black Death"
Bean plays a witch-hunting knight named Ulric in this medieval horror movie, and meets a suitably horrible medieval death. Ulric is strung between two horses and pulled apart.

"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"
Likely Bean's most famous on-screen death (second only to Ned Stark's sad end on "Game of Thrones"), conflicted warrior Boromir goes down in a blaze of glory — and arrows — while protecting the ring-bearing hobbits from an army of orcs.

"Patriot Games"
After wrestling with Harrison Ford's Jack Ryan aboard a speeding boat, Bean's IRA terrorist character is impaled on an anchor and then blown up when the boat crashes into a rocky outcropping. Talk about overkill, Tom Clancy!

"The Field"
Bean's character Tadgh McCabe is run off a cliff by a herd of stampeding sheep and cows. Definitely one the most creative death on the list.

"Equilibrium"
This somewhat forgettable sci-fi actioner co-starred a pre-"Batman" Christian Bale, but it also featured one of Bean's more poignant death scenes. Living in a dystopian world where art and literature are banned, Bean's character is executed for (and while) reading a book by Irish poet W. B. Yeats.

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You can see all of the on-screen deaths that Bean mentions in the video above, but be sure to read the whole LWL list, where the actor shares personal anecdotes about each of the scenes.