Robert Patrick is the only actor killed by these three legendary action movie stars

Some actors are just suited to playing bad men, and while Robert Patrick isn’t always a heavyweight, the films he’s best known for can be seen making life miserable for the good guys . The former Bowling Green State University standout got his start with small roles in famed Filipino filmmaker Cirio H. Santiago’s exploitation films (his 1976 action film “The Muthers” is a must-see) and eventually found his way to Hollywood, where He made his breakthrough with the liquid metal T-1000 James Cameron’s classic 1991 action film Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

In ’90s films like “Fire in the Sky,” “The Cool Surface” and “Striptease,” Patrick showed his true range, but for the most part Hollywood knew he could deliver sardonic performances as a villain and took those roles without it of hesitation. (He is particularly nasty as the white DC supervillain August “Auggie” Smith, also known as the White Dragon, in Max’s “Peacemaker” series.) Patrick often had to compete with some of the most famous action heroes in film history, meaning that his characters rarely made it to the end credits. But that’s the job, and Patrick can handle the situation more than well. In fact, he’s proud of his many on-screen deaths, especially when he’s taken out by one of Hollywood’s all-time greats.

In a 2008 interview with Den of GeekRobert Patrick was asked what he thought about being insulted by the holy, devastating trinity of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis (find out where these three rank). /Film’s list of the 18 best action film actors). He supplemented this by adding a fourth star to his list of on-screen attackers. Per Patrick:

“It is (a badge of honor), but let me give you a little extra badge of honor. Ready for this? First I was killed by Bruce Willis, Schwarzenegger, then Stallone. And in ‘Charlie’s Angels 2,’ I was killed” by former wife Bruce Willis (aka Demi Moore).

This is a prestigious list of hunters. For those of you keeping score, here’s how Patrick bids farewell to the living in each of these films:

• In Die Hard 2 (directed by Renny Harlin and released in theaters in 1990), he was shot repeatedly by Willis’ John McClane through a broken ventilation shaft in an airport terminal under construction.
• In “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (which was again directed by James Cameron and released in 1991), he is shot in the stomach with a grenade by Schwarzenegger as T-800 and falls into a puddle of molten metal (where he desperately tries to escape to reshape it before it falls into oblivion).
• In “Cop Land” (directed by James Mangold and first shown in 1997), he comes running out of his house, attacks Freddy Heflin (Stallone), who is armed with a shotgun, and at the end of an exchange gets the wrong way of bullets (very to his surprise at his character’s amusingly stunned expression as he dies).
• In “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” (directed by McG and released in theaters in 2003), Patrick’s corrupt U.S. Marshal is blown away at the Griffith Park Observatory by Demi Moore’s former Angel turned villain Madison Lee.

Last but not least (and backtracking a bit), while John Cena isn’t yet an iconic action movie star, it’s worth noting that Patrick’s white dragon is killed by a bullet to the head fired by his own son, Cena’s titular character. Peacemaker.” This is a first-class cinematic death from Mr. Patrick, and we thank the former T-1000 for his lights-out service.