TOM CRUISE as Major William Cage in Warner Bros. Pictures' and Village Roadshow Pictures' sci-fi thriller "EDGE OF TOMORROW," distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures.

Fireman Tom… Cruise feels the heat in Edge of Tomorrow (Picture: Warner Bros)

I'll exist honest with you. I beloved his movies. I practise. I'm a Tom Cruise fan. I celebrate the guy's entire catalogue.

Fifty-fifty the movies where his character dies.

There's this assumption that A-listing movie stars won't allow themselves to die on screen, simply it's a load of bunkum. Death is a skillful career movement – just look at Leonardo DiCaprio, he dies in everything, from (400-year-erstwhile spoiler alert) Romeo and Juliet to (100-yr-old spoiler alert) The Slap-up Gatsby.

While Tom Cruise may not be able to friction match Leo's death charge per unit, his characters still have a slight tendency to kick the saucepan. His new picture, nevertheless, Edge of Tomorrow, takes this to extremes – it's Groundhog Solar day meets Source Code as The Cruiser's character dies and dies once again in order to learn from his mistakes and save the globe.

Just what about his previous on-screen demises? Hither they are… and some of them might surprise you.

Alert: SPOILERS AHEAD. WELL… D'UH.

1. Taps (1981)

Blazon in 'Taps' to Google these days and yous get a lot of suggestions for bathroom furnishing, but dorsum in the early 80s it was the moving-picture show that gave Cruise his big break and his showtime on-screen clogs-popping. He wasn't the pb in this tale of military machine cadets hit back confronting the establishment, but his character's expiry – shot downwards in a blaze of glory by tank burn down – is still the film's about memorable and quotable scene. Beautiful, man.

ii. Far and Abroad (1992)

You have to expect more than a decade for Cruise to konk out a second time, in Ron Howard's dreadful paean to Oirish immigration to the US of A. Far and Away is dreadful, and Cruise has a dreadful expiry scene, made all the more bloody dreadful because he comes back to life seconds after Nicole Kidman tells him she loved him all forth. 'Y'all can be sure I won't be dying twice,' says Tom, leaving out a few 'to be sure, to be sures', I'm certain. Y'all can exist sure I won't be watching this chant twice.

iii. Interview with the Vampire (1994)

Neil Jordan's adaptation of the bestselling novel past Anne 'Tom Cruise is too short to play my vampire – oh no, hang on, he's perfect' Rice shows its age in parts these days, but it's still a cracking watch, with a toothsome performance from Cruise, sinking his spiky gnashers into just the right amount of ham. OK, so his Lestat isn't technically vanquished in the movie, but he is bled dry later on having his throat cut by Kirsten Dunst's footling vampire. Then he is fix on fire. Listen you, Lestat is of course dead for the whole proceedings, being a bloody vampire and all.

FILMS: Interview With The Vampire (1994): The Vampire Chronicles (L-R) Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt

'In that location is no flipping mode we are renting Cocktail this night' (Picture: File)

4. Mission: Incommunicable II (2000)

Hang on! When does Tom Prowl die in the second Mission: Incommunicable movie? How come there's 2 more movies with him in it after this? Skillful question, inner voice. Although it's easy to forget that Ethan Hunt gets bumped off amongst all the misdirected Woo. Yes, yeah, he's not really killed, but the guy wearing his face as a mask is, much to the chagrin of Dougray Scott, who should have been paying attention given there are exactly 19 face up-irresolute scenes in this awful, awful, awful only intermittently awfully fun moving-picture show.

v. Vanilla Sky (2001)

Cameron Crowe's pretty good and pretty mindbending remake of the superior Spanish flick, Abre los ojos, cast Cruise as multi-millionaire man-child David Aames, who is so decorated spending all his dosh that he doesn't notice that he is actually expressionless, having given himself a drugs overdose after a car crash and a bad time in a nightclub. That's what happens when life is only a dream. The line, 'Somebody died… information technology was me', remains a cracking 1.

FILM... Vanilla Sky  (2002) starring Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz.  For further information: please contact your local UIP Press Office.

Cruise and Cruz (Pic: Paramount)

SIDE NOTE: According to MovieBodyCounts.com, there are no fewer than 558 deaths in The Last Samurai (2003). Prowl's graphic symbol is not one of them. Un. Be. Liev. Able.

6. Collateral (2004)

Cruise stepped into the bad guy'southward role for Michael Mann's taxi-based LA thriller, and what happens to bad guys? That'south right: they croak it. The expiry of the bad guy in question, Vincent, is given extra poignancy by the fact that he foreshadowed his demise early in the activity, talking about someone else who died on public send while no one noticed. Like all cool bad guys, Vincent doesn't die until about two minutes after he gets shot.

Film, 'Collateral', (2004)  A door is all that stands between Vincent (TOM CRUISE) and the completion of the job he was hired to doL.

Tom was delighted to hear Jamie Foxx had been nominated for an Oscar and non him (Picture show: Paramount)

7. Mission: Impossible Iii (2006)

JJ Abrams is manifestly a Far and Away fan. Yep, Cruise gets brought back to life by his female love interest again, this time afterwards Philip Seymour Hoffman sets off a charge in his head. Nil a skillful thump to the chest won't fix.

8. Valkyrie (2008)

If you knew your Second Globe War history, you knew the ending to this i already. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Cruise) is killed by a firing squad afterward his plot to kill Adolf Hitler doesn't become according to program.

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Cruise in Valkyrie (Picture: MGM)

ix. Oblivion (2013)

Before he 'dies similar 200 times' in Edge of Tomorrow, in the words of the film's director, Doug Liman, Cruise got some sci-fi die-fi practice in during his concluding outing, Oblivion. It's a visually stunning, beautifully scored slice of work, and while it pilfers from plenty of classics of the genre, it does and then with a breathy abandon that is actually quite sweet.

Information technology's definitely worth an extra spotter or two, if only to figure out The Cruiser's decease pattern in information technology. For starters, it turns out he'southward playing a clone, so his original is long dead. On top of that, the main Clone Cruise we follow during Oblivion blows himself upward at the end of the moving picture to save humanity. Or clone-anity. Or something. Information technology sounds remarkably crap, doesn't information technology? Well, it isn't. It'south dead expert. And Cruise is a dead good actor at dying on screen. He always has been. Apart from in Far and Abroad.

Tom Cruise stars in Oblivion (Picture: Universal)

What'south the affair, clone you lot take a joke? (Picture: Universal)