I have created a class with a picture but I have no idea how I would go about making it so that when the actor dies he gets set back to there. Any suggestions?
If the program simply is in one screen it's prety easy, just put in a command like
setLocation(x,y);
Define the x and y-coördinates and you should be done.
If it's something like a sidescrolling game that's a bit different.... you might want to rebuild the world in that case, but that's where some trouble might appear.
Anyway, if you want more suggestions or something just post a short comment you need more help behind mine and you should be fine.