people you thought were dead but aren't

Sammy Davis Jr, cept he really was dead when I displayed surprise at seeing him on TV whilst I thought him dead.

Anyone see the interview with Henry Grimes in this month's Wire? Bassist with Albert Ayler in the 60s, the first question the poor fella asks is, "So, how is Albert doing?". Interviewer has to break the news that Ayler died in 1970.

Yogi Berra's still alive?!

When Jane Russell turned up in a photograph for the Oscars I was amazed.

I thought Frank Zappa was dead for ages. then I read in the paper that he had just died. I killed him with my negative beliefs.

-- webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, January 7, 2003 2:05 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

I love that nobody cared enough to correct him.

Thought for years that the actor that played Zack from Saved By The Bell was dead, it went around my school as a rumour. Believed it because why would anyone bother making that up? And it's not as if he was in the public eye a lot after the show finished, anyway.

Walter Cronkite. He already seemed to be kind of old in the famous clip where he announced that Kennedy was dead. I guess he would have only been in his mid-40s at the time though.

he was still producing stuff as of a few years ago, CBS seems to have disavowed him entirely now probably because of his politics.

Gene Wilder

I was fairly sure Alec Guinness had died at least 3 different times before he actually did die.

I thought Gene Wilder had died too, until I checked it on IMDb.

i thought harold gould died. not so

(Dave Allen died in 2005, don't be confused by the opening post)

http://www.deathlist.net/

I remember being a bit surprised when I found out Doris Day is still alive. For some reason I seem to assume every celebrity who had his or her heyday before the 60s must be dead by now.

Also, apparently this thread put a jinx on Katharine Hepburn, who died only a few months after she was mentioned here.

heh I thought Katherine Hepburn was still alive :)

I had a discussion the other day about someone that was all about whether they were alive or dead. I forget who it was now, and we never checked for confirmation either.

But yeah, Harvey Dent.

David Blaine was who we were talking about.

No, he was just buried alive.

I think people were hoping.

i just watched holiday today (Grant/Hepburn. excellent), she looks even more severe than usual but the character is wonderfully vibrant, as is grant (he does flips); i hadn't seen in ten yrs probably i was afraid i'd be disappoinged; lots of thoughtful lefty easter eggs in the script.

Clive Dunn

I love how Abe Vigoda has a simple website devoted to his living 'status', I guess everyone must think he is dead.

http://www.abevigoda.com/

ok wtf

Erich von Däniken!

Olivia de Havilland from 'Gone with the Wind' is still alive and still making a mockery of my Death Pool. Come on Ollie!

I was fairly sure Alec Guinness had died at least 3 different times before he actually did die.

Yes, for some he was the king of this

Yes, for some reason he was the king of this, that should read. I can think of at least two occasions when I bet someone that Alec Guinness was dead when he wasn't.

Charles Aznavour

For some reason I thought Pratchett was dead til I read an article by him today about his alzheimers. I think I confused him with Douglas Adams.

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Smith_(actress)";>Liz Smith</a>

Very pleased to find she's not and has just received an MBE. Good on her.

Liz Smith that is.

peter o'toole

he almost won a oscar last year brutha

I thought Harold Pinter was dead after I saw Synecdoche, New York. 3 weeks later. . .

For a period of maybe 3-4 years, I was under the assumption Thomas Dolby had killed himself sometime in the 80's by jumping off a building, I was under the belief I learned this from Pop Up Video. Only maybe 2 years ago did I learn he's still alive.

Last November I was surprised to learn Claude Levi-Strauss is still alive and would be turning 100 in a few weeks (nov 28).

Also a local Media Magnate, who has a collection of listed and appraised celebrity memorabilia stored where I work has something by Abe Vigoda, and in the description mentions he is deceased. Turning 88 in February, actually.

Jack Chick

We can all hope...

ariel sharon.

According to the Dead Pool thread, Fidel Castro is still alive. According to wikipedia, he's still alive! WTF, I thought he died and everyone talked about it.

he did die but he's still alive

http://wizardishungry.com/iiam-busted.gif

Also Fidel Castro, on more than one occasion. Thank you very much ILM.

Castro's been on his death *bed* for ages hasnt he?

I wonder if Kim Jon Il is actually dead. I have this weekend at bernies feeling about him.

everybody's dead!
~~except you~~

Angela Lansbury

clint eastwood

That's just silly.

saw a preview for some current movie he's in, otherwise i'd still be thinking he was

I could've swore that Andrew Wyeth had been dead already for years.

J.D. Salinger. He had his 90th birthday the other day, I hadn't realised he's still around.

Claude Lévi-Strauss - strange how the original structuralist has outlived all the post-structuralists.

mikhael gorbachev

I thought Ricardo Montalban had died a few years back, but maybe I'd confused him with Scotty, or someone.

http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/74794386_full.jpg

http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/pat_harrington_1_full.jpg

schneider from one day at a time. not actually sure if i thought he was dead?

(looking through a 'where are they now' thing, might as well get these out of the way)

http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/ann_b_davis_now_full.jpg

i knew she was alive, she looks nice

(ann. b davis)

Bob Uecker

i was set straight on uecker a few months ago heh. i guess auto-archiving people into deadness is normal but certain people just seem to attract it (mostly old people lol)

http://www.tamierin.com/html/cont_2.jpg

not in my pool either but better red than dead :) she played nu-pippi longstocking; she fine

http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/_0001_51105315_full.jpg

sry again but wtf: Dwayne Hickman was a permanent fixture on "Love That Bob."
how hard is it to put together a decent where are they now thing? honestly. if it means 'bob denver is best known for dobie gillis' i suppose i'm all for it

Is that Richard Dawson in the Family Feud photo?

For the last two years or so I had thought Douglas Crimp had died around 20 years ago (it turns out it was Craig Owens)

Prior to hearing word of his recent death, I had no idea Claude Levi-Strauss was still alive.

Cy Twombly

Everybody in the USA. When I heard about the terrible terrorist cigarette attack on the news.

Roger Ebert
Fidel Castro
Billy Corgan
Justin Bieber

I always read that Roger Ebert thread as saying "now a RIP thread"

Also, I've found it's very easy to forget that Jean-Luc Godard is still alive, even in spite of his activity in the 00's.

Happy birthday Ennio Morricone! 82 years of being surprisingly still alive! http://dreamchimney.com/oftheday/otd_images/20101110120926_auto.jpg

Charles Manson's still alive!?! (77 years old, just got his 12th parole denial)

Alby Mangels!

Yeah Manson's next parole isnt for 15 years, so he definitely gonna die in prison.

While watching something on telly the other day, I googled to see when it was that Stanley Baxter died. Turns out he didn't.

gene wilder

Tom Hatten

Richard Attenborough

Murray Walker

Helmut Schmidt

In similar vein, Henry Kissinger

Peregrine Worsthorne

^ no way!

Is Ariel Sharon still hanging on in there?

Is Peregrine still being published anywhere on a regular basis?

Or wait, was the 'no way' for Kissinger?

For Peregrine

Jimmy Young

Did you mean you were surprised he's still alive? I thought at first you were expressing incredulity that anyone could think he'd died. (sorry for being so slow)

The former.

No idea Kissinger was alive.

With Schmidt and Worsthorne the situation is more it occasionally being brought to my attention that they're still going, and being vaguely surprised to be reminded of this, whereas with Murray Walker I was sure I remembered reading his obituary, but then I saw him on TV talking about his 90th birthday.

many years ago, I was convinced that Russell Crowe had died during the filming of Gladiator. Turned out it was Oliver Reed.

Now I'm trying to work out who it was that that died I was confusing with Murray Walker.

Gene Wilder.

These days it's common for Hollywood actors to star in movies well into their 70s and 80s, so I kinda assumed the reason the reason Wilder hasn't appeared in movies for 20+ years is because he's dead... But it turns out he simply retired at the age normal people do.

Always feel slightly disorientated when I remember that Jeremy Thorpe is still with us

http://www.ourcampaigns.com/images/candidates/b46/FullC46223D2000-01-01.jpg

xxxpost James Hunt?

Mikhail Kalashnikov (was in an alive-or-dead round in a pub quiz recently). He turned 94 yesterday.

Is Ariel Sharon still hanging on in there?

I also have to periodically check whether Ariel Sharon is still hanging in there (he is).

xxposts, re Murray Walker confusion, maybe Harry Carpenter?

Hugh Downs is alive at 92. He published his autobiography 53 years ago.

Jeremy Thorpe seconded

I had the 'hearing about somebody's death and being surprised they were still alive' the other day when John Cole died.

'hearing about somebody's death and being surprised they were still alive' reaction

I think that's what I meant to say

Bloody Hell, Sandy Gall is still alive and published a book last year.

yeah Thorpe is a great call

... and Sandy Gall

Tommy Docherty

I'm often mildly surprised that Muhammad Ali is alive. I guess when someone so mythical leaves the public eye one assumes they died a tragic early death.

Chuck Berry

Al from Happy Days

... well, he is now, Colin Wilson

Swear I was going to post this before I saw abanana's last post.

Marion Ross is still alive. Didn't know that she was just a year younger than Tom Bosley.

Fats Domino

whoa.

I can't believe Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard are still hanging in there.

had a discussion in the pub last week cos me and a friend thought James Taylor died in the last couple of years and another friend insisted he's playing over here next year

James Taylor's big thing now is he releases a Christmas album every year, which makes sense since by 1971 he was Perry Como + heroin.

http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/music/artists/james-tree.jpg

yoo-hoo, not dead over here!

Sometime in the past few years I seem to have acquired a false memory of Jonas Mekas dying. Then about a year ago I was pleasantly surprised to see he was about to celebrate his 90th.

I see him puttering around Anthology Film Archives now and then, even doing an intro to a screening (and he still makes films).

Chuck, Fats, Jerry Lee and Little Richard are gonna form a great jam band in heaven someday.

yeah and Janis Joplin will be on backing vocals cos she's the only girl i've ever heard of

Alain Delon!

Horace Silver

Peter O'Toole

Peter O'Toole

whoa.
I can't believe Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard are still hanging in there.
― pplains, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 15:59

Something I think about too, and which I specifically called my class's attention to when I talked about Little Richard on his birthday 10 days ago. I wrote the names of Elvis, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee, and Little Richard on the board, and I said that these were the four guys who invented rock and roll 60 years ago, and three of the four are still alive.

(I realize that's a very simplified version of how rock and roll came into being. They're 12-year-olds--more than adequate enough.)

Something I think about too, and which I specifically called my class's attention to when I talked about Little Richard on his birthday 10 days ago. I wrote the names of Elvis, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee, and Little Richard on the board, and I said that these were the four guys who invented rock and roll 60 years ago, and three of the four are still alive.

Momentarily misread this as "and all four are still alive."

There was a sad piece about Little Richard in a recent Rolling Stone. Apparently he had a bad hospital experience a couple years ago (went in for one thing, then several worse things happened) and can't perform much anymore. You get this feeling that he's in pain all the time and is basically waiting to die.

That's sad to hear. Saw Chuck Berry play in 2008. Was a bit of a carnival attraction air about it, but still, great to see him. Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Joan Fontaine and her sister Olivia de Havilland are the six I keep in my head as sort of hoping they go on for ever.

On a different note, I heard an interesting Radiolab episode recently about the Heimlich manoeuvre, which started with raised eyebrows that Henry Heimlich wasn't someone who 100 years ago. He's now 93.

who 100 = who died 100

Bishop Desmond Tutu

He's like my piano teacher, someone who I thought was just plain ancient when I was a kid and now I realize that hey, he was only something like 50 years old at the time.

Shirley Temple Black

Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rourke.

On a different note, I heard an interesting Radiolab episode recently about the Heimlich manoeuvre, which started with raised eyebrows that Henry Heimlich wasn't someone who (died) 100 years ago. He's now 93.

This is genuinely interesting to know, I had no idea either.

Wait, Chuck Berry's still alive?

I was surprised that both Galton and Simpson are still alive

This is useful dead pool 2014 research, you guys, keep 'em coming!

Incidentally, we were out with a few friends this afternoon when one friend told us that Peter O'Toole had died. Was pretty much an even split between "aw no, what a shame" and "was he not dead already?".

Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Joan Fontaine and her sister Olivia de Havilland are the six I keep in my head as sort of hoping they go on for ever.

RIP :(

alba you're the fucken angel of death. alba = white

Shit, did Alba just kill Joan Fontaine like that time Tuomas killed Michael Jackson?

lol xpost

Oh, this is bad. RIP Joan Fontaine.

Horace Silver

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, December 15, 2013 11:57 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/news-mainmenu-139/70-2013/12947-horace-silver-dies-aged-85

I was going to say Mose Allison, but it seems like tempting fate now.

Horace Silver is still alive. Gonna keep on fearlessly naming people I assumed were dead.

http://jacketupload.macmillanusa.com/jackets/high_res/jpgs/9780312642686.jpg

Mort Drucker

Richard Kiel

I remember being surprised Pharoah Sanders was still alive (and gigging!) a couple years ago when I saw him on the bill at a local jazz club. Looking at his wiki I see he's not even that old, 73 now.

I'm really thrown by Mort Drucker for some reason

Jack Davis is still alive too!

Al Jaffee still draws for Mad and turns 93 next March, what the hell.

James Garner. Im shocked

you shouldn't be, dude was in space cowboys and the notebook. you're not a man if you haven't seen the former and you haven't really fucked a woman if you haven't seen the latter.

I'm still pulling for Chuck Yeager to outlive the entire Mercury 7 (only one left - John Glenn)

Chuck Yeager is still alive!?!? He looked ancient in those car parts ads, and those were in the '80s!

Yeager should go on the people who know how to live list

GRASS VALLEY, Calif. – In the parking lot of this small Sierra Nevada town's airfield, a decommissioned F-104 Starfighter jet looms over a series of plaques. They honor the exploits of one Charles Elwood Yeager, better known as Chuck.

But while the display has a posthumous vibe, the local legend in question is very much alive and well, sitting in his hanger a few yards up the road.

"I'll be 90 in February, and while I'm not gonna run no marathon I still hunt and fish and fly," says Yeager, resting in the shade of a tail-dragger prop plane that he solos in regularly. Parked nearby is an old pickup whose plate reads BELL X1, the rocket plane he rode into history when it broke the sound barrier in 1947.

Living legend is an overused term, but it applies to this American original indelibly captured by Sam Shepard in 1983's The Right Stuff. Not that Yeager is remotely Hollywood. For him, life boils down to "duty, it's that simple."

The General, as he prefers to be called, doesn't particularly enjoy interviews; navel-gazing isn't his style. But he agreed to speak with USA TODAY to draw attention to the foundation that bears his name, which supports a scholarship program at Marshall University in his native West Virginia as well as the Young Eagles, a non-profit program chaired by pilot Sully Sullenberger that gets kids airborne (Yeager is Eagles' chairman emeritus).

Yeager may be in a dogfight with Father Time, but his bearing is still ramrod straight. He says his famously acute 20/10 vision remains sharp, although his ears are another matter. "I can't hear well," he growls in his iconic drawl. "Damn P-51 Mustang noise. You go sit behind that engine for eight hours, with a leather helmet on. But that's a handicap that came with the job."

...

Yeager's name popped back onto the cultural radar Oct. 14, the anniversary of his first supersonic flight. On that day in New Mexico, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner made history when he jumped out of a capsule at nearly 130,000 feet and broke the speed of sound on his descent.

While some 8 million people watched Baumgartner jump live on YouTube, Yeager wasn't one of them. He was over at Nellis Air Force Base outside of Las Vegas, strapped into a borrowed F-15 fighter. He proceeded to repeat his own record flight by laying down "a big ol' sonic boom over Edwards" Air Force base in the Mojave desert, where he'd run a pilot training program a half-century ago.

Always on the go, a few days later Yeager was hunting deer with the governor of West Virginia, and a week after that he was grand marshal of the Veterans Day parade in San Diego.

Coulda sworn Ronnie died a couple of years ago.

Ronnie Biggs that is.

Lata Mangeshkar

paul sorvino

Richard Hoggart!

ariel sharon until today

Dick Gregory?

I remember being a bit surprised when I found out Doris Day is still alive. For some reason I seem to assume every celebrity who had his or her heyday before the 60s must be dead by now.

― Tuomas, Friday, August 8, 2008 2:48 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

She's still alive! Still a surprise to me.

Prince Buster! He wrote a piece for the Mojo 20th Anniversary issue.

Gary Buerghoff, M*A*S*H's Radar, is on twitter and it has to be read to be believed...

Gary Buerghoff, M*A*S*H's Radar, is on twitter and it has to be read to be believed...

― Iago Galdston, Sunday, January 12, 2014 2:58 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Burghoff

I remember being a bit surprised when I found out Doris Day is still alive. For some reason I seem to assume every celebrity who had his or her heyday before the 60s must be dead by now.

― Tuomas, Friday, August 8, 2008 2:48 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

She's still alive! Still a surprise to me.

― Michael F Gill, 12. tammikuuta 2014 8:47

Apparently Day also released a new album in 2011, 62 years after her debut album! That must be some kind of a record, no?

Robert Conquest.

Probably. Thought of Cliff but the gap between his debut and most recent albums is a mere 54 years.

xp

tony bennett

Not only is Doris Day still alive, but so's B.B. King.

Matt Busby, not so alive.

Marge Champion

Swear Rueben Kincaid died, like, 20 years ago.

dwight eisenhower

Oh listen to you

Every single munchkin in the Wizard of OZ. Just found out that, as of yesterday, only one left, one of the Lollipop Guild boys...93. The last female munchkin died yesterday at 95.

Barbara Bush

Lisa Kudrow

I always think Francois Sagat is dead

George Kennedy (he's 89 today).

Stanley Donen, apparently.

Arthur Scargill.

Also a retroactive entry for Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

George Gaines

George GAYNES, rather.

Charles Manson.

pat robertson

I assumed he was still alive, but I sure as hell never realized that Christopher Lee was 92.

Didn't realize Maya Angelou was 86 either.

holy shit christopher lee is a pretty fucking spry 92.

Wilford Brimley

Bill Tidy, who is not only alive but on twitter, although he doesn't tweet very often

Lord Carrington!

Charles Aznavour. 90!

holy shit christopher lee is a pretty fucking spry 92.

― balls, Thursday, May 29, 2014 12:45 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

christopher lee's dad fought in the boer war!

christopher lee is old.

Bob Dole

Kenneth Cope. Still unDeceased.

Kirk Douglas

people you thought were dead but aren't except they are now

Frank Finlay

johnny mathis?!

in the silk
and amphetamine

Franco Zeffirelli, 93 years old.

Mathis is "only" 80. He was a mere 41 when "When A Child Is Born" was Xmas #1 in the UK (and 24 when he recorded "Misty"!), and yet seemed to be mid-50s even then.

huh
i remember thinking that he was super duper old when i was a kid because i had a big argument about him with my grandma

when i was about 7 or so
my grandma was very argumentative

George Martin

well he is now..

Surprised to see trailers for what looks like something presented by Maureen Lipman. Thought there was a big thing about her dying 10 or more years ago.

people you thought weren't dead but are

Mother Angelica

In a 1993 episode of Mother Angelica Live, Mother Angelica harshly criticized a mimed re-enactment of the Stations of the Cross at the World Youth Day in Denver, Colorado, which was attended by Pope John Paul II. Mother Angelica was particularly upset that a woman was playing Jesus. Archbishop Rembert Weakland of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee called Mother Angelica's comments "...one of the most disgraceful, un-Christian, offensive, and divisive diatribes I have ever heard".[20] Mother Angelica responded by saying, "He didn't think a woman playing Jesus was offensive? He can go put his head in the back toilet as far as I am concerned!"[20]

Gavin MacLeod. (I reposted the Trump-Warhol photo from the politics thread yesterday on Facebook, and someone followed with one of MacLeod and Warhol. Looked him up, and he's still around.)

Sister Wendy.

Lou Donaldson. And he's still playing!

kurt schwitterz?

Mamie Van Doren is 85 now, and so is the actress Nita Talbot, who when she was in her late 30s played the White Russian spy Marya on Hogan's Heroes

If you have $900 to spare:

http://www.popculturesignatures.com/hohesilpreal.html

Rip Taylor

John Astin

Whoa.

I guess I was thinking of Raul Julia.

psephologist David Butler (co-inventor of the swingometer, according to wikipedia)

http://www.markething.cz/wp-content/uploads/11250012.jpg

Mother Angelica

Well, now when you think she's dead, you'll be right.

welp, RIP

Beverly Cleary

Lewis Gilbert, 96.

Dr. Heimlich, 96, saves woman, eponymous manouveur: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36400365

Was surprised that Tina Turner was still alive

Doc Severinsen, still doing gigs

Lee Majors just appeared as Ash's dad in Ash vs Evil Dead. haven't heard of him in ages so assumed he was dead. Is he doing other stuff still?

He was in the Dallas reboot a couple of years back and I too was surprised he wasn't dead.

Trini Lopez turned 80 yesterday

Frank Sinatra's first wife Nancy is still alive - the mother of Nancy "Boots" Jr., Frank Jr., and Tina. She married Frank in 1939.

She turns 100 in September.

Kenneth Kaunda.

he looks tremendous for 93.

johnny mathis

he's still performing christmas concerts!

Johnny Rivers too, he's playing locally soon.

Malaprop comedian Norm Crosby

he looks tremendous for 93.

Presbyterianism keeps you young obviously.

Ken Dodd

Last I heard - which was admittedly a couple of years beck - Ken was still knocking out the 4hr+ live sets

Bob Goldthwaite!

Peregrine Worsthorne

― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:59 (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ no way!

Is Ariel Sharon still hanging on in there?

― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Monday, 11 November 2013 13:59 (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Peregrine Worsthorne

Frank Oz

Not seriously, but more amazed Rita Tushingham just turned up on 'Vera'

Was surprised that Peter Wyngarde just passed since again I thought he was somebody who was long gone.

Kenzaburō Ōe, 83 today

Andre Previn
Denis Norden

Yehuda Lerner

the 17 yr old emblematic hero of the Sobibor uprising is still alive, and a year younger than Lanzmann, who immortalised him in the classic Sobibor: 14th October 1943 documentary.

I'm just re-watching it tonight, it is a gripping watch, yet again. Yehuda had escaped from 8 Nazi camps and one major Nazi killing facility, in which he'd played a key role in it's famous inmate uprising, and helped murder a mid-level SS commander - all by the age of 17. I'd get some beers in for him.

Ken Nordine.

Good call, 98!

... also his wife is still alive, she is a relative spring chicken at 97, they've been married since 1945.

... oh no, scratch that, she died in 2016, aged 94 ;_;

Wow, 71 years together isn't bad going.

Twenty-One contestants Herbert Stempel and Charles Van Doren

whoa

Clarissa Eden, as in married to Anthony.. wtf!

paul hogan

^ you were thinking of Steve Irwin probably

malcolm mooney

Tom Lehrer.

Sister Wendy Beckett

thought for sure this bump would be for Bob Dole

David Bellamy.

I thought Simon Callow died but that Mark Gatton thing was new this year wasn't it.

Lol you think he died cause you saw his funeral in that one film

Monica Kindle (Tom D.) at 6:19 6 Dec 18
Sister Wendy Beckett

people who just died that you thought had died ages ago

(xp) She lasted three weeks.

tbf she didn't look like one of the nuns I had to deal with - in which I mean the type that would strike a kid's head with a wooden blackboard duster and probably think most 16th century art is perverted!

Leslie Phillips, 94!

ding dong

Scott Walker. Well, he is dead now, but I was surprised to read the news today about his passing, because for some reason I thought he had died a couple of years ago. Mandela effect?

You’re thinking of David Bowie

Scott Wilson died last year and I always confused them.

No, I'm sure I knew they were two different people.

(xpost)

bowie dies every weekend on bbc 4.

Donald Trump

Warren Beatty

John Prine

Lance Henriksen

Carol Burnett

1. Fritz Hollings is still alive.

2. The governor before George Wallace is still alive.

3. On the list of oldest living U.S. governors, Jimmy Carter comes in at No. 10.

1. Fritz Hollings is still alive

Nevermind!

Three days for the curse to take effect. Impressive.

Desmond Morris!

Walter Mondale

xp. oldmanwatching

Mondale may not be dead, but I'm sure Trump would mock him as "low energy".

Jim Knipfel

Rip Torn now RIP Torn.

88 is a very good innings for someone I presume was a bit of a caner.

Tommy Docherty's 91 and still going though!

my extended television universe is a bit unbalanced now at the idea of Artie not being here anymore :( wrong thread, but RIP Rip.

oh god :(

It doesn't belong in this thread anymore but I was surprised to learn about J. Gilberto's passing as I thought he had been long gone since all the people I associated him with had passed away a while ago (S. Getz in the early 90s, Sinatra late 90s, Jobim mid 90s, Moraes early 80s...).

Robert Wyatt.

fuck

of shit I thought you were saying Rip Torn AND Robert Wyatt

he's....not dead, right?

Well he is dead now, but he only died in February this year - David Bowie's first manager, Ken Pitt, he was 96.

Jane Withers, one of Hollywood's top ten box office stars in 1937 and 1938

Tom I thought you were answering my question and my heart went in my throat again.

This thread is a minefield

LOL

Tolhurst?

just checked, he's not lolling in the soil yet but some other Lol recently failed to dodge the coffin.

Creme?

no Lol Mason

So many Lols, so little time.

(xp) I set you up there for, "No thanks, I prefer my coffee black". Open goal, man.

how absolutely unGodley!

Is Robert Wyatt stioll with us.
I saw him credited as one interviewee on a Bluer nOte feature in UNcut last month and thought must have been before he died, which I thought was a couple of years ago.
Now can't find anything saying he died. Was I just remembering a 50th anniversary of his recording career, which would be 2014..

he hasn't died

And never will.

yes, he and Alfreda Benge are both 74

Rasputin-like against the attempts of this thread

John Astin, the actor who played Gomez Adams in the 60s.

He has now outlived Raul Julia by a quarter of a century, and Ken Weatherwax (Pugsley) by nearly 5 years.

Astin was interviewed on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast earlier this year

Nehemiah Persoff, who played Little Bonaparte in Some Like It Hot, turned 100 this year.

Wow, just saw him in a Columbo at the weekend!

Mike Stoller, who shockingly has to share a Wikipedia entry with the late Jerry Leiber.

Both Don Preston and Bunk Gardner, who played for the Mothers of Invention in the 1960s (87 and 86 yo respectively)

And not just alive but still playing out/touring.

pic.twitter.com/NyVrgAlKBW

— Mike (@mcgee_gorgo) March 12, 2020

Yes.

Shouldn't it have been the Antarctic though.

Glynis Johns, 96.

Wow! That makes 3 of the main 4 adults from the '64 Mary Poppins still with us

Eric Chappell

Valentina Tereshkova

Bobbie Gentry

joss ackland.

A hardy perennial but "The Masque of the Red Death" was on last night and reminded me of him. Roger Corman, 94 last month.

I heard Joss attributes his longevity to his habit of always travelling with a well-stocked (for any eventuality) spunky backpack.

joan plowright, 90

Claes Oldenburg, 91

Do we have a thread for people you thought were alive but aren't? An obituary for Ray Manzarek came up on my Facebook feed for some reason - I clicked through only to discover it was from 2013. RIP Ray, sorry it took me 7 years to learn you were dead

Yes, I posted Joan Rivers on it recently.

I missed that too. Must have been before we had the rolling obituary threads.

people you thought were still alive but aren't

Dickie Davies, 87.

Earl Holliman
Clu Gulager

Shocked to see Clu's name in credits for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Both born in 1928. Both surely would have guest starred on Bounty Law.

Speaking of Earl Holliman (I mentioned this somewhere before) all four of the original 1974 cast of TV's Police Woman are still alive... Ed Bernard (81); Charles Dierkop (83); Angie Dickinson (88); and Earl Holliman (91).

Walter Ernest "Wally" Fawkes (born 21 June 1924) is a British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and a satirical cartoonist. As a cartoonist, he usually worked under the name "Trog" until failing eyesight forced him to retire in 2005 at the age of 81.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Bacharach#/media/Datei:Marlene_Dietrich_and_Burt_Bacharach_visit_Jerusalem_during_a_1960_concert_tour_of_Israel_-_Photo_by_Fritz_Shlezingel.png

(Burt Bacharach & Marlene Dietrich, 1960)

Johnny Shannon, go-to character actor for Cockney gangsters e.g. in "Performance", 87.

for some reason I always think Steve Earle died 20 years ago from cancer or something. Wtf?

just did a play at the public theater before mama rona took over

Might be confusing Steve Earle with Warren Zevon.

Or Stevie Ray Vaughn

nah i think maybe it’s because in some photos from back then he looks slightly like Bill Hicks? Idk

Rhonda Fleming, 96.

Gena Rowlands, 90 today

Murray Walker, 96

his 2nd showing on this thread after Soref posted him 6 years ago.

Connie Francis

the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive

My shop teacher.

tell us more about mr. _____

Only winged him, eh?

xp
Sexist!

tell us more about mr. _____

― mookieproof, Wednesday, September 30, 2020 9:59 PM

I looked up Mr. Johnson (fuckit, no googleproofing) out of curiosity, and there he was, at the same address in the same town of 800 people. He's now 76.

His voter registration, like most of us around here, shows that he's a member of the Optional Party.

The next link was from the 1940 census, which listed him as a five-year-old living... in that same town of 800 people!

Roy Haynes, 95. Total ledge.

Was asked if Barbara Windsor was still alive the other day and hesitantly answered no, thinking she died at some point in the last four years. Then did the exact same with June Brown who only left Eastenders for good earlier this year.

Babs is still alive but has dementia, I believe.

I was absolutely positive that Michael Gambon had died a couple of years ago.

xp - curse of the thread strikes again!

Gambon and on and on

Phil Spector? Honestly thought he died a few years ago.

Genuinely thought that Sondheim had died years ago.

Shane McGowan definitely died a few years ago.

somehow my mom, who wasn’t real tech savvy, found this comedian on youtube that she really fell for. statuesque southern lady who tells clean funny stories: absolutely my mama’s jam! thru the magic of Algorithm, mom got to enjoy randomly coming across videos of this gal’s routines for a couple of years — until tragedy struck. she told me sadly that her comedian had died. oh no, i said, how did it happen? mom didn’t know because the memorial video youtube had shown her didn’t mention a cause of death. she mourned, i sympathized. when mom’s next birthday approached i decided to search online to see if that lady had ever put out a book or dvd or other gift-type merch, and discovered that 1.) HOMEGIRL LIVES and 2.) WAS TOURING and 3.) HAD A PERFORMANCE COMING UP IN OUR CITY IN TWO FLIPPING DAYS

obviously i dropped everything and got us tickets and told mom i was taking her somewhere special, and she was game, because she was awesome. so there we were in a lutheran church at 10:30 on a thursday morning, packed in with a crowd of hyped old ladies, my mom completely baffled, me giggling like a lunatic and trying not to bounce in our pew because i was even hyped-er than the ladies around us. random woman gets up front and gives a generic intro and then WHABAM, back from the dead, big as life, neon pink power suit and sparkly jewelry transfixing the crowd, my mom’s idol appeared. i’d never seen her so stunned, i’ve never seen anyone so stunned. it was dope.

thread winner

What was with the memorial video??

Also, please share idol’s name.

Jeanne Robertson, rip in peace (she died for real this august). and my best guess for the memorial is that some other lady with a similar name (and features?) must have passed away, her family put together a video honoring her, and youtube figured oh hey people who enjoy the comedy stylings of this one lady must want to watch the funeral of this similar lady? which turned out to be the right call in the end because my mom realizing JR was still alive was pretty much a top 3 moment in both our lives, i can still get totally blissed out on the memory <3

Simon Callow again , think somebody said he wasn't dead a couple of years ago and now he's been in Hawkeye so he must be undead or something or reanimated again. Must be like.

cat, that is some down-home wholesome humor right there.

Oh jeez what a beautiful story

does this count?

thank you for watching #ThisIsGoingToHurt, it was an honour to play the SHO

long live our NHS 💙 pic.twitter.com/9KAWRNx3R1

— Ambika Mod (@ambikamod) March 22, 2022

Hazel McCallion, former long-time mayor of Mississauga Ontario, 101.

Margaret Keane, painter of big eyed children, age 94.

Ramblin' Jack Elliott, 90 and still performing.

Bob Newhart, 92

Philip Baker Hall, 24 hours ago.

Arthur Scargill, back on the front of the tabloids.

John Barth, author of The Sot-Weed Factor

David Jason

*falls thru bar into coffin*

Buzz Aldrin

Ray Reardon

Legit thought that Milan Kundera had been dead for awhile (he just passed yesterday)

I had the same thought.

King Juan Carlos of Spain

sorry lads, thread's over

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satori enabler (Noodle Vague) at 3:11 10 Mar 23

Ray Reardon

whoa, brandon wilson's still on twitter.

Watched The Devils last night, discovered today that Vanessa Redgrave is still going!

For some reason I thought that David Jason was dead, but looks like he's got a new series on daytime TV.

Damn, I thought he was dead too!

Briefly mixed up David Jason with David Janssen (who is definitely dead)

Was reading about Antonio Margheriti's Gamma One series and discovered that Lisa Gastoni is still alive

Wow, I love the Gamma One series and Lisa Gastoni. Did you see the recently circulated photo of three of the Talking Heads posed in front of the Wild Wild Planet poster?

No! Wild Wild Planet is one of my faves

found the picture:

Last night, along with our partners at A24, we kicked off our STOP MAKING SENSE residency in Brooklyn with a gorgeous 4K restoration, exclusive merch, an electric crowd and….a surprise appearance by The Talking Heads themselves, DAVID, TINA AND CHRIS!! 🤯

📷: @RB3Photography pic.twitter.com/iEMpNY51mb

— Alamo Drafthouse NYC (@AlamoNYC) January 28, 2024

Max Boyce is apparently still touring and just showed up in my local paper.

Putting together my 1947 mix and there's a record from French singer Line Renaud, a quick google shows she is still alive at the age of 95

Tippi Hedren (94)

I was thinking I'd never seen her in anything except the two Hitchcocks, but no: also Pacific Heights (remember her), Citizen Ruth (no), and I Heart Huckabees (no).

Jac Holzman, founder of Elektra and Nonesuch (92)

also i did not know his son (adam) played keyboards with Miles Davis and now plays in Steven Wilson's band, and his grandson (russell) plays drums in Caroline Polachek's band

I was thinking I'd never seen her in anything except the two Hitchcocks, but no: also Pacific Heights (remember her), Citizen Ruth (no), and I Heart Huckabees (no).

Roar is definitely badfilm, but one that's worth watching.

The Harrad Experiment (1973) is an interesting one where Tippi Hedren features and her daughter Melanie Griffith and future son-in-law Don Johnson are also in the cast

Dan Morgenstern, 94. He saw Fats Waller perform in 1938!!!

Arthur Smith

Charlie Sheen

I don't know why I think Glenn Hoddle is dead - I kinda do know why but hey - anyway shit Hoddle's still alive

Hearing that Jimmy Swaggart died, I thought he might have been the last of the big 80s televangelists left. I went to see when Jim Bakker died and - he's still alive at 85! Maybe I conflated breaking up with Tammy Faye with a sort of living death.

Renee Richards