people you thought were dead but aren't

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.

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

https://i.postimg.cc/5tW9B6t8/Screenshot-20231015-230545.jpg

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