people you thought were dead but aren't

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?

Arthur Smith

Charlie Sheen