people you thought were dead but aren'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."