people you thought were dead but aren't

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Webcrack, you have that power too? I killed Princess Di with negative thoughts. I'm quite proud of that.

Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 16:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Snake Plisken

DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Elvis, works down the chip shop

baggy (baggy), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 18:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jimmy Snuka

Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 18:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

My ex-boyfriend killed Andy Warhol, Nico and Dali with the power of his negative thinking.

kate, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 18:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

I killed Falco. The day before he died I was joking about him dying. And then he did. I never do that anymore.

Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 18:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

A guy I knew somewhat randomly suckered me into going to see the Who with him this last tour (though I dig them, I don't so much him) and I sat so long thinking "Idon'twannago, Idon'twannago" that I killed John Entwhistle.

luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 07:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ultimate Warrior! Everyone thought that the things tied around his arms cut off circulation or something.

Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 07:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jean Grey.

Simon Generic, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 08:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

five years pass...

Yogi Berra's still alive?!

Mark C, Monday, 17 March 2008 01:09 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 March 2008 01:11 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

Rock Hardy, Monday, 17 March 2008 01:19 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

Bodrick III, Monday, 17 March 2008 01:28 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

j-rock, Monday, 17 March 2008 07:12 (sixteen years ago) link

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

tremendoid, Monday, 17 March 2008 07:17 (sixteen years ago) link

Gene Wilder

admrl, Monday, 17 March 2008 07:32 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 March 2008 07:39 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Tuomas, Monday, 17 March 2008 07:44 (sixteen years ago) link

four months pass...

i thought harold gould died. not so

tremendoid, Thursday, 7 August 2008 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link

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

StanM, Thursday, 7 August 2008 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.deathlist.net/

Billy Dods, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link

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, 8 August 2008 06:48 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Tuomas, Friday, 8 August 2008 06:50 (sixteen years ago) link

heh I thought Katherine Hepburn was still alive :)

Ludo, Friday, 8 August 2008 09:34 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

Scik Mouthy, Friday, 8 August 2008 09:35 (sixteen years ago) link

But yeah, Harvey Dent.

Scik Mouthy, Friday, 8 August 2008 09:36 (sixteen years ago) link

David Blaine was who we were talking about.

Scik Mouthy, Friday, 8 August 2008 10:04 (sixteen years ago) link

No, he was just buried alive.

NickB, Friday, 8 August 2008 10:09 (sixteen years ago) link

I think people were hoping.

Scik Mouthy, Friday, 8 August 2008 10:25 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

tremendoid, Friday, 8 August 2008 10:38 (sixteen years ago) link

Clive Dunn

blueski, Friday, 8 August 2008 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link

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/

MaresNest, Friday, 8 August 2008 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link

ok wtf

Erich von Däniken!

Øystein, Monday, 11 August 2008 10:35 (sixteen years ago) link

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

JTS, Monday, 11 August 2008 12:04 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Tom D., Monday, 11 August 2008 12:13 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

Tom D., Monday, 11 August 2008 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link

four months pass...

Charles Aznavour

Keep Carmody and Carry On (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Friday, 2 January 2009 10:05 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

Trayce, Friday, 2 January 2009 10:11 (fifteen years ago) link

<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.

Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 2 January 2009 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link

Liz Smith that is.

Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 2 January 2009 10:57 (fifteen years ago) link

peter o'toole

Gaz Promantino (Brohan Hari), Friday, 2 January 2009 10:58 (fifteen years ago) link

he almost won a oscar last year brutha

missile loaded | com mode engaged | its a go (tremendoid), Saturday, 3 January 2009 01:58 (fifteen years ago) link

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).

Girlfriend, you've been scooped like ice cream (mehlt), Saturday, 3 January 2009 02:08 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

Girlfriend, you've been scooped like ice cream (mehlt), Saturday, 3 January 2009 02:10 (fifteen years ago) link

Jack Chick

I was into Hongro before he got big (Batty), Saturday, 3 January 2009 02:22 (fifteen years ago) link

We can all hope...

Trayce, Saturday, 3 January 2009 08:26 (fifteen years ago) link

ariel sharon.

the chicano incarnation of benito juarez (primalfixations), Saturday, 3 January 2009 09:34 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

the pinefox, Saturday, 3 January 2009 10:49 (fifteen years ago) link

he did die but he's still alive

cozwn, Saturday, 3 January 2009 10:51 (fifteen years ago) link

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

cozwn, Saturday, 3 January 2009 10:52 (fifteen years ago) link

thread winner

Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 28 November 2021 06:09 (two years ago) link

What was with the memorial video??

Also, please share idol’s name.

Alba, Sunday, 28 November 2021 07:53 (two years ago) link

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

a swift, a shrike, a kite, a (cat), Sunday, 28 November 2021 08:11 (two years ago) link

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.

Stevolende, Sunday, 28 November 2021 11:04 (two years ago) link

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

pplains, Sunday, 28 November 2021 15:33 (two years ago) link

Oh jeez what a beautiful story

huile about oeuf (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 28 November 2021 16:02 (two years ago) link

three months pass...

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

koogs, Thursday, 24 March 2022 04:32 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

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

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 5 May 2022 14:10 (two years ago) link

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

Dan Worsley, Sunday, 8 May 2022 22:30 (two years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Ramblin' Jack Elliott, 90 and still performing.

nickn, Sunday, 5 June 2022 20:51 (two years ago) link

Bob Newhart, 92

Philip Baker Hall, 24 hours ago.

pplains, Thursday, 16 June 2022 03:27 (two years ago) link

Arthur Scargill, back on the front of the tabloids.

Alba, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 16:47 (two years ago) link

John Barth, author of The Sot-Weed Factor

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link

two months pass...

David Jason

Alba, Friday, 16 September 2022 15:00 (two years ago) link

*falls thru bar into coffin*

mark s, Friday, 16 September 2022 15:01 (two years ago) link

four months pass...

Buzz Aldrin

pplains, Monday, 23 January 2023 15:12 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

Ray Reardon

satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 March 2023 15:11 (one year ago) link

four months pass...

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

Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 11:10 (one year ago) link

I had the same thought.

Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 12:59 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

King Juan Carlos of Spain

deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 21 August 2023 16:23 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

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

Ray Reardon
He's been around since the 16th century, not likely to go anywhere now.

https://i.postimg.cc/htkwhmGR/20231012-194542.jpg

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 15 October 2023 22:33 (one year ago) link

whoa, brandon wilson's still on twitter.

pplains, Monday, 16 October 2023 00:24 (one year ago) link

three months pass...

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

imago, Sunday, 28 January 2024 14:50 (nine months ago) link

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

emil.y, Sunday, 28 January 2024 15:11 (nine months ago) link

Damn, I thought he was dead too!

imago, Sunday, 28 January 2024 15:21 (nine months ago) link

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

Elvis Telecom, Monday, 29 January 2024 05:57 (nine months ago) link

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?

Josefa, Monday, 29 January 2024 07:44 (nine months ago) link

No! Wild Wild Planet is one of my faves

Elvis Telecom, Monday, 29 January 2024 08:33 (nine months ago) link

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

Elvis Telecom, Monday, 29 January 2024 08:40 (nine months ago) link

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

Piedie Gimbel, Monday, 29 January 2024 15:19 (nine months ago) link

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

This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 January 2024 17:26 (nine months ago) link

three months pass...

Tippi Hedren (94)

Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 2 May 2024 21:14 (six months ago) link

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).

clemenza, Thursday, 2 May 2024 21:37 (six months ago) link

Jac Holzman, founder of Elektra and Nonesuch (92)

Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 21:54 (six months ago) link

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

Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 21:58 (six months ago) link

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.

Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 2 May 2024 22:16 (six months ago) link

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

Josefa, Thursday, 2 May 2024 22:22 (six months ago) link

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

Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 3 May 2024 22:27 (six months ago) link

three months pass...

Arthur Smith

glumdalclitch, Monday, 19 August 2024 15:24 (three months ago) link

Charlie Sheen

brimstead, Monday, 19 August 2024 23:40 (three months ago) link


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