people you thought were dead but aren't

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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)

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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)

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

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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