the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive

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Telma Hopkins!

but that was last week.

today it was ARNOLD STANG!!!!

don't know why i though telma hopkins died.

Zsa Zsa Gabor just turned 91 a few days ago.

abe vigoda

I think Ernest Borgnine is still at it too.

doris day

she's getting a grammy tomorrow

Shirley Temple

!!!

Leonard skinner, but he's now dead.

I was surprised that Bosko even lived.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, June 15, 2004 4:15 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark

dying here

had no idea Sam Beckett lived until 1989 until the other day

j.d. salinger, but then he died not long after i found out

Louie Anderson

He was on Tim & Eric a year or two ago.

Kenneth Mars, but once again after he was dead.

Jane Russell

Clive Dunn

(xp) ... prompted by the fact that "Darling" is on just now, I notice that four of the cast are still alive at 90+

Vernon Dobtcheff, 90.
Ann Firbank, 91.
Roland Curram, 92.
John Woodvine, 95.

London Live. Which lots of people in London can't even see apparently!

Ah yeah, we don’t have a working ariel, and I don’t think they stream, so that’s us out!

Another thread regular: George Chakiris, 92.

Giorgio Armani, 90

I thought Augustus Buchanan / Big Youth was dead. He is not. He is 75. I just saw a flyer/poster for a gig in Brixton the other week. Him and Linval Thompson. So annoyed I didn't see this before the actual show!

Manfred Mann (Lubowitz), 84 today.

I thought Augustus Buchanan / Big Youth was dead. He is not. He is 75. I just saw a flyer/poster for a gig in Brixton the other week.

hahahaha I literally just saw a poster two hours ago on West Green Road in Tottenham for a Big Youth show and was like "Big Youth's alive??"

Funny because earlier today I checked if Dennis Alcapone was still alive... he is... he's not playing in London though.

xpost Maybe you were thinking of U-Roy? He died recently.

Anyway. "Airplane!" stars Robert Hayes (77) and Julie Hagerty (69)

Francoise Fabian (91)

...and still working!

I sometimes--like just now--get her confused with Anouk Aimée. There was a category "Famous People with Alliterative Names" at pub trivia tonight. Neither one turned up.

Clive Davis still out and about among the fabulous

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/style/sunset-boulevard-nicole-scherzinger-broadway.html?ogrp=dpl&unlocked_article_code=1.UE4.47rD.guXp5EjkqUJT&smid=url-share

Lee Grant at 98 (i think she may have been mentioned recently)

Her exact age is still a matter of conjecture!

Vladimir Zamansky, actor in several Tarkovsky films (e.g. "Professor's telephone interlocutor" in Stalker), still alive at 98

Paul Samwell-Smith, Yardbirds bassist & record producer (most notably with Cat Stevens), 81 years old

Dame Shirley Porter (93)

hell can wait for her

Johnny Pate, jazz bassist and later producer and arranger (notably on "Superfly"), 100.

Roy Clarke, comedy writer, 94.

Johnny Pate, jazz bassist and later producer and arranger (notably on "Superfly"), 100.

Also composer of the fab soundtrack to Brother On The Run

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUNgUd3mqbA

loved his work on hee haw

Joan Plowright, who is auctioning off a load of Larry’s stuff.
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/oct/28/laurence-olivier-auction-richard-iii-prosthetic-nose

Jimmy Tarbuck!

― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, February 19, 2020 3:29 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

honestly i thought Jimmy Tarbuck pegged out years ago

― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Friday, October 20, 2023 9:19 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Thirded! Unbelievably he's still alive! 84 and still going strong...ish

On 15 May 2023 Tarbuck committed a series of driving offences, causing damage to vehicles while driving in Coombe Gardens, Kingston upon Thames, near his home, reported to have occurred a few days after his sister's funeral. According to court documents, he pleaded guilty to a series of offences, including driving a mechanically propelled vehicle without due care and attention, failing to stop and give his name and address following a road accident, and failing to report an accident.

Buzz Aldrin

In the course of checking something related to Freddie Freeman, found out that Bobby Richardson will turn 90 next August.

Ralph Nader, who I understand is famous but is not much more to me than a line from a Foetus song, 90.

I think I knew he was still alive but it's nice to be reminded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UIzsPIrZdc

Costa-Gavras, 91 (and still working!)

Author Thomas Harris, 84.

For some reason I thought Tony Todd was dead. He was alive! Until I found out he was dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Zekgzwsxg

To a lot of people, he's Candyman but to me he's Kurn, Son of Mogh! 1954-2024

Wendy Carlos!

Rudy Wurlitzer, screenwriter of Two-Lane Blacktop and Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid plus, I discover, former secretary of Robert Graves, 87

In the Decoder Ring podcast about Pink Lady, TV producer (and puppeteer) Sid Krofft is interviewed, and his brother Marty only died a year ago.

Gary Sobers, 88.

Good one.

Funny because earlier today I checked if Dennis Alcapone was still alive... he is... he's not playing in London though.

― The count has shot himself (Tom D.), Monday, 21 October 2024 21:22 (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is the laziest mobster alias ive ever seen

Derek Jacobi (playing the same role in Gladiator II as in the original)

derek jacobii

Millicent Martin, age 90. I didn't realise she was still working up to a couple of years ago.

Shirley Eaton, 87.

maybe not particularly famous himself, but the tv director tristan de vere cole at 89 is the last still living child of augustus john (that they know of)

Pat Suzuki, 94.

I think Pat Suzuki is one of the oldest living celebs who were Mystery Guests on the game show What's My Line? - she appeared on the show in 1959.

Ahead of her are Eva Marie Saint (100); Terry Moore (95); Robert Wagner (94); and Joanne Woodward (94). Moore's appearence was the earliest, in 1955.

One-hit wonder film director Allen Baron (Blast of Silence being the 'hit'), 97. I assumed he died in the 1970s or something, but no! Still with us.

current events got me wondering... Brenda Spencer is still alive, still in prison in Corona, and denied parole in 2022

One-hit wonder film director Allen Baron

fairly prolific on the small screen, though:
Baron directed over 200 episodes of television shows, including multiple episodes of The Love Boat,[5] Charlie's Angels, Arnie, Love American Style, Room 222, The New Temperatures Rising Show, House Calls, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and Run, Joe, Run

Edgar Winter, a youthful 77