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

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Mary Tyler Moore

The Reverend, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:00 (thirteen years ago)

ha, I've posted Dick van Dyke and MTM itt!

The Reverend, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:01 (thirteen years ago)

Olivia De Havilland and Joan Fontaine

polyphonic, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:47 (thirteen years ago)

Martin Landau.

Sleep Deprivation Thriver (B.L.A.M.), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 05:24 (thirteen years ago)

lisa kudrow

Treeship, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 05:27 (thirteen years ago)

I always seem to think that Ennio Morricone is dead, but he's still working!

Dan I., Wednesday, 19 June 2013 10:02 (thirteen years ago)

kirk douglas

Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 10:10 (thirteen years ago)

Denis Healey

Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 10:47 (thirteen years ago)

Slim Whitman...but he's dead now :-(

Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 14:57 (thirteen years ago)

Esther Williams (til recently)

ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:01 (thirteen years ago)

Horace Silver and Clark Terry. Both fortunately still alive.

(Terry might be the last surviving member of any of Duke Ellington's orchestras)

Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:07 (thirteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

found myself at I.M. Pei's wikipedia page just now. he is 96 years old and STILL ALIVE. i thought he died in the 80s for some reason.

Treeship, Sunday, 7 July 2013 16:41 (twelve years ago)

architects seem to live forever though.

Treeship, Sunday, 7 July 2013 16:41 (twelve years ago)

Ronnie Hawkins

Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 7 July 2013 17:21 (twelve years ago)

seven months pass...

H. Rap Brown

imago draggin' (The Reverend), Sunday, 2 March 2014 06:40 (twelve years ago)

Jerry Lee Lewis

Mark G, Sunday, 2 March 2014 09:16 (twelve years ago)

harry dean stanton (discovered he was alive via a "jeopardy" answer)

fact checking cuz, Sunday, 2 March 2014 09:57 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

Bill Macy, from "Maude" and The Late Show. He's 91.

Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 12 April 2014 22:24 (twelve years ago)

who's that leave left from maude? adrienne barbeau?

balls, Saturday, 12 April 2014 22:58 (twelve years ago)

Basically those two, and I guess Barbeau's son.

Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 12 April 2014 23:22 (twelve years ago)

Jerry Maren - the last Munchkin played by a 'little person', as opposed to a child, in the 1939 version of Wizard of Oz is still alive, according to Wikipedia. He was 19 when the movie was filmed. He's 94 now. And counting...

Aimless, Sunday, 13 April 2014 01:54 (twelve years ago)

Tupac no lol just messin

Robert Conquest

Prostitute Farm Online (Bananaman Begins), Sunday, 13 April 2014 02:02 (twelve years ago)

Olivia de Havilland

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 13 April 2014 02:06 (twelve years ago)

Barbeau's tits

Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Sunday, 13 April 2014 04:05 (twelve years ago)

Olivia de Havilland

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, April 12, 2014 10:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

When Joan Fontaine died, there was a lot of talk about O. de H., because they had been so bitterly separated for so many years. (And I'm morbidly curious to see what TCM does when the last major Gone With the Wind star finally dies.

In the meantime, I am pleasantly surprised that Diana Serra Cary (Baby Peggy), Luise Rainer, and Kenneth Anger are still with us. But in all of these cases, it's just a matter of time.

#TweetFromAnUnknownWoman (j.lu), Sunday, 13 April 2014 05:00 (twelve years ago)

doris day

― Frogman Henry, Friday, February 8, 2008 2:00 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Doris Day

― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, February 18, 2011 4:50 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same here.

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/doris-day-rare-public-appearance-huge-party-celebrating-90th-birthday-201484

pplains, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 17:41 (twelve years ago)

three months pass...

Keely Smith

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 8 August 2014 20:25 (eleven years ago)

Peter Vaughan

The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 8 August 2014 20:36 (eleven years ago)

James Cotton

Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 August 2014 20:40 (eleven years ago)

David Bellamy

soref, Friday, 8 August 2014 20:54 (eleven years ago)

^ dead to me

The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 8 August 2014 20:57 (eleven years ago)

I had no idea that he is now a cranky climate change sceptic, still hadn't gotten over Johnny Ball

soref, Friday, 8 August 2014 21:14 (eleven years ago)

something to do with the Homeopathic Society to boot

The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 8 August 2014 21:15 (eleven years ago)

oh god wait Johnny Ball's a climate change sceptic? oh god :(

The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 8 August 2014 21:16 (eleven years ago)

add Tony Soper to this thread list by the way

The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 8 August 2014 21:17 (eleven years ago)

wish i could find a clip of whatever TV show Tony Soper used to present that had really evocative birdsong played over the end credits, think it may have been a curlew call in particular

The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 8 August 2014 21:21 (eleven years ago)

four months pass...

Bob Uecker

Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 5 January 2015 22:56 (eleven years ago)

Billy Davis, Jr. - then I realized I was conflating him with Don Cornelius just because Solid Gold and Soul Train blurred together in my mind from watching them as a small kid.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 January 2015 22:58 (eleven years ago)

I thought Christopher Lee had been dead for years, then I read that he died today which also isn't true.

tsrobodo, Monday, 5 January 2015 23:01 (eleven years ago)

He has risen from the grave before, iirc

Josefa, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 01:21 (eleven years ago)

George Kennedy

Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 18:11 (eleven years ago)

Sheila Reid. I could have sworn she died last year.

the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 18:41 (eleven years ago)

Dabney Coleman

Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 19:26 (eleven years ago)

Piers Anthony.

Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:27 (eleven years ago)

rasputin

local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 22:37 (eleven years ago)

three weeks pass...

Chris Rea is alive! (also, he isn't Robert Palmer) (yeah, I know, there's nothing similar to them, but he somehow was, in my mind)

StanM, Sunday, 1 February 2015 18:07 (eleven years ago)

Fool if you think he's over, because he's only just begun

(this post brought to you by Predictable Dad Jokes About Dad Music Incorporated)
(when I was 13 Chris Rea was dad music and every dad ever by law had "Road To Hell", "Auberge" and a Dire Straits album but he's not even that any more, right, everything I like is dad music instead, I know)

club mate martyr (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 1 February 2015 21:37 (eleven years ago)

Chase No Face

i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Sunday, 1 February 2015 21:40 (eleven years ago)

Zsa Zsa Gabor still alive

Mark G, Sunday, 1 February 2015 21:50 (eleven years ago)

Tim Hunkin

soref, Sunday, 1 February 2015 22:24 (eleven years ago)


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