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

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Margaret Keane

(just watched Big Eyes)

Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 23 April 2015 03:49 (eleven years ago)

Norman Lloyd

(just watched Sabotage)

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 27 April 2015 11:49 (eleven years ago)

Christopher Lee is alive and well and still cranking out the metal albums:

http://heartlandrecords.com.au/WebRoot/Store/Shops/heartlandrecordstrial/5243/A981/DA36/DC4C/0FCF/C0A8/6152/0D2B/christopher_lee_charlemagne_the_omens_of_death_lp_front.JPG

yeovil knievel (NickB), Monday, 27 April 2015 12:07 (eleven years ago)

When did he have his arms shortened?

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 27 April 2015 12:20 (eleven years ago)

chuck berry

it me, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 02:58 (eleven years ago)

oh, and angela lansbury

it me, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 02:59 (eleven years ago)

until ten minutes ago, if you had asked me if Dr. Ruth is dead I would have said with 100% certainty that yes, Dr. Ruth is dead, but apparently not

soref, Sunday, 3 May 2015 00:29 (eleven years ago)

She's not?

pplains, Sunday, 3 May 2015 02:17 (eleven years ago)

The two head coaches of the January 1974 Super Bowl are still alive: Don Shula (85) and Bud Grant (88)

Josefa, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 20:46 (eleven years ago)

Herman Wouk (100 on May 27).

Miss Anne Thrope (j.lu), Monday, 18 May 2015 14:03 (eleven years ago)

For some reason I thought Regis Philben had died, but he just put in his last Letterman appearance, so I stand corrected.

Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 03:51 (eleven years ago)

three weeks pass...

Ron Moody

Willibald Pirckheimers Briefwechsel (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 June 2015 11:20 (eleven years ago)

Christopher Lee is alive and well and still cranking out the metal albums

alas no more :(

irl friend of the geir (NickB), Thursday, 11 June 2015 11:36 (eleven years ago)

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/media/images/83559000/jpg/_83559942_ron_moody_rex.jpg

saw this flash up on twitter and momentarily thought mick fleetwood had carked it

irl friend of the geir (NickB), Thursday, 11 June 2015 11:38 (eleven years ago)

Had no idea Ornette Coleman was still alive until he wasn't.

ed.b, Thursday, 11 June 2015 19:17 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

watching late spring for the first time in years and casually googled.

dylannn, Saturday, 11 July 2015 08:16 (ten years ago)

Omar Sharif.

either this is the worst dichotomy ever, or I'm a (fake penthouse letters mcgee), Saturday, 11 July 2015 14:28 (ten years ago)

x 2

pplains, Saturday, 11 July 2015 14:34 (ten years ago)

John Astin

soref, Saturday, 11 July 2015 19:00 (ten years ago)

Little Richard

joygoat, Sunday, 12 July 2015 04:43 (ten years ago)

Lee Konitz

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 24 July 2015 18:07 (ten years ago)

Pete Doherty

Mr. Snrub, Friday, 24 July 2015 18:53 (ten years ago)

Sandy Koufax

Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 26 July 2015 18:44 (ten years ago)

http://www.tmz.com/2015/07/30/valerie-harper-hospitalized-brain-cancer-maine/

Horrible of me, but I thought she'd already died.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 30 July 2015 18:13 (ten years ago)

Oh, here in a few years, you'll be saying the same about Sandy Duncan.

pplains, Thursday, 30 July 2015 18:33 (ten years ago)

I actually did a quick check a few minutes ago to see if Sandy Duncan was still alive.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 30 July 2015 18:36 (ten years ago)

Lupita Tovar (just turned 105).

Charlie Chaplin Challenge (j.lu), Thursday, 30 July 2015 23:31 (ten years ago)

Hubert de Givenchy

pop addicts should "do their thing", whatever that may be (soref), Saturday, 1 August 2015 15:02 (ten years ago)

Clive James. Could have sworn he died a couple of years ago.

suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Monday, 3 August 2015 11:19 (ten years ago)

The reverse of this - thinking at the weekend "Marlon Brando is still alive, I think? Or did I hear that he died last year" - no, he died in 2004.

Andrew Farrell, Monday, 3 August 2015 12:00 (ten years ago)

Ken Dodd

(no offence to people) (dog latin), Monday, 3 August 2015 14:16 (ten years ago)

no word on his father's dog though

imago, Monday, 3 August 2015 14:17 (ten years ago)

Johnny Meeks, Gene Vincent's guitarist. Just passed away July 30th, I was quite sure this happened long ago.

Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Monday, 3 August 2015 14:35 (ten years ago)

I had a dream last night that I met Bob Hope at some festival, and in my sleep I was thinking "I'm surprised he's actually still alive!"

Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Monday, 3 August 2015 14:37 (ten years ago)

I don't know why, because he's not really that old or anything, but I was convinced that Gary Waldhorn was dead

pop addicts should "do their thing", whatever that may be (soref), Thursday, 6 August 2015 00:13 (ten years ago)

Also not that old, but for some reason I thought that I remembered hearing that Marsha Warfield died quite a few years ago.

The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Thursday, 6 August 2015 04:17 (ten years ago)

Yogi Berra.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 August 2015 13:10 (ten years ago)

You think he's lived a long time, wait until you see how long he stays dead.

pplains, Thursday, 6 August 2015 14:05 (ten years ago)

Charlotte Rae. I could've sworn she had died.

I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 August 2015 14:16 (ten years ago)

Norman Lear

it me, Thursday, 6 August 2015 14:21 (ten years ago)

^^ This one for me too, just the other day.

pplains, Thursday, 6 August 2015 14:27 (ten years ago)

Was surprised to read that George Segal is not only alive but acting in The Goldbergs.

... (Eazy), Thursday, 6 August 2015 15:04 (ten years ago)

Al Molinaro -- Al from Happy Days.

aaaaablnnn (abanana), Thursday, 6 August 2015 17:19 (ten years ago)

See, that's one of those guys I'm scared to look up because then I'll discover he was like 35 years old when he played that role.

pplains, Thursday, 6 August 2015 17:34 (ten years ago)

Jeez, that dude is 96 now! I think if I made it to 96, I'd just have the doctors put me in a medical coma so I could be assured I'd make it to 100.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 6 August 2015 17:36 (ten years ago)

that makes me feel a little better, but damn.

pplains, Thursday, 6 August 2015 19:40 (ten years ago)

Maybe he seems older because we associate Happy Days with the 50s.

aaaaablnnn (abanana), Thursday, 6 August 2015 19:49 (ten years ago)

Wow. So in the Happy Days universe, Al was still alive in 1996.

Poor Arnold Morita died in 1985. Maybe he got to see that Karate Kid movie right before he went.

pplains, Thursday, 6 August 2015 21:12 (ten years ago)

Clive James. Could have sworn he died a couple of years ago.

― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo)

he's been terminally ill for about 4 or 5 years and has been writing about his imminent death, in terms that make it seem like it's just round the corner, ever since. due to this ive assumed multiple times over recent years that he must have passed away.

corbyn's gallus (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 6 August 2015 21:33 (ten years ago)


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