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

Gene Wilder

William Eggleston

Lee Scratch Perry (79)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (96!)

I thought Perry was much younger than that

Ferlinghetti! Wow!

David Rockefeller is still alive. He turned 100 this summer. Figured his whole generation passed away decades ago.

Lee Scratch Perry is still looking in good condition, it might be that magic piss he has an inexhaustible supply of.

genarians.com is a valuable resource for surprisingly undead celebrities (although some of the entries fall into the 'famous for being old' camp)

Alexander Butterfield, the guy who revealed the White House taping system during the Watergate hearings. He turned 89 in April.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Butterfield

Stylianos Pattakos
Greek general, co-masterminded the military junta (1967-1974)
11/08/1912

lol, stay strong big guy

Happy 98th Denis Healey!

Is Kirk Douglas still alive?
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Holy crap, he is!

yeah this is always kirk douglas for me

I mean hell, it wouldn't be unreasonable if someone came along in this thread and posted Michael Douglas.

hey he looked pretty good in ant-man!

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2015/07/21/21-young-michael-douglas.w1200.h630.jpg

I had the same reaction to seeing Kirk Douglas on that site. I could have sworn he died a couple years ago, for sure!

is it true that Stylianos Pattakos is related to Corey Pattakos? I'm sure I read read this somewhere, but can't seem to find confirmation. (Corey Pattakos is also actually still alive btw)

http://img.webme.com/pic/s/scene-kidsboysandgirls/coraypattakos..jpg

Nehemiah Persoff, the actor who played the cab driver in On the Waterfront when Brando says, "I coulda been a contender!" He was already in his mid-30s at that point. Appeared in about 1000 TV episodes also.

"Raging Bull" Jake LaMotta is 94.

Had no idea--or that a frightening looking quasi-sequel to Raging Bull came out this year (LaMotta was forced by MGM to change the title). Came out where, I don't know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sysU_g5pjc

I mean, I have vague (and evident phantom) memories of Kirk Douglas obits on the news a few years ago, ha.

was recently surprised to discover that brecht scholar and theatre critic eric bentley is alive and about to turn 99

also nice to know j.p. donleavy is still pottering around his irish estate

xp not that phantom: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/01/people-magazine-kirk-douglas-obit_n_6246358.html

Vivean Gray, who played Mrs Mangel in Neighbours - 91.

lyndon larouche. thanks, balls.

haha i was surprised as well

David Waddington

Rivaldo

Huey "Piano" Smith

How are the clowns doing?

Leon Kossoff

How many people have one of these?

http://www.abevigoda.com/

George Steiner

William Schallert

Freddie Jones

Mistah Healey, he dead

Bill Tidy (it's his birthday today)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Tidy

Tidy's career has now taken him into the world of corporate speaking and hosting where he is in great demand from organisations who are entertained at events by his wit and live drawing.

really should be a 'citation needed' after that 'entertained'

that was cheap, I'm sure people are entertained. there are a couple of examples of his corporate speaking here, so people can judge for themselves, anyway

http://www.youtube.com/user/sthmedia/videos

he's represented by the same talent agency as Katie Hopkins!

I always forget that Wally Fawkes/Trog is still alive

Bella Emberg

John Nettleton aka Sir Arnold from Yes Minister

http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsN/tve19963-19860227-1894.jpg

http://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/06/10/Gaz%20Coombes_of_Supergrass.jpg

Koko the gorilla (44 years old!)

Bill Tidy's been on the old re-runs of Countdown they've been showing on Challenge recently. I looked him up last week and was surprised that not only is he alive, he's younger than my dad.

I received a letter from Bill Tidy when I was 10. My aunt sent him some of my cartoons (which were rubbish, even for a 10yo, but my aunt, bless her, obviously thought the man at the Liverpool Echo needed to see my marvellous renditions of football drama and sci-fi adventure). I think he said something about "action is so much more exciting to draw than static scenes" and gave me some bland encouragement. I think I chucked out that letter and my cartoons sometime in the early '90s.

Thought Tim Curry was dead for some reason. I think I tossed him in the ground accidentally when Raul Julia passed.

Raul Julia's dead?

Stanley Baxter
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 12:21 (11 years ago) Permalink

11 years on and still going strong, errrrr, Stanley Baxter that is, not Dom. Can't be sure about Dom.

I think Baxter is overdue another Xmas special. (I had no idea he was still doing Radio 4 plays as recently as last year).

Perhaps there should be another thread (or perhaps there is) for people you'd forgotten were dead, and it bummed you out all over again when you remembered. Today's example: Mark Bell. :(

RIP Al Molinaro