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

Betty Boothroyd, 91. I'm not really surprised the old fucker is still going but I remember thinking she must be at least 91 at some point like 2006 or similar.

lots of melty folk getting excited about Betty excoriating Boris Johnson in the House of Lords is a perfect illustration of a what a degenerate shithole the UK is. But I enjoyed much more listening to her on the British Audio Archives talking about living through the 30's depression in Dewsbury when her mum was working in a factory and her dad was an unfashionable house-husband.

Tom Lehrer.

I could have sworn Sheldon Adelson was dead.

Bobby Seale

I could have sworn Sheldon Adelson was dead.

You're not alone on this -- I thought he was dead too!

Stanley Baxter

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 12:21 (sixteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

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

― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 15:32 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

still alive at 90. which for a glaswegian man is positively methuselahesque

― *-* (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 20 October 2016 17:49 (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Still kicking around at 92.

― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 25 November 2018 11:28 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

About time for a Stanley Baxter update. Yes, still there, 93 next month.

― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 April 2019 17:06 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Stanley Baxter, one of the patron saints of this thread, was 93 on Friday.

― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Sunday, 26 May 2019 10:47 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Only Stanley Baxter has more mentions I think.

― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 January 2020 13:46 (eight months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Stanley Baxter

Glen Michael.

― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 10:45 (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

93 and counting

― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 2 May 2019 07:52 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Glen Michael, Stanley Baxter, Annie Ross... thread's turned very Caledonian.

― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 May 2019 11:15 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Annie gone this year :( However Glen still with us at 94, he is eight days older than Stanley Baxter.

Frank Bough

Chuck Norris, 80.

robert duvall, 89

Dean Stockwell, 84

for a second i got him mixed up with Ross Perot's running mate James Stockdale and was like "there's no fucking way" and indeed there was not.

Jasper Johns.

Jasper Johns 90, Claes Oldenburg 91, Frank Stella 84. All still going

Geoffrey Boycott, 80. I could've sworn he died years ago.

have you had some kind of policy against taking in news about him

Junior Byles.

joe biden

Sly Stone.

Chuck Yeager, 97

whoa, good one

cormac mccarthy, 87

He has a new book on the cards! Supposedly.

Sly Stone.

― Tuomas, Thursday, November 5, 2020

Always genuinely surprised he's still here. Is he still living in a van?

He won a court case for $5 million for two decades in back royalties six years back, so hopefully not. But even when he was reported to be living in the van, it was parked outside a four-bedroom home his lawyer rented for him, that he was "too paranoid" to go inside.

Apparently he didn't see the $5m because it was appealed but having now googled him it seems the Jackson estate bought up his back catalogue last year, so maybe now he's getting something?

A new air freshener for his rear-view mirror.

Judd Hirsch, because my partner and I were trying to remember his name after talking about Taxi and now I'm like 'shit, 85? please don't die before the year is out'.

had a shockingly large role in the Independence Day sequel a couple years back!

Also spotted in Sharknado 2 on one of the down-the-dial Freeview UK channels the other day. Driving a cab, natch.

Judd Hirsch played Marc Maron"s dad who lived in a van out the front of Maron's house on the sitcom 'Maron'


#onethreadbutreallyonethread

He was also in Uncut Gems!!

Now, Judd Nelson, no idea what he is up to.

Joan Didion, 85

james baker, 90

Speaking of St. Elsewhere alums, Norman Lloyd is still alive at 104.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, March 31, 2019 7:01 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

106 today!

Dick Butkus

Star of Blue Thunder!?

I think that's a sign, because I was just looking up something about Dan O'Bannon, and didn't realize he wrote the Blue Thunder script. Then I thought, huh, I haven't seen the Blue Thunder movie since I was a kid, I should watch it. And now this call back to the TV show? I think I'm in.

Angie Dickinson, 89

Joe Turkel, best known as Lloyd the bartender in The Shining and Eldon Tyrell from Blade Runner. Still alive at 93

this doesn't even belong on this thread but i don't know where to put it. there was a guy i went to law school with and he lived near me. we would sometimes talk at the bus stop, he was really nice. after he graduated he took a rock climbing trip somewhere and he ended up falling from a boulder and he died from the head injury. he was a bon iver fan (i mean this was 2009) and the facebook page about his death had something about a bon iver song. since i don't have any reason to ever think of him but like once a year i run across a reference to bon iver, the idea of him dying has been replaced in my brain with "the guy from bon iver died." then i have to say to myself, "no, not him." i will persist in doing this until he dies for real or i die.

marion ross (mrs. c on happy days), 92

Judd Hirsch, because my partner and I were trying to remember his name after talking about Taxi and now I'm like 'shit, 85? please don't die before the year is out'.

I've mentioned her before, but still alive at 94 is Jane Withers, once a child star rival of Shirley Temple, and one of America's top ten box office attractions of 1938 and 1939.

She retired at age 21, back in 1947.

Danny Bonaduce, 61
Eddie Kramer, 78

dang Jane Withers!! and she's only 94? what a life

George Schultz, Reagan's second Secretary of State, 99 (100 in a month).

Wonder what that Yale Tiger looks like now.