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

Cora an amazing actress with an impeccable sense of timing.

https://i.imgur.com/Tm3o7Y1.gif

She outlived Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed, may they RIP

Tony Jacklin. Though he's not really that old, 76.

steve lawrence, 85

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/episode-11-pictured-victoria-jackson-as-eydie-gorme-mike-myers-as-picture-id138370564

Steve Lawrence has outlived a fair amount of his Blues Brothers costars (he played their booking agent in both films).

Aaron Neville, 79.

I knew Brian Murphy was still alive but his wife (Linda Regan, probably most famous for HiDeHi) has just posted a photo of him which makes you think he's been gone for a while but his body hasn't realised yet.

My wonderful hubby https://t.co/kaHzzirA5m pic.twitter.com/c359h6Hq73

— Linda Regan (@Linda_Regan) December 14, 2020

Always delighted to check into this thread to report that Angie Dickinson (89) and Gena Rowlands (90) are still with us.

Bob Dole, 97(!)

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

Abdullah Ibrahim aka Dollar Brand, 86. Hope I'm not jinxing him with a mention here.

Anna Halprin (100!).

Scott stapp

honestly thought he’d be a pretty good 2020 dead pool candidate. Is he perennial?

Bob Dole, 97(!)

― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, December 16, 2020 8:06 AM (yesterday)

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

― pplains, Wednesday, December 16, 2020 8:22 AM (yesterday)

I assumed "the 1976 tickets" was some kind of sporting team

You're thinking of Lubeck's Sportradio AM 1976 - The Ticket.

Peter Brook, 95.

John McPhee, 89

Geneviève Page, 93.

Spanish film director Carlos Saura, 88.

Leslie Bricusse, 89

abbe lane, 88

Leslie Bricusse, 89

Huey "Piano" Smith, 86

oh, wow!

Seconded

never realized how young he started his career. maybe the "hidey hidey ho" vocals made me assume he came up in an earlier scene?

Lloyd Price, 87

I actually thought he might still be alive and he is: Nehemiah Persoff, 101 years young.

Wow. Knew that must have been you who posted that.

Joe Bussard

Tina Louise, 86

Bernard Cribbins, 92

Persoff isa painter and lives in cambria!

Sidney Poitier, 94

Prolific TV actor since the 1950s Peter Mark Richman (formerly Mark Richman), 93. He's such a journeyman it's hard to say what his most famous role is, perhaps as Blake Carrington's lawyer on Dynasty.

Just caught Nehemiah Persoff in a 1968 episode of Hawaii Five-O and he looked well into middle age then!

(peter) mark richman: the other martin landau

lol yes, that guy.

I see that Asner was recently mentioned on his birthday but it really should be remarked: every time I see him in something from the '70s (most recently, the 1977 Christmas TV movie The Gathering) he seemed moderately old, like at least late middle age, 40+ years ago. And then I almost immediately wind up seeing him in something current (most recently, Cobra Kai) and thinking, wow Asner got himself some good genes.

Three of the main cast of The Time Tunnel (1966-1967) are still with us: James Darren (84), Lee Meriwether (85) and Robert Colbert (89).

^pvmic

I can't help myself, sorry

Would watch a Time Tunnel revive where the original cast takes a time tunnel back to 1966.

Also I need an original cast Police Woman revive.

No worries. I love this stuff.

Went down a Burt Bacharach rabbit hole each of the past two years where I came across this, maybe I posted on another thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBLMbJnN69c

Weird thing is that Burt met Angie through his parents, but maybe you knew that.

I didn't!

One great thing about Police Woman is whenever on the show Angie goes into a cocktail lounge there's a musician in the background playing a Bacharach tune

wow, great detail!

Larry Storch, 98 today.