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

Esther Rantzen, 81

Len Deighton, 92

Now that is a good one!

Valentina Tereshkova, 84

Angie Dickinson, 89

Kenneth Baker, 86

when you google him, under 'Is Kenneth Baker still alive?' it says he died in 2016, but they seems to be confusing him with the guy who was inside r2d2

The film director Sidney J. Furie (88) was mentioned recently in this thread. I just watched his film The Naked Runner, a Frank Sinatra vehicle from 1967. It struck me that several of the main cast are still with us, namely Derren Nesbitt (86), Inger Stratton (84), and Edward Fox (84).

Genre film schlockteur Bert I. Gordon, 98

Wow, had no idea!

Norman Lear

― Come and Rock Me, Hot Potatoes (Old Lunch), Sunday, August 11, 2019 12:15 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Just turned 99 this week.

Clu Gulager, 92.

Bill Tidy, 87

Good one.

She's not that old, and I had no reason to think she *wasn't* alive, but Linda Blair, a mere 62.

Lionel Blair: 92

Tony Blair, 1300

Claire Maurier, who played Antoine Doinel's Mom in The 400 Blows (in addition to parts in other French films of note like Amelie and La Cage aux Folles) is still alive at 91!

Super lawyer Martin Garbus, 87.

talk show host Bob Eubanks, just now, in a press release about some TV show he's doing.

Netflix's DVDs-by-mail service.

uh oh i think i owe them some DVDs

My brother has done DVDs he had t returned in over five years

“Some”

Somewhere, I have a DVD that I own Netflix...

Owe?

Dominic Chianese, fuckin Uncle June!

I saw him in person once! He sang some kind of Italian folk song.

bobbie gentry, 79

apparently just went pynchon/salinger 39 years ago?

Television's James Burke, 84. Radio 4 listeners (i.e. not me) may know him from this:

In 2019 he produced a series of five 15-minute programmes for BBC Radio 4 with the title James Burke's Web of Knowledge, in each of which he traced the connections between two widely separated people or themes, the first programme connecting Mozart to the helicopter.[13]

frances sternhagen (mom of cliff in cheers) still alive at 91

Clu Gulager, 92.

Has his own reserved seat at Tarantino's only-shows-actual-film rep cinema, and will (as of 2017) hang in the lobby and chat about the last feature to other viewers.

The Smothers Brothers

Ann Blyth, from the original Mildred Pierce, turns 93 today.

Newton N. Minow, head of the FCC under President Kennedy, known for describing television as a “vast wasteland” (95).

this is the cover of an album with tony bennett and bill evans in 1977!

https://i.imgur.com/QUbrCWk.jpg

he has had 23402 martinis

Lalo Schifrin

Wow

Louis Gossett Jr.

Jack Hedley (90), lead actor in the 1977 BBC series Who Pays the Ferryman?

Sirhan Sirhan

Scottish film and TV director, Joseph McGrath, 93.

Vera Miles, 92.

Tom, I've often wondered: what is your methodology for finding all these not-dead people?

Usually I'm watching a film they were involved in and that drives me to check up on Wiki.

Ah, gotcha. Was secretly hoping for some sort of agency of the not-dead.

In the case of the last two, "The Great McGonagall" (abysmal) and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance" (not abysmal).

New memoir out from Hayley Mills, 75.

Funnily enough, I was just watching "Carry On Jack" with Juliet Mills, 79, and Bernard Cribbins, 92.

Hailey Mills MERELY 75!