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

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Angie Dickinson, 89

《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 18:58 (four years ago)

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

soref, Thursday, 29 July 2021 20:25 (four years ago)

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).

Josefa, Thursday, 29 July 2021 23:57 (four years ago)

Genre film schlockteur Bert I. Gordon, 98

Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Friday, 30 July 2021 16:09 (four years ago)

Wow, had no idea!

Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, 30 July 2021 16:13 (four years ago)

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.

Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, 30 July 2021 16:15 (four years ago)

Clu Gulager, 92.

Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Friday, 30 July 2021 20:51 (four years ago)

Bill Tidy, 87

Dan Worsley, Monday, 2 August 2021 21:45 (four years ago)

Good one.

Soundtracked by an eco jazz mixtape. (Tom D.), Monday, 2 August 2021 22:21 (four years ago)

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

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 5 August 2021 22:40 (four years ago)

Lionel Blair: 92

《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 5 August 2021 22:48 (four years ago)

Tony Blair, 1300

Soundtracked by an ecojazz mixtape (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 August 2021 22:50 (four years ago)

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!

“Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 August 2021 21:49 (four years ago)

Super lawyer Martin Garbus, 87.

Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 8 August 2021 19:00 (four years ago)

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

charlie brown from outta town (GM), Monday, 9 August 2021 18:25 (four years ago)

Netflix's DVDs-by-mail service.

Alba, Monday, 9 August 2021 21:02 (four years ago)

uh oh i think i owe them some DVDs

mark s, Monday, 9 August 2021 21:40 (four years ago)

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

Bo Burzum (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 01:27 (four years ago)

“Some”

Bo Burzum (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 01:27 (four years ago)

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

heyy nineteen, that's john belushi (the table is the table), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 20:57 (four years ago)

Owe?

No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 22:36 (four years ago)

Dominic Chianese, fuckin Uncle June!

chap, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 22:42 (four years ago)

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

No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 23:42 (four years ago)

bobbie gentry, 79

apparently just went pynchon/salinger 39 years ago?

mookieproof, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 23:59 (four 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]

keeping myself to myself (Matt #2), Sunday, 15 August 2021 14:21 (four years ago)

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

mark s, Monday, 16 August 2021 14:39 (four years ago)

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.

bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 16 August 2021 15:42 (four years ago)

The Smothers Brothers

Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 16 August 2021 15:44 (four years ago)

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

“Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 August 2021 16:51 (four years ago)

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

Josefa, Thursday, 19 August 2021 10:43 (four years ago)

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

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

professional anti- (Karl Malone), Friday, 20 August 2021 15:29 (four years ago)

he has had 23402 martinis

professional anti- (Karl Malone), Friday, 20 August 2021 15:29 (four years ago)

Lalo Schifrin

Alba, Sunday, 22 August 2021 02:28 (four years ago)

Wow

Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 August 2021 11:05 (four years ago)

Louis Gossett Jr.

peace, man, Sunday, 22 August 2021 11:16 (four years ago)

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

AlanSmithee, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 16:01 (four years ago)

Sirhan Sirhan

visiting, Friday, 27 August 2021 22:56 (four years ago)

Scottish film and TV director, Joseph McGrath, 93.

"Bobby Gillespie" (ft. Heroin) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 20:19 (four years ago)

Vera Miles, 92.

"Bobby Gillespie" (ft. Heroin) (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 12:55 (four years ago)

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

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 15:41 (four years ago)

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

"Bobby Gillespie" (ft. Heroin) (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 15:45 (four years ago)

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

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 15:47 (four years ago)

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

"Bobby Gillespie" (ft. Heroin) (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 15:55 (four years ago)

New memoir out from Hayley Mills, 75.

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 5 September 2021 14:09 (four years ago)

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

How does Spock's brain come into this? (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 September 2021 14:23 (four years ago)

Hailey Mills MERELY 75!

Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 5 September 2021 14:35 (four years ago)

Geoffrey Chater, English actor, appeared in numerous TV programmes and films, best known role as the chaplain in "if....", 100 years old earlier this year.

How does Spock's brain come into this? (Tom D.), Friday, 10 September 2021 21:50 (four years ago)

Sandra Day O'Connor, 91

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 11 September 2021 01:00 (four years ago)

yet again on his death Jean Paul Belmondo . I keep thinking that people have died years earlier. Jus been watching his early stuff and not really watched much contemporary French stuff though Maybe I'll change that now I'm getting into subtitles again.

Stevolende, Saturday, 11 September 2021 07:15 (four years ago)

Eva Marie Saint, 97

Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 02:04 (four years ago)


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