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

Harrison Ruffin Tyler Sr. is not very famous, but he is alive. Harrison Ruffin Tyler Sr. is the last living grandson of President John Tyler, who was born in 1790.

Eva Marie Saint turns 98 today!

And Gina Lollobrigida is 95 today!

When EMS goes, will that bring the curtain down on all the references on Lloyd Cole's Rattlesnakes? Like "Vogue" and Lauren Bacall.

When Joe Turkel died a few days ago I remember thinking "I didn't realise Joe Turkel was still alive". He was the spooky butler in The Shining and Dr Tyrell in Blade Runner. He was only in his fifties in those films but he looked older.

I didn't realise he was still alive until he died.

doc severinsen turned 95 today

he's a good american equivalent to the various englishes panto performers who still survive

Earl Holliman, 93.

https://is-or-was.com/

This is either really easy or I'm pretty good at it.

Norman Jewison, 95

Another 95yo: actor-singer Ed Ames

Ah, yes. I have just been thinking about him for some reason.

Nancy Kwan, 83.

Glad to hear it!

As I work my way through The Sopranos again, I'm a little surprised that, 15 years later, Frankie Valli's still alive (88). Even released an album last year.

one of my friends saw him live recently, though no idea how he sounds.

be funny if he's a Tom Waits-ish baritone now

He's totally convincing in The Sopranos (and also strikingly different than all the other captain-level wiseguys). I remember really taken aback the first time I saw his name in the credits.

"remember being"

Nancy Olson, best known for playing Betty Schaefer in Sunset Boulevard, 94.

Barry Humphries, a spry 88.. born just a little after Elvis

Marion Ross (Happy Days' Mrs Cunningham), 93.

... also 93, Clu Gulager.

Patrick Duffy, former Labour MP is 102. Never heard of the fucker tbh but a notable detail about him is that he was the only MP to verbally attack Thatcher over the death of Bobby Sands while getting booed by all sides of the house, including by his Labour Right colleagues.

he was good in Man from Atlantis

this cunt is very old, but I don't think he's been around long enough for his circulatory system to start developing primitive gills!

I thought Marion Ross was a lot closer to Henry Winkler's age for whatever reason.

His name came up here three years ago, but it's worth mentioning that the actor William Daniels, who played Dustin Hoffman's dad in The Graduate and is known for his strangely old world transatlantic accent, is still kicking at the age of 95.

Rachel Robinson, widow of baseball star Jackie (1919-1972), turned 100 yesterday.

Peter Bonerz from The Bob Newhart Show is in the Marcel The Shell movie.

For some reason Nicholas van Hoogstraten popped into my mind. He's an infamous British landlord who styled himself as a cartoonish imitation of Peter Rachman (he legally changed his name to Nicholas Adolf von Hessen for no reason other than to have "Adolf" in his name). He emigrated to Zimbabwe several years ago and is apparently still alive. 77 isn't all that old, but he seems to have been around forever on account of the fact he became infamous at an early age.

He presents himself as a sinister crime boss with establishment connections, but as with e.g. Kenneth Noye he didn't seem particularly good at it, although he presumably lives a decent life in Zimbabwe.

Clu Gulager, 92.

― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Saturday, July 31, 2021 6:51 AM (eleven months ago)

... also 93, Clu Gulager.

― Tom D: I was in the army (Tom D.), Saturday, July 16, 2022 5:21 AM (five days ago)

looking forward to this one next July

Miiko Taka, the American actress who played the Japanese woman Marlon Brando wants to marry in the film Sayonara (1957), her first film role in a career that lasted into the 1980s. Will turn 97 on Sunday.

(xp) LOL in July I turn to thoughts of Clu Gulager.

militant's one-time guru peter taaffe still active at 80: no longergeneral secretary of militant's successor party the socialist party (spiffy name) he remains its political secretary :) 👍🏽

Morton Subotnick, 89

Just caught the end of "To Catch a Thief" and Brigitte Auber, who has a pretty significant role in it, is still alive at 97.

About once a month I suddenly think “hey! It’s so great that Burt Bacharach is still alive.” He is 94

Not surprised as such but Shatner on shit TV last night surprised me

Are you a Bacharach fan, fgti?

Yeah, huge fan. I’ve met him a couple of times! Lovely, lovely man

He was friends with Stravinsky if you can believe it

lol amazing

A "lovely, lovely man"... also handsome, talented, married to Angie Dickinson. Not bad really.

Wrote a few good tunes too, not too bad a life.

Watching Jeremy Isaacs interviewing Diana Rigg on BBC4, surprised to see that Isaacs is still around.

Dennis Lotis, popular big band singer in the UK in the 1950s, 97.

Norman Lear

― it me, Thursday, August 6, 2015 10:21 AM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.vulture.com/article/norman-lear-stories-memories.html

100 today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/opinion/archie-bunker-donald-trump-norman-lear.html?referringSource=articleShare

And one from the man himself!

Ruth Buzzi, 86. Although she just had a series of strokes.

Sad to hear about the strokes. She's been an enjoyable twitter follow.