Marshall Allen is on recordings from 1949! I had no idea.
that's cool! it looks like he's recording and released something in every decade between the 1940s and the 2020s
― hogarth brooks (unregistered), Sunday, 28 January 2024 01:00 (two years ago)
(er, "recorded and released")
― hogarth brooks (unregistered), Sunday, 28 January 2024 01:10 (two years ago)
I watched the 1956 musical comedy The Girl Can't Help It last night; Fats Domino and Little Richard are gone, but which musical performers from the film are still around?
Johnny Olenn, 85Nino Tempo, 87Ray Anthony, 100
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, October 21, 2022 6:43 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 28 January 2024 01:15 (two years ago)
Wavy Gravy, who will be 88 in May.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 02:46 (two years ago)
> Wavy Gravy, 87> ― Ward Fowler, Monday, 8 January 2024 10:17
8)
(knew i'd seen his name before, didn't realise it was so recently)
― koogs, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 15:02 (two years ago)
How many Blues Brothers are still breathing? Aykroyd, Cropper, Murph, Hall, as far as I can tell.
― Washington Post Malone (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:45 (two years ago)
Blue Lou and Tom Malone are still with us
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:00 (two years ago)
https://i.imgur.com/pxLubh9.gif
― pplains, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:29 (two years ago)
I didn't check the thread before I posted! On me!
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 23:11 (two years ago)
Knott's Berry Farm
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 1 February 2024 01:30 (two years ago)
John Woodvine, English actor, from the 50s and apparently still working(!), 94.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:22 (two years ago)
... 1950s onwards, that is.
I thought Woodvine had died after he collapsed on stage a decade ago, pleased to see he's still with us. He's the same age as Colin Jeavins, who retired 30 years ago.
June Spencer, the sole survivor of the original Archers broadcast, still with us at 104.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:45 (two years ago)
He was in this in 2022.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/20/enys-men-review-mark-jenkin-cannes-2022
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:52 (two years ago)
I watched that just the other night and right enough I did recognise him at the time.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 5 February 2024 16:18 (two years ago)
Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 95
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Monday, 5 February 2024 19:49 (two years ago)
Bernie Clifton, 87.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 16:18 (two years ago)
Michael Aspel, 91.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 12 February 2024 08:56 (two years ago)
That made me look up Michael Rodd, who is not only still alive but somehow only 80.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 12 February 2024 09:43 (two years ago)
Joe Don Baker turns 88 today!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 February 2024 15:35 (two years ago)
I saw a clip of Wayne Newton at the Super Bowl, and was surprised and delighted to see him (1) alive and (2) having a nice chat with Guy Fieri.
― Sam Weller, Monday, 12 February 2024 16:32 (two years ago)
I really thought he was dead — like, I have a false memory of reading about his death on social media. I re-watched Charley Varrick the other week (it's on Tubi); he's pretty terrifying in that.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 12 February 2024 18:35 (two years ago)
Terrifying in Mitchell!, too
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 12 February 2024 18:48 (two years ago)
Had the Newton revelation Saturday night when I finally started the 2nd season of Hacks and saw his cameo in the UFC scene.
He might be more plastic than man at this point.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 February 2024 18:53 (two years ago)
The Drudge Report
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 15 February 2024 21:47 (two years ago)
paul dooley turned 96 today
charles durning, however, remains dead
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 February 2024 23:14 (two years ago)
For viewers in Scotland only:
Glen Michael, 97Stanley Baxter, 97Una McLean, 93
Just found out John Cairney died last September, aged 93.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 February 2024 23:18 (two years ago)
Glen Michael and Stanley Baxter are truly the totems of this thread.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Friday, 23 February 2024 10:47 (two years ago)
... born within eight days of each other.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 23 February 2024 10:49 (two years ago)
They're the Scottish Harry Belafonte/ Sidney Poitier.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 23 February 2024 10:51 (two years ago)
When Stanley finally goes we should, at least, start a new thread or, my preference, close down the entire site. (Just kiddin', like)
― Michael Jones, Friday, 23 February 2024 11:27 (two years ago)
Stanley is also my personal Mandela Effect, mainly because (as he admits in his hugely entertaining biography) he wasn't going to come out until after his death, and his biography weirdly ends with his 'death' - people gather for his last moments and he fades away. But then an epilogue that says he didn't actually die after all is is frail but fine.
So weird that he outlived Victor Lewis-Smith, who did so much to promote Stanley's life, achievements and place in British comedy.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Friday, 23 February 2024 11:36 (two years ago)
probably haven't given glen michael a single thought for 15 years or more but oddly heartened to know he's still around
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 February 2024 12:55 (two years ago)
Reminds me that I just read that Edwin Morgan came out when he was 70, I think.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 February 2024 19:29 (two years ago)
Please help the cause against loneliness https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/glen-michael-loneliness-campaign/
― Alba, Friday, 23 February 2024 20:50 (two years ago)
He's looking good for 97!
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 23 February 2024 20:53 (two years ago)
Peter Jay, 87.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 February 2024 13:10 (two years ago)
Scargill ! had no idea, thought he died ages ago.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-68457786
― mark e, Saturday, 2 March 2024 20:10 (two years ago)
He's outlived Thatcher, Ian MacGregor, David Hart etc by quite a while. Which must please him no end.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 March 2024 21:00 (two years ago)
Former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark, 84. Defeated Pierre Trudeau in 1979, defeated by Pierre Trudeau in 1980.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 2 March 2024 23:20 (two years ago)
A friend worked a celebrity/autograph event today or yesterday and said Pete Best was there.
― nickn, Sunday, 3 March 2024 04:34 (two years ago)
Came here to note Ann Vernon, she was in a movie I watched last night (Shakedown, 1950.) James Redd mentioned her when she was 97. She just turned 100 in January.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 16:37 (two years ago)
Yay, Ann!
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 16:48 (two years ago)
Peggy Dow was also in that movie. She’ll be 96 on March 18th.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 16:57 (two years ago)
Never heard of that one!
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 19:51 (two years ago)
Also seems that whilst in the US or at least for that film she dropped the final ‘e’ in her first name so Ann Vernon instead of Anne Vernon.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 19:52 (two years ago)
Of course her real name was something entirely different
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 19:53 (two years ago)
Only e-less for that one movie apparently
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 19:56 (two years ago)
Not exactly famous but Karl Kohn, who Frank Zappa studied composition with, 97.
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 March 2024 22:28 (two years ago)
István Szabó, 86
― help me I am in hull (Matt #2), Saturday, 9 March 2024 14:06 (two years ago)