people you thought were dead but aren't

Sammy Davis Jr, cept he really was dead when I displayed surprise at seeing him on TV whilst I thought him dead.

Anyone see the interview with Henry Grimes in this month's Wire? Bassist with Albert Ayler in the 60s, the first question the poor fella asks is, "So, how is Albert doing?". Interviewer has to break the news that Ayler died in 1970.

Yogi Berra's still alive?!

When Jane Russell turned up in a photograph for the Oscars I was amazed.

I thought Frank Zappa was dead for ages. then I read in the paper that he had just died. I killed him with my negative beliefs.

-- webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, January 7, 2003 2:05 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

I love that nobody cared enough to correct him.

Thought for years that the actor that played Zack from Saved By The Bell was dead, it went around my school as a rumour. Believed it because why would anyone bother making that up? And it's not as if he was in the public eye a lot after the show finished, anyway.

Walter Cronkite. He already seemed to be kind of old in the famous clip where he announced that Kennedy was dead. I guess he would have only been in his mid-40s at the time though.

he was still producing stuff as of a few years ago, CBS seems to have disavowed him entirely now probably because of his politics.

Gene Wilder

I was fairly sure Alec Guinness had died at least 3 different times before he actually did die.

I thought Gene Wilder had died too, until I checked it on IMDb.

i thought harold gould died. not so

(Dave Allen died in 2005, don't be confused by the opening post)

http://www.deathlist.net/

I remember being a bit surprised when I found out Doris Day is still alive. For some reason I seem to assume every celebrity who had his or her heyday before the 60s must be dead by now.

Also, apparently this thread put a jinx on Katharine Hepburn, who died only a few months after she was mentioned here.

heh I thought Katherine Hepburn was still alive :)

I had a discussion the other day about someone that was all about whether they were alive or dead. I forget who it was now, and we never checked for confirmation either.

But yeah, Harvey Dent.

David Blaine was who we were talking about.

No, he was just buried alive.

I think people were hoping.

i just watched holiday today (Grant/Hepburn. excellent), she looks even more severe than usual but the character is wonderfully vibrant, as is grant (he does flips); i hadn't seen in ten yrs probably i was afraid i'd be disappoinged; lots of thoughtful lefty easter eggs in the script.

Clive Dunn

I love how Abe Vigoda has a simple website devoted to his living 'status', I guess everyone must think he is dead.

http://www.abevigoda.com/

ok wtf

Erich von Däniken!

Olivia de Havilland from 'Gone with the Wind' is still alive and still making a mockery of my Death Pool. Come on Ollie!

I was fairly sure Alec Guinness had died at least 3 different times before he actually did die.

Yes, for some he was the king of this

Yes, for some reason he was the king of this, that should read. I can think of at least two occasions when I bet someone that Alec Guinness was dead when he wasn't.

Charles Aznavour

For some reason I thought Pratchett was dead til I read an article by him today about his alzheimers. I think I confused him with Douglas Adams.

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Smith_(actress)";>Liz Smith</a>

Very pleased to find she's not and has just received an MBE. Good on her.

Liz Smith that is.

peter o'toole

he almost won a oscar last year brutha

tbf she didn't look like one of the nuns I had to deal with - in which I mean the type that would strike a kid's head with a wooden blackboard duster and probably think most 16th century art is perverted!

Leslie Phillips, 94!

ding dong

Scott Walker. Well, he is dead now, but I was surprised to read the news today about his passing, because for some reason I thought he had died a couple of years ago. Mandela effect?

You’re thinking of David Bowie

Scott Wilson died last year and I always confused them.

No, I'm sure I knew they were two different people.

(xpost)

bowie dies every weekend on bbc 4.

Donald Trump

Warren Beatty

John Prine

Lance Henriksen

Carol Burnett

1. Fritz Hollings is still alive.

2. The governor before George Wallace is still alive.

3. On the list of oldest living U.S. governors, Jimmy Carter comes in at No. 10.

1. Fritz Hollings is still alive

Nevermind!

Three days for the curse to take effect. Impressive.

Desmond Morris!

Walter Mondale

xp. oldmanwatching

Mondale may not be dead, but I'm sure Trump would mock him as "low energy".

Jim Knipfel

Rip Torn now RIP Torn.

88 is a very good innings for someone I presume was a bit of a caner.

Tommy Docherty's 91 and still going though!

my extended television universe is a bit unbalanced now at the idea of Artie not being here anymore :( wrong thread, but RIP Rip.

oh god :(

It doesn't belong in this thread anymore but I was surprised to learn about J. Gilberto's passing as I thought he had been long gone since all the people I associated him with had passed away a while ago (S. Getz in the early 90s, Sinatra late 90s, Jobim mid 90s, Moraes early 80s...).

Robert Wyatt.

fuck

of shit I thought you were saying Rip Torn AND Robert Wyatt

he's....not dead, right?

Well he is dead now, but he only died in February this year - David Bowie's first manager, Ken Pitt, he was 96.

Jane Withers, one of Hollywood's top ten box office stars in 1937 and 1938

Tom I thought you were answering my question and my heart went in my throat again.

This thread is a minefield

LOL

Tolhurst?

just checked, he's not lolling in the soil yet but some other Lol recently failed to dodge the coffin.

Creme?

no Lol Mason

So many Lols, so little time.

(xp) I set you up there for, "No thanks, I prefer my coffee black". Open goal, man.

how absolutely unGodley!

Is Robert Wyatt stioll with us.
I saw him credited as one interviewee on a Bluer nOte feature in UNcut last month and thought must have been before he died, which I thought was a couple of years ago.
Now can't find anything saying he died. Was I just remembering a 50th anniversary of his recording career, which would be 2014..

he hasn't died

And never will.

yes, he and Alfreda Benge are both 74

Rasputin-like against the attempts of this thread

John Astin, the actor who played Gomez Adams in the 60s.

He has now outlived Raul Julia by a quarter of a century, and Ken Weatherwax (Pugsley) by nearly 5 years.

Astin was interviewed on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast earlier this year