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

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Ronnie Hawkins

Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 7 July 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link

seven months pass...

H. Rap Brown

imago draggin' (The Reverend), Sunday, 2 March 2014 06:40 (ten years ago) link

Jerry Lee Lewis

Mark G, Sunday, 2 March 2014 09:16 (ten years ago) link

harry dean stanton (discovered he was alive via a "jeopardy" answer)

fact checking cuz, Sunday, 2 March 2014 09:57 (ten years ago) link

one month passes...

Bill Macy, from "Maude" and The Late Show. He's 91.

Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 12 April 2014 22:24 (ten years ago) link

who's that leave left from maude? adrienne barbeau?

balls, Saturday, 12 April 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link

Basically those two, and I guess Barbeau's son.

Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 12 April 2014 23:22 (ten years ago) link

Jerry Maren - the last Munchkin played by a 'little person', as opposed to a child, in the 1939 version of Wizard of Oz is still alive, according to Wikipedia. He was 19 when the movie was filmed. He's 94 now. And counting...

Aimless, Sunday, 13 April 2014 01:54 (ten years ago) link

Tupac no lol just messin

Robert Conquest

Prostitute Farm Online (Bananaman Begins), Sunday, 13 April 2014 02:02 (ten years ago) link

Olivia de Havilland

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 13 April 2014 02:06 (ten years ago) link

Barbeau's tits

Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Sunday, 13 April 2014 04:05 (ten years ago) link

Olivia de Havilland

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, April 12, 2014 10:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

When Joan Fontaine died, there was a lot of talk about O. de H., because they had been so bitterly separated for so many years. (And I'm morbidly curious to see what TCM does when the last major Gone With the Wind star finally dies.

In the meantime, I am pleasantly surprised that Diana Serra Cary (Baby Peggy), Luise Rainer, and Kenneth Anger are still with us. But in all of these cases, it's just a matter of time.

#TweetFromAnUnknownWoman (j.lu), Sunday, 13 April 2014 05:00 (ten years ago) link

doris day

― Frogman Henry, Friday, February 8, 2008 2:00 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Doris Day

― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Friday, February 18, 2011 4:50 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same here.

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/doris-day-rare-public-appearance-huge-party-celebrating-90th-birthday-201484

pplains, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 17:41 (ten years ago) link

three months pass...

Keely Smith

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 8 August 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link

Peter Vaughan

The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 8 August 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link

James Cotton

Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 August 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link

David Bellamy

soref, Friday, 8 August 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link

^ dead to me

The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 8 August 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link

I had no idea that he is now a cranky climate change sceptic, still hadn't gotten over Johnny Ball

soref, Friday, 8 August 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link

something to do with the Homeopathic Society to boot

The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 8 August 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link

oh god wait Johnny Ball's a climate change sceptic? oh god :(

The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 8 August 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link

add Tony Soper to this thread list by the way

The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 8 August 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link

wish i could find a clip of whatever TV show Tony Soper used to present that had really evocative birdsong played over the end credits, think it may have been a curlew call in particular

The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Friday, 8 August 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link

four months pass...

Bob Uecker

Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 5 January 2015 22:56 (nine years ago) link

Billy Davis, Jr. - then I realized I was conflating him with Don Cornelius just because Solid Gold and Soul Train blurred together in my mind from watching them as a small kid.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 January 2015 22:58 (nine years ago) link

I thought Christopher Lee had been dead for years, then I read that he died today which also isn't true.

tsrobodo, Monday, 5 January 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link

He has risen from the grave before, iirc

Josefa, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 01:21 (nine years ago) link

George Kennedy

Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link

Sheila Reid. I could have sworn she died last year.

the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link

Dabney Coleman

Piers Anthony.

Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link

rasputin

local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 22:37 (nine years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Chris Rea is alive! (also, he isn't Robert Palmer) (yeah, I know, there's nothing similar to them, but he somehow was, in my mind)

StanM, Sunday, 1 February 2015 18:07 (nine years ago) link

Fool if you think he's over, because he's only just begun

(this post brought to you by Predictable Dad Jokes About Dad Music Incorporated)
(when I was 13 Chris Rea was dad music and every dad ever by law had "Road To Hell", "Auberge" and a Dire Straits album but he's not even that any more, right, everything I like is dad music instead, I know)

club mate martyr (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 1 February 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link

Chase No Face

i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Sunday, 1 February 2015 21:40 (nine years ago) link

Zsa Zsa Gabor still alive

Mark G, Sunday, 1 February 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link

Tim Hunkin

soref, Sunday, 1 February 2015 22:24 (nine years ago) link

Carol Channing

Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 1 February 2015 22:26 (nine years ago) link

Richard Adams, author of Watership Down (among other things), did a talk/signing at the local bookshop before Christmas and I was surprised for the reason in the thread title; sort of meant to go but forgot about it

club mate martyr (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 2 February 2015 12:45 (nine years ago) link

2003 roll call (bold=still going)

Richard Widmark
Saddam Hussein
Stanley Baxter
Thora Hird
Anita O’Day
Clive Dunn
Dennis Hopper
Mickey Rooney
JD Salinger
George Jones
Joe Namath
Red Auerbach
Studs Terkel
Ursula Moray Williams
Reg Varney
Dave Allen
Christopher Lee
Gene Wilder
Richard Pryor
Windsor Davies

Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 2 February 2015 13:33 (nine years ago) link

i would have put money on windsor davies being dead even back in 2003. my fervent hope is that christopher lee is immortal.

bizarro gazzara, Monday, 2 February 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link

christ there were 11 series of Never the Twain?

woof, Monday, 2 February 2015 13:53 (nine years ago) link

João Havelange, 98

anima corrective (nakhchivan), Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link

Harper Lee, last week.

Matt DC, Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link

yeah both of those

pro war Toby Keith songs would rub you the wrong way (imago), Saturday, 7 February 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Bob Elliott (from Bob and Ray)

soref, Sunday, 22 February 2015 12:27 (nine years ago) link

Bill Treacher aka Arthur Fowler
Denis Norden (93 years old!)

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Monday, 23 February 2015 13:55 (nine years ago) link

Yeah, I thought Bill Treacher was dead as well until he rocked up on one of the EastEnders things this week.

ailsa, Monday, 23 February 2015 14:12 (nine years ago) link

i haven't thought about denis norden in years, i guess mainly because i was sure he was dead

bizarro gazzara, Monday, 23 February 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link

I can kind of remember Denis Norden dying in 2002 or something.

Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link


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