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

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Angela Lansbury

flappy bird, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 16:40 (five years ago) link

Angie is shipshape and takes her meds

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link

Vera Lynn (who turned 102 yesterday!)

Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link

XP A lot less murder in her life as well.

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 16:45 (five years ago) link

(today, rather) xp

Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 16:45 (five years ago) link

Jessica <3

flappy bird, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link

lulu

― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 29 December 2017 10:46 (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this just happened again

seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 30 March 2019 06:28 (five years ago) link

What, she's alive again?

Mark G, Saturday, 30 March 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link

stacy keach

maura, Saturday, 30 March 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link

Saw him as Lear in DC in…2009 it says here.

moose; squirrel (silby), Saturday, 30 March 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link

Alex Jones

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 March 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link

William Daniels, who played Dustin Hoffman's father in the graduate, is 92 today.

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 31 March 2019 22:56 (five years ago) link

Speaking of St. Elsewhere alums, Normal Lloyd is still alive at 104.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 31 March 2019 23:01 (five years ago) link

*Norman

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 31 March 2019 23:01 (five years ago) link

wow.

pplains, Sunday, 31 March 2019 23:20 (five years ago) link

Watched part 2 of CNN's Nixon special tonight. A lot of Roger Mudd (most memorably, almost speechless after LBJ's I-will-not-accept address)--still alive at 91.

clemenza, Monday, 1 April 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link

Already mentioned but Carl Reiner (97).

Saw his name in the credit of a Parks and Rec episode he appeared on - in a moment of cognitive dissonance I thought “damn, Rob Reiner is looking old”

ed.b, Monday, 1 April 2019 06:49 (five years ago) link

ed. pee

buzza, Monday, 1 April 2019 07:18 (five years ago) link

huh?

ed.b, Monday, 1 April 2019 11:10 (five years ago) link

Beverly Cleary, children's author. She's 103!!!

frogbs, Friday, 12 April 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link

yeah she's my recurrent favorite one of these

|Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 13 April 2019 12:30 (five years ago) link

Bernard Bailyn, historian of the American revolution

it me, Monday, 15 April 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link

^"He has been a professor at Harvard University since 1953."

it me, Monday, 15 April 2019 20:40 (five years ago) link

Joan Didion

flappy bird, Thursday, 18 April 2019 18:22 (five years ago) link

Record producer Creed Taylor

pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 19 April 2019 00:36 (five years ago) link

Leslie Phillips, who was 95 yesterday

Ward Fowler, Sunday, 21 April 2019 16:02 (five years ago) link

ding dong!

mark s, Sunday, 21 April 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link

Bernard Bailyn, historian of the American revolution

I've been reading The Barbarous Years, which came out in 2012, and had assumed he was like 20 years younger than he actually is.

circles, Sunday, 21 April 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link

Astronaut Michael Collins, who's a talking head on this ABC 1969 doc rn.

a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 02:13 (five years ago) link

beat poet gary snyder!

(he's only 88 and once lived in a californian cabin with kerouac) (where i believe they crunched candy corn and crackers)

mark s, Sunday, 28 April 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link

About time for a Stanley Baxter update. Yes, still there, 93 next month.

Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 April 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link

Jackie Stallone. 97.

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Sunday, 28 April 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link

Hardy Kruger, 91.

Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Monday, 29 April 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link

Glen Michael.

― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 10:45 (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

93 and counting

Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 2 May 2019 07:52 (four years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Annie Ross, 88.

Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 May 2019 23:58 (four years ago) link

Stanley Baxter, one of the patron saints of this thread, was 93 on Friday.

Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Sunday, 26 May 2019 10:47 (four years ago) link

FFS bookmarked thread not showing Tom D said this a few weeks ago. IR Stupid.

Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Sunday, 26 May 2019 10:48 (four years ago) link

Glen Michael, Stanley Baxter, Annie Ross... thread's turned very Caledonian.

Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 May 2019 11:15 (four years ago) link

forgot to post the other week re Doris Day

nashwan, Sunday, 26 May 2019 12:07 (four years ago) link

I swear I actually remember Doris Day dying about 5 years ago.

chap, Sunday, 26 May 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link

Olivia de Havilland

flappy bird, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 06:40 (four years ago) link

pat boone. and hoo boy how i found out

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BkiHZmUO6zM

maura, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link

Eugene Wright - bass player on Take Five, etc. 96!

Ned Trifle X, Saturday, 8 June 2019 08:09 (four years ago) link

Dr. Ruth

Conceptualize Wyverns (latebloomer), Sunday, 9 June 2019 14:11 (four years ago) link

Tony Britton

Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Monday, 10 June 2019 08:54 (four years ago) link

armistead maupin!!

(he's not even old but for some reason i thought he died? anyway i'm glad he isn't! and i'm watching (return to) tales of the city on netflix, which is why i looked him up)

mark s, Sunday, 16 June 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (96!)

― EDB, Monday, 17 August 2015 05:45 (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

100!

John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Sunday, 16 June 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link

beat poetry! who knew!?

(snyder is 89)

mark s, Sunday, 16 June 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link

Desmond Morris

soref, Sunday, 16 June 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link

two weeks pass...

103 today HB OdH:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-aDlCSUYAA8gZ-.jpg

(the sense of discovery has admittedly dwindled a little since this thread began)

mark s, Monday, 1 July 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link


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