people you thought were dead but aren't

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

Nehemiah Persoff, who played Little Bonaparte in Some Like It Hot, turned 100 this year.

Wow, just saw him in a Columbo at the weekend!

Mike Stoller, who shockingly has to share a Wikipedia entry with the late Jerry Leiber.

Both Don Preston and Bunk Gardner, who played for the Mothers of Invention in the 1960s (87 and 86 yo respectively)

And not just alive but still playing out/touring.

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— Mike (@mcgee_gorgo) March 12, 2020

Yes.

Shouldn't it have been the Antarctic though.

Glynis Johns, 96.

Wow! That makes 3 of the main 4 adults from the '64 Mary Poppins still with us

Eric Chappell

Valentina Tereshkova

Bobbie Gentry

joss ackland.

A hardy perennial but "The Masque of the Red Death" was on last night and reminded me of him. Roger Corman, 94 last month.

I heard Joss attributes his longevity to his habit of always travelling with a well-stocked (for any eventuality) spunky backpack.

joan plowright, 90

Claes Oldenburg, 91

Do we have a thread for people you thought were alive but aren't? An obituary for Ray Manzarek came up on my Facebook feed for some reason - I clicked through only to discover it was from 2013. RIP Ray, sorry it took me 7 years to learn you were dead

Yes, I posted Joan Rivers on it recently.

I missed that too. Must have been before we had the rolling obituary threads.

people you thought were still alive but aren't

Dickie Davies, 87.

Earl Holliman
Clu Gulager

Shocked to see Clu's name in credits for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Both born in 1928. Both surely would have guest starred on Bounty Law.

Speaking of Earl Holliman (I mentioned this somewhere before) all four of the original 1974 cast of TV's Police Woman are still alive... Ed Bernard (81); Charles Dierkop (83); Angie Dickinson (88); and Earl Holliman (91).

Walter Ernest "Wally" Fawkes (born 21 June 1924) is a British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and a satirical cartoonist. As a cartoonist, he usually worked under the name "Trog" until failing eyesight forced him to retire in 2005 at the age of 81.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Bacharach#/media/Datei:Marlene_Dietrich_and_Burt_Bacharach_visit_Jerusalem_during_a_1960_concert_tour_of_Israel_-_Photo_by_Fritz_Shlezingel.png

(Burt Bacharach & Marlene Dietrich, 1960)

Johnny Shannon, go-to character actor for Cockney gangsters e.g. in "Performance", 87.

for some reason I always think Steve Earle died 20 years ago from cancer or something. Wtf?

just did a play at the public theater before mama rona took over