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

That would really throw this thread for a loop

Clarence “Frogman” Henry, 84. In an interesting twist, he posted on this thread thirteen years ago.

Guess his name being a joke about Fats Domino ...

well blow me down.

Stalin's granddaughter lives in Portland OR

https://nypost.com/2016/03/17/stalin-granddaughter-is-an-all-american-badass/

If I met a gun-toting Buddhist in Portland and she told me Stalin was her grandfather I’d probably be sceptical.

You can totally see it here though.

https://i.imgur.com/vTMjzQc.jpg

Comedian Rich Little, 82.

Michael Caine, 88

I'm never surprised by Michael Caine, as he makes about three or four pictures each year. When Max Von Sydow stopped making three films a year, I knew something was up

Edgar Winter

Riff Raff

Caine in the Guardian today: ‘I’ve done 150 movies. I think that’s enough’

Is this Michael Caine retirement thing going to be like Leonard Cohen saying he was going to die, then saying he would live forever, then dying a couple of weeks later?

John Nott. One of numerous Tory ghouls who refuse to die.

Brazilian director Ruy Guerra, 90.

Jorge Luis Borges's wife, Maria Kodama. She has an Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mariakodama/?hl=en

E. O. Wilson. I could have sworn that I’d heard that he’d died a few years ago!

Don Fardon. Not that he's that old so much that I'm not sure that he's been heard of since about 1969.

French actress, Micheline Presle, 99.

Sad to see Renée Simonot, Catherine Deneuve's mother, died in July this year... at the age of 109!

I’m going to say Stanley Baxter again - who first popped up on this thread 18 years ago, and gets a mention every few hundred posts - prompted by his (2016ish?) appearance on a Victor Lewis-Smith profile of Kenneth Williams which aired on Sky Arts the other day.

As long as we keep mentioning Stanley B, he’ll still be around.

Melvyn Hayes. I was amazed to hear him give a quote about Lionel Blair's death. Not a great quote, either.

Ah, there's video. For a moment there I was worried it was another "Benny Hill laments passing of 'great friend' Frankie Howerd" situation. Poor Ben wasn't in a position to be giving any quotes that day.

Ken Morse, of rostrum camera fame, only 77! Could swear he'd popped off yonks ago. Non-Brits, don't worry about it.

Roger Cook, investigative reporter. Again, he isn't that old but you just never see him or hear about him anymore.

Lucinda Lambton also. ‘Only ’ 78, but seems to have disappeared from her previously busy career as commentator on antiques , suburbs and architectural follies.

Monica Vitti - aged 90!

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/filmguide/images/0/0b/959DD869-FE59-4B02-950F-41A1E2993F5B.jpeg

not surprised he's alive, but I was recently surprised to find out Gene Hackman is 91.

Kyoko Kagawa, who delivered the "Isn't life disappointing" line in Tokyo Story, is not only still alive at 89 but still acting.

Folk singer and broadcaster, Jimmie Macgregor, 91.

(He joins Stanley Baxter, Glen Michael, Una McLean and John Cairney in the 90+ Scottish celebrity club).

I was looking up the best selling book of the 1970s for a trivia contest and: Xaviera Hollander, 78.

FW de klerk

Monica Vitti - aged 90!

Second behind Gina Lollabrigida, 94. Just ahead of Sophia Loren, 87. Bringing up the rear, the baby of the bunch, Claudia Cardinale, 83.

Lea Massari, Vitti’s co-star in L’Avventura, also still going at 88.

Starring in L'Avventura is a good portent of a long life, and as I've mentioned before, so is starring in 8 1/2 which gives us the octogenarians Anouk Aimée (89), Sandra Milo (88), Claudia Cardinale, and Barbara Steele (83).

Susan George, only 71 though. (Had been trying to find out the name of the film "Fright" today)

tbh not really sure why i would be surprised at that, maybe cos not heard about her since the 70's

Starring in L'Avventura is a good portent of a long life, and as I've mentioned before, so is starring in 8 1/2 which gives us the octogenarians Anouk Aimée (89), Sandra Milo (88), Claudia Cardinale, and Barbara Steele (83).

Barbara Steele (83).

Bob Carolgees (and by extension, his dog Spit) (73)

that extension feels a little shaky

Folk singer and broadcaster, Jimmie Macgregor, 91.

(He joins Stanley Baxter, Glen Michael, Una McLean and John Cairney in the 90+ Scottish celebrity club).

And, apropos of a conversation I was having with some friends at the weekend, Gudrun Ure is still with us at the age of 95.

Spit is 73?

In puppet dog years.

Starring in L'Avventura is a good portent of a long life

Unfortunately Monica Vitti has apparently been suffering from Alzheimers for quite a few years

Armin Mueller-Stahl, 90.

... and Mario Adorf, also 90.

Wow, excellent scores. So were you recently watching Lola?

I was about to but decided to not to.

Have you seen it before?

She's dead now, but if you'd told me a week ago that the wife of Anthony Eden was still alive I'd have found that pretty surprising