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

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

(xp) Yes. It was just too late to start watching a two hour film.

Kim Novak!

Marina Nikolayevna Oswald Porter, widow of Lee Harvey Oswald - just 80 years old

Actress Neile Adams, who was married to Steve McQueen from the 1950s to early '70s. Enrique Iglesias is her great-nephew. 89 years old.

Frank Serpico, 85 and active on Twitter

Frederic Raphael, 90.

He’s someone who I have a personal interest in and I wonder how his death will be reported, whether it will be just on the obituaries page a few days later or as news reports on the day.

Not sure he's that well known anymore.

shouldn't have crossed kubrick, been totally eyes wide shat

I think he is now best known for co-writing Eyes Wide Shut; this piece he wrote for the film's 20th anniversary a couple of years ago reads like parody ("How come Eyes Wide Shut seems, as the cant says, ‘more relevant’ after 20 years?")

https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/frederic-raphael-reflects-writing-eyes-wide-shut-with-stanley-kubrick

and for always appearing in Private Eye's yearly literary review round-up, claiming the prize for the most obscure/high-toned/expensive book review of the year.

I would be surprised if his death made the television news. Perhaps there should be a remake of 'Glittering Prizes'...

Oh, it looks like that was Freddy in conversation - a bracing experience, I would imagine.

Perhaps there should be a remake of 'Glittering Prizes'...

They could at least air it again on BBC Four or iPlayer. And maybe ITV could do the same for his follow-up After the War (fat chance).

it's true that only a cant would think EWS is relevant, it sucks and is dumb (sorry morbs)

Andrew Loog Oldham (in fact he's only 77 but somehow I'd assumed all those uppers and downers would have taken their toll already)

After the War is on the youtube :)

Needs more promotion!

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924916/

Actress Jacqueline White (best known for The Narrow Margin (1952)), 99.

Ooh, that's a good one.

Retired for 70 years! Love it. Although... five kids

Narrow Margin? With Marie Windsor?

H. Rap Brown (78)

Johnny Ball, 83. It'd somehow completely escaped my attention that he's Zoe Ball's dad! Wonder if he's still a climate change denier?

Detroit bop pianist Barry Harris, still teaching workshops, will be 92 in a couple of weeks.

every time I realise Tom Lehrer is still with us, I wonder if we will truly all go together when we go...

William Klein, 93.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Aaron_Boulogne

#OneThread

Ursula Andress, 85

Sidney Poitier, 94

Just behind Ursula Andress (85) are Bond girls Shirley Eaton and Luciana Paluzzi (both 84)

I expect them to die.

Lol

Mel Brooks. Publishing an autobiography at the age of 95.