# Celebrities still around, or "Wow, I thought they were already dead". **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 9, 2009, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221 "2009-06-09T17:03:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221/21 "2009-06-09T19:15:40Z")
> [@Ichbin\_Dubist](#): > > I saw Abe Vigoda walking up Second Avenue in NYC last weekend. He used a cane, but looked tan and healthy. I didn’t bug him about being not dead. I’ll second that, only because he looked on deaths doorstep 30 or 40 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221/22 "2009-06-09T19:15:54Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > Ernest Borgnine – he’s 91, and was an an episode of _ER_ last season. Yeah, I was surprised. 91 and still working, and doing a good job of it. He also regularly does the voice of the decrepit, addled retired superhero Mermaid Man on _SpongeBob SquarePants_. Tim Conway plays his sidekick, Barnacle Boy. Tangent: I know a longtime licensed tour guide at Gettysburg battlefield. He’s given several tours to Borgnine, who is, he says, dumb as a box of rocks. The smartest, most Civil War-savvy celebrity to whom he’s given tours? Lynda Carter, oddly enough. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221/23 "2009-06-09T19:21:19Z")
Wonder Woman a history geek? Le sigh… ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221/24 "2009-06-09T19:38:02Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > [Who’s Alive and Who’s Dead](http://wa-wd.com/) is a useful site. Another great site: [Dead People Server](http://dpsinfo.com/dps/) ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221/25 "2009-06-09T19:42:40Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > Ernest Borgnine – he’s 91, and was an an episode of _ER_ last season. Yeah, I was surprised. 91 and still working, and doing a good job of it. He revealed his secret on Fox: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEhKZNQlJrY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEhKZNQlJrY) ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221/26 "2009-06-09T19:48:16Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Another lady that’s seen a lot of movies and years is [Ingrid Bergen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_Bergen) Ingrid Bergman is definitely dead. Dead since 1982, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221/27 "2009-06-09T20:57:31Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Ingrid Bergman is definitely dead. Dead since 1982, I believe. psssst. post #4 ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221/28 "2009-06-09T21:14:11Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Ingrid Bergman is definitely dead. Dead since 1982, I believe. > [@kushiel](#): > > psssst. post #4 😕 I didn’t mean Ingrid Bergman..I meant Ingrid Bergen, which is who I thought I typed. I just rechecked it and it is..I also clicked on the article that I linked to in the OP, and it does seem she’s still alive.. ETA: There are three people with alike sounding names, Ingrid Bergman, IgMAR (er..something, can’t remember what his last name is, but he’s a director), and Ingrid Bergen. My grandfather, being mostly German, used to watch the last’s movies all the time. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221/29 "2009-06-09T21:38:10Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > ETA: There are three people with alike sounding names, Ingrid Bergman, IgMAR (er..something, can’t remember what his last name is, but he’s a director), and Ingrid Bergen. Ingmar’s last name is also Bergman. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221/30 "2009-06-09T21:49:35Z")
This thread reminds me of a “Are they dead or Canadian” quiz I saw going around awhile back. Pretty funny concept. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221/31 "2009-06-09T22:15:15Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > 😕 I didn’t mean Ingrid Bergman..I meant Ingrid Bergen, which is who I thought I typed. I just rechecked it and it is..I also clicked on the article that I linked to in the OP, and it does seem she’s still alive.. > ETA: There are three people with alike sounding names, Ingrid Bergman, IgMAR (er..something, can’t remember what his last name is, but he’s a director), and Ingrid Bergen. My grandfather, being mostly German, used to watch the last’s movies all the time. Oops…sorry! Read that completely wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2009, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221/32 "2009-06-09T22:28:00Z")
> [@cactus\_waltz](#): > > Ingmar’s last name is also Bergman. 😛 Ingmar Bergman…also dead. ---
**Author:** ![Airblairxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Airblairxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airblairxxx)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221/33 "2009-06-10T00:00:15Z")
> [@h.sapiens](#): > > [Olivia de Haviland](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000014/) is older than Kirk Douglas by a few months, and still shows up on awards shows now and then. . Her sister, [Joan Fontaine,](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000021/) is also still alive. And they still hate each other’s guts. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221/34 "2009-06-10T00:20:43Z")
Art Linkletter is around 95, not sure if he is doing much House Partying, though. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221/35 "2009-06-10T02:32:53Z")
If someone had asked me, I would have guessed Sid Caesar and Art Linkletter were dead by now. Hope they keep on keeping on! I never actually though she was dead, but I was shocked to read an article about Liz Taylor making a public appearance. It had been so long since I had heard anyone mention her in the present tense that I had sort of forgotten about her still being around. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221/36 "2009-06-10T02:53:36Z")
J.D. Salinger is presumably still around _somewhere_, gossip columnist Army Archerd is definitely still kicking, Jennifer Jones is enjoying retirement, Pete Seeger is still awesome & Betty Garrett is probably still a radical, and they’re all age 90. **lavenderviolet** not only is Dame Elizabeth still making public appearances, she’s on Twitter, and by all appearances, she’s tweeting herself, not relegating it to a staffer. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221/37 "2009-06-10T03:07:25Z")
I may be straight, but that’s reason enough to get on Twitter. FTR, I reference you to the _LIFE Magazine_ stills from “Cleopatra” and note that I was an impressionable 8 or 9 at the time. OTOH, Betty Garrett was in one of the worst movie musicals I slogged through, _On the Town._ “One of” because the sequel was worse. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221/38 "2009-06-10T03:18:50Z")
Well, he’s dead NOW, but I was shocked earlier this year when Andrew Wyeth died. I had no idea he had still been alive up to that point. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221/39 "2009-06-10T03:27:00Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. was recently honored by the FBI. > > Not being a devotee of the animated Batman series, I had no idea he was still around. Good Lord what are you talking about with the Batman thing?? Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was THE face of the FBI on the TV. That’s why they honored him. [The F.B.I. (TV series) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_F.B.I._(TV_series))) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221/40 "2009-06-10T03:29:54Z")
(embarrassed to admit I know him from “77 Sunset Strip.” Not because the show was bad, but because the theme song was irredeemable.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-still-around-or-wow-i-thought-they-were-already-dead/499221.md?page=3)