# Celebrities unexpectedly still alive **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 20, 2007, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698 "2007-03-20T10:48:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698/41 "2007-03-20T19:03:47Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] The list doesn’t include [GOD](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_is_dead) [/QUOTE] That’s because God really did die back in 1996 at the ripe old age of 100: [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122675/](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122675/) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698/42 "2007-03-20T20:08:30Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] [Charles Lane](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485272/), of course. One of the busiest character actor in history, he recently celebrated his 102nd birthday. [/QUOTE] I should hook him up with my grandmother, she’s only forty days older than he is! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698/43 "2007-03-20T20:17:11Z")
[QUOTE=Muffin] B.B. King is coming to my town this May (tickets at about $100 a pop). He was born in 1925, but seems so much older. My favourite line by him: “I gave you seven children, and now you want to give 'em back – I’ve got the blues.” [/QUOTE] Ol’ B.B. has got alot of mouths to feed!!! From Wiki: It is reported that King had sex before age 10, and went on to father seventeen children, to several different mothers. :eek: Besides, someone had to replace James Brown as the hardest workin’ man in show biz… ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698/44 "2007-03-20T21:10:27Z")
[Frank Cady](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0128326/), best known as Sam Drucker from _Green Acres_ and _Petticoat Junction,_ is still with us at 91. ---
**Author:** ![TheBoneyKingofNowhere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@TheBoneyKingofNowhere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoneyKingofNowhere)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698/45 "2007-03-20T21:13:51Z")
Keith Richards? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698/46 "2007-03-20T21:16:43Z")
[QUOTE=TheBoneyKingofNowhere] Keith Richards? [/QUOTE] The OP said “unexpectedly” not “miraculously.” ---
**Author:** ![TheBoneyKingofNowhere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@TheBoneyKingofNowhere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoneyKingofNowhere)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698/47 "2007-03-20T21:18:44Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] The OP said “unexpectedly” not “miraculously.” [/QUOTE] 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698/48 "2007-03-20T21:30:11Z")
[QUOTE=TheBoneyKingofNowhere] Keith Richards? [/QUOTE] Nah, Keith is likely immortal. It’ll just be him and Iggy and some cockroaches left when the Sun goes red giant. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698/49 "2007-03-20T21:35:06Z")
[QUOTE=cochrane] Wikipedia has an article on [premature celebrity obits](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_premature_obituaries). Ironically, Kurt Cobain was listed as dying about a month before his actual death. And Pope John Paul II was listed as dead a record three times before he passed on. [/QUOTE] Also ironic is that Wikipedia itself was the source of a recent story falsely claiming that the comedian Sinbad died. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698/50 "2007-03-20T21:36:03Z")
[QUOTE=Struan] Nah, Keith is likely immortal. It’ll just be him and Iggy and some cockroaches left when the Sun goes red giant. [/QUOTE] German cockroaches in particular. Yep, as a comedian said not long ago: “Keith Richards cannot be killed by conventional weapons.” I believe Richard Widmark is still alive at 90-something. And Marta Beckett, best known for having performed dance and mime routines at Death Valley Junction’s Opera House for the past 30 or so years. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698/51 "2007-03-20T22:11:03Z")
So, so sad that if we’d done this last week I’da stormed in here trumpeting BETTY HUTTON! ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698/52 "2007-03-21T00:14:51Z")
I am always experience mild surprise when I realize that both Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury are still alive. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698/53 "2007-03-21T00:55:14Z")
I frequently respond to stories of celebrities deaths with ‘wait, he was still alive?’ I can’t remember any in particular off the top of my head, though. \>\_\> ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698/54 "2007-03-21T00:56:50Z")
[QUOTE=Laughing Lagomorph] I am always experience mild surprise when I realize that both Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury are still alive. [/QUOTE] …and (thankfully) Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698/55 "2007-03-21T00:58:59Z")
Damn and blast. Herman Brix, aka [Bruce Bennett](http://imdb.com/name/nm0071636/), just left us last month at 100. I didn’t hear a thing. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698/56 "2007-03-21T07:17:52Z")
Deanna Durbin is still alive. Her last movie was in the Forties. She’s eighty-five, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698/57 "2007-03-21T12:48:06Z")
Until I saw _Miss Congentiality 2_, I’d thought that Eileen Brennan had been long dead. I could’ve sworn that she died years ago from cancer–I was SURE I remembered hearing about it on the news. The memory is a tricky thing, I tell ya! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698/58 "2007-03-21T13:08:27Z")
The Wizard of Waukesha, Les Paul is 91 years old and still playing. In fact he recently put out a new record. Some samples on his [website.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=413138&page=2&pp=50) ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698/59 "2007-03-21T13:20:20Z")
[QUOTE=Struan] Nah, Keith [Richards] is likely immortal. It’ll just be him and Iggy and some cockroaches left when the Sun goes red giant. [/QUOTE] And then after that, Jerry Lee Lewis will be left floating through space laughing at them all. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698/60 "2007-03-21T14:20:07Z")
Don’t know if Trixie the Neighbourhood Deer is still alive after last night. Door, fender, grille, hood, headlights. The neighbour’s little children are pissed off. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-unexpectedly-still-alive/396698.md?page=4)