# He (or she) is alive........... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 8, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531 "2018-07-08T20:44:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/62 "2018-07-12T02:05:48Z")
Jerry Lee Lewis (82) and Brenda Lee (73) will be performing in Lincoln Ca at the end of August. I thought they were both dead. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/63 "2018-07-12T04:03:03Z")
I’d have sworn that Jerry Lee Lewis was dead. Maybe we’re all conflating him and Jerry Lewis. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/64 "2018-07-12T04:10:33Z")
**Ernest Borgnine** Dead, 2012. Huh. 95 years old. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/65 "2018-07-12T04:11:50Z")
Ed Asner. Alive. Yeesh, did that guy ever not look old? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/66 "2018-07-12T04:12:14Z")
I vaguely thought that Bernie Kopell was dead. I mean, the guy looked like he’d been around the block on THE LOVE BOAT, and that was forty years ago; heck, he looked like he’d been around the block on GET SMART, and that was _fifty_ years ago. 85 and still up and around, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/67 "2018-07-12T10:59:34Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > Betty White is 96. I think she made an appearance on television back in 1939 when there were only a handful of sets. Betty white is actually older than sliced bread. (Actually, anyone over 90 is older than sliced bread - so, anyone over 90 like Dick Van Dyke, Stan Lee, Kirk Douglas, Henry Belafonte, etc.) ---
**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:** [July 12, 2018, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/68 "2018-07-12T13:23:26Z")
I know that Carol Channing is still alive at 97 because I had a recent run-in with her. ---
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/69 "2018-07-12T13:41:50Z")
For some reason, the name Wilford Brimley came to mind, although I can’t remember the last time I thought of, or heard anything about, the 83-year-old actor. But he’s still alive. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/70 "2018-07-12T13:44:24Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I know that Carol Channing is still alive at 97 because I had a recent run-in with her. I hope you’re both ok. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/71 "2018-07-12T17:41:49Z")
Writer Herman Wouk is still alive. He is 103. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/72 "2018-07-12T17:47:38Z")
Larry Storch and Ken Berry vying to be the last of _F Troop_. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/73 "2018-07-12T17:54:19Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Larry Storch and Ken Berry vying to be the last of _F Troop_. Whoops, looks like if either of them go, James Hampton as Trooper Dobbs can blow an ear-breaking version of Taps over their grave. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/74 "2018-07-12T17:59:56Z")
For some reason I thought that after the Professor died that Mary Ann (Dawn Wells) was the last remaining castaway. Looks like Ginger is still going strong too. ---
**Author:** ![Newtosite](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/newtosite/32/8623_2.png) [@Newtosite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newtosite)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/75 "2018-07-13T08:17:54Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Ed Asner. > > Alive. Yeesh, did that guy ever not look old? Ed wrote the foreword for my upcoming book on classic sitcoms. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/76 "2018-07-13T13:31:06Z")
Actor Terry Carter who was Sgt Joe Broadhurst in “McCloud” and Colonel Tigh in the first “Battlestar Galactica” is 89. Terry Carter may be the last principal actor left from “Phil Silvers/Sgt Bilko”, appearing in in 91 out of 143 episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/77 "2018-07-16T07:07:26Z")
Earlier today, I was watching a bit of _Casino Royale_ on TV, the absurd, 1967 version. I saw the bit where Mata (Joanna Pettet) goes to the spy school in East Berlin, then turned the TV off. Hours later, I wanted to see if there was anything good on, and when the TV came on it was _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_, at a part with the Baron and Baroness, and I realized the same actress (Anna Quayle) was in both scenes, and both movies were based on Ian Fleming books. As luck would have it, there was a rerun of an old black-and-white _Password_ on one of the old game-show channels tonight with Sally Anne Howes, the female lead in _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_. According to Wikipedia, Howes (87) is still alive, as are Dick Van Dyke (92), Anna Quayle (85), and Joanna Pettet (75). ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/78 "2018-07-16T09:21:22Z")
Surprised to see that Henry Kissinger is still alive at age 95. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/79 "2018-07-16T14:16:51Z")
Rich Little was part of an answer in a crossword puzzle over the weekend. I had to look him up to see if he was still alive. Yep! ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/80 "2018-07-16T14:35:30Z")
Tommy Chong ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/81 "2018-07-16T16:38:56Z")
_Big Fish_ was on the other day (great film), and I could have sworn Albert Finney had died. Looked it up, though, and nope, still swimming. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531.md?page=5)