# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/102 "2018-07-19T04:15:59Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Larry Storch and Ken Berry vying to be the last of _F Troop_. At one point, I for some reason thought Larry Storch had gone to that Big Fort in the Sky after doing an episode of \*\*\*Columbo \*\*\*in the '70s. Imagine my shock to see him on an episode of _ **Married … with Children** _ twenty years later. And now I hear he still hasn’t passed on yet? Wow! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/103 "2018-07-19T04:48:37Z")
Keith Richards and Iggy Pop. 😛 ---
**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 19, 2018, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/104 "2018-07-19T06:10:11Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Keith Richards and Iggy Pop. > > 😛 I recall a mention on _Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me_ that started with “when Keith Richards dies, if, indeed, he can die…”. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/105 "2018-07-19T12:55:41Z")
> [@jamburger](#): > > Paul Newman died in 2008. Who knew? Well, I did. OTOH Joanne Woodward is still alive at 88. Her last credit at IMDb is some voice work from 2013. A [movie](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1885299/) I have watched. Which reminds me of Eva Marie Saint, recently turned 94. With the death of Martin Landau she’s the last remaining significant actor remaining from _North By Northwest_. Her last credit is also some voice work from 2014. ---
**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 19, 2018, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/106 "2018-07-19T13:51:49Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Keith Richards and Iggy Pop. Never thought I’d say it, but Iggy is [looking better](https://www.facebook.com/therocknrollgarage/videos/iggy-pop-sings-%22surfin-bird%22/891640657640523/) at 71 than I ever will. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2018, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/107 "2018-07-20T11:48:51Z")
**Roy Clark** is still alive. He was a household name 40 years ago. Ask any young’n who is, and you will get a blank look in response. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/108 "2018-07-20T15:12:40Z")
Probably not well-known to the general public - but my local orchestra is playing a piece of music by the composer Penderecki, and they worked with him on it, and I hadn’t known the composer was still alive. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/109 "2018-07-20T16:40:46Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > **Roy Clark** is still alive. > > He was a household name 40 years ago. Ask any young’n who is, and you will get a blank look in response. This amazes me, since he is (or maybe was) a very heavy smoker, something he once mentioned in an interview. He felt very uncomfortable smoking when he was in character as a Granny-type older woman on _ **The Beverly Hillbillies** _. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2018, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/110 "2018-07-20T22:40:42Z")
Last night, I was noodling around on You Tube, and found a 2016 interview with Jake Glaser, son of Elizabeth Glaser, who died of AIDS in 1994 after getting it from a blood transfusion and then inadvertently infecting both of her children, and Paul Michael Glaser, who was a co-star of “Starsky and Hutch”. They interviewers kept referring to his father in the past tense, so I looked him up, and sure enough, he’s still very much alive. > **[Paul Michael Glaser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Michael_Glaser)** > > Paul Michael Glaser (born Paul Manfred Glaser March 25, 1943) is an American actor and director best known for his role as Detective Dave Starsky on the 1970s television series, Starsky & Hutch. In between his work writing and directing, Glaser also played Captain Jack Steeper on the NBC series Third Watch from 2004 to 2005, appeared as Al in several episodes of Ray Donovan in the 2010s, and had his first U.S. exhibition of his artwork in 2018. > Paul Manfred Glaser was born March 25, 1943 in Camb... ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2018, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/111 "2018-07-21T00:44:25Z")
I frequently have the opposite situation. When Erin Moran of _Happy Days_ died, I was confused, because I was sure she was already dead. I tested my best friend and asked, “Who else is alive that I need to know about?” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2018, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/112 "2018-07-21T01:08:20Z")
BRIAN BLESSED is Aliiive! ---
**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:** [July 21, 2018, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/113 "2018-07-21T01:14:39Z")
> [@Steophan](#): > > Does anybody here remember [Vera Lynn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Lynn)? Dad, long gone, would play her |We’ll meet again," ala Dr Strangelove, before each mission. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > Professional prankster [Alan Abel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Abel) who, among his other accomplishments, has gotten The New York Times and the New York Daily News to print his obituary more than once back in the '80s is still alive at age 93. I thought he had passed away years ago. He is my god and has been for decades. > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I know that Carol Channing is still alive at 97 because I had a recent run-in with her. Detes? ---
**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 21, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/114 "2018-07-21T01:19:47Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > BRIAN BLESSED is Aliiive! **lorene** is alive! Always a pleasure to see her. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2018, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/115 "2018-07-21T03:42:18Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > BRIAN BLESSED is Aliiive! It’s surprising how many cast members of _I, Claudius_ are still alive. The series was broadcast forty-two years ago and its cast were all adults back then. But Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed, Sian Phillips, Patricia Quinn, Ian Ogilvy, Kevin McNally, Patrick Stewart, Sheila White, Christopher Biggins, David Robb, Fiona Walker, Frances White, James Faulkner, Christopher Guard, and John Rhys-Davies are still alive. ---
**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 21, 2018, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/116 "2018-07-21T03:45:50Z")
> [@jerseymule](#): > > 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. [Tom Cruise](https://www.indiewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/mission-impossible-6-cast-photo.jpg?w=780) is now older than Wilford Brimley was in Cocoon. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/117 "2018-07-21T16:49:12Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > John Astin (Gomez Adams) is 88 > Oldest living member of baseball hall of fame is Tommy Lasorda at 90. > I believe the oldest living hockey hall of Famer is Ted Lindsay, will be 93 later this month. > Betty White is 96. I think she made an appearance on television back in 1939 when there were only a handful of sets. I knew Tommy Lasorda was still alive but I didn’t realize he was 90! He’s been on and off my Celebrity Death Pool list since I started playing. (hastily updates 2019 list) ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2018, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/118 "2018-07-22T01:08:11Z")
I got confused today because they were playing Casey Kasem’s show on the radio, and I _thought_ he was dead. So then I thought, Oh, I’ll have to post that to the thread. But I just looked it up, and he’s dead. So. There it is. ---
**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 22, 2018, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/119 "2018-07-22T03:39:21Z")
Jim’s son mentioned John Astin. He is the sole surviving male to have played a villain on the 60’s Batman show. ---
**Author:** ![Oglomott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oglomott/32/3543_2.png) [@Oglomott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oglomott)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2018, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/120 "2018-07-22T13:25:39Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Jim’s son mentioned John Astin. He is the sole surviving male to have played a villain on the 60’s Batman show. Speaking of Batman, Glynis Johns is still alive at 94; she played Lady Penelope Peasoup. ---
**Author:** ![mikeargo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@mikeargo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikeargo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-or-she-is-alive/817531/121 "2018-07-22T14:33:12Z")
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