Oop, math is not my strong point. Charles Lane was born on Jan. 26, 1905, making him 98, according to this site.
Or, according to IMDB, he was born in 1899, making him 104.
Charles Lane- he’s the god-king of the “there’s what’s his name!” school of acting.
While not a Hollywood star until much later (and then only as a character actor), Leon Askin (General Burkhalter from HOGAN’S HEROES) is not only alive and well at 97 but is a newlywed with a website. He’s one of the last living stars of the 1930s German cabaret scene and played King Lear in his 90s and in a wheelchair. (Like John “Sgt. Schulz” Banner [who was a muscle-man in the 30s, believe it or not], Askin fled the Nazis because he was a Jew- his parents were murdered in the Holocaust [as were Robert Clary’s, also of HOGAN’S HEROES] and he returned to Austria as an old man where he continues to act.)
His website, btw, is http://www.askin.at/
Not as early era as the rest stated, but it will break my heart when Doris Day passes.
Susan
Baby Leroy, the youngest actor ever to receive star billing and the one best known for being kicked off a porch by W.C. Fields, is 69, but has been retired from acting since 1936.
Doris’s perennial co-star, Tony Randall, is going strong at 83, appearing in the latest Ewan McGregor movie, operating a non-profit Broadway troupe, and of course being the father of two pre-schoolers.
Baby Rose Marie.
You have to wonder what Leon Askin made of TV Guide claiming that Hogan’s Heroes was the worst TV show of all time. Almost all the actors playing Nazi’s were Jews that had fled Naziism, so it’s not like they didn’t know firsthand how evil the Nazi’s were.
Louis Jourdan’s still around, saw him being interviewed over Gregory Peck’s death, and he was really broken up about it. Didn’t realize that they were close friends.
Shirley Temple (Black)
Martin Landau. Has a part in “Hollywood Homicide” as we speak.
Tony Curtis.
I think Artie Shaw is gone, and I’m certain Eddie Albert is.
Eddie Albert is most certainly alive as of today (or the last few hours of yesterday, anyway). So is the actor who played Sam Drucker.
Though not a well-known name, Bruce Bennet (real name, Herman Brix) is still around at 95 or so. He had a few nice supporting roles (“Treasure of The Sierra Madre”) and currently is the oldest living film Tarzan.
Sir Rhosis
Wrong, and wrong, happily.
Boy, was this thread literally the “kiss of death” or what? Only a month old and already so out of date.
Anyway, I figured it was worth yanking from the archive to give us all a fresh look at who is still alive and kicking after the rash of celebrity deaths of the past month.
Also, I wanted to add a name to the list. Glenn Ford, who was quite the headliner in his day – and a talented and handsome one at that, IMO – is still alive.
And no mention of Brando!
You’re right about the kiss of death, which suggests Richard Widmark, who’s still among the living.
This site is a relatively accurate place to check on obits and such.
Earliest Best Actress Oscar nominees still living:
Luis Rainer (1936, 1937)
Joan Fontaine (1940, 1941, 1943)
Jennifer Jones (1943, 1945, 1955)
Olivia de Havilland (1946, 1948, 1949) (she and Joan Fontaine are sisters)
Jane Wyman (1946, 1948, 1951, 1954)
Jeanne Crain (1949)
Deborah Kerr (1949, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960)
Eleanor Parker (1950, 1951, 1955)
Shelley Winters (1951)
Julie Harris (1952)
Leslie Caron (1953, 1963)
Carroll Baker (1956)
Joanne Woodward (1957, 1968, 1973)
Shirley MacLaine (1958, 1960, 1977, 1983)
Elizabeth Taylor (1958, 1959, 1963, 1966)
Doris Day (1959)
Piper Laurie (1961)
Sophia Loren (1961, 1964)
Anne Bancroft (1962, 1964, 1967, 1977)
Patricia Neal (1963, 1968)
Earliest Best Actor Oscar nominees still living:
Jackie Cooper (1930-31) (child actor)
Mickey Rooney (1939, 1943)
Kirk Douglas (1949, 1952, 1956)
Richard Todd (1949)
Marlon Brando (1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1972, 1973)
Dan O’Herlihy (1954)
Ernest Borgnine (1955)
Anthony Franciosa (1957)
Tony Curtis (1958)
Paul Newman (1958, 1961, 1963, 1967, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1995)
Sidney Poitier (1958, 1963)
Charlton Heston (1959)
Maximilian Schell (1961, 1975)
Stuart Whitman (1961)
Peter O’Toole (1962, 1964, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1981, 1983)
Albert Finney (1963, 1974)
Earliest Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominees still living:
Richard Widmark (1947)
James Whitmore (1949)
Karl Malden (1951, 1954)
Kevin McCarthy (1951)
Peter Ustinov (1951, 1960, 1964)
Jack Palance (1952, 1953, 1991)
Eddie Albert (1953, 1972)
Joe Mantell (1955)
Don Murray (1956)
Red Buttons (1957)
Russ Tamblyn (1957)
Theodore Bikel (1958)
Robert Vaughn (1959)
Peter Falk (1960, 1961)
George Chakiris (1961)
Omar Sharif (1962)
Terence Stamp (1962)
Earliest Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominees still living:
Olivia de Havilland (1939)
Geraldine Fitzgerald (1939)
Jennifer Jones (1944)
Ann Blyth (1945)
Angela Lansbury (1944, 1945, 1962)
Joan Lorring (1945)
Celeste Holm (1947, 1949, 1950)
Jean Simmons (1948)
Mercedes McCambridge (1949)
Nancy Olson (1950)
Lee Grant (1951, 1970, 1975, 1976)
Colette Marchand (1952)
Terry Moore (1952)
Nina Foch (1954)
Eva Marie Saint (1954)
Jan Sterling (1954)
Betsy Blair (1955)
Marisa Pavan (1955)
Patty McCormack (1956)
Dorothy Malone (1956)
Hope Lange (1957)
Miyoshi Umeki (1957)
Martha Hyer (1958)
Maureen Stapleton (1958, 1970)
Cara Williams (1958)
Susan Kohner (1959)
Juanita Moore (1959)
Shelley Winters (1959, 1965, 1972)
Glynis Johns (1960)
Shirley Knight (1960, 1962)
Janet Leigh (1960)
Rita Moreno (1961)
Mary Badham (1962)
Patty Duke (1962)
Diane Cilento (1963)
Joyce Redman (1963, 1965)
Add additional Best Supporting Actress nominations for Maureen Stapleton for 1978 and 1981; and a Best Actress nomination for Olivia de Havilland for 1941.
Fantastic work, Walloon!
I have to admit, my response to many of those on Walloon’s list was “I though s/he was dead”. And in many cases, I’m pretty darned sure they are…I’ll check.
Don’t bother, jsc1953, I checked every single one.