# Last Remaining Cast Members **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [January 1, 2021, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464 "2021-01-01T20:16:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/362 "2026-01-08T01:22:30Z")
# Sidney Kibrick, Child Actor in the Our Gang Comedy Shorts, Dies at 97 He played the bad kid known as “Woim” — Butch’s sidekick. As perhaps the last surviving actor of those films, he was still getting fan mail at the time of his death. > **[Sidney Kibrick, Child Actor in the Our Gang Comedy Shorts, Dies at 97](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/sidney-kibrick-dead-our-gang-little-rascals-1236465493/)** > > He played the bad kid known as “Woim” — Butch’s sidekick — in the Hal Roach films before calling it a career when he was 15. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2026, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/363 "2026-02-25T15:43:12Z")
The youngest of the Anderson kids is the first to go. Elinor Donahue and Billy Gray are still with us. > **[Lauren Chapin, 'Father Knows Best' star, dies at 80](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2026/02/25/lauren-chapin-dead-father-knows-best-death/88858679007/)** > > Lauren Chapin, the actress best known for playing the youngest child on the classic sitcom "Father Knows Best," has died. She was 80. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/364 "2026-02-25T17:46:06Z")
Her real-life story reads like a horror novel. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2026, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/365 "2026-02-26T03:54:49Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > [Donnie Dunagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Dunagan) is still with us and kicking at the age of 87. I’m 99% certain he wins this thread. An update. Dunagan has a new movie out. After an eighty-three year absence (1942 to 2025) he is appearing in _Sub Rosa_. I think Dunagan has probably set a record for the longest “break” in an acting career. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2026, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/366 "2026-04-10T16:23:02Z")
> [@TiberiusNeroClaudius](#): > > He left the business in 1956. Caren Marsh Doll and Patrick Curtis (Raquel Welch’s ex husband) were also in GWTW but not credited. Caren Marsh Doll is still alive at 107, and is one of the 3 remaining cast members of the **Wizard of Oz**. She was Judy Garland’s stand in and it’s her legs clicking the ruby slippers together. Two actors who played Munchkins (Priscilla Montgomery Clark and Valerie Lee Shepard) are also still alive. > **[Oldest Living ‘Wizard of Oz’ Cast Member Turns 107](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/oldest-living-wizard-oz-cast-183020684.html)** > > Caren Marsh Doll, one of the last surviving cast members from The Wizard of Oz, is celebrating her 107th birthday after a remarkable life in Hollywood and beyond. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/367 "2026-08-23T23:39:48Z")
Shelley Fabares just passed away. That leaves two main cast members of the Donna Reed Show still alive, Paul and Patty Petersen, who are siblings and played siblings (although Patty’s character was adopted) on the show. Patty was introduced when Shelley Fabares left, so she might not be considered a main cast member. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2026, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/368 "2026-08-24T00:03:42Z")
ALF has been a weird one. Paul Fusco, who voices ALF, is alive. The girl from the family is alive, Andrea Elson. Everyone else, including the younger brother, is dead. Pretty recent show to have almost all its cast dead. The little boy died from liver cirrhosis and heat stroke from sleeping in his car. Sad. Edit: The little person inside the ALF suit has also died. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2026, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/369 "2026-08-24T00:12:27Z")
In Tribute: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Wt7UYKepRLU/maxresdefault.jpg "Shelley Fabares - Johnny Angel HQ (1962)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt7UYKepRLU) RIP Shelley, a great American beauty. 🥰 ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/370 "2026-10-29T15:43:29Z")
> [@MrKnowItAll](#): > > **Barney Miller** is getting close. The only two surviving long-runners are Hal Linden and Max Gail. Barbara Barrie was a credited actor Barbara Barrie just past away at 95, leaving Hal Linden (also 95) and Max Gail (83). ---
**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:** [October 29, 2026, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/371 "2026-10-29T16:04:54Z")
With the recent death of Susan St James, John Schuck has become the last remaining cast member of _McMillian & Wife_. If we take a step back, _McMillian & Wife_ was one of the three original series, along with _Columbo_ and _McCloud_, that were part of the _The NBC Mystery Movie_. All of the cast members of _Columbo_ and _McCloud_ have died, so Schuck is now the last remaining original cast member of the _The NBC Mystery Movie_. (Other series were added to the rotation after the first season, and some of them have surviving cast members.) ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/372 "2026-10-29T16:19:41Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Caren Marsh Doll is still alive at 107, and is one of the 3 remaining cast members of the **Wizard of Oz**. She was Judy Garland’s stand in and it’s her legs clicking the ruby slippers together. Two actors who played Munchkins (Priscilla Montgomery Clark and Valerie Lee Shepard) are also still alive. [Valerie](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/valerie-lee-dead-munchkins-wizard-of-oz-our-gang-1236562703/), it seems, died 12 Apr 2026 (two days after that was posted). Priscilla is now 97 and Caren, as noted, is 107. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2026, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/373 "2026-10-29T16:32:44Z")
Mash movie is dwindling fast. Elliot Gould John Schuck Gary Burghof Hmmmmm…with Tom Skeritt dying, that only leaves Trapper alive. I don’t know who else is left from MASH, assuming we count people who actually have lines. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/374 "2026-10-29T17:09:20Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Mash movie is dwindling fast. Jo Ann Pflug (Lt Dish), Fred Williamson (Dr Spearchucker Jones), and Michael Murphy (Me Lay) are also still alive. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/375 "2026-10-30T06:32:55Z")
nitpick M \* A \* S \* H /nitpick ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/376 "2026-10-30T10:41:42Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > With the recent death of Susan St James, John Schuck has become the last remaining cast member of _McMillian & Wife_. Over in the Death Pool thread: > [@2026 Celebrity Death Pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/2030): > > > [@2026 Celebrity Death Pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-celebrity-death-pool/1025318/2029): > > > > Wow, I would not have expected him to still be alive. He was also on a horrible 70s show called [Holmes and YoYo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_%26_Yoyo). > > And a terrible sequel/reboot of _The Munsters_ (which somehow got three seasons?!?) > > But also various episodes of _Star Trek_ (DS9, Voyager _and_ Enterprise, plus films ST IV and ST VI)) and _Babylon 5_, whose casts he is also slowly outliving. At 86 he seems to be slowing down workwise, so maybe one for next year’s lists. And that was before Patrick Stewart’s passing (but after Walter Koenig). I don’t think he’ll outlive the TNG cast (I’d bet on Wheaton being the last man standing there) but he’s certainly hanging in there. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/377 "2026-10-30T12:55:24Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Last remaining regular cast of _ **McHale’s Navy** _: John “Willy Moss” Wright (b. 30 March 42) and Yoshio “Fuji Kobiaji” Yoda (b. 31 March 34). John “Bobby” Wright just passed away this week, the last of the cast of **McHale’s Navy**. He had more of a career as a country musician than as an actor. Yoshio Yoda passed away in 2023. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2026, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/378 "2026-10-30T15:58:00Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > nitpick > M \* A \* S \* H > /nitpick Oh, I know. I just call it Mash for simplicity sake. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/379 "2026-10-30T16:55:36Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > nitpick > M \* A \* S \* H > /nitpick Nitpicking the nitpick: Technically, there should be no spaces in there, but a lot of people on this board omit the asterisks entirely, because Discourse is a pain in the backside about it, and assumes you are trying to italicize the letters in between the asterisks…and don’t know the hack, like you used, to stop Discourse from doing that. If one types in the name of the show, the way that it was styled (no spaces, an asterisk between each letter), Discourse gives you this: M_A_S\*H If one tries to also italicize the entire word (because it’s the title of a show), you get this: _M_A_S_H\* ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/380 "2026-10-30T16:58:40Z")
Yes, as I said I was being nitpicky. The spaces are the only way I could get Discourse to do it without the italics. Not really a hack so much as I just screwed with it until it more or less looked like what I was trying to do. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/381 "2026-10-30T17:10:22Z")
M\*A\*S\*H It works if you proceed each \* with a backslash, which is a pain to type on a iPad Brian [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464.md?page=20)