# 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:** 4
**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:** [January 2, 2021, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/61 "2021-01-02T18:52:17Z")
From **Cheers** Harry Anderson (Harry the Hat) has passed. Not a regular cast member but a recurring character. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2021, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/62 "2021-01-02T19:02:39Z")
Isn’t that one of the only cast members to die? Coach obviously died during the show. I would not consider Harry Anderson any more of a cast member than Jay Thomas, who also died. Pretty strong cast. I swear George Wendt just keeps going! ---
**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:** [January 2, 2021, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/63 "2021-01-02T19:11:32Z")
Sesame Street: Of the original adult cast, Loretta Long and Bob McGrath are the only living ones left. I think? ---
**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:** [January 2, 2021, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/64 "2021-01-02T19:19:28Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I would not consider Harry Anderson any more of a cast member than Jay Thomas, who also died. All true, Harry the Hat only had 6 appearances but they were spread out over 11 seasons. It seems like a more prominent role to me but by sheer numbers it’s not. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2021, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/65 "2021-01-02T19:58:22Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > All true, Harry the Hat only had 6 appearances but they were spread out over 11 seasons. Cheers has had good resiliency, unlike Babylon 5. It’s random, but the way it is. ---
**Author:** ![TiberiusNeroClaudius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@TiberiusNeroClaudius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TiberiusNeroClaudius)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/66 "2021-01-02T21:32:55Z")
Mickey Kuhn is the sole surviving credited cast member (Beau Wilkes) of “Gone with the Wind”, as well as a “Streetcar named Desire”. He left the business in 1956. Caren Marsh Doll and Patrick Curtis (Raquel Welch’s ex husband) were also in GWTW but not credited. > **[Mickey Kuhn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Kuhn)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > Theodore Matthew Michael Kuhn Jr. (September 21, 1932 – November 20, 2022) was an American actor. He started his career as a child actor, active on-screen during the Golden Age of Hollywood from the 1930s until the early 1950s. He is noted for having played Beau Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939). > Kuhn also appeared in Juarez (1939), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), Red River (1948), Broken Arrow (1950)... ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/67 "2021-01-02T22:13:06Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Compare any Star Trek to Babylon 5. B5 aired in the early 90’s, starting a few years after Next Generation. It has lost (snip) There has been speculation among fandom as to whether the former spa factory it was shot in was a former Indian burial ground. In your list of still among us is JMS, of course. Although he appeared before the camera only once – the tech who cuts the power as the station is about to be razed – he was of course, the main spark plug in the program’s existence. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/68 "2021-01-02T22:15:56Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Sesame Street: > > Of the original adult cast, Loretta Long and Bob McGrath are the only living ones left. I think? This made me stop and think. I was sure Maria and Luis were still alive. And they are! But I suppose they technically aren’t original cast. Sonia Manzano and Emilio Delgado joined two seasons in. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2021, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/69 "2021-01-02T22:30:29Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Sesame Street: > > Of the original adult cast, Loretta Long and Bob McGrath are the only living ones left. I think? I take your point, but feel Frank Oz should count. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/70 "2021-01-02T22:46:02Z")
John’s son Patrick Wayne is the last surviving member of the cast of _The Conqueror_. Legend has it that most of the rest of the cast and crew died of cancer brought on by radioactivity from a nuke test site near the shooting location. ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2021, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/71 "2021-01-02T23:03:17Z")
**Barney Miller** is getting close. The only two surviving long-runners are Hal Linden and Max Gail. Barbara Barrie was a credited actor, but really was relegated to recurring status pretty quickly, and Gregory Sierra left after two seasons. ---
**Author:** ![GreaterZamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@GreaterZamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreaterZamboni)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/72 "2021-01-11T19:25:20Z")
Stuart Margolin (Angel Martin) and Gretchen Corbett (Beth Davenport) are the only ones left from The Rockford Files, and even they were just recurring characters. As for The Bob Newhart Show, Pat Finley, who played Bob’s sister/Howard’s girlfriend is still with us, but she was only a recurring character too. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2021, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/73 "2021-01-11T21:27:05Z")
> [@GreaterZamboni](#): > > As for The Bob Newhart Show, Pat Finley, who played Bob’s sister/Howard’s girlfriend is still with us, but she was only a recurring character too. Well…I mean…Bob Newhart is alive, too. ---
**Author:** ![bauble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@bauble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bauble)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/74 "2021-01-11T22:09:00Z")
Does John Astin count? ---
**Author:** ![GreaterZamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@GreaterZamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreaterZamboni)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/75 "2021-01-11T22:11:35Z")
Of course Bob Newhart is still alive. So is Peter Bonerz. Both of them were already mentioned upthread. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2021, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/76 "2021-01-11T22:22:29Z")
I believe Astin was mentioned above under the category of “Guest Villain.” ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/77 "2021-01-12T03:14:45Z")
It hardly counts as his Mr. Spooner character was only on for a season, but Mike Berry is the last survivor of Are You Being Served? ---
**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:** [January 12, 2021, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/78 "2021-01-12T03:25:09Z")
> [@MrKnowItAll](#): > > **Barney Miller** is getting close. The only two surviving long-runners are Hal Linden and Max Gail. Barbara Barrie was a credited actor, but really was relegated to recurring status pretty quickly, and Gregory Sierra left after two seasons. But if you go by the standard of regulars who were on the show for all eight seasons, you only had three: Linden, Gail, and Ron Glass. (James Gregory appeared in all eight seasons but generally as a recurring guest star. He was in a total of sixty-six episodes, which is less than Jack Soo (102 eps), Ron Carey (121 eps), and Steve Landesberg (124 eps).) ---
**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:** [January 12, 2021, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/79 "2021-01-12T03:29:48Z")
> [@GreaterZamboni](#): > > As for The Bob Newhart Show, Pat Finley, who played Bob’s sister/Howard’s girlfriend is still with us, but she was only a recurring character too. Oliver Clark is also still alive. He played [Mr. Herd](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkosatGJRa0), one of Bob’s patients. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2021, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464/80 "2021-01-12T05:46:04Z")
Of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, only Clint Eastwood is still with us. Eli Wallach had a damn long run, though; passed away in 2014 at 98. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-remaining-cast-members/929464.md?page=5)