I was just watching “The Swarm” and looked up Olivia de Havilland’s bio. She turned 100 on July 1st.
Are there actors or actresses that are older?
Dennis
I think Connie Sawyer is the oldest actor who’s still working. She’s 103 and has credits as recent as 2014.
Wow. Born before Birth of a Nation was made.
Sawyer didn’t start acting until 1953, though, mostly did TV, and was not part of the Golden Age of Hollywood. I think de Havilland is the last link to that. No, wait-- Angela Lansbury is still alive, and made films in the 1940s. She was in Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer and Joseph Cotten. Lansbury is 91, though, so, not as old as de Havilland.
Honorable mentions: Barbara Hale, Betty White, and Carl Reiner, all born in 1922; and Rose Marie, 1923. Barbara Hale is apparently retired, but the others are still at least somewhat active.
Norman Lloyd is 101 and still active. His career spans nine decades.
Lupita Tovar just turned 106. She starred in the Spanish version of “Dracula” in 1931…filmed at nights on the same sets as the Bela Lugosi version but with a different cast and director. Some people prefer the Spanish one since the crew was able to see the dailies from the English version and come up with better camera angles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_living_actors_from_the_Golden_Age_of_Hollywood
Patricia Morison made her screen debut in the '30s, and in the '40s did a Tarzan movie with Johnny Weissmuller as well as a Sherlock Holmes movie with Basil Rathbone as well as a Thin Man movie with William Powell and Myrna Loy, and she’s 101.
She was also the female lead in the original Broadway production of Kiss Me, Kate.