My first thought was that most all of the main actors from TV’s "Bosom Buddies’’ were pretty young when it started back in 1980, so I’d guess that they are still around, now some 38 years later, but I bet that “The Love Boat” (1977) might have them beat, as Gavin MacLeod and Bernie Kopell, both in their late 80’s, are still with us…
We need a well defined criterion of who counts as a “cast member” for the purposes of this thread. Police Woman premiered in 1974. As far as I know Angie Dickinson, Earl Holliman, Charles Dierkop, and Ed Bernard are all still alive. John Crawford is dead, but he was only in 12 of 91 episodes. I would consider his role (Captain Parks) to be a recurring character, not part of the main cast.
Between 1952 and 1956, Betty White was the sole host(ess) of the talk/variety show Hollywood on Television, broadcast on KLAC-TV. That’s gotta count for something!
Anyway, speaking of Holliman, none of the 4 regulars of Police Woman are listed on IMDb as dead: Angie Dickinson, Earl Holliman, Charles Dierkop, and Ed Bernard. Show ran from 1974 to 1978.
(BTW, we had a thread like these a while back. Can’t find it right now.)
Something really odd here. I thought E-DUB’s comment was out of the blue so I checked previous posts to see if there was a prompt for it. Double checked.
Weird.
Anyway, here’s the earlier thread I mentioned.
My post regarding the Smothers Brother show still holds up. But sadly there’s been even more deaths from the “almost” shows.
No deaths among the main characters are listed. Although it’s sometimes hard to say for the actors who played the kids since they might not be on anybody’s death list radar.
This tread reminds me of the sadness whenever learning that one of the Our Gang/Little Rascals in its various groupings passed away. According to Wikipedia, a large number of Our Gang members are thought to be still alive, but the most well known is Robert Blake (Mickey).
She was also Lwaxana Troi, Deanna’s mother. If were talking about ALL cast members, this might include Mark Lenard, who made the role of Sarek his own.
They both were on only occasionally, but their parts were important to the series.
I think we’re talking about principal cast members with spoken lines in the majority of episodes, whose name appears in the opening credits. Lwaxana Troi was in five episodes (about as many as Barclay), but the Computer Voice was in 101 and was as integral to the series as Carlton the Doorman was to RHODA.