# Still alive??? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2015, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952 "2015-09-20T15:14:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/41 "2015-09-21T16:29:29Z")
Chuck Berry is still alive and rockin’ out at 88. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/42 "2015-09-21T18:23:03Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > [IMDB has a list of the 100 oldest](http://www.imdb.com/list/ls075124314/) Honor Blackman is on the list. I must be dreaming 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Oglomott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oglomott/32/3543_2.png) [@Oglomott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oglomott)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/43 "2015-09-22T01:14:06Z")
Judge Joseph Wapner, 95. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/44 "2015-09-22T01:32:27Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > For a long time, Luise Rainer was one of these people. She won back-to-back Oscars in 1936 and 1937 and stopped making movies shortly thereafter. But she stayed alive for decades, making her the ultimate “She’s still alive?” Gotta figure the aforementioned de Havilland is the ultimate example, since her iconic role from the 1930s was as _a sickly woman who ain’t long for this world._ ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Krupe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Leo\_Krupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Krupe)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/45 "2015-09-22T01:59:35Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > Betty White is older than sliced bread. Not only is she older than sliced bread, she’s older than bread itself! ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/46 "2015-09-22T02:06:20Z")
The lovely Barbara Hale from Perry Mason is still alive. The best legal/secretary ever. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/47 "2015-09-22T06:29:51Z")
I just learned a few weeks ago that Rose Marie was still alive. And Bill Macy. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/48 "2015-09-22T12:42:50Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > The lovely Barbara Hale from Perry Mason is still alive. The best legal/secretary ever. As is Lee Miller, 98, who played Sgt Brice. Richard Anderson, who played Lt Drum the last season (and Oscar in “$6 million dollar man” and “Bionic Woman”) is 89. I watched James Cagney’s “Yankee Doodle Dandy” the other day and was surprised that Joan Leslie, who played his wife, is alive at 95. Leslie, was also in “Sergeant York” with another 95 year old woman, June Lockhart. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2015, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/49 "2015-09-22T12:57:36Z")
Even though she’s not all that old, I think of [Ann-Margret](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann-Margret) as someone who, because her peak famous era has long since passed, she surely would be gone by now. But no, still going at 74 (only a couple of years older than my Mother, so I shouldn’t be all that surprised). In fact she appeared in a couple of episodes of _Ray Donovan_ last year. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/50 "2015-09-22T13:03:21Z")
Monty Hall, 94, has still not been zonked. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/51 "2015-09-22T13:04:56Z")
Jake “Raging Bull” Lamotta, still swinging at 94. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/52 "2015-09-22T13:10:45Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Monty Hall, 94, has still not been zonked. Clearly, he made a deal with _someone_. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/53 "2015-09-22T17:21:49Z")
I saw Dr. Ruth Westheimer on _The View_ this morning. Dr. Ruth, still alive? She’s 87 and still giving sex advice. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/54 "2015-09-22T18:26:47Z")
I just learned that Buffy Sainte-Marie is still alive and performing. I remember seeing her on Sesame Street when I was a little kid in the '70’s. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/55 "2015-09-22T19:19:01Z")
There are three former heads of state from World War II: King Michael of Romania, King Simeon of Bulgaria and Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. Bhumibol Adulyadej just misses, becoming King of Thailand on June 9, 1946 although he is still ruling, although not in good health. ---
**Author:** ![Nefario](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/59ef9b/32.png) [@Nefario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nefario)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/56 "2015-09-22T19:38:37Z")
Charles Osgood at 82 still sounds just like he did \*On The Radio \*when I was in high school in the 70’s. Doesn’t write a daily limerick or play piano regularly though… I miss that. ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/57 "2015-09-22T20:58:43Z")
Someone not actually surprising (with his having been ongoingly in the public eye): but – naturalist / conservationist / film-maker David Attenborough; still going strong at 89, and still, seemingly, thoroughly together physically and mentally. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/58 "2015-09-23T02:52:18Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > Clearly, he made a deal with _someone_. So far, he’s always been able to switch doors. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/59 "2015-09-23T13:34:49Z")
Children’s author Beverly Cleary alive at 95. I mean, I read the Ramona books in grade school. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/60 "2015-09-24T02:37:43Z")
Still alive until very very recently: [Yogi Berra](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=769670). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952.md?page=4)