# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/61 "2015-09-24T03:12:21Z")
He is only in his 50’s, but I am shocked that Magic Johnson is still alive. He was diagnosed HIV+ about 24 yrs ago, when the prognosis was not that all that good. ---
**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 24, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/62 "2015-09-24T03:24:08Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > He is only in his 50’s, but I am shocked that Magic Johnson is still alive. He was diagnosed HIV+ about 24 yrs ago, when the prognosis was not that all that good. There is also Stephen Hawking who is now 73. He was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 1963 and given two years to live ---
**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 24, 2015, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/63 "2015-09-24T03:30:39Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > He is only in his 50’s, but I am shocked that Magic Johnson is still alive. He was diagnosed HIV+ about 24 yrs ago, when the prognosis was not that all that good. > [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > There is also Stephen Hawking who is now 73. He was diagnosed with motor neuron disease in 1963 and given two years to live The power of Satan compels you!! ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/64 "2015-09-25T02:14:30Z")
I’m having a flashback to my childhood today and forcing my daughter to watch Punky Brewster. Who knew George Gaynes was still alive? ---
**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 29, 2015, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/65 "2015-09-29T08:31:36Z")
I was watching a Perry Mason rerun and decided to find out if Barbara Hale, who played Della Street, was still alive. She is. She’s 93, born in 1922. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/66 "2015-09-29T14:11:05Z")
She’s mentioned in the IMDB link, but I was aware of her already: June Foray, one of the industry’s most prolific voice actors, celebrated her 98th birthday earlier this month. You remember her as the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Natasha Fatale from _Rocky and Bullwinkle_, Granny from the Warner Brothers cartoons, Cindy Lou Who (who was no more than two) from _How the Grinch Stole Christmas_, and hundreds of other things. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/67 "2015-09-29T14:43:45Z")
[Jerry Lee Lewis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis) turns 80 today. ---
**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 29, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/68 "2015-09-29T14:49:54Z")
[Jerry Lewis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lewis) has 9 1/2 years on him, having reached the age of 89. And no, they are not the same person ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/69 "2015-11-18T04:28:15Z")
I just noticed that Alan Young is still alive at age 95. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/70 "2015-11-18T05:11:59Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > Al Molinaro is still alive? Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep… > > I honestly thought he passed years ago. You almost spoke too soon. He died October 30. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/71 "2015-11-18T05:21:02Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > [Jerry Lewis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lewis) has 9 1/2 years on him, having reached the age of 89. > > And no, they are not the same person [Goodness gracious great balls of HEY LADY!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=62082) (Utter classic…) ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/72 "2015-11-18T09:46:33Z")
Again, for UK Dopers, Nicolas Parsons, who has reached the grand old age of 92, is still presenting the funniest programme on radio, Just A Minute. He has presented it since it started in 1967, and I have been listening faithfully from the beginning. He doesn’t even sound old. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/73 "2015-11-18T10:04:51Z")
Well, I just found out that Don Bluth is still alive. Sure, he’s only 78, but I’d not heard anyone talk about him except in the past tense, like they do with Walt Disney. But just yesterday he did a cameo on [this weeks episode](http://channelawesome.com/conquest-of-the-commercials-nostalgia-critic/) of the Nostalgia Critic, and will apparently be in the next week’s episode. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/74 "2015-11-18T18:16:21Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > She’s mentioned in the IMDB link, but I was aware of her already: June Foray, one of the industry’s most prolific voice actors, celebrated her 98th birthday earlier this month. > > You remember her as the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Natasha Fatale from _Rocky and Bullwinkle_, Granny from the Warner Brothers cartoons, Cindy Lou Who (who was no more than two) from _How the Grinch Stole Christmas_, and hundreds of other things. Also from classic animation, dancer [Marge Champion,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_Champion) who served as the model for Disney’s Snow White and the [Blue Princess,](https://cdn.thedissolve.com/features/815/fullwidth.21a338c9.jpg) is still alive at 96 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/75 "2015-11-18T22:35:30Z")
Dame Vera Lynn, the “Armed Forces Sweetheart” She’s 98 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/76 "2015-11-18T22:41:59Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Dame Vera Lynn, the “Armed Forces Sweetheart” She’s 98 I thought you meant Vera-Ellen at first then I realized you meant the singer that Roger Waters seemed to like. [QUOTE=Pink Floyd] Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn? Remember how she said that “We would meet again, some sunny day” Vera! Vera! What has become of you? Does anybody else in here feel the way I do? [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/77 "2015-11-18T22:43:57Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > Al Molinaro is still alive? Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep… > > I honestly thought he passed years ago. This thread is killing [people](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0596846/)! Stop. The last thing I would want is for [Alan Young](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0949241) (_Mister Ed_) to die. Just turned 96. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/78 "2015-11-19T05:07:02Z")
Seen a few episodes of _Emergency!_ lately and looked up some of the cast; **Robert Fuller** is still alive at 82. Last acting credits were in 2001. Just last night I caught an old rerun of _What’s My Line_ and the celebrity guest was an actress named **Terry Moore**. Can’t say I ever heard of her, so I looked her up on IMDb. She’s had a quite a successful career; nominated for an Oscar in '52, the _What’s My Line_ episode was from '55, and she has acting credits right up to this year. She’s 86. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/79 "2015-11-19T08:26:01Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Just last night I caught an old rerun of _What’s My Line_ and the celebrity guest was an actress named **Terry Moore**. Can’t say I ever heard of her, so I looked her up on IMDb. She’s had a quite a successful career; nominated for an Oscar in '52, the _What’s My Line_ episode was from '55, and she has acting credits right up to this year. She’s 86. I remember her from the second season of Adam West’s _ **Batman** _. She also posed nude for _ **Playboy** _ back in the '80s, IIRC. She was still quite hot even then. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/80 "2015-11-19T16:46:56Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Dame Vera Lynn, the “Armed Forces Sweetheart” She’s 98 [And had a hit album at age 97 in 2014](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/10884768/Dame-Vera-Lynn-breaks-chart-record-aged-97-with-album-of-wartime-hits.html)! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952.md?page=5)