# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/101 "2015-11-24T07:47:04Z")
> [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > > [@](#): > > > > > > > And there’s always Norman Lloyd who I see on IMDB just appeared in Trainwreck (and just had his 101st birthday). How many people who were blacklisted in the McCarthy era are still alive and working? > > There’s a pretty great AV Club interview with him here. Still pretty damn sharp, and it’s quite a read. Thank you so much. Awesome interview! ---
**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 24, 2015, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/102 "2015-11-24T12:41:13Z")
> [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](#): > > Keith Richards: I saw Keith Richards (on television) playing a concert in the early 80’s. He looked like he was on death’s door, maybe 3 months to live. Every time I’ve seen him since, he looks like he’s taken two steps closer (to death) and one step back. I’m constantly amazed to hear he’s still alive, every time I’ve heard over the past 30 years. _Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me_ once started a story about him with “when Keith Richards dies, if, indeed, he can die…” ---
**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:** [November 26, 2015, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/103 "2015-11-26T10:16:14Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > it’s people like Eva Marie Saint, Kaye Ballard, George Kennedy and Carol Channing that really surprise me. Mainly because I haven’t heard anything about them in some time. [Eva Marie Saint](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001693/?ref_=nv_sr_4) did voice work for _Avatar: The Legend of Korra_ 2012 - 2014 She was in five episodes as the elderly Katara, from the first series. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/104 "2015-11-26T10:54:41Z")
> [@Asympotically\_fat](#): > > June Whitfield: Career started in the 1940s and first found fame in 1953 on _Take It From Here_ and then on Tony Hancock’s radio and TV shows. Had a long career which saw her star in sitcom _Terry and June_, appear in several of the _Carry-On_ films. In the nineties played Edwina’s Mother in _Absolutely Fabulous_. She is still active and has appeared on many famous TV shows such as _Dr Who_, _Last of the Summer Wine_, _Friends_, _Coronation Street_ and too many others to fully list. Funny to read that today, having literally just spotted her an hour ago in _You, Me and the Apocalypse_ (playing God, no less). And at 90 she’s looking far better than fellow cast member Diana Rigg who appears to be advancing in decrepitude at a mere 77. Looking at IMDb there appears to be an AbFab movie in the works for next year, so June is still going strong. ---
**Author:** ![mikeargo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@mikeargo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikeargo)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/105 "2015-11-26T20:26:40Z")
Keely Smith is 87 ---
**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:** [November 27, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952/106 "2015-11-27T20:16:47Z")
I was watching a _Rockford Files_ episode in which the late Avery Schreiber appeared and decided to see how his partner Jack Burns was doing. He’s 82 years old. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-alive/731952.md?page=5)