# The oldest movie with a still-living actor

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**Created:** [May 8, 2009, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-movie-with-a-still-living-actor/495732 "2009-05-08T07:21:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-movie-with-a-still-living-actor/495732/21 "2010-11-19T17:42:28Z")

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I was about to inform **Ranchoth** that he was wrong (and that Virginia Davis died last year) until I noticed this thread _was started_ last year. :smack:

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**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-movie-with-a-still-living-actor/495732/22 "2010-11-19T17:46:36Z")

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> [@Ranchoth](#):
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> Here’s a nod to Disney and Iwerks’ [Alice’s Wonderland](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H58meqbp5Ps), from 1923.
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> Virginia Davis is still with us, last I checked. And I checked less than a minute ago.

Alas! She died on August 15, 2009.

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**Author:** ![fuzzypickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9d8465/32.png) [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-movie-with-a-still-living-actor/495732/23 "2010-11-19T19:37:05Z")

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> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#):
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> I was about to inform **Ranchoth** that he was wrong (and that Virginia Davis died last year) until I noticed this thread _was started_ last year. :smack:

Yep.

Karl Malden’s gone, too. ☹

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**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:** [November 19, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oldest-movie-with-a-still-living-actor/495732/24 "2010-11-19T19:54:36Z")

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Not the oldest but Baby Peggy Montgomery was born in 1918 and making movies at age four. Unfortunately many of those shorts haven’t survived. Neither did he fortune from her thieving step-grandfather/grand uncle and the Depressionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby\_Peggy  
Been watching the “Dragnet” tv shows on Netflix. Harry Morgan (Officer Bill Gannon) is still alive at 95. Unfortunately he didn’t make any films until until 1942 “To the Shores of Tripoli”.  
Maureen O’hara, born 1920, was also in that film. Somehow the bantering back and forth between Gannon and Friday seems more interesting when you realize that jack Webb, five years younger, passed away in 1982.

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