Example: Anton Yelchin dead, Walter Koenig alive. Another: Raul Julia dead. John Astin alive.
Knock yourselves out.
Ronnie James Dio: dead. Ozzy Osbourne: alive.
Henry Blake in MASH: Maclean Stevenson died Feb. 15, 1996; Roger Bowen (from the movie) lived until Feb. 16, 1996.
Hugh Marlowe – TV’s first Ellery Queen – outlived Jim Hutton.
Kirk Douglas, still alive at 99. Andy Whitfield, dead at 39.
Keith Moon. Doug Sandom. Not sure if the Who ever recorded with him although they did give Doug a copy of “Who Are You” when it came out saying to keep his drum kit ready.
I have to research the 1950s version of “Dragnet” better but essentially they started with Barton Yarborough as Jack Webb’s partner. He died and they tried a couple more until settling with Ben Alexander, who died in 1969. One of them was Barney Phillips who died in 1982. Phillips is best remember as a diner counterman in the “Twilight Zone” episode “Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?”.
Eartha Kitt replaced Julie Newmar as the Catwoman on “Batman” and has passed away but Julie is still with us and looks purr fect for her age.
Kirk Alyn outlived George Reeves – though if you want to count Bud Collyer as the original Superman, he outlived George Reeves likewise.
On the 1960s sitcom “The Mothers-in-law” Roger C Carmel was replaced by Richard Deacon after one season, usually reported as a salary dispute (the others agree to take a salary cut to stay on the air, he refused). Harcourt Fenton Mudd outlived Mel Cooley by two years.
The first actor ever to do a live-action portrayal of Wilson “The Kingpin” Fisk was the always-reliable John Rhys-Davies – who outlived Michael Clarke Duncan, who always seemed to move faster than you’d expect from a guy that big.
Seriously, he was like his own special effect.
He also outlived Tony Curtis.
Keye Luke, who was Kato in the GREEN HORNET movie serials, outlived Bruce Lee.
I’m not sure if they are directly on point but:
Porsche designed the 928 in the 1970s to replace the 911, but the 911 stayed both more popular and more profitable than the 928, so the 928 was killed while the updated 911 continued in production.
Similarly, the ultra-fast Mach 3-capable SR-71 spy plane was designed in the 1960s to be a faster, higher-flying replacement for the U-2. After Gary Powers’s U-2 was shot down and U-2s stopped flying over Russia, the SR-71 filled the gap in collecting reconnaissance over Russia. But, the SR-71 was very expensive to operate and was largely (though imperfectly) replaced by satellites. Money that could have been spent operating and upgrading the SR-71 went to other projects. However, the U-2 remains in operation today providing real-time reconnaissance while satellites provide coverage of the areas that the SR-71 otherwise would have covered.
Alan Shepard was selected as commander for the first manned Gemini mission, but was grounded when he developed Ménière’s disease. His replacement, Virgil “Gus” Grissom, was killed in the Apollo 1 fire two years later.
Peter Criss left KISS in 1980 and is still living. His replacement, Eric Carr, died of cancer in 1991.
Jack Nicholson, who played the Joker in the 1989 movie, has outlived Heath Ledger, who played the character in 2008.
Fresh from another thread: after Edmund Lowe played Chandu the Magician in, well, CHANDU THE MAGICIAN, he was promptly replaced by Bela Lugosi in the sequel.
Lugosi eventually died, after which Lowe was still up and around: acting in the last film made by Republic Pictures, and playing the aging villain up against young James Garner in the first episode of MAVERICK, and so on for a movie with John Wayne in the late '50s and a movie with Sophia Loren in the early '60s and et cetera.
Speaking of '89, should we count River Phoenix as Indiana Jones?
Sid Vicious: Dead - Glen Matlock: Still alive
Set to turn 100 this Friday – which makes her being cast as the sickly Miss Melanie in GONE WITH THE WIND increasingly silly, as she defines robust – Olivia de Havilland played Maid Marian in the '30s and has so far outlived Joan Rice and Sarah Branch and Audrey Hepburn, who fielded that role in the '50s and '60s and '70s.
It may be impossible to kill her with conventional weapons.
I hung on to my dorm fridge from college and kept beer out in the garage. Replaced it with a big-ass commercial unit to ferment homebrew. It croaked it a while back, and I’m back to the dorm fridge.
Word Trade Center-gone.
Empire State Building-Still standing.