Not quite the same, but Olivia de Havilland, who just hit 100, has outlived her younger sister (and their bitter feud), who died 3 years ago at 96. They had both died they would not die untit he other one did.
If you talk about New York Yankee catchers who were MVPs Yogi Berra (died 2015) outlived his successor Elston Howard (died 1980) who himself outlived Thurman Munson (died 1970). Yogi’s predecessor Bill Dickey was not an MVP but he finished 2nd one year (four other finishes in the top 10) and he died in 1993 outliving Munson and Howard.
Original and replacement outlives the replacement of the replacement…and a twofer at that:
King Crimson’s original singer/bassist and drummer, Greg Lake and Michael Giles, are still alive.
Replacements Gordon Haskell and Andrew McCullough are also still alive. We can add Peter Giles, who filled in as temporary bassist on Crimson’s second album.
Haskell and McCullough quit after making one album and were replaced by Boz Burrell and Ian Wallace, who are both now deceased.
In 1940, Victor Jory played Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow, in THE SHADOW.
In 1946, a younger Kane Richmond took over the role in THE SHADOW RETURNS, and then stuck with it in BEHIND THE MASK and THE MISSING LADY.
Richmond died in his sixties in the '70s; Jory, in his seventies in the '80s.
Stretching the concept to include sports venues: The Cleveland Indians’ long-term home, Cleveland Municipal Stadium, is long gone. But its predecessor, League Park, remains, now used by youth teams.
Soon the Atlanta Braves will move and tear down Turner Field, formerly the 1996 Olympic Stadium, which replaced Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, where they moved to from Milwaukee County Stadium. All are gone, but sections of their previous home, Boston’s Braves Field, still stand.
Wally Pipp and Lou Gehrig.
(Too soon?)
Munson died in '79, but still ahead of Howard.
The recent death of Noel Niell, who played Lois Lane in TVs “Adventures of Superman” led me to check if Phyllis Coates is still alive, which she seemingly is. Neill replaced her on the show, but had played Lois Lane previously so this one kind of works either way.
Completely off topic for the thread but Neal McDonough is a devout Catholic and refuses to do sex scenes because of it. And a few years back he was fired off a show after it became an issue.
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Catholic people can’t pretend to have sex? Which amendment is that?
ETA: I swear I didn’t put that lowercase f there. Huh.
Clive Revill (still with us) was the voice of Alfred in the first few episodes of Batman: The Animated Series, after which Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (d. 2014) took over the role.
Steve Barton, who replaced Michael Crawford as Broadway’s Phantom, committed suicide on July 21, 2001. Crawford is still alive.
Dick Sargent outlived Dick York, even though by only 2 years. So not quite.
By the same token Washington Park (the third to have that name) in Brooklyn was the home of the Dodgers from 1898 to 1911, when it was replaced by Ebbets Field. A portion of the wall of Washington Park still survives as part of a Con edison building while Ebbets Field and Shea Stadium (spiritual successor of the Dodgers according to the Wilpons) are gone.
And a piece of Forbes Field in Pittsburgh (the section of wall that Mazeroski’s homer cleared) still stands, while Three Rivers Stadium is gone, come to think of it.
Although Three Rivers Stadium is gone, two of the blue seats persist. They are in our basement.
Cory Lidle was a replacement player for Major League Baseball in 1995, during the players’ strike. He went on to have a pretty successful career, until it was cut short in a plane crash in 2006. Lidle was only 34, and plenty of players who had played in 1994 were still active (and even more still alive, of course).
Raul Julia long dead. John Astin alive. Both Gomez. Heck, Tim Curry almost died a few years ago, too.
Ron McGovney, the original bassist for Metallica, is alive. Cliff Burton, his replacement, is not.
The Beatle’s first manager Allan Williams has outlived Brian Epstein by 49 years and counting!
That has to be some kind of record.