# Who are our current "Abe Vigodas"? (people you might be surprised to learn are still alive) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** actor-characters\ **Created:** [September 7, 2020, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985 "2020-09-07T01:18:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 37
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/722 "2024-11-27T18:53:29Z")
Tom Adkins, who I associate with Halloween 3, is still alive at 89. He was in a lot of stuff, even the TV show MASH. [![](https://legendary-digital-network-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/13075543/Tom-Atkins-Halloween-III.jpg) ](https://legendary-digital-network-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/13075543/Tom-Atkins-Halloween-III.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/723 "2024-11-27T19:31:09Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Watched a recent episode of _Brilliant Minds_ which stars Zachary Quinto. It guest starred Susan Bay Nimoy. Note the last name. She’s the widow of Leonard Nimoy who famously played Spock. A character also played by Quinto. She even mentions that he looks like her late husband! ---
**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 27, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/724 "2024-11-27T20:00:28Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > But, getting back to the thread, she was previously married to John Schuck. He’s done a ton of things over the years but I remember him best for “Painless” in the movie _MASH_ and in _Thieves Like Us_. When I see Schuck, I always think of _Holmes & Yoyo_, a single-season sticom from almost 50 years ago. Probably not the work he wants to be remembered for. ---
**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 27, 2024, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/725 "2024-11-27T20:06:54Z")
John Schuck did an episode of _Law & Order_ with Linda Thorson, so I looked her up. Best known as Patrick Macnee’s partner, Tara King, on _The Avengers_ in 1968, after Diana Rigg left the show. Still alive at 77, and has an IMDb credit from this year. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/726 "2024-11-27T22:47:36Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > When I see Schuck, I always think of _Holmes & Yoyo_, When I see Schuck, I think of _McMillan and Wife_, which was part of NBC’s Mystery Movies, which also featured _Columbo_ and _McCloud_. Schuck played an aide to Rock Hudson’s McMillan; Susan St. James was the Wife. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/727 "2024-11-28T00:50:55Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Holmes & Yoyo This is what made me go “he’s still alive?” I enjoyed him in McMillan and Wife ---
**Author:** ![Tokushizu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@Tokushizu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tokushizu)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/728 "2024-11-28T01:09:03Z")
Sadly. we lost Earl Holliman on November 25th at age 96. I met him many years ago at a benefit for Actors and Others For Animals, a wonderful organization where he was president for 34 years. He was an extremely gracious person and never let anyone feel that they were anything but an equal. May he RIP. > **[Earl Holliman, Star of ‘The Rainmaker,’ ‘Forbidden Planet,’ Dies at 96](https://variety.com/2024/film/news/earl-holliman-dead-rainmaker-giant-1236224133/)** > > Earl Holliman, who won a Golden Globe for his supporting role in "The Rainmaker" and appeared in "Giant" and "Forbidden Planet," died Monday. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/729 "2024-11-28T03:46:02Z")
In addition to his connection with _Police Woman_ which I mentioned, Holliman had the lead role in the first episode of _The Twilight Zone._ ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/730 "2024-11-28T05:13:39Z")
Was he Death? ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/731 "2024-11-28T15:40:00Z")
I think he was the Cook in Forbidden Planet who got Robbie to conjure up a batch of moonshine. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/732 "2024-11-28T15:48:47Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > When I see Schuck, I think of _McMillan and Wife_, which was part of NBC’s Mystery Movies, which also featured _Columbo_ and _McCloud_. I always think of his turn as Herman Munster, which (a) _had_ to have been doomed from the start, given the inevitable comparisons to Fred Gwynne; but which (b) featured sucker-punch line delivery from Schuck that still lingers on in my suggestible little brain… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/733 "2024-11-28T17:13:20Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Was he Death? Earl Holliman was in the first episode of _The Twilight Zone_ as a man who wanders into a deserted town with know memory of who he is. He sees things like hot coffee and burning cigarettes, and he hears evidence of people; but no one is there. I won’t spoil the ending. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2024, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/734 "2024-11-29T00:19:57Z")
Since today is Thanksgiving I was looking for some channel to watch Mighty Joe Young and noticed Terry Moore is still with us at age 95. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/735 "2024-11-29T21:56:25Z")
Amy Irving’s mother, Priscilla Pointer, who was in a few movies and TV episodes, is currently half a year past the century mark. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/736 "2024-11-30T19:08:48Z")
Whereas Priscilla Presley has outlived her ex-husband, daughter Lisa Marie, and one of her grandchildren (her grandson Benjamin), but is only 79. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2024, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/737 "2024-12-01T06:07:23Z")
When Ursula Andress had her only child with her then-lover Harry Hamlin in 1980, there were remarks about the fact that she was fifteen years, seven months, and nineteen days older than him. She’s still alive at 88. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2024, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/738 "2024-12-01T10:33:59Z")
There was a Bond marathon on one of my TV channels yesterday, which got me thinking of this thread and who might be the earliest Bond villain who’s still alive. I haven’t done an exhaustive search, but my guess would be Julian Glover (_For Your Eyes Only_), still alive at 89. Michale Lonsdale (_Moonraker_) was close; he passed away only four years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2024, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/739 "2024-12-01T14:23:49Z")
Marguerite LeWars, who was one of Dr No’s henchwomen in the first Bond movie, is still alive. _Dr No_ was her only film credit. If you’re only counting main villains, it’s probably Woody Allen. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2024, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/740 "2024-12-01T15:50:08Z")
Interesting. I wouldn’t call her a henchwoman, though. No seems to only communicate with Dent, which would make him the henchman. He probably passes the orders along, which would make her title “underling” or “lackey”. I was thinking only of the official Eon productions, so that leaves Woody Allen out. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/741 "2024-12-01T15:51:18Z")
I just checked using the Sean Connery-Daniel Craig movies as my guide. Yahpet Kotto died just a couple years ago, but was in Live and Let Die. Close, but nope. Julian Glover is indeed the furthest back Bond Villian to be alive. The next movie, Octopussy, had Steven Berkhoff. He’s alive as well. After that, it was Christopher Walken, also still alive. In fact, _all_ the Bond villains after Julian Glover are still alive. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985.md?page=36) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985.md?page=38)