# 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:** 46
**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:** [April 18, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/902 "2025-04-18T19:33:50Z")
I was surprised to find that Prunella Scales (age 92) is still alive and also not yet mentioned in this topic. Connie Booth is 84, and John Cleese is 85. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/903 "2025-04-18T19:41:59Z")
> [@K364](#): > > I was surprised to find that Prunella Scales (age 92) is still alive and also not yet mentioned in this topic. Connie Booth is 84, and John Cleese is 85 Yep, she is on my Celebrity Death Pool list. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/904 "2025-04-18T19:45:45Z")
I swear I remember hearing that Michael Palin had passed away, but of course that is not the case. Four of the six Pythons have made it to their early-to-mid 80s, which is not too bad, I guess. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/905 "2025-04-18T21:34:41Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Speaking of Hogan’s Heroes, Nina Talbot still keeps showing up for breakfast at age 94. Another living actor from that series is Kenneth Washington. He was a cast member in the show’s last season. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/906 "2025-04-18T22:41:49Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Anne Frank’s step-sister is alive at 95. Anne’s father remarried after the death of Anne, her sister, and her mother. The woman he married had a daughter. She (Eva Schloss) is still alive. It seems kind of off to describe Eva as Anne’s step-sister when the two apparently never even met. They were a day more than one month apart in age. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/907 "2025-04-19T00:44:41Z")
The current President of Phillipines is Bongbong Marcos – his mother, Imelda-of-the-many-shoes, **is** very proud of him. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/908 "2025-04-19T02:46:16Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Eva Schloss > **[Anne Frank's Stepsister, Eva Schloss, to Recount Holocaust Survival Story](https://sanantonioreport.org/anne-franks-stepsister-eva-schloss-to-recount-holocaust-survival-story/)** > > Schloss, who survived the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, will speak Tuesday, March 19, at Trinity University's Laurie Auditorium. Yes, they did meet, and step-sister is the standard word for their relationship when Anee’s father married Eva’s mother. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/909 "2025-04-19T17:45:06Z")
I was reading today about the RFK assassination files being released. TIL Sirhan Sirhan is still alive when I realized the article was referring to him in the present tense. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/910 "2025-04-19T18:20:36Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > I was reading today about the RFK assassination files being released. TIL Sirhan Sirhan is still alive when I realized the article was referring to him in the present tense Football player/actor Rosey Grier was present when Kennedy was shot and was one of the people who helped capture Sirhan. Grier is still alive at 92. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/911 "2025-04-19T23:52:59Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Rosey Grier Hmm, I guess this is one good reason for this thread. I thought he had died 5-10 years ago. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2025, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/912 "2025-04-20T04:36:14Z")
Rosey Grier was in several episodes of a particular TV series, which I just looked up only to discover that I had erroneously killed Frank Converse. I mean, he is only just short of 87, but still keeping on keeping on. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2025, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/913 "2025-04-20T04:41:10Z")
Minor trivia: for years that was Frank Converse’s voice in the recruitment ads “the few, the proud, the Marines.” ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/914 "2025-04-20T18:23:59Z")
Ok, I didn’t know that either! Both that Rosey Grier was there and that he’s still alive… ---
**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:** [April 21, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/915 "2025-04-21T21:53:30Z")
Pope Bergoglio just cashed it in, but [this guy](https://youtu.be/E5ZJ6jiyWfE?si=C2DReu0azTxqSP0U) is still offering religious counsel. Granted, he is more than half a decade younger, but still going at it. (ETA – oops, I see he is mentioned upthread) ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/916 "2025-04-25T05:00:47Z")
I still picture Rosey Grier as an older but robust gentleman from when OJ supposedly confessed to him. 92 seems shocking until I realized that the OJ thing was 30 years ago! ---
**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:** [April 25, 2025, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/917 "2025-04-25T05:43:50Z")
Richard Benjamin (86) and his wife Paula Prentiss (87) are still with us. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/918 "2025-04-25T14:27:55Z")
I supposed they were still with us, but I am surprised that they’re still married. I thought I saw something a long time back that they had split. Married since 1961. Nice. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/919 "2025-04-25T16:19:35Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Football player/actor Rosey Grier was present when Kennedy was shot and was one of the people who helped capture Sirhan. Along with George Plimpton and Rafer Johnson, who are no longer with is. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/920 "2025-04-25T16:37:39Z")
> [@caligulathegod](#): > > I still picture Rosey Grier as an older but robust gentleman from when OJ supposedly confessed to him. 92 seems shocking until I realized that the OJ thing was 30 years ago! I think the last time Grier was in the news was in 2017, when he announced he was seeking the Republican nomination in California’s upcoming governor’s election (at the age of 84). His campaign didn’t gain any momentum and he withdrew after a few months. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/921 "2025-04-25T23:07:43Z")
And I still love _[Saturday the 14th](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083033/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk)_ to this day. [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=45) [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=47)