# 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:** 50
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/987 "2025-06-02T23:19:53Z")
The singer Donovan (who still lives, despite some claims to the contrary), did one of my favorite little humorous songs, “Intergalactic Laxative”. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/988 "2025-06-03T18:37:01Z")
Graham Kerr happened to cross my mind today. I used to watch him back in the 70s when I was first figuring out how to cook. He’s now 91. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/989 "2025-06-03T19:08:03Z")
One of my favorite films is Once Upon a Time in the West, staring **Claudia Cardinale**. She’s still around at 87. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/990 "2025-06-03T19:14:20Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Graham Kerr happened to cross my mind today. I used to watch him back in the 70s when I was first figuring out how to cook. I met him close to 30 years ago, when I was working for Quaker Oats. We had a booth at the national AARP convention; at that point, Graham had transitioned his cooking style to healthy foods, and we had hired him to conduct healthy-cooking demonstrations at our booth. I helped him set up and take down after several of his demos, and we were able to chat for a while – it was a lovely conversation, and he was tickled that not only did I remember him from _The Galloping Gourmet_, but I’d watched his newer, healthy-eating shows. Truly a nice guy. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/991 "2025-06-03T22:55:19Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I was thinking of Captain Kirk’s girlfriends. They are all still around, save two. > > Sandra Smith (Janice Lester) – 86 > Louise Sorel (Rayna) – 84 > France Nuyen (Elaan) – 85 > Sabrina Scharf (Miramanee) – 81 > Nancy Kovak (Nona) – 90 > BarBara Luna (Marlena) – 88 > Joan Collins (Edith Keeler) – 92 on May 23rd > Shirley Bonne (Ruth) – 91 > Barbara Anderson (Lenore Karidian) – 79 > Mariana Hill (Helen Noel) – 83 > Kim Darby (Miri) – 77 > > Gone are Angelique Pettyjohn (Shahna) and Joan Marshall (Areel Shaw) both about 33 years ago. Also still with us is Sherry Jackson, who was in that episode with Ted Cassidy. (She’s on my “Twilight Zone” themed Death Pool list.) ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/992 "2025-06-04T03:05:14Z")
Queen of Scream Queens, Barbara Steele is still with us at 87. Mario Bava’s Black Sunday (1960) was her signature film, but she was also in Roger Corman’s The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Federico Fellini’s 8½ (1963), David Cronenberg’s Shivers (1975), Joe Dante’s Piranha and Louis Malle’s Pretty Baby (both 1978) ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/993 "2025-06-04T04:11:00Z")
Lee Adams, lyricist, and Charles Strouse, composer, are remembered for Bye Bye Birdie. Adams is still with us at 100, though we lost Strouse three weeks ago at 96. Since Bye Bye Birdie might not be your choice earworm, here’s a sweet little song they wrote for a musical written by Mel Brooks. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/OGEzfP0XTx0/maxresdefault.jpg "All American: Once Upon a Time") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGEzfP0XTx0) ---
**Author:** ![Tokushizu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@Tokushizu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tokushizu)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/994 "2025-06-04T13:40:00Z")
One of the vocalists (the female) of a song so many of us are likely familiar with has died at 88. Reposez en paix. “da-ba-da-ba-da, da-ba-da-ba-da”….. > **[French singer Nicole Croisille, of 'A Man and a Woman' fame, dies at 88: agent](https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250604-french-singer-nicole-croisille-of-a-man-and-a-woman-fame-dies-at-88-agent)** > > Nicole Croisille, a French singer who sang on the soundtrack of the hit 1966 film "A Man and a Woman", has died, her agent told AFP on Wednesday. She was 88. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/995 "2025-06-04T15:42:08Z")
Illustrator Quentin Blake (just mentioned in the “Trivia Questions with Two Answers” thread) turned 92 last December. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/996 "2025-06-04T16:09:56Z")
Pete Davidson. Seriously, I could have sworn that I read a few months ago that he had either OD’d or died by suicide. No offense to Pete, but either of those deaths would track. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/997 "2025-06-04T16:29:22Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > I could have sworn that I read a few months ago that he had either OD’d or died by suicide. I was surprised when I heard Andy Dick was still alive because I thought he had OD’d years ago… ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/998 "2025-06-04T16:31:56Z")
Must be the Dick Effect. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/999 "2025-06-04T23:00:03Z")
_duh-duh da-da duh-duh da-da_ _duh-duh da-da duh-duh_ _dee-de-dee dee-de-dee dee-de-dee_ Lalo Schifrin will soon be 93 ---
**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:** [June 13, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/1000 "2025-06-13T22:36:42Z")
There was this movie on that had Susannah York in it, and I got wondering, was she related to Michael? Well, no, neither of them were born York. Susannah is gone, but Michael, who has always seemed old-ish to me, turned 83 this year. And it is blindingly obvious why he chose a stage name, instead of acting under the travesty his parents laid upon him: Michael Hugh Johnson. ---
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Sidney Kibrick is 96. [Woim in the Little Rascals] > **[Sidney Kibrick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Kibrick)** > > Sidney Henry Kibrick (born July 2, 1928) is an American former child actor primarily of the 1930s, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang/Little Rascals short subjects film series, featuring in more than two dozen, between 1933 and 1939. > Kibrick was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA on July 2, 1928; his elder brother was actor and fellow Our Gang cast member Leonard Kibrick, born in 1924. He attended Mount Vernon Junior High and the University of Southern California. > Kibrick's family relo... ---
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> [@HeyHomie](#): > > Pete Davidson. Seriously, I could have sworn that I read a few months ago that he had either OD’d or died by suicide. No offense to Pete, but either of those deaths would track. It’s a bad sign when you’re only thirty-one and people are expressing surprise that you’re still alive. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/1003 "2025-06-16T01:19:05Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > Pete Davidson. Seriously, I could have sworn that I read a few months ago that he had either OD’d or died by suicide. No offense to Pete, but either of those deaths would track. Whenever I read of the death of someone famous that hasn’t been predicted to be soon by most sources, I immediately check as many online sources as possible to see if this is true. Unfortunately, I usually soon find that they aren’t dead. A lot of online sources are more about being clickbait than about being true. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2025, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/1004 "2025-06-17T02:41:45Z")
Just came across this headline. Jimmy Swaggart, 90, in Critical Condition After Suffering Cardiac Arrest: ‘Needs a Miracle from Heaven’. I kind of forgot about this guy. ---
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I’m putting my kiddo to bed to an old Disney music compilation CD. There’s a song from _Babes in Toyland_ on it. In my search to confirm it was performed by the Scarecrow himself, Ray Bolger, I was surprised to learn that _Babes_ lead Tommy Sands is still alive at 87. (The following track is “The Monkey’s Uncle” written by the Sherman Brothers for fellow _Babes_ alum Annette Funicello backed by… The Beach Boys.) ---
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A Mandela Effect one here: I get my new edition of Scientific American, note the back cover after I casually toss it onto the chair when I get home-Lech Walesa as the guest of honor at some cruise meeting…wha? I would have sworn on a pack of bibles that he died about 10 years ago. So maybe it’s the weak Mandela Effect (where one person is confused with another, as happened with Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko), and I am thinking of another Polish politician who came to power after the fall of the Soviet Union and was the one I saw in the obit in question. [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=49) [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=51)