# 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:** 7
**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:** [September 9, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/121 "2020-09-09T23:17:23Z")
Larry Storch, Corporal Agarn of **F Troop** is 97 years old. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/122 "2020-09-09T23:17:37Z")
There is only 1 true Bond. James Bond, Sean Connery. All the others are fakes. ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/123 "2020-09-09T23:24:52Z")
Well, I remember Roger Moore playing Bond in the 70s growing up. So to me, he’s Bond. I have watched some with Sean Connery, but I like Roger Moore’s Bond better. The James Bonds after the Roger Moore era I don’t care for. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/124 "2020-09-09T23:29:02Z")
> [@TheCuse](#): > > Well, I remember Roger Moore playing Bond in the 70s growing up. So to me, he’s Bond. I have watched some with Sean Connery, but I like Roger Moore’s Bond better. By that logic, to me, Timothy Dalton would be James Bond, since he’s the one I grew up watching. But that’s not so; it’s because Dalton actually _is_ Bond. ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/125 "2020-09-09T23:37:49Z")
Well, we’re all allowed to have opinions. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/126 "2020-09-10T00:03:23Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > There is only 1 true Bond. James Bond, Sean Connery. All the others are fakes. I guess. I mean I do think of him along with Daniel Craig as Bond. Still, I do like Roger Moore the most…after Craig. I’d go: 1. Craig 2. Moore 3. Connery 4. Brosnan 5. Dalton \<–had crappy movies no fault of his own I haven’t seen George Lazenby’s one. I know! ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/127 "2020-09-10T00:29:45Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I’d go: > > 1. Craig > 2. Moore > 3. Connery > 4. Brosnan > 5. Dalton \<–had crappy movies no fault of his own Yo yo I’mma let you finish, but The Living Daylights was one of the best Bond films of all-time, dog! I could take or leave Licence to Kill, though. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2020, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/128 "2020-09-10T00:31:16Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Yo yo I’mma let you finish, but The Living Daylights was one of the best Bond films of all-time, dog! Maybe I need to re-watch it. I watch Dalton’s so little, I don’t remember them anymore. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/129 "2020-09-10T00:36:07Z")
So no votes for Woody Allen as the one true James Bond? ---
**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:** [September 10, 2020, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/130 "2020-09-10T01:52:06Z")
> [@TheCuse](#): > > Well, we’re all allowed to have opinions. [Suntory time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gjiQwh1p6M&t=1m52s) ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/131 "2020-09-10T02:59:20Z")
> [@TheCuse](#): > > Well, I remember Roger Moore playing Bond in the 70s growing up. So to me, he’s Bond. I have watched some with Sean Connery, but I like Roger Moore’s Bond better. The James Bonds after the Roger Moore era I don’t care for. I was an elementary age kid when the Roger Moore Bond movies were always on cable TV, and at that age I just couldn’t appreciate them. I actually remember being annoyed at having to watch them when older relatives wanted to watch them and there was no other TVs. To me, then, Pierce Brosnan is James Bond, since his movies came out when I was of the age to appreciate Bond movies. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/132 "2020-09-10T03:56:22Z")
I would say Sean Connery, then Daniel Craig, then everyone else. But that’s just me. > [@running\_coach](#): > > They haven’t run out of body parts yet [on Grey’s Anatomy]? They must be down to minor glands by now. > :flees: Are you kidding? The entirety of S8 was devoted to the spleen. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/133 "2020-09-10T06:37:04Z")
maybe this deserves its own thread? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/134 "2020-09-10T12:55:49Z")
I agree **Mod Note** to all of us talking about James Bond, (Yes, I was part of the problem). Let’s move this to a new thread or at least drop it here. And thanks to TriPolar, here it is: [Who was the best Bond?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-best-bond/920259) ---
**Author:** ![jim23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@jim23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jim23)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/135 "2020-09-10T16:30:28Z")
the same with Henry Aaron ---
**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:** [September 10, 2020, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/136 "2020-09-10T17:58:30Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > There’s a little bit of Abe Vigoda in all of us. 😃 Get away from me ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/137 "2020-09-10T18:12:32Z")
I remember being surprised that Mort Sahl was still alive and kicking. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/138 "2020-09-10T18:17:42Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > There’s a little bit of Abe Vigoda in all of us. - There’s a little bit of everyone who ever lived in all of us. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/139 "2020-09-10T20:10:59Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > I remember being surprised that Mort Sahl was still alive and kicking. Don’t tell Mortsahlfan. Mort was outdated by the 70’s or 80’s. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985/140 "2020-09-10T20:56:12Z")
In keeping with the OP’s example, I’ve been surprised to find these folks are still alive, largely because they fell of my personal radar: Burt Bacharach (92) Ann-Margaret (and only 77) Barbara Bain (89) Joanne Woodward (90) Neil Sedaka (81) [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=6) [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=8)