Dammit, now I have an image of those two spooning stuck in my head.
So did Norman Lear.
ETA: I already mentioned that in this thread. Oh, well.
That’s bent.
This thread is almost two years old. Out of idle curiosity, I spent a couple of hours going through all the postings and identified all the celebrities that we Dopers listed here. I counted 126 people, but I could easily have overlooked a couple. Of those 126, 25 have died since being tabbed as an Abe Vigoda. (Two of them, Clu Gulager and Gene LeBell, passed away within the past two weeks.)
Here is the list of those 25 people and the year of their death:
| Name | Year of Death |
|---|---|
| Chuck Yeager | 2020 |
| Marge Champion | 2020 |
| Roberta McCain | 2020 |
| Larry King | 2021 |
| Betty White | 2021 |
| Beverly Cleary | 2021 |
| Bob Dole | 2021 |
| Cloris Leachman | 2021 |
| Desmond Tutu | 2021 |
| Ed Asner | 2021 |
| Gavin MacLeod | 2021 |
| George Schultz | 2021 |
| Henry Aaron | 2021 |
| Jackie Mason | 2021 |
| Jane Withers | 2021 |
| Mort Sahl | 2021 |
| Norman Lloyd | 2021 |
| Ramsey Clark | 2021 |
| Ruthie Tompson | 2021 |
| Clu Gulager | 2022 |
| Gene LeBell | 2022 |
| Larry Storch | 2022 |
| Nehemiah Persoff | 2022 |
| Scoey Mitchell | 2022 |
| Sidney Poitier | 2022 |
And here are the 101 people who are still kicking, along with their current age. Might give you some good ideas for next year’s celebrity death pool.
| Name | Current Age |
|---|---|
| Al Jaffee | 101 |
| Ray Anthony | 100 |
| Norman Lear | 100 |
| Rachel Robinson | 100 |
| Henry Kissinger | 99 |
| Bob Barker | 98 |
| Eva Marie Saint | 98 |
| Dorothy Claire | 97 |
| Jimmy Carter | 97 |
| June Lockhart | 97 |
| Angela Lansbury | 96 |
| Dick Van Dyke | 96 |
| Gene Shalit | 96 |
| Mel Brooks | 96 |
| Robert Clary | 96 |
| Roger Corman | 96 |
| Shecky Greene | 96 |
| Tony Bennett | 96 |
| Barbara Rush | 95 |
| Doc Severinsen | 95 |
| Harry Belafonte | 95 |
| Pope Benedict XVI | 95 |
| William Daniels | 95 |
| Burt Bacharach | 94 |
| Dr. Ruth Westheimer | 94 |
| Tom Lehrer | 94 |
| Bob Cousy | 93 |
| Bonnie Bartlett | 93 |
| George Maharis | 93 |
| Irving Feldman | 93 |
| Joseph Hardy | 93 |
| Noam Chomsky | 93 |
| Sid Krofft | 93 |
| Berry Gordy | 92 |
| Bob Newhart | 92 |
| Buzz Aldrin | 92 |
| Gene Hackman | 92 |
| Joanne Woodward | 92 |
| John Astin | 92 |
| Vera Miles | 92 |
| Dominic Chianese | 91 |
| Hal Linden | 91 |
| James Earl Jones | 91 |
| Leslie Caron | 91 |
| Marla Gibbs | 91 |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | 91 |
| Robert Duvall | 91 |
| Sonny Rollins | 91 |
| Willie Mays | 91 |
| Barbara Bain | 90 |
| Dabney Coleman | 90 |
| Loretta Lynn | 90 |
| Bernie Kopell | 89 |
| Brian Murphy | 89 |
| Michael Caine | 89 |
| Siân Phillips | 89 |
| Annette Dionne | 88 |
| Bob Uecker | 88 |
| Cécile Dionne | 88 |
| Graham Kerr | 88 |
| John Mayall | 88 |
| Pat Boone | 88 |
| Shirley MacLaine | 88 |
| Bobby Vinton | 87 |
| Dame Judi Dench | 87 |
| Erich von Däniken | 87 |
| Maggie Smith | 87 |
| Jerry Lacy | 86 |
| Jerry Lee Lewis | 86 |
| Nancy Dussault | 86 |
| Richard Wilson | 86 |
| Ruth Buzzi | 86 |
| Woody Allen | 86 |
| Diane Rehm | 85 |
| Dick Cavett | 85 |
| Edward Fox | 85 |
| Garrett Morris | 85 |
| James Burke | 85 |
| Marty Krofft | 85 |
| Vanessa Redgrave | 85 |
| John Byner | 84 |
| Christopher Lloyd | 83 |
| Neil Sedaka | 83 |
| Rex Reed | 83 |
| Rich Little | 83 |
| George Lazenby | 82 |
| Lily Tomlin | 82 |
| Tony Roberts | 82 |
| Ann-Margret | 81 |
| Stephanie Cole | 80 |
| Ian McDiarmid | 78 |
| Terry Funk | 78 |
| Wallace Shawn | 78 |
| Diane Keaton | 76 |
| José Feliciano | 76 |
| Uri Geller | 75 |
| Brian Eno | 74 |
| Michael Hogan | 73 |
| Ric Flair | 73 |
| Jerry Lawler | 72 |
| Cedric the Entertainer | 58 |
What I wouldn’t give to see how Gene Shalit looks at 96!
Just imagine the length of his ‘stache!!
TIL Gina Lollobrigida is 95.
Dick Vitale, age 83, is cancer free, baby!
I was surprised to learn that Edward Packard, the creator and prolific author of the Choose Your Own Adventure series of interactive fiction books, is still alive at 91. And not only that, he’s got a home-made web page with a blog that he updates daily, and has just finished writing another novel.
Ruta Lee is still with us and younger than I though at 87.
I just watched the Scrubs episode in which Dick Van Dyke guest-started as an aging doctor who couldn’t keep up with the times.
The episode aired 19 years ago, when Van Dyke was a mere 77 years old. He’s still kicking at 96.
I saw a picture of him the other day and he was going to the gym wearing a Mary Poppins T-shirt. He seems pretty awesome and a relatively good candidate to reach 100.
Yes, well Glynis Johns was in that movie, and she is currently 4 years older than Mr. Sherman.
In contrast, the lad was played by Matthew Garber, who expired some 13 years after the movie’s release, at age 21, of hemorrhagic necrotizing pancreatitis – I mean, ewwww.
A recent story kind of caught me off guard: Yvon Chouinard is transferring the Patagonia company to a trust, to insure that its profits are used to further environmentalist goals.
And, I thought, is he still alive? I mean, only 83, but you would have thought he had fallen off something by now.
The infamous comedy actor Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, known to us all as “Baghdad Bob”, is living the good(-ish) life in some place like Durain or Bahbai. At only 85, he is still a pup in vigodaspeak, but it still seems a tiny bit surprising the he yet endures.
He will stand next to his casket saying,“Rumors of my death? I’m fine!”
Ed Ames
Ed Ames took part in one of the funniest moments in late night TV.
Obligatory clip:
He is 95.
Frances Sternhagen, the actress best known (to me, anyway) for her recurring role as Cliff Clavin’s mother on Cheers, is still alive at 92. She already seemed to be an old woman back on Cheers, so I had assumed she’d long since passed on. But nope, according to Wikipedia she’s been taking roles on TV, film, and on stage as recently as 2014.