Great. 
Missed that one altogether, or didn’t get it filed away right. Keeping track of the living and the dead is just gonna keep on getting more difficult. People oughta die on a schedule to make this easier.
Run, runner!
I think to get closer to an Ave Vigoda of today one should include false alarms about his/her death that were seriously reported, and the actor having fun with it.
On that division, I propose Jeff Goldblum. I didn’t know that he is now 67 years old.
Although New Zealand police initially confirmed the death of Jeff Goldblum, Goldblum himself appeared three days later on The Colbert Report , where Stephen Colbert pressed him repeatedly on the rumor—until a deadpan Goldblum broke the news that, although he hadn’t even been in New Zealand recently, he was, in fact, dead.
Since Colbert was too upset to speak, Goldblum heroically delivered his own eulogy, comparing his muscularity to Marlon Brando and his pathos to Meryl Streep. “I cannot overstate,” Jeff Goldblum somberly concluded, “how amazing Jeff Goldblum was in bed.”
I always remember Elinor Lavisch and Aunt Charlotte (Dame Judi Dench and Maggie Smith in A Room with a View) as seeming to be not young. They are both around 85.
And what about Richard Wilson? His One Foot in the Grave series started running, I don’t believe it, thirty years ago. His character Sort of cameoed in Father Ted – Dermot Morgan who played Father Ted Crilly stopped living shortly after filming ended for the third season, but Wilson soldiers on.
He was the “old man” on Merlin as well and that ended 8 years ago. I definitely had to look up to see if he was still alive.
Ed Asner has been old for a long time now.
Then there is Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, who has always been in some weird dusk of seeming both young and old at the same time.
For the past 50 years, at least. He was only 40 when The Mary Tyler Moore Show premiered in 1970, but he looked older – being balding and heavyset probably helped to make him seem older than he was.
Three years prior to that he was the evil ranch owner in El Dorado. I think he was born old.
He was also in The Slender Thread two years before that, not looking a whole lot younger yet. A movie which also featured Sidney Poitier, who, while not born looking old has nonetheless always seemed rather old. A little like Morgan Freeman, who I think must be part sharpei.
Can’t believe no one has mentioned Angela Lansbury. She played Laurence Harvey’s mother in Manchurian Candidate (she was just three years older than him) and from then on she was always cast older. On Broadway she was 41 when she was in Mame the old battle-axe Mama Rose in Gypsy when she was 49. She was only 59 when she started Murder She Wrote. She’s now 94, and according to IMDB, has been cast in an upcoming movie.
He was old in Only When I Laugh too.
But this reminds me of actress Stephanie Cole, who played the stern Mrs Delphine Featherstone, aka The Black Widow, in Open All Hours, then an Aged Care resident in Waiting For God (when she was only 50), then Doc Martin’s Auntie Joan, then was back again as Delphine in the sequel to the aforementioned, Still Open All Hours. And she’s still going at only age 78 (SDMB fans will know her from the radio show Cabin Pressure). She has always been old, even when she was young.
Now there is a guy who has the old look down. He looked and acted old in The Revengers’ Comedies and Shakespeare in Love, before he was even 30 – what will he look like in thirty years? Hell, he is younger than me. Now I am scared. How old do I look?
He doesn’t fit the “he always seemed old” definition but I’m amazed Jerry Lee Lewis is still alive. (Good clean living is definitely not a factor.) This guy’s been a part of rock and roll so long the Beatles grew up listening to him.
Oh, of course. He’s a classic example of this. I thought he was 80 when I was a kid!
Wilford Brimley was always like Abe Vigoda, too. We all assumed he was 65-75 back when he made Cocoon, but he wasn’t. In fact, he was younger then than Tom Cruise is now.
Reminds me of the Principal in Back to the Future. They go back to 1955 and he still doesn’t have hair or look any different. Some people just look the same no matter what!
My old District Manager is like that. I’ve known the guy for forty years and he looks maybe ten years older now than he did then.
I assumed that Wallace Shawn of Princess Bride fame had died long ago and that if he were still alive he’d be ancient by now. Then I heard that not only is he still with us, but will be participating with the rest of the cast (other than Andre the Giant) in a reading of the script next week. Not only that, but he is only 76, not in his 90s or 100s like I was imagining 
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Yeah, he was about 43 when they filmed Princess Bride in 1986. I’m 42 now and I I think I look nowhere the same age as him.
I saw My Dinner With Andre and I just realized he was in his 30’s when he was in that!
The Ferengi makeup and appliances make him look older.
(Yeah, I know, different franchises, but the joke was too good to pass up.)
I can’t believe I’d forgotten he played the Grand Nagus on DS9 
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