So is Bob Cousy. He’s 97. 6x NBA champ, famous early Celtic.
ISTM that I look this up every year. Terry Kilburn, ‘Tiny Tim’ in A Christmas Carol (1938), is still alive at 98.
who did NOT die
Terry Kilburn is now 99 years old. Today is his birthday.
I had to look him up, but: good for him. God bless us, every one!
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(or, oops, I could just have read upthread a bit!)
Update:
Ja, I had no idea Gehry was still alive.
Vera Miles is still with us at 95. Thought she’d died years ago.
Vera Miles is a few months younger than another Hitchcock star, Tippi Hedren. As I wrote in a previous post on this thread, since her daughter Melanie Griffith and her granddaughter Dakota Johnson are also movie stars, if Johnson has a daughter soon and Hedren lives a few years more and the daughter of Johnson becomes a movie star when she is young, there would be four generations of movie star actresses alive at once. Unfortunately, Johnson just broke up with a longtime boy friend, so there’s no reason to think she will have a child soon.
Just found out that Robert Colbert, of the Time Tunnel, is still with us at 94.
It was posted before, but I missed it. I just found out Sandy Koufax is still alive at 89. (He’ll be 90 at the end of the month.)
Dick Van Dyke’s 100th birthday is just hours away.
Yeah, but no one is surprised he’s still alive. He’s been working a lot and in the media a lot. Same with Mel Brooks - he’ll be 100 in June.
I was reminded of him because I saw a book of his work in a used book store; Peter Max, psychedelic artist from the sixties, is still alive at 88 (although apparently in poor health).
PBS had a two-hour tribute to Dick Van Dyke last night (worth looking for). They showed two projects he’s done recently–at age 98 and at age 99. Including dancing!
They had to make him look older for Mary Popins Returns!
I was re-watching West Side Story last night (1961 not 2021) and it has a surprisingly large number of living cast members for a movie that was released sixty-four years ago: Richard Beymer, George Chakiris, Rita Moreno, and Russ Tamblyn in the main roles, along with John Astin, Nick Covacevich, Eliot Feld, Elaine Joyce, Bert Michaels, JoAnne Miya, Gus Trikonis, and Eddie Verso in supporting roles.
Compare it to The Great Escape, which had a similar sized cast and was made two years later, but only has one surviving cast member (John Leyton).
Some people just have good genes.
In the PBS tribute (“Starring Dick Van Dyke,” in the American Masters series) they had the now-adult kids from the original movie saying they had NOT known that the ‘old banker’ they had a scene with was actually Van Dyke. Quite a tribute to his acting (and the makeup, of course).
And at least as the elder Mr. Banks, his accent work was on point.
I bet he would like to hear that opinion–reportedly he was chagrined by the criticism of his Cockney work as Bert.