# Who is NOT dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609 "2017-02-24T02:50:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/81 "2017-02-26T19:34:22Z")
Norman Lloyd is 102 and still acting . He was in a movie in 2015 ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/82 "2017-02-26T20:01:07Z")
WElp, Judge Wapner can’t make the list. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/83 "2017-02-26T22:54:55Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Bill Paxton is the one who’s not not dead. Not so fast there … ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/84 "2017-02-27T20:01:15Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Carl Reiner will turn 95 next month. Hopefully. > [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Oh, and Dick Van Dyke is 91. Rose Marie has already been mentioned a couple of times in this thread. Reiner and Van Dyke have been mentioned, too. See post #55. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/85 "2017-02-28T18:45:21Z")
Boxing referee and former TV judge Mills Lane is still alive. He’s ‘only’ 79, but 12 years ago, he suffered a near-fatal stroke. Even though he did not experience a full recovery, he’s still alive and kickin’. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/86 "2017-02-28T20:22:01Z")
**Roger Corman** , producer and sometime director of schlocky films, who claimed that none of his pictures ever lost money, is stioll alive and producing. His film **Death Race 2050** , a sequel to 1975’s **Death Race 2000** , was released just last month. He’s 90. He’s named as producer on 413 films(!) on the imdb. starting with _Highway Dragnet_ and _Monster from the Ocean Floor_ in 1954. > **[Roger Corman - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000339/)** > > Roger Corman. Actor: The Silence of the Lambs. Roger William Corman was born April 5, 1926, in Detroit, Michigan. Initially following in his father's footsteps, Corman studied engineering at Stanford University but while in school, he began to lose... Along the way, he started or fostered the careers of numerous directors, including Francis Ford Coppola and James Cameron. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/87 "2017-02-28T21:05:28Z")
Angie Dickinson is still alive at 85, and so is her ex-husband Burt Bacharach at 88 ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/88 "2017-02-28T21:33:38Z")
Nehemiah Persoff is 96 or 97, depending on which birth date is accurate. Danielle Darrieux is 99. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/89 "2017-03-01T03:07:45Z")
Along with the youthful Sandy Koufax, former Brooklyn Dodger pitchers still around include Carl Erskine and Don Newcombe (both 90). Koufax, unlike the other two, does not feature in “Boys of Summer”, as Roger Kahn focused on the two seasons where he was a Dodger beat reporter ('52 and '53, the latter in many minds the best of all the Brooklyn teams). ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/90 "2017-03-01T03:47:26Z")
Leontyne Price is 90. They showed footage from a doc they are making about the new Met Opera, which included an interview with her. She sing a snippet and still sounded wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/91 "2017-03-01T03:49:06Z")
June Foray, best known as the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel, is 99. Vera Lynn, the singer called “The Armed Forces Sweetheart” will be 100 in less than a month. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/92 "2017-03-01T03:55:22Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > Along with the youthful Sandy Koufax, former Brooklyn Dodger pitchers still around include Carl Erskine and Don Newcombe (both 90). Koufax, unlike the other two, does not feature in “Boys of Summer”, as Roger Kahn focused on the two seasons where he was a Dodger beat reporter ('52 and '53, the latter in many minds the best of all the Brooklyn teams). In that same vein, Luis Olmo, is the oldest living former Brooklyn Dodger (he played on the 1949 Pennant winning team) at the age of 97. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/93 "2017-03-01T13:31:37Z")
Harry Belafonte turns 90 today. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/94 "2017-03-01T14:52:35Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Vera Lynn, the singer called “The Armed Forces Sweetheart” will be 100 in less than a month. Does anybody here remember her? ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/95 "2017-03-01T18:10:25Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Does anybody here remember her? [This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdytOGnUFoI) is how I know Vera Lynn. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/96 "2017-03-01T18:18:35Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > [Jim Leavelle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Leavelle) I forgot he was a Pearl Harbor survivor as well as an Oswald survivor. ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/97 "2017-03-01T19:00:48Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > [Rose Marie](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0547300/?ref_=nv_sr_1), Sally Rogers on _The Dick Van Dyke Show_, is still alive at 94. Show creator Carl Reiner turns 95 next month. And Dick himself turned 91 last December. I learned about Rose Marie being alive a few weeks back, surprised me > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Henry Kissinger is still alive at 93. Did not know that Alan Young just died not too long ago, amazing guy Bob Newhart, a year younger than my mom, 87 Jerry Lewis 90, cant believe it, is he still a chain smoker? Sean Connery Michael Caine Gene Hackman James Earl Jones Christopher Plummer Sidney Poitier Jerry Stiller Zsa Zsa Marion Richards Oh and Robert Clary ---
**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:** [March 1, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/98 "2017-03-01T19:03:13Z")
> [@WildBlueYonder](#): > > Zsa Zsa Alas, Zsa Zsa, the last of the Gabor sisters, died last December 18th, just a few weeks shy of her 100th birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/99 "2017-03-01T19:06:16Z")
Roger Corman is still alive and producing movies at 90. I could have sworn he was dead. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/100 "2017-03-01T19:20:25Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > Roger Corman is still alive and producing movies at 90. I could have sworn he was dead. Mentioned in post #86 above [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609.md?page=6)