# 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:** 6
**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, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/101 "2017-03-01T19:31:28Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Mentioned in post #86 above Sorry, missed it. Just saw Death Race 2050 last night with some friends at a bar. Not a good movie, but pretty entertaining in a sleazy way. Saw his name on the credits and thought, “Holy shit, he’s still alive!?” Looked him up and he was. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/102 "2017-03-01T20:53:47Z")
It’s not really surprising or anything, as he makes at least one cameo per movie, but Stan Lee is still kicking at 94. When the “X of the Dead” remakes started coming out in 2004, I was surprised to learn that George A. Romero was still alive (merely 77 now). He moved onto other types of films for awhile. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/103 "2017-03-01T23:05:21Z")
> [@WildBlueYonder](#): > > Oh and Robert Clary Another birthday boy. Happy 91st, LeBeau. His IMDb [page](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165145/) is remarkably sparse given the length of his career. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2017, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/104 "2017-03-02T06:06:02Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Reiner and Van Dyke have been mentioned, too. See post #55. 🙂 D’oh! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/105 "2017-03-02T10:01:58Z")
One more: Richard Chamberlain (82) was pretty big in the 70s, hasn’t been very big for awhile but still working steadily. ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/106 "2017-03-02T13:49:22Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Alas, Zsa Zsa, the last of the Gabor sisters, died last December 18th, just a few weeks shy of her 100th birthday. Oh thanks, I thought that…someone better tell that website I perused yesterday! :smack: ---
**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:** [March 2, 2017, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/107 "2017-03-02T16:59:44Z")
Bruce Kirby, Bruno’s father, will be 89 next month. Bruno died in 2006. ---
**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 2, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/108 "2017-03-02T20:02:18Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Another birthday boy. Happy 91st, LeBeau. > > His IMDb [page](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165145/) is remarkably sparse given the length of his career. I’m positive that he was on “Days of our Lives” more frequently than the 7 credits listed on IMDB; my grandmother watched Days religiously when I was a kid in the 1970s, and I remember seeing Clary on it fairly often (and, of course, recognizing him from “Hogan’s Heroes”). His [Wikipedia entry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Clary) indicates he had a recurring role on Days from 1972 to 1986, as well as on “The Young and the Restless” from 1973-1979 (which IMDB doesn’t list at all). ---
**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:** [March 2, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/109 "2017-03-02T20:10:47Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I’m positive that he was on “Days of our Lives” more frequently than the 7 credits listed on IMDB; my grandmother watched Days religiously when I was a kid in the 1970s, and I remember seeing Clary on it fairly often (and, of course, recognizing him from “Hogan’s Heroes”). > > His [Wikipedia entry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Clary) indicates he had a recurring role on Days from 1972 to 1986, as well as on “The Young and the Restless” from 1973-1979 (which IMDB doesn’t list at all). Soaps have very, very incomplete credit lists, and the further back you go, the more spotty they are. There are reasons for that, but it is what it is. Trivia about Clary: He played the suspected bomber Joseph Späh of the blimp “Hindenburg” in the 1975 movie of the same name. In real life, Joseph Späh was himself an actor, and was indeed for a while considered responsible for the airship’s downing. Joseph Späh acted under the name ‘Ben Dova’ (ha! ha!), and his only notable movie appearance is at the beginning of “Marathon Man” (1976). He plays Laurence Olivier’s brother, whose Mercedes Benz has stalled, and is in the way of the agitated Lou Gilbert, who starts pushing him out of the way. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/110 "2017-03-02T21:39:54Z")
Still alive: Marty Allen Kaye Ballard Carol Burnett Charo Tim Conway Sandy Duncan Robert Fuller Monty Hall Barbara Harris Elaine May John Schuck Neil Simon Maggie Smith Karen Valentine ---
**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:** [March 3, 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/111 "2017-03-03T00:26:44Z")
> [@](#): > > **Charo** She’s going to be on Dancing With the Stars. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2017, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/112 "2017-03-04T21:19:27Z")
Jim Nabors, aka Gomer Pyle, is 86. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/113 "2017-03-05T00:26:49Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Jim Nabors, aka Gomer Pyle, is 86. Ronnie Schell, who played Gomer’s friend Duke, is also still alive. He’s 85. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/114 "2017-03-05T14:15:59Z")
While not as old as most mentioned so far, but even better by being a twosome are Paula Prentiss and Richard Benjamin. Both 78 and still married. _He_ is still fairly active. Maybe he could be a guest star on _Westworld_ _And She_ didn’t appear in a ton of stuff but most of it is good. Only two things in the last 20 years but was in _I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House_ last year. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2017, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/115 "2017-03-05T20:25:19Z")
Brendan Fraser’s career, although it may be terminal. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2017, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/116 "2017-03-05T21:43:43Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Brendan Fraser’s career, although it may be terminal. He did a noted stint on _The Affair_ this last season and he’s worked steadily for years. He sort of fell between the cracks of being a goofy comedian, an action hero and a serious film actor. I’d say his career is not dead yet. Doing better, in fact. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2017, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/117 "2017-03-05T21:59:20Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > While not as old as most mentioned so far, but even better by being a twosome are Paula Prentiss and Richard Benjamin. Both 78 and still married. > > _He_ is still fairly active. Maybe he could be a guest star on _Westworld_ _And She_ didn’t appear in a ton of stuff but most of it is good. Only two things in the last 20 years but was in _I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House_ last year. Good one! I liked hearing about this. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/118 "2017-03-05T23:00:31Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > He did a noted stint on _The Affair_ this last season and he’s worked steadily for years. He sort of fell between the cracks of being a goofy comedian, an action hero and a serious film actor. I’d say his career is not dead yet. Doing better, in fact. Glad to hear CPR was administered in time. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/119 "2017-03-06T03:48:20Z")
For some reason I happened to be thinking of “The Grand Dame of Dish” Liz Smith. She turned 94 on Ground Hog Day. The last two World War II veterans to have served in Congress left in 2015 but are still Alive. Ralph Hall of Texas will be 94 on a May 3rd and John Dingell will be 91 on July 8th. Oldest Senator is Fritz Hollings of South Carolina who turned 95 on New Year’s Day. George H W Bush is oldest living Vice President (oldest ever was John Nance Garner who reached 98, Levi Morton reached 96) Oldest cabinet member William Coleman, Secretary of Transportin the Ford Administration will be 97 on July 7th. Three members of Lyndon Johnson’s administration are alive ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609/120 "2017-03-06T14:58:41Z")
Broadway’s “Old School Big Three”: Stephen Sondheim hit 87 this month, John Kander hits 90 this month, and Hal Prince hit 89 in January. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-not-dead/780609.md?page=7)