That’s Professor Irwin Cory, don’t you know.
However…
This was going to be my contribution as well. She was just on the Food Network’s Celebrity Cook-Off and made the final four. She was so vibrant, entertaining and full-of-life! What a lovely lady.
I should have gotten this one. Wow. :smack::smack::smack:
Did Florence cook with Wesson Oil… I always loved her “Wessonality!”
Theodore Bikel has dozens of pre-1958 TV credits – '58 being when he put in his Oscar-nominated role as the Sheriff in The Defiant Ones – but to me he’ll always be the most overconfident Columbo villain, which is really saying something.
(Also earning an Oscar nomination in The Defiant Ones: Sidney Poitier, who’d acted on The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse and the CBS Television Workshop and Ponds Theater years earlier.)
I did back in post #6.
Vera Miles got dozens of TV credits back then, starting with Schlitz Playhouse in '53.
Ruta Lee has plenty of pre-1958 TV credits: on Maverick in 1957, on Dragnet in 1956, on The George Burns And Gracie Allen Show in 1955 on Lux Video Theatre in 1954, on The Adventures Of Superman in 1953, on Schlitz Playhouse in 1952, and so on for everything else from Science Fiction Theatre to Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Holocaust survivor Robert Clary – who later signed on for Hogan’s Heroes, because, hey, who doesn’t love mocking the Nazis? – performed on The Ed Wynn Show in '50 and The Colgate Comedy Hour in '52 before acting on Max Liebman Spectaculars and Appointment With Adventure in '55.
She used it in orgies, because, as you know, “it all comes back except one tablespoon.”
He was only 10 years older than Hal Linden… and four years younger than Jack Soo, and ten years younger than James Gregory.
He was just *good *at playing old.
This would seem to be the winner so far: earliest appearance of someone still alive and with recent career credits. Did I miss someone else?
Norman Lloyd has a 1939 TV movie credit (!), a 2010 credit on Modern Family and he’s 99 years old. I think he’s the winner so far.
Terry Moore’s one step behind for having her first movie credits in 1940 before picking up a bunch of pre-1958 TV credits (The Ford Television Theatre, The United States Steel Hour, The 20th Century-Fox Hour, General Electric Theater, Playhouse 90, Climax!) – but she’ll be like, four steps ahead one week from tomorrow, when she’s set to appear in that new TV series with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. And for bonus points, she has a movie in production for release later this year.
Whoops, didn’t realize that was an early TV credit for Lloyd. And, on checking IMDB, I see he’s set to appear in a movie later this year as well. Wow.
Gavin McLeod scores a few credits from 1957-58, and he’s been on the talk show circuit lately promoting his book.
Yeah, I was only mentioning TV acting credits and didn’t even look at the movie and producing credits. Wow is right!
I just saw her in a cameo a couple of days ago, but the show was probably a repeat, and I can’t remember what show it was (someone was daydreaming about coming home as a suburban couple, and she was out watering the garden. “Hi, Mr. D., Mrs. D.”). I couldn’t find it in her IMDB listing either. It must have been fairly recent, she looked fairly stout compared to the Brady Bunch years. Wonder what it was…
Roddy
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ed Asner, and Jill St. John all qualify.
As does Marion Ross (Mrs. C from Happy Days) Ms. Ross is still snagging down TV roles at the age of 85, and I noticed she appeared on a slew of tv shows in the 1950s, although I’d never noticed her before she became Fonzie’s MILF.
I saw that too. I want to say it was on The Big Bang Theory, since that’s about the only sitcom I ever watch nowadays, but I’m not sure either. (Could it have been a cutaway on Family Guy?) 