Hmmm, Fay Wray aside, I just knew there was a connection between bad '60s sitcoms and immortality.
Since we’re looking for the oldest, and we’ve already named several celebrities who are in their late 90s or over 100, celebrities in their 70s aren’t even in the race.
I was just looking at this thread and thinking about my great-grandchildren looking at something similar someday:
Leonard DiCaprio 109
Brittney Spears 102
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen 97
etc.
I was just looking at this thread and thinking about my great-grandchildren looking at something similar someday:
Leonard DiCaprio 109
Brittney Spears 102
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen 97
etc.
Mary Kate, 97. Ashley died in that unfortunate face-lift disaster back in '38 . . .
Since there are as many definitions of celebrity as there are posters here, I’ll move this thread to Cafe Society. The Leni Riefenstahl debate would probably be best continued in Great Debates.
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Not only alive but doing well. He still performs on stage and television in his native Austria. He’s one of the last surviving stars of the pre-Nazi cabaret scene, worked with everyone from Billy Wilder to Marlena Dietrich to the Monkees and Gary Coleman, and went back to the country that he had to flee from (he’s a Jew; his parents were confined in Theresienstadt and murdered in Auschwitz) as an old man to resume his stage career. He played King Lear at 90 in a wheel chair and in German.
I find him endlessly fascinating and would love to meet him.
He’s also a newlywed and he has
his own website . (Eve: he’d be a great one to interview to tap some memories before he expires.)
I remember Leon Askin on PBS, an episode of Steve Allen’s Meeting of Minds. He played Martin Luther. I sure wish I had a copy of that episode, or any of the others in the series.
Unfortunately, I understand that the poor old guy recently lost his wife and now lives in a home run by the state.
Here’s an oddity: When she’s in her 30s, Blake’s daughter Rose will probably be the youngest person on Earth who can say “my dad was a movie star 100 years ago.” The only others who’ll be near her age and can say the same will be Antonia and Ryan Quinn (the two youngest of the 119 known children of Anthony Quinn, born when he was 79 and 81 respectively- for perspective, Ryan Quinn is 7 years old and his older half-brother drowned in W.C. Fields’ swimming pool more than 60 years ago), though Saul Bellow’s daughter Anna will be younger than Rose Blake and able to boast that “my dad was writing MORE than 100 years ago.”
Feb. 6, 1911
Ronald Wilson Reagan was born in Tampico, Ill. to Nelle Wilson and John Edward (“Jack”) Reagan. The Reagans had one previous son, Neil (“Moon”) Reagan.
That’d make Ronnie 92, if you call that living.
Bruce Bennett is 97. Was in “Treasure of The Sierra Madre.” Currently the oldest living Tarzan by 21 years (Gordon Scott will be a paltry 76 in a few days).
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Maureen O’Hara is still alive and still lovely. Now 83, she’s been a major star since appearing in Charles Laughton’s THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. Trivia: She’s extremely wealthy (even by celebrity standards) due to marriage and her own business sense, and Irish Gaelic, not English, was her first language.
Ted “Double Duty” Radcliffe was a Negro League baseball Star for 20 years from 1928-1948. Damon Runyon gave him his nickname. He is 101.
Boxer Max Schmeling is still around and is 98. In his day he was an A-List name. He won the title in 1930 in Yankee stadium. Hitler wanted to use him as sort of ‘Nazi Jesse Owens’. He fought and KO’ed Joe Lewis, who was undefeated at the time in 1936. Lewis-Schmeling II in '38 on the eve of WWII was one of the most anticipated and politically important fights of all time. FDR and Hitler met personally with each respective Boxer.
Schmeling was used by but wasn’t a Nazi. In 1946 British military authorities cleared him of any complicity in war crimes. In 1993, University of Rhode Island researchers produced evidence that Schmeling put himself at great risk by hiding two Jewish teenagers in his Berlin hotel room, protecting them from Nazi violence and perhaps ultimately saving their lives.
Most people think he is already dead, but Abe Vigoda is still around. Born in 1921.
Also, Charlton Heston is up there…born in 1924.
If you can count former non-actor presidents on this list, Gerald Ford just turned 90.
On second thought, Gerald Ford did do a pretty good job of acting like a president, so I guess he could be considered an actor…??
119?? :eek: :eek: :eek:
Can you imagine how many diaper changes that comes to?
According to the IMDB , he only fathered 13. Where’d you get 119 from? 
He was joking, Morgyn.
sigh I need elevator shoes, I guess.
whooooooooooosssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I thought Max Schmeling was dead.
I’m still looking.
Penny Singleton from Blondie ( not the group) is still alive. Born 1908.