the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive

I had him on a deadpool a few years ago, but I just checked and Jerry Maren is still alive. He was the middle munchkin of the lollipop guild in the wizard of oz. Aalso starred as an ape in planet of the apes and was rotoscoped into a hobbit for the bakshi lord of the rings.

Wendy Carlos

John Ashcroft. He isn't even that old! But somehow he seems like a creature from another time.

John Nott

don't know how I missed this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2586573/The-awfully-racy-confessions-Maggies-minister-raging-libido-John-Nott-reveals-fancied-PM-rotten-saved-Falklands-together.html

i was shocked to see tommy steele on the poster for a show at the bristol hippodrome a few months ago.

Robert Hardy (90 years old)

Sheldon Harnick

Judge Wapner!! (96)

Della Reese...just turned 85.

Francesca de la tour. There was a history of Rising Damp on a few days back. I thought I'd heard she'd died years back but when it wasn't mentioned I looked her up and seems she's still with us.

Yeah, she still appears in movies every so oft.

I saw her younger brother Andy do comedy in the '80s, supporting Rik Mayall. He was a better comic actor than stand-up, I think.

Wonder what her politics are these days, used to in the Workers' Revolutionary Party.

june whitfield

looks like she's never been off the telly though, which shows how up-to-date i am on things

Is She In the Ab Fab movie?

Yep. At 90.

Frank Ifield. Actually not that old, only 78.

Wow, I had Frank Ifield down as my parents' generation at least, if not 5-10 years older. I'd have guessed 90.

Harlan Ellison.

That constant background humming you can hear is Ellison's perpetual self-promotion machine. I will NEVER die.

IT will never die. Fuck.

fuck i always figured you were a harlan ellison sock JM

Dr. Ruth

Speaking of which, I only discovered this week that this bit of WTFness existed:

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/one-woman-or-two-1987

Brian Rix

Brian Rix

Still going

(I actually didn't realise he was in the news today on the subject of euthanasia. :/ )

Brian Rix. No fucking way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1uvVa11cFE

for some reason i always mixed Brian Rix up with Desmond Wilcox, which is one of the reasons i thought Brian Rix was very dead

Nanette Fabray is 95. You could have a cast reunion of the 1939 film The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex and you'd have at least two invitees: Nanette Fabray and 100 year-old Olivia de Havilland

This just happened to me. Was reading a thing about Keeping Up Appearances and thinking it unusual they hadn't mentioned Patricia Routledge's recent death. Which apparently only happened in my mind. I am CONVINCED there was loads of stuff on the news about her and what a brilliant credible actress she was when I only knew her from KUA - am I thinking of someone else? Fairly sure I'm not confusing her with Cilla...

http://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/steven-hill.jpg

:(

:(

sergio aragones. not even that old!

RIP Rudy Van Gelder, thought he was already dead for some reason

Likewise

Toots Thielemans too tbh

Did another big engineer of his era die in the last few years?

Cosimo Matassa comes to mind.

Which reminds me, Dave Bartholomew is still around.

Roy Barraclough

Bill Maynard

would like to read this. always wondered if it's where Echo and the Bunnymen got the title from?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tZHrE-TOL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Gene Wilder (RIP)

so i am like 1 day to late in posting this :P

He hasn't made an appearance at the cinema in 25 years, in fairness.

fuck, Brian Rix died less than two weeks after he was mentioned upthread