I didn't check the thread before I posted! On me!
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 23:11 (three months ago) link
Knott's Berry Farm
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 1 February 2024 01:30 (three months ago) link
John Woodvine, English actor, from the 50s and apparently still working(!), 94.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:22 (three months ago) link
... 1950s onwards, that is.
I thought Woodvine had died after he collapsed on stage a decade ago, pleased to see he's still with us. He's the same age as Colin Jeavins, who retired 30 years ago.
June Spencer, the sole survivor of the original Archers broadcast, still with us at 104.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:45 (three months ago) link
He was in this in 2022.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/20/enys-men-review-mark-jenkin-cannes-2022
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:52 (three months ago) link
I watched that just the other night and right enough I did recognise him at the time.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 5 February 2024 16:18 (three months ago) link
Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 95
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Monday, 5 February 2024 19:49 (three months ago) link
Bernie Clifton, 87.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 16:18 (three months ago) link
Michael Aspel, 91.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 12 February 2024 08:56 (two months ago) link
That made me look up Michael Rodd, who is not only still alive but somehow only 80.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 12 February 2024 09:43 (two months ago) link
Joe Don Baker turns 88 today!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 February 2024 15:35 (two months ago) link
I saw a clip of Wayne Newton at the Super Bowl, and was surprised and delighted to see him (1) alive and (2) having a nice chat with Guy Fieri.
― Sam Weller, Monday, 12 February 2024 16:32 (two months ago) link
I really thought he was dead — like, I have a false memory of reading about his death on social media. I re-watched Charley Varrick the other week (it's on Tubi); he's pretty terrifying in that.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 12 February 2024 18:35 (two months ago) link
Terrifying in Mitchell!, too
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 12 February 2024 18:48 (two months ago) link
Had the Newton revelation Saturday night when I finally started the 2nd season of Hacks and saw his cameo in the UFC scene.
He might be more plastic than man at this point.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 February 2024 18:53 (two months ago) link
The Drudge Report
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 15 February 2024 21:47 (two months ago) link
paul dooley turned 96 today
charles durning, however, remains dead
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 February 2024 23:14 (two months ago) link
For viewers in Scotland only:
Glen Michael, 97Stanley Baxter, 97Una McLean, 93
Just found out John Cairney died last September, aged 93.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 February 2024 23:18 (two months ago) link
Glen Michael and Stanley Baxter are truly the totems of this thread.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Friday, 23 February 2024 10:47 (two months ago) link
... born within eight days of each other.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 23 February 2024 10:49 (two months ago) link
They're the Scottish Harry Belafonte/ Sidney Poitier.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 23 February 2024 10:51 (two months ago) link
When Stanley finally goes we should, at least, start a new thread or, my preference, close down the entire site. (Just kiddin', like)
― Michael Jones, Friday, 23 February 2024 11:27 (two months ago) link
Stanley is also my personal Mandela Effect, mainly because (as he admits in his hugely entertaining biography) he wasn't going to come out until after his death, and his biography weirdly ends with his 'death' - people gather for his last moments and he fades away. But then an epilogue that says he didn't actually die after all is is frail but fine.
So weird that he outlived Victor Lewis-Smith, who did so much to promote Stanley's life, achievements and place in British comedy.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Friday, 23 February 2024 11:36 (two months ago) link
probably haven't given glen michael a single thought for 15 years or more but oddly heartened to know he's still around
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 February 2024 12:55 (two months ago) link
Reminds me that I just read that Edwin Morgan came out when he was 70, I think.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 February 2024 19:29 (two months ago) link
Please help the cause against loneliness https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/glen-michael-loneliness-campaign/
― Alba, Friday, 23 February 2024 20:50 (two months ago) link
He's looking good for 97!
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 23 February 2024 20:53 (two months ago) link
Peter Jay, 87.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 February 2024 13:10 (two months ago) link
Scargill ! had no idea, thought he died ages ago.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-68457786
― mark e, Saturday, 2 March 2024 20:10 (two months ago) link
He's outlived Thatcher, Ian MacGregor, David Hart etc by quite a while. Which must please him no end.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 March 2024 21:00 (two months ago) link
Former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark, 84. Defeated Pierre Trudeau in 1979, defeated by Pierre Trudeau in 1980.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 2 March 2024 23:20 (two months ago) link
A friend worked a celebrity/autograph event today or yesterday and said Pete Best was there.
― nickn, Sunday, 3 March 2024 04:34 (two months ago) link
Came here to note Ann Vernon, she was in a movie I watched last night (Shakedown, 1950.) James Redd mentioned her when she was 97. She just turned 100 in January.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 16:37 (two months ago) link
Yay, Ann!
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 16:48 (two months ago) link
Peggy Dow was also in that movie. She’ll be 96 on March 18th.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 16:57 (two months ago) link
Never heard of that one!
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 19:51 (two months ago) link
Also seems that whilst in the US or at least for that film she dropped the final ‘e’ in her first name so Ann Vernon instead of Anne Vernon.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 19:52 (two months ago) link
Of course her real name was something entirely different
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 19:53 (two months ago) link
Only e-less for that one movie apparently
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 19:56 (two months ago) link
Not exactly famous but Karl Kohn, who Frank Zappa studied composition with, 97.
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 March 2024 22:28 (two months ago) link
István Szabó, 86
― help me I am in hull (Matt #2), Saturday, 9 March 2024 14:06 (one month ago) link
Gudrun Ure, Supergran herself, 98 today.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 12:24 (one month ago) link
drummer roy haynes, who made his pro debut in 1942, turned 99 today
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 22:35 (one month ago) link
Estelle Parsons, 96.
― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 16:58 (one month ago) link
GENE SHALIT TURNS 98 TODAY
WHAT IN THE LIVING FUCK
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 25 March 2024 19:57 (one month ago) link
I can't believe Rex Reed is still reviewing
― bendy, Monday, 25 March 2024 21:09 (one month ago) link
actress-singer Janis Paige, 101
Appeared in Esther Williams' first aquamusical Bathing Beauty in 1944; co-starred in Doris Day's debut film Romance on the High Seas in 1948; starred in the original The Pajama Game on Broadway in 1954... among numerous credits.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 12:21 (one month ago) link
Julio Iglesias, 77
He's 80 now, and until I looked him up I would have given 50/50 odds on whether I had heard he died.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 01:10 (one month ago) link
Famous-in-Canada character actor and exploding head Louis Del Grande, also 80.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 14:48 (one month ago) link