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

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Telma Hopkins!

but that was last week.

today it was ARNOLD STANG!!!!

don't know why i though telma hopkins died.

Zsa Zsa Gabor just turned 91 a few days ago.

abe vigoda

I think Ernest Borgnine is still at it too.

doris day

she's getting a grammy tomorrow

Shirley Temple

!!!

Leonard skinner, but he's now dead.

I was surprised that Bosko even lived.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, June 15, 2004 4:15 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark

dying here

had no idea Sam Beckett lived until 1989 until the other day

j.d. salinger, but then he died not long after i found out

Louie Anderson

He was on Tim & Eric a year or two ago.

Kenneth Mars, but once again after he was dead.

Jane Russell

Clive Dunn

(still)

len lesser

Herbert Lom

(I keep being surprised, sorry)

One of the people who was in Hitler's bunker when he shot himself
Lee Harvey Oswald's wife (not even that old - still in her sixties)

Ken Dodd, and Patrick Moore.

Doris Day

Every time I think Peter O'Toole is dead he scores a new role. This has been going on for more than 20 years.

G Gordon Liddy

I have a distinct (and apparently false) memory of reading Rolf Harris's obituary about six months ago, even though I barely knew he was then and barely know who he is now.

also Bob Hope's wife has no business being alive in 2011, although I'm not really surprised about it.

lauren bacall

wilford brimley
ernest borgnine

I follow BFI on Twitter and part of the pleasure I get from it is them linking to onstage chats with visiting Hollywood legends who are always Surprisingly Still Alive. Borgnine was one (super-sharp too); George Kennedy another.

Dick Van Dyke

sort of thought nelly furtado was dead

Walter Mondale

Didn't know there were two threads for this concept. Anyway, Alby Mangels is not dead.

Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland, currently at ages 94 and 95, respectively.

Ray Bradbury, 92, from this list.

Burt Young, who is only in his 70s.

Seems to happen to me regularly when i see/hear obituaries on people. Keep thinking that i'd heard they'd died a few years back.
Certainly happened with Spike Milligan and Don van vliet

"Muhammad Ali 70 Bufferfly/Bee"

lul

don rickles

Not one but two Harold Wilson era political operators who are in the news today:

Joe Haines, 96
Bernard Donoughue, 89

With the passing of OJ... Peter Lupus, the original Nordberg - still around at 91.

Al Cowlings, 76.

a surprising number of mission: impossible! tv show stars are still with us

peter lupus (91) and barbara bain (92) may be the only ones who really count, but late replacements/recurring characters lee meriwether (88), lesley ann warren (77), sam elliott (79), about whom i had no idea, lynda day george (79), and barbara anderson (79) are still available to the secretary

Could have sworn Terry Riley died a few years ago! Though I might have been La Monte Young? Nope! Still here at 88

Paul Evans, performer of shit 50s novelty records like "Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Backseat"

Bobbie Gentry, 81 years young

Could have sworn Terry Riley died a few years ago! Though I might have been La Monte Young? Nope! Still here at 88

Were you thinking of Tony Conrad (RIP, 2016)?

Dabney Coleman, 92

Suge Knight, thought he died a few years ago.

Is Corey Feldman dead? I can never remember

why am I asking this on a message board

Tom Courtenay, 87

Kenneth Cope, 93 today

Buzz Aldrin, 94.

Marty Wilde, 85 today.

Brit strongman and Highland Games competitor Geoff Capes, 74. Could have sworn he died years ago, maybe I was thinking of Giant Haystacks.

things that big ppl can hide beneath: capes and haystacks

And daddies.

Gary Busey, 79.

Giant Haystacks was 6'11" and weighed 49 stone. Had no idea he was quite that big

Geoff Capes otoh was 6'5" and a slender 26 stone. Tiny man in comparison

Is there a more famous budgie fancier? Not sure I can think of one.

Siouxsie

loool!

Geoff Capes otoh was is 6'5"

as per the thread

Although maybe he's shrunk a bit now, as you do when you age