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

Saw Herb Alpert play a cabaret gig last year and he looked great and was chatty, in a good way (December 2019, which now seem like ages ago)

Quentin Blake!

'Sunshine Travellers'The first in a new series of illustrations by Quentin, drawn during lockdown #IsolationArtwork pic.twitter.com/bDnW2JYb23

— Sir Quentin Blake HQ (@QuentinBlakeHQ) May 2, 2020

William Smith, B-Movie action legend.

xp I didn't realise he was more than 16 years the junior of Roald Dahl, assumed they were roughly the same age, but of course they aren't.

By looking into many things Fred Willard today, I discovered his fellow early Second City trouper Mina Kolb is still going in her mid-90s!

I might've put Willard down as around 72, maybe 75. Not freakin' 86.

I hadn't seen him in anything for ages and was surprised how frail he appeared on Modern Family in the last ep he appeared in, but he was as hilarious as always.

think my favorite role of his was in Waiting for Gufman, but his cameo in Spinal Tap always cracks me up

French actor, Michael Lonsdale, 88 - who it turns out isn't 'French', having an English father and Irish mother, hence the name.

Eva Marie Saint, 95.

I know she is a regular on here but

Olivia de Havilland rides a bike at age 103. pic.twitter.com/TQzvCcP8yn

— Larry Karaszewski (@Karaszewski) May 25, 2020

*trike

in a skirt!!
what moxie <3

O....H MY GOD!!!

Jerry Adler, the guy who played Hesh on The Sopranos, turned 91 in February.

He also had a great recurring role on The Good Wife for its entire run AFAICR

I noticed he was still working as of last year when I checked him IMDB page. He looked very familiar to me when I watched The Sopranos the first time, five years ago, but when I look at his credits, I can't see anything that would explain that. He was part of some famous TV series, but I didn't watch any of them. Possibly Synecdoche, New York, which he did after The Sopranos but before I caught up with it, but doubtful--I don't remember anything about that film.

Paul Morrissey (82)
Joe Dallesandro (71)

I just assume all Warhol Factory types died a young and beautiful death, seems not.

Paul Morrissey didn't indulge. In anything. Funny, but I was just thinking about Gerard Malanga (77) the other day. And then there's Viva, who is 81!

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mA0MbST0-b4/VC8Wsm8zhBI/AAAAAAAACbw/bKZDumw6dgo/s1600/viva.jpg

Harry Belafonte

ok that's twice I've come across Harry Belafonte's name today, he was mentioned in an episode of Only Fools and Horses that I just watched.

Grace Slick.

Ray Reardon.

Undead innit

Seems so.

Larry STorch

Peter Green, thought he died in the 90s for some reason

Eric Carle 91st birthday post

91 Today pic.twitter.com/stU2CW0Fr7

— eric carle (@ericcarle) June 25, 2020

BIRTHDAY SALUTE
Olivia de Havilland turns 104 today. Yes, you read that correctly. She was born July 1, 1916 and is still living! #OliviaDeHavilland pic.twitter.com/3Io00Ubb72

— James L Neibaur (@JimLNeibaur) July 1, 2020

Barbara Shelley, 88. Watching her in "Quatermass and the Pit" right now, a handsome woman and no mistake.

Claire Bloom, 89.

Henri Serre (Jim from "Jules et Jim"), 89.

boris johnson

Happy Birthday to a dear friend of ours at TCM, Eva Marie Saint. pic.twitter.com/MNk6cBIh7f

— TCM (@tcm) July 4, 2020

Lester Piggott, after hearing him name checked in Van Morrison’s ‘In the days before rock and roll’.

Until a few days ago, Hugh Downs.

jasper johns

She's not really famous but I'm delighted to see that Jacqueline Diffring, sister of the actor Anton Diffring, who is a sculptor who studied with Henry Moore is still alive at the age of 100. Here she is with her brother in 1938.

https://bilder4.n-tv.de/img/incoming/origs21561311/1122538041-w1280-h960/Schwarzweiss-kustler.jpg

Ian St John

historian keith thomas

magic declined less than you assumed i guess

(i had him filed as a contemporary of the late christopher hill but he was his pupil and is some 20 years younger)

(christopher hill wd have been 108)

I like getting my once a year reminder via the LRB that Keith Thomas is still alive.

Watching "The Mummy" right now, the 1959 Hammer one ...

Yvonne Furneaux, 92

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Frank Windsor, 92.

Other Sunday Bloody Sunday alumni still with us (aside from Glenda, of course): June Brown and Vivian Pickles!

Charley Pride, 86, who just sang the national anthem at the (empty) Texas Rangers season opener.

the odds finally caught up with OdH :(

Figured that’s what this revive would be about

Cleo Laine, 92. Just watched her tearing up the stage on a vintage Sunday Night at the London Palladium.