Famous people that are still with us

[IrishEyes]

Last edited Tue Jan 11, 2022, 03:34 PM - Edit history (9)

With the sad deaths of Ed Asner, Sidney Poitier and Betty White, I thought it might be nice to list some of the fabulous people that are still with us.

Rita Moreno 90
Dick Van Dyke 96
Mel Brooks 95
Harry Belafonte 94
Carol Burnett 88
Martin Sheen 81
Jane Fonda 84
Lily Tomlin 82
Sam Waterston 81
Robert Redford 85
Bob Newhart 92
John Astin 91
James Hong 92
Jane Goodall 87
Jimmy Carter 97
Hector Elizondo 85
Armin Mueller-Stahl 91
Nehemiah Persoff 102
Patrick Stewart 81
George Takei 84
Gene Hackman 91
William Daniels 94 (Mr. Feeney from Boy Meets World. Married to his wife actress Bonnie Bartlett 92 for 70 years)

Harrison Ford is only 79 but he will be turning 80 this year.

Please feel free to add any other people.

[Walleye]

1. Dancers really seem to live forever. And in great shape

[IrishEyes]

8. Many of the actors from West Side Story are still alive in addition to Rita Moreno.

Richard Beymer (Tony) 83, Russ Tamblyn (Riff) 87 and George Charkiris (Bernardo) 89 are still around as well as many of the Jets and Sharks.

[jimfields33]

2. Additional actors

Clint Eastwood 91
Dustin Hoffman 84
Jack Nicholson 84
Michael Lernered (waltons) 82
Barbara eden 90
Angela Lansbury 96
Sofia Lauren 87
Julie andrews 86

[IrishEyes]

4. How could I forget Angela Lansbury?

I watched Murder She Wrote a lot when I was a kid.

[Leghorn21]

3. Well, not a celeb, but the great Margaret O'Brien Is still with us!

"Meet Me in St Louis" and "Little Women" (1947) - I just loved this kid!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_O%27Brien

Also, the great Anthony Hopkins is 84 and Al Pacino is 81

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. 88

✌🏻

[Glorfindel]

6. June Lockhart, 96

Born June 25, 1925. Remember her from "Lassie" and "Lost in Space"?

[Talitha]

7. Buzz Aldrin, 91

He can be quite 'entertaining'.

[IrishEyes]

9. I think he counts

[Fla Dem]

10. So happy some of them are still with us. Definitely ones from my younger years that I enjoyed.

Sure makes me feel old.

Oh, I am.

[IrishEyes]

12. Yeah, I'm old too but not as old as them.

Seeing many of them out there being awesome is inspiring. I have many things I want to do with the time I have left.

[AwakeAtLast]

11. William Shatner - 90

Tony Bennett - 95
James Earl Jones - 90
Bob Barker - 98

[nolabear]

14. And four are on the same show now!

Grace and Frankie is one of my very favorite shows. I’m teaching a psych class on aging and it’s one of the least stereotypical without pretending they aren’t old I’ve ever seen.

[IrishEyes]

16. I love Grace and Frankie

I have a mom, dad, stepdad and step mom who are each 81 years old but healthy and active. The show nicely represents older people. Lots of great guest stars on there.

[smirkymonkey]

15. Here's a few more...

Maggie Smith 87
Judi Dench 87
Michael Caine 88
Ian McKellen 82
Vanessa Redgrave 84

[Leghorn21]

17. Ellen Byrstyn, 89!

She’s fixin to star in a remake of “The Exorcist” - (yikes!)

[TexasBushwhacker]

19. She's been on Law and Order: Organized Crime this season

Playing Elliot Stabler's mother.

[mnhtnbb]

18. Shirley MacLaine is 87 and brother

Warren Beatty is 84.

[TexasBushwhacker]

20. Singer/dancer Toni Basil 78

But she's still bustin' a move

[IrishEyes]

21. Wow. She is great.

Once a dancer, always a dancer.

[rogerballard]

22. Angie Dickinson 90

Barbara Rush 95

Tippi Hedren 91

[Totally Tunsie]

23. Thinking of one of my favorites - Charlie Gibson (78)

led me to many other journalists of our day:

Barbara Walters (92)
David Hartman (86)
Sam Donaldson (87)
Diane Sawyer (76)
Dan Rather (90)
Tom Brokaw (81)
Ted Koppel (81)

and then there's the fabulous Joan Baez (81) and Bob Dylan (80)!

[IrishEyes]

24. I remember when I was a kid there were three tv stations.

We didn't have cable so it was CBS, NBC and ABC. Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather were the newscasters. We would watch one of them every night to get the news.

[IcyPeas]

25. famous singers/rockers too: e.g.: Petula Clark - 89

...
Willie Nelson - 88
Yoko Ono - 88
Ringo Star - 81
Bob Dylan - 80
Paul McCartney - 79
Keith Richards - 78
Mick Jagger - 78

[Iggo]

26. Yikes.

[rogerballard]

27. Jaye P. Morgan 90

Mamie Van Doren 90

Senta Berger 80

Liv Ullmann 83

Barbara Parkins 79

[Stuart G]

28. Your last sentence...contains the "O" word...I don't use that word..never, never, and NEVER!!!

i AM MID 70S.. BAD WORD...THE "O" ....WORD!!!

[IrishEyes]

30. Okay. I removed it.

[rogerballard]

29. Larry Storch 99

Elaine May 89

[VGNonly]

42. Larry Storch

had a brother Jay Lawrence (born Jay Storch) who played Sgt. Badgrasian in Stalag 17. He was the one who did impressions, including Cary Grant and Hitler.

[Danmel]

31. Nope. Don't want to jinx anyone

[highplainsdem]

32. Am I the only person here who finds it depressing to have a "still with us" list?

I hate that so many people we've admired for years are gone.

But this feels like a "soon to be extinct" list, since it is just a list. Just names and ages.

And I know IrishEyes didn't mean the OP that way. And I respect the original intent.

But none of us are likely to talk about people we know personally, older people, by commenting that they're still alive.

It's so much better to focus on what they're actually doing.

An OP about some older celebrity and/or artist who's still doing great work, and HOW they're doing it, wouldn't feel so, well, dire. Or maybe I should say elegiac.


Editing belatedly to add that I'm old enough to belong to AARP.

And I like the way their feature articles on older celebrities and artists put the emphasis on their continuing work, how vital they still are.

[IrishEyes]

33. I was just trying to celebrate some of the amazing older people

[highplainsdem]

34. Again, I understand the intent, and I think it's great. I guess that seeing

just names and ages makes me think too much of lists of people who've died.

[whistler162]

36. I think Mel Brooks would say

Better still with us than just still!

[lpbk2713]

35. Alan Alda 85, Loretta Swit 84, Jamie Farr 87

Donald Sutherland 86
Elliott Gould 83
Tom Skerritt 88
Sally Kellerman 84
Robert Duvall 91



M*A*S*H is good for the health.

[VGNonly]

38. Radar/Gary Burghoff

is 78. BJ/Mike Farrell is 82.

[rogerballard]

37. Eva Marie Saint 97

Gena Rowlands 91

Wink Martindale 88

Johnny Mathis 86

Dyan Cannon 85

[VGNonly]

39. Feed your head

Grace Slick is 82, Jorma Kaukonen 81, Jack Casady 77.

[VGNonly]

40. Buddy Holly and the Crickets

The drummer Jerry Allison is 82.

[Harker]

41. I missed being a contemporary of Buddy Holly by less than a week.

There's a movie character waiting for you toward the tail end of that post.