The veterans

MfMan

With the passing of Doris Day, and as a spin off from her thread, who are the veterans, i.e. 90+, stars of yesteryear still alive?

Obviously Olivia De Havilland at over 100 is the queen of them all, Her career predates WWII and she is presumably the last named star of GWTW still living. Kirk Douglas of course is also the ton plus. Others well over the 90 include the great Angela Lansbury, whose film career began at the tail end of WWII and is still performing on stage I think, and Dick Van Dyke, still making film appearances, e.g. the Mary Poppins remake. The legendary Ennio Morricone, a mere lad at 91, is still conducting concerts. Honor Blackman, of Avengers fame, is still around, as is Hal Holbrook. Incredibly, forces sweetheart from WWII, Dame Vera Lynn, at 102 still lives. Lesser known stars may include Virginia Patton, who played James Stewart's sister-in-law Ann Dakin in It's A Wonderful Life. She retired from screen acting soon after that film.

Any others to add to the list?

otnomart

Thanks !
First one I thought was Dame Vera Lynn of course.

Sidney Poitier - born 1927 - Oscar Winner - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Gina Lollobrigida - born 1927
June Brown - Dot Cotton ! - born 1927
Harry Belafonte - born 1927

Sir David Attemborough - born 1926
Mel Brooks - also 1926
Tony Bennett, also 1926

Hal Holbrook - born 1925 - lots of TV roles

Eva Marie Saint - born 1924 - On the Waterfront

Betty White - born 1922 - The Proposal
Carl Reiner - born 1922 - Ocean's Eleven

Snickers Man

Those of us who remember RTE's black and white days have fond memories of The Adventures of Robin Hood, in which two Irish actresses Bernadette O'Farrell and Patricia Driscoll played the part of Maid Marian.

Ms Driscoll, born in 1927, is still with us. Although IMDB and Wikipedia disagree over whether she was born in Cork or London. Bernadette O'Farrell, now long gone from us, was definitely Irish. Her accent is clearly discernible on the old episodes, still available on YouTube.

MfMan

Max Von Sydow is just gone the 90, while Christopher Plummer and Vera Miles will join that club later this year. English comic actor Leslie Phillips is well in to the 90s.

otnomart

Oscars: Governors Awards To Director Lina Wertmuller (born 1928)

https://deadline.com/2019/06/oscars-governors-awards-geena-davis-david-lynch-wes-studi-lina-wertmuller-1202625741/

Conall Cernach

Kirk Douglas is still with us but he is no longer acting.

MfMan

Would add Henry Silva (b. 1928) to this list. Ethnic roles in The Bravados, Manchurian Candidate (1962) among others.

p to the e

Some people coming close to the 90 mark:
Sean Connery is 88
Clint Eastwood is 89
Robert Duvall is 88
Gene Hackman is 89

Cloris Leachman is 93 and still regularly acting

El Duda

Donald Sutherland

Harry Palmr

p to the e wrote: »

Some people coming close to the 90 mark:
Sean Connery is 88
Clint Eastwood is 89
Robert Duvall is 88
Gene Hackman is 89

It's the end of proper "macho actors" just waiting to happen!

MfMan

El Duda wrote: »

Donald Sutherland

Donald has a bit to go yet to exceed the 90.

Speaking of Harry Palmr above, writer Len Deighton who created that character (sort of) is the 90. Also, film director James Ivory, 91.

Victor

MfMan wrote: »

Kirk Douglas of course is also the ton plus.

It's his birthday today, he's 103.

pixelburp

Victor wrote: »

It's his birthday today, he's 103.

Holy hell. I hope at least it's a functional & coherent 103, cos otherwise it can't be much of a life.

I had to laugh as I was shocked to learn the other day, Robert Redford is married to a woman 31 years his junior since 2009! 31!! ...

... She's 62

ohnonotgmail

pixelburp wrote: »

Holy hell. I hope at least it's a functional & coherent 103, cos otherwise it can't be much of a life.

I had to laugh as I was shocked to learn the other day, Robert Redford is married to a woman 31 years his junior since 2009! 31!! ...

... She's 62

I think you need to recheck your maths. redford is not 93

pixelburp

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

I think you need to recheck your maths. redford is not 93

Indeed, wonky math aside it still made me chuckle. Though knowing Redford he probably will be working in his 90s.

MfMan

Bump.

Gene Hackman joins the nonagenarian club today. His 'Bonnie and Clyde' co-star Estelle Parsons also 90+
Mention for Jane Powell, Howard Keel's beau in 'Seven Brides...'
Sometime actor Nicholas Parsons has checked out.

pixelburp

Gene Hackman had one of those faces that "looked" old from a very young age, always having a mature appearance as long as I remember him in movies. Fair play for hitting 90 and like all the rest, hope it's a lucid 90s.

Was chatting to a friend who told me a patient of hers, 93 years old, went swimming 3 times a week; it definitely makes you contemplate your own approach to life when a nonagenarian is showing you up!

the purple tin

Mel Brooks is 94 and still working away.

ohnonotgmail

Robert Wagner, known for Hart to Hart, NCIS and much more in a career stretching back 70 years, was 90 yesterday. He was working as of last year and still looks great.

DrumSteve

pixelburp wrote: »

Gene Hackman had one of those faces that "looked" old from a very young age, always having a mature appearance as long as I remember him in movies. Fair play for hitting 90 and like all the rest, hope it's a lucid 90s.

Was chatting to a friend who told me a patient of hers, 93 years old, went swimming 3 times a week; it definitely makes you contemplate your own approach to life when a nonagenarian is showing you up!

Weird to think of Hackman as a 90 year old... he just always seemed to be in his mid-fifties. Must stick on Unforgiven now that I think of it.

MfMan

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Robert Wagner, known for Hart to Hart, NCIS and much more in a career stretching back 70 years, was 90 yesterday. He was working as of last year and still looks great.

Anyone remember him in Switch?

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

MfMan

Add Joss Ackland to this list, who will soon be 92. (Or, given that his birthday falls on Saturday week, should that be divided by 4?)

Agent Coulson

Betty White still acting at 98.

Cicely Tyson still acting at 95.

Cloris Leachman still acting at 95.

Dick Van Dyke still acting at 94.

Angela Lansbury still acting at 94.

Christopher Plummer still acting at 90.

Ed Asner still acting at 90.

ohnonotgmail

Sidney Poitier celebrated his 93rd birthday yesterday.

Martin Tyler AgueroooOO

Hal Holbrook and Eva Marie Saint are both 95

MfMan

Joanne Woodward, (Mrs. Paul Newman), joins this list today. Joan Plowright, (Mrs. Laurence Olivier), also belongs here, as does Hardy Kruger, The Flight Of The Phoenix, who is 90+ too.

ohnonotgmail

Joss Ackland was 92 on February 29

MfMan

Songwriter, lyricist Stephen Sondheim joins up here from yesterday.

MfMan

Lee Fierro RIP, Mrs. Kintner, from Jaws, shudda been here.

Veteran filmmaker Roger Corman is 94 while Earl Holliman, (Giant, Forbidden Planet, Gunfight at OK Corral etc.) is 92 and counting.

MfMan

Vera Miles, luminous star of The Searchers, '...Liberty Valance' etc. (yes, was watching last night) belongs on this list.

MfMan

Bob Newhart also.

MfMan

Irene Papas - thought she was long dead, saw her this evening in Anne Of The Thousand Days.

otnomart

Clint Eastwood turns 90 on 31 May

fran38

MfMan wrote: »

Max Von Sydow is just gone the 90, while Christopher Plummer and Vera Miles will join that club later this year. English comic actor Leslie Phillips is well in to the 90s.

Always remembered a Very Miles documentary where it stated that she either drank or bathed in her own piss to keep her youthfull complexion. Could never watch her in Ryans Daughter the same way again lol

MfMan

That's Sarah Miles you're thinking of. Vera, as seen in The Searchers yesterday, was herself very luscious!

Sometime producer and director Scottish-born Joe McGrath is the 9-0 this year.

ohnonotgmail

fran38 wrote: »

Always remembered a Very Miles documentary where it stated that she either drank or bathed in her own piss to keep her youthfull complexion. Could never watch her in Ryans Daughter the same way again lol

bathed in it? what was she, a horse?

p to the e

fran38 wrote: »

Always remembered a Very Miles documentary where it stated that she either drank or bathed in her own piss to keep her youthfull complexion. Could never watch her in Ryans Daughter the same way again lol

I think she was taking the piss

MfMan

otnomart wrote: »

Clint Eastwood turns 90 on 31 May

Yep, Happy Birthday to ol' Clint.

Jobbing actor Earl Cameron is 102+.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0131565/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

MfMan

Rosemary Harris, English-born, American-domiciled actress, mother of actress Jennifer Ehle.

Agent Coulson

MfMan wrote: »

Rosemary Harris, English-born, American-domiciled actress, mother of actress Jennifer Ehle.

Aunt May from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man.

MfMan

Gena Rowlands, actress, 'Lonely are the brave', also formerly Mrs. John Cassavetes, joins up here.

Agent Coulson

Olivia de Havilland turns 104 today.

pixelburp

Carl Reiner passed away, aged 98 two days ago. Just shy of 3 digits but a long life all the same - and immense talent. I see he was only tweeting 2 days ago which is so surreal.

Gael23

Olivia De Havilland RIP.
Probably the last Golden Age star gone now?

JP Liz V1

Gael23 wrote: »

Olivia De Havilland RIP.
Probably the last Golden Age star gone now?

2020 taking all the old Hollywood legends

MfMan

Gael23 wrote: »

Olivia De Havilland RIP.
Probably the last Golden Age star gone now?

Looks most likely. Can't think of any pre-WWII stars now still alive? Perhaps the next most venerable may be Angela Lansbury, with 1944 appearances in Gaslight and National Velvet.

Gael23

MfMan wrote: »

Looks most likely. Can't think of any pre-WWII stars now still alive? Perhaps the next most venerable may be Angela Lansbury, with 1944 appearances in Gaslight and National Velvet.

Don’t cast a spell on her!

ArmaniJeanss

This is a useful list of 'who is still alive'.
Not a lot of pre-WW2 film debutants left. June Lockhart but more known for TV I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_living_actors_from_the_Golden_Age_of_Hollywood#Actors_born_in_the_1910s

MfMan

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

This is a useful list of 'who is still alive'.
Not a lot of pre-WW2 film debutants left. June Lockhart but more known for TV I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_living_actors_from_the_Golden_Age_of_Hollywood#Actors_born_in_the_1910s

Good heavens, is Nehemiah Persoff still alive? Great list...

Gael23

Yes saw that yesterday. Norman Lockhart is the very last one left from the pre WW2 era by the looks of it

MfMan

Michael Craig, Indian-born British jobbing actor in a lot of TV programs is over 90.