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The veterans

MfMan · 2019-05-14 09:20:02

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…

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#62 30-10-2020 10:21pm
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Swiss-born actor Mario Adorf is 90. First noticed him in a small part in Smiley's People.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000728/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

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#63 10-01-2021 11:55pm
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Elizabeth Hoffman will be 94 next month she only started acting in her mid 50's and was the star of Sisters tv series in the 90's and was in The River Wild & Dante's Peak.

I know her best for playing Catherine Langford in a couple of episodes of Stargate SG1.

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#64 11-01-2021 12:54am
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Is Norman Lloyd the last living Pre WW2 star?

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Gael23 wrote: »

Is Norman Lloyd the last living Pre WW2 star?

certainly the oldest. turned 106 in november.

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Robert Duvall gets his Star on this Walk as of last week.

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Betty White just turned 99.

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Agent Coulson wrote: »

Betty White just turned 99.

A golden girl for sure

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James Earl Jones signs on here.
Birds star Tippi Hedren is 91.

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Happy birthday Gene Hackman, 91 today. BBC are showing the Conversation tonight, which has one of his finest performances.

Vanessa Redgrave is 84! No films for her though.

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Hackman is one of the few actors I miss making movies I always looked forward to a new Hackman film.

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French/Irish actor Donald O'Brien, varied career (and life) to say the least. Saw him in The Train today.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639521/?ref_=tt_cl_t13

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A number of people mentioned earlier in this thread have sadly, and inevitably, plopped their clogs since.

Kirk Douglas
Sean Connery
Cicely Tyson
Cloris Leachman
Hal Holbrook

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MfMan wrote: »

French/Irish actor Donald O'Brien, varied career (and life) to say the least. Saw him in The Train today.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639521/?ref_=tt_cl_t13

I've seen numerous reports of his death over the years. Its hard to know...

He allegedly changed his name from Donal to Donald as it was easier to do than get some cheapskate Italian producer to re-issue a cheque they gave him in the wrong name!

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Aurelian wrote: »

I've seen numerous reports of his death over the years. Its hard to know...

He allegedly changed his name from Donal to Donald as it was easier to do than get some cheapskate Italian producer to re-issue a cheque they gave him in the wrong name!

His IMDB entry claims he is alive as of last December anyway.

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Claire Bloom has joined up here lately.

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Sidney Poitier just turned 94 on the 20th.

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Robert Clary a concentration camp survivor who went on to star in Hogan's Heroes will be 95 next Monday.

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Occasional actor and songwriter Carelton Carpenter called to Hall Of Fame here;

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0139292/?ref_=tt_cl_t5

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MfMan wrote: »

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?

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Too young for this thread but I see Michael Caine is 88 today, and I cannot think of him as a star of yesterday never mind Hollywood's golden era as he only started work when that was drawing to a close. He is in three films "on release"
this year!

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Veteran American-born James Hong, specialist in playing Oriental characters, is a goodly 92 and counting.

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MfMan wrote: »

Veteran American-born James Hong, specialist in playing Oriental characters, is a goodly 92 and counting.

I started a thread on him a few months ago. He has a film credit for every year back to 1954.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=115722321

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#83 22-03-2021 12:53pm
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Not sure if this should be CCed onto the Bad Actors thread. Cap'n Jim beams aboard here today.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000638/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

(Sorry.)

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Agent Coulson wrote: »

Sidney Poitier just turned 94 on the 20th.

Can't hear Sidney Poitier without thinking of this.

https://nitter.cc/davidbrentmovie/status/674586291066036225

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William Shatner joins the club today.

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Agent Coulson wrote: »

William Shatner joins the club today.

90th thought he was younger

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it's the tribble on his head that makes him look younger

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Skerries wrote: »

it's the tribble on his head that makes him look younger

thats the trouble with them.

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Joanne Linville was 93 in January a regular character actor across the 50's/60's/70's & 80's on US TV and a co founder of the famous Stella Adler Studio of Acting in Los Angeles

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Joe Turkel, of such as Paths Of Glory, The Shining, Blade Runner, is a goodly 93.

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Nightmare On Elm Street members Clu Gulager and Priscilla Pointer (formerly Steven Spielberg's mother-in-law) still going strong in their 10th decade.

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