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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,717 ✭✭✭MfMan


    All hail Eve Marie Saint who now gets the 'President's cheque'!

    British actresses Wendy Craig, Jean Marsh, Eileen Atkins now all in their 90s.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,717 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Another of the great sirens of European cinema, Brigitte Bardot, joins the ranks here next week.

    Also signing up,

    Vernon Dobtcheff, French-born actor who's been in everything;

    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0229943/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

    Shirley Jones, famous star of musicals (Oklahoma!, Carousel, The Partridge Family)

    Sheila Hancock, British comedienne and actress, widow of John Thaw

    French actress Geneieve Page (appeared in El Cid with Signora Loren)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 28,319 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Sheila Hancock, British comedienne and actress, widow of John Thaw

    Sheila Hancock is still working — she had a role in the 2023 miniseries The Sixth Commandment, and she was in the fourth series of Unforgotten in 2021.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,717 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Recent additions here include Judi Dench and Russ Tamblyn (today), he of West Side Story and others.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,717 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Few more additions;

    German-born actor Josef Sommer (Witness, Dirty Harry) etc.

    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0813977/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

    British actor John Standing, mainly TV work but a number of movie credits also.

    Nicholas Pileggi, writer and producer (Goodfellas, Casino etc. )

    Julian Glover, amongst a lot of others, villain of The Last Crusade, For Your Eyes Only, turns 90 today.

    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002103/?ref_=fn_all_nme_1



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Dick is 100

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,717 ✭✭✭MfMan


    We'll have to spawn off a separate thread for centenarians and put Dick and Eve Marie Saint there.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭DexterMorgansGhost


    Dick Van Dyke won't be 100 till December 13th.

    Pretty obvious photo shopped cake.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,057 ✭✭✭✭ArmaniJeanss


    Mel Brooks 99no today, and still working away (including on 18/24 month projects like Spaceballs II and Very Young Frankenstein). Respect.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,717 ✭✭✭MfMan


    English actor Derren Nesbitt turned 90 recently. Cornered the market for a time as sinister German henchmen.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    June Lockhart was 100 on June 25th



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Apple Dumpling


    Eva Marie Saint is 101 today.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,717 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Hal Linden, mostly notable for TV work, especially 'Barney Miller'.

    James B Harris. writer, producer, occasional director (The Bedford Incident).

    Both well in their 90s.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92,394 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    William Daniels and Bonnie Bartlett Daniels celebrate 74 years of marriage, both in their late 90s

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,717 ✭✭✭MfMan


    The hills are alive! So is Julie Andrews who hits the 9-0 today.

    Salome Jens (remember her?) also 90 earlier this year.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,717 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Schindler's List author, Australian of Irish heritage, Thomas Keneally is 90 today.

    Shani Wallis, singer and mainly theatre actress, Nancy in Oliver! in her 90s. English actor Melvyn Hayes, lot of screen appearances, also 90.

    American actor, producer, director Ted Hartley, if still alive is 100.

    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0366894/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,717 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Vincent Ball, Australian actor of many roles, (and surely one of a very diminishing few who served in WWII) is in his 102nd year.

    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0050482/?ref_=tt_cst_t_4



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Apple Dumpling


    I was watching some of the original Mission Impossible series and Barbara Bain is 94 and her co star in that Peter Lucas is 93.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,717 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Johnny Mathis singer, Lee Meriwether (mainly TV credits - The Time Tunnel), Constance Towers, Geoffrey Horne (Bridge on the River Kwai) all in their 90s.



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