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  • #52
    Agent Coulson
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    Roger Corman is 94.


  • #53
    Agent Coulson
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    Sean Connery turns 90 tomorrow.

    Sir Sean Connery at 90: New study reveals his most popular film

    https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/sir-sean-connery-90-new-study-reveals-his-most-popular-film-2950645


  • #54
    pixelburp
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    As it happens I watched The Hunt For Red October last night; one of Connery's more memorable performances (and reminds John McTiernan really was a solid action director). The story he kept turning down scripts for eventual franchises (Lord of the Rings, The Matrix...) would be funny were it not for the fact the film he eventually DID say yes to supposedly prompted retirement (the awful League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)


  • #55
    MfMan
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    Watching Casino t'other night. At 93, LQ Jones is still alive and knocking about.


  • #56
    Agent Coulson
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    Angela Lansbury is 95 today.

    I was at her a talk with and Q&A in the Bord Gais in 2016 and she is one amazing woman.


  • #57
    ohnonotgmail
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    Agent Coulson wrote: »
    Angela Lansbury is 95 today.

    I was at her a talk with and Q&A in the Bord Gais in 2016 and she is one amazing woman.

    Not many around today that received their first oscar nomination during WW2.


  • #58
    MfMan
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    Agent Coulson wrote: »
    Angela Lansbury is 95 today.

    I was at her a talk with and Q&A in the Bord Gais in 2016 and she is one amazing woman.

    One of the great stars, total class.

    John Woodvine, sympathetic doctor in 'An American Werewolf in London', is the 91.


  • #59
    MfMan
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    Watching 'In The Heat Of The Night' last night. Lee Grant, who played the murdered man's widow, is 95. With a Supporting gong for Shampoo, is she the oldest living acting recipient?

    Anthony James, who played a cafe worker in the above, and ill-fated barman Skinny Dubois in Unforgiven, passed away last May.


  • #60
    ohnonotgmail
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    MfMan wrote: »
    Watching 'In The Heat Of The Night' last night. Lee Grant, who played the murdered man's widow, is 95. With a Supporting gong for Shampoo, is she the oldest living acting recipient?

    Anthony James, who played a cafe worker in the above, and ill-fated barman Skinny Dubois in Unforgiven, passed away last May.

    until july it was Olivia de Havilland who died at the age of 104. It is currently Eva Marie Saint who is a year older than lee grant


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  • #61
    p to the e
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    Agent Coulson wrote: »
    Angela Lansbury is 95 today.

    I was at her a talk with and Q&A in the Bord Gais in 2016 and she is one amazing woman.

    I was at this talk aswell. And the Julie Andrews one. Also saw her when the cinema was doing a run of "Driving Miss Daisy" with her and James Earl Jones. I never considered myself a super fan but now that I see it written down


  • #62
    MfMan
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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


  • #63
    Agent Coulson
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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.


  • #64
    Gael23
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    Is Norman Lloyd the last living Pre WW2 star?


  • #65
    ohnonotgmail
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    Gael23 wrote: »
    Is Norman Lloyd the last living Pre WW2 star?

    certainly the oldest. turned 106 in november.


  • #66
    MfMan
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    Robert Duvall gets his Star on this Walk as of last week.


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  • #67
    Agent Coulson
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    Betty White just turned 99.


  • #68
    JP Liz V1
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    Agent Coulson wrote: »
    Betty White just turned 99.

    A golden girl for sure :p
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #69
    MfMan
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    James Earl Jones signs on here.
    Birds star Tippi Hedren is 91.


  • #70
    Harry Palmr
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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.


  • #71
    Agent Coulson
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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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  • #72
    MfMan
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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


  • #73
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    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
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #74
    Aurelian
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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!


  • #75
    MfMan
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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.


  • #76
    MfMan
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    Claire Bloom has joined up here lately.


  • #77
    Agent Coulson
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    Sidney Poitier just turned 94 on the 20th.


  • #78
    Agent Coulson
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    Robert Clary a concentration camp survivor who went on to star in Hogan's Heroes will be 95 next Monday.


  • #79
    MfMan
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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


  • #80
    Harry Palmr
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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?

    snip

    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!


  • #81
    MfMan
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    Veteran American-born James Hong, specialist in playing Oriental characters, is a goodly 92 and counting.


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  • #82
    ohnonotgmail
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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


  • #83
    MfMan
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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.)


  • #84
    p to the e
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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


  • #85
    Agent Coulson
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    William Shatner joins the club today.


  • #86
    JP Liz V1
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    Agent Coulson wrote: »
    William Shatner joins the club today.

    90th thought he was younger :o
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #87
    Skerries
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    it's the tribble on his head that makes him look younger
    Untitled Image




  • #88
    ohnonotgmail
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    Skerries wrote: »
    it's the tribble on his head that makes him look younger

    thats the trouble with them.


  • #89
    Agent Coulson
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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


  • #90
    MfMan
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    Joe Turkel, of such as Paths Of Glory, The Shining, Blade Runner, is a goodly 93.


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  • #91
    MfMan
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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.


  • #92
    pixelburp
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    You're doing gods work MfMan :) lot of actors I honestly presumed had left us :eek: some people really do get the good genes (or else it's all those secret Swiss clinics the Hollywood elite use)


  • #93
    Agent Coulson
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    Watched Crazy Rich Asians last night and Lisa Lu is 93 and had a quick google.

    She only person to be a member of both Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

    She has moved between Asian and Hollywood films over the last 60 years.


  • #94
    MfMan
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    pixelburp wrote: »
    You're doing gods work MfMan :) lot of actors I honestly presumed had left us :eek: some people really do get the good genes (or else it's all those secret Swiss clinics the Hollywood elite use)

    I have an affinity with the stars (and also lesser lights whose 'faces you know but cannot name') who are still with us and who have left their imprint on cinema. It's nice to mark their contribution while they're still alive, or at least remember them on the sister RIP thread when they pass.

    Star of stage and occasionally screen (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) Sally Ann Howes is the 90.


  • #95
    ohnonotgmail
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    Leslie Philips is 97 today. Ding Dong.

    Scan-92-2-e1548675371269.jpeg


  • #96
    MfMan
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    Anyone hazard a guess at which movie star / actor lived the longest? I would chance Luise Rainer, double Oscar winner in the 1930s, who died in 2014, a few days shy of her 105th birthday.


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  • #97
    ohnonotgmail
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    MfMan wrote: »
    Anyone hazard a guess at which movie star / actor lived the longest? I would chance Luise Rainer, double Oscar winner in the 1930s, who died in 2014, a few days shy of her 105th birthday.

    Norman Lloyd from Dead Poets Society is still alive at 106.


  • #98
    Agent Coulson
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    This is from a few years ago when he was 102.



  • #99
    MfMan
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    Be hard enough to beat that.


  • #100
    Agent Coulson
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    Jerry Hardin is 91.

    Deep Throat from the X-Files.


  • #101
    ohnonotgmail
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    Not an actor but one of the artists who worked on Snow White and the 7 Dwarves, Ruthie Tompson, is still alive at 110.


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