Monday, December 16, 2013 at 7:00PM
Comments for this entry have been disabled. Additional comments may not be added to this entry at this time.
Top
NEW REVIEWS
Oscar History
Film Bitch History
SMACKDOWN INDEX
-
all the episodes thus far
Welcome
The Film Experience™ was created by Nathaniel R. All material herein is written by our team. (This site is not for profit but for an expression of love for cinema & adjacent artforms.)
Follow TFE on Substackd
COMMENTS
- November 22 - Fabio Dantas Flappers on A Quick Word on AppleTV's "Disclaimer"
- November 21 - Fabio Dantas Flappers on "Conclave" and "A Complete Unknown" lead the AARP Nominations
- November 21 - Wae Mest on "Conclave" and "A Complete Unknown" lead the AARP Nominations
Keep TFE Strong
We're looking for 500... no 390 Subscribers! If you read us daily, please be one.
THANKS IN ADVANCE
What'cha Looking For?
Subscribe
Copyright © 2010, Nathaniel Rogers. All rights reserved.
Reader Comments (233)
Great list! Great to see so many legends are still alive!
I'd add Christopher Plummer (84) and Michael Caine(a youngster of 80yrd old).
Jean Porter (12/8/1922) Jigger-Bug dancer in "Till the End of Time" (1946).
Monique Van Vooren (3/23/1925) Busty Belgium-born star of "Flesh For Frankenstein" (1973) - not to be confused with Mamie Van Doren (2/6/1931).
Prolific TV actors Martin E. Brooks (3/23/1925) - "Six Million Dollar Man" regular and
H.M. Wynant (12/12/1927) Whiskey-voiced, sought-after, familiar face.
Eileen Ryan (10/15/1927) Actress, mother of Sean Penn.
Henry Silva (9/15/1928) Tough guy actor.
Don Gordon (11/13/1926) Tough guy actor.
Lee Farr (4/10/1927) Short-term actor, married (too young for list) Felicia Farr (10/4/1932).
Juicy Tidbits: Don Gordon married their daughter and became son-in-law to the younger Lee. Felicia divorced Lee and later married Jack Lemmon.(2/08/1925 - 6/27/2001).
Angie Dickinson's description is mixed in with Monica Vitti's.
Jayne Meadows, 9-27-20
Sally Forrest, 5-28-28
Elena Verdugo, 4-20-26
Primarily TV Stars: Petite actor Robert Clary, born 3/01/1926, only surviving member of the famous 1960s complete comedy series "Hogan's Heroes"; Betty Lynn (8/29/1926), Barney Fife's girlfriend (Thelma Lou) on the "Andy Griffith Show" - in real life, she's still single. Jim Nabors (6/12/1930), goofy "Gomer Pyle USMC" and a captivating singer. Dick Van Patten (12/9/1928) "Eight is Enough."
Vividly attractive auburn-haired Allyn Ann McLerie (12/01/1926), Stage/Film/TV who is married to: George Gaynes (5/16/1917), horny soap character in "Tootsie" (1982), etc.
David Tomlinson (5/7/1917) Mr. Banks in "Mary Poppins" (1964).
What about Jerry lewis?
Whoops sorry , yes my idol Jerry Lewis did get a mention, sorry
Hey -- how did you forget Nanette Fabray?!!! Also Fritz Weaver, Anne Jackson, Elizabeth Wilson, Lois Smith, Myra Carter, Virginia McKenna.
Kathleen Hughes (11/14/1928).
Meg Randall (8/01/1926).
Shelley Berman (2/03/1925).
And let us not forget Faith Dane (b. 1923). Once she was a shleppa, now she's Miss Mazeppa...
Shannon Bolin, born 1917, played the wife in Damn Yankees on stage and screen. Barbara Barrie is still very much alive -- I saw her on the street the other day. Born 1931, so just qualifies for this list, I think. Has anyone mentioned Colleen Gray?
Lovely Coleen Gray (10/23/1922) was mentioned on 12/17, along with smoky-voiced Barbara Hale (4/18/1922), vibrant Janis Paige (9/16/1922) and Long, Raven-haired Patricia Morison (3/19/1915).
It is beong reported that Martha Eggerth passed away yesterday, the 26th.
Two Johnsons: Richard Johnson (7/30/1927), "The Haunting" (1963) and Russell Johnson (11/10/1924), TV's "Gilligans Island" (1964 - 1967).
Missing is one of my favorites: Janis Paige (9/16/1922)
Mary Anderson (04/03/1920), lovely support in "Gone With the Wind" (1939, Richard Erdman (06/01/1925), "Stalag 17" (1953), a ton of credits.
Also are Jimmy Lydon (5/30/23) actor in many films and TV shows and was the movie Henry Aldrich in nine films.
Twins Lee and Lyn Wilde (10/10/22) appeared in forties musicals and Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944)
Russell Johnson, born in 1924, in addition to his well known role as The Professor on Gilligan's Island, has dozens of TV credits and 1950s SciFi and Western films. He also had a pretty interesting war record from WWII.
Two Crowleys: Patricia Crowley (9/17/1929), elegant actress famous for TV comedies and spectacularly beautiful Kathleen Crowley (12/29/1931). a western seies mainstay.
The esteemed actress Georgann Johnson (08/15/1926), acting since TV's Golden Age, played the Rich Lady in "Midnight Cowboy" (1969).
Nita Talbot (8/08/1930), alluring Anne Francis style actress, (both born same year, in New York, 5' 8" tall, distinctive voices, and both featured in episode of "Columbo: A Stitch in Crime - 1973).
Add singer and actor Herb Jeffries (9/24/13) some sources list birthyear as 1911
and TV actors
Richard Coogan (4/14/14) of Captain Video and his Video Rangers
Alan Young (11/19/19) played Wilbur Post on TV series Mister Ed.
Al Molinaro (6/24/19) Arnold on Happy Days TV series.
Actor/Dancer Marc Platt (12/2/13) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Character actor Wally Cassell (3/3/15) Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Actress Jean Rouverol (7/8/16) in W.C. Fields film It's a Gift (1934)
Ned Romero (12-04-1926), amazing veteran actor who sings Opera, too!
I'm sure you heard by now, that Marta Eggerth passed away the day after Christmas!
The NY Times ran a nice article. LA Times had no mention that I saw.
Celebrity #20 the wonderful Juanita Moore (10/19/1914, which would place her at #4, after late Martha Eggerth, list states 10-19-22, incorrect) just passed at age 99 on New Year's Day, 01/01/2014.
Richard Dysart (3/30/1929), actor extraordinaire, "Leland" on TV series "L.A. Law."
Alice Hirson (03/10/1929), soap actress and played mother to TVs "Ellen" ("yep, I'm gay!").
what about larry storch from f troop . think he is 91 !
Barbara Hale(Della Street), 91 or 92
We must honor aristocratic actor Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (11-30-1918).
Shirley Temple is 85 so I think she should be added to this list. Donald Sutherland is only 78 and Shirley MacLaine is 79 too. This is a great list.
I didn't see Anne Jeffreys born January 26, 1923
Patrice Wymore (12/17/1926), tall, tawny, terrific actress in "Ocean's Eleven" (1960), married Errol Flymn! Naomi Stevens (11/29/1926) and Paul Smith (2/5/1929), both appeared on "The Doris Day Show" (other semi-regulars Kaye Ballard, Rose Marie already cited here), gifted, familiar comics in many other shows.
Where is Abe Vigoda?
Jack Larson (2/08/1928), just turned 86, and Jimmy Olsen in the hit 1950s series
"The Adventures of Superman."
Handsome French actor Jacques Bergerac (5/26/1927), who married Ginger Rogers, then Dorothy Malone and appeared in "Gigi" (1958), too!
James Olson (10/8/1930), perennial bad-guy TV actor, but also noteworthy opposite Joanne Woodward in "Rachel, Rachel" (1968).
I forgot Gregg Palmer (1/27/1927), reliable actor in Douglas Sirk dramas, John Wayne vehicles, and science-fiction classics.
We shan't forget a Hitchcock: Patricia Hitchcock (7/7/1928), marvelous actress in two of her father's best - "Strangers On A Train", "Psycho" (1960), and 10 of his TV series episodes.
I may have a lifelong bias... But I am surprised that Robert Horton is not on this auspicious list. Born July 29th, 1924, he worked in film and on stage since the mid 1940's. I suppose he is best known for his role as Flint McCullough on Wagon Train from 1957-1961..But one should also remember that he was in the first 3d western ever made, that would be "Arena". And also starred in many other western movies of time. After his tenure on Wagon Train he spent a great deal of his career in the theater. 330 performances of 110 in the Shade on Broadway...and Shakespeare on Matinee Theater. Purportedly, he was one of Alfred Hitchcock's favorite actors and starred in 7 sequences of Alfred Hitchcock presents,. He had a fabulous voice. He traveled with many theatrical road companies and was seen as a guest performer on several television shows and soap opera through the mid 1980's. His fan base is legion and his persistence and tenacity and talent and downright magnificent looks warrants him a spot on this list. Don' cha think?
Priscilla Pointer (5/18/1924), "Carrie" (1976), "Looking For Mr. Goodbar" (1977), "Mommie Dearest" (1981), expertly in mother/authoritarian roles, also mom of actress Amy Irving.
did you omit Rhonda Fleming and Arlene Dahl ?Or was I just starry eyed at the impressive list ?
Also add Peggy King, born Feb. 16, 1930, known primarily and a TV and recording star, but also seen in "The Bad and the Beautiful," "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy" and "Zero Hour," and more recently in "Behind the Candelabra". www.peggyking.org
Joyce Reynolds, 10-7-25
Ty Hardin (01/01/1930), heartthrob actor, married 8 times!
Bradford Jackson (12/23/1928), "It Came From Outer Space" (1953), "The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent" (1958).
Peggy Webber (1925), "The Screaming Skull", "The Space Children" (both 1958), "Dragnet" on radio and in 1960s TV series.
Tommy Cook, 7-05-30
Laurie Mitchell (7/14/1928), portrayed the "Queen of Outer Space" (1958).
Sci-Fi Cult Actresses:
Lydia Clarke (4/14/1923), "The Atomic City" (1952), married Charlton Heston (10/4/1923 - 4/5/2008).
Noreen Nash (4/4/1924), "Phantom From Space" (1953), also "Giant" (1956), married James Whitmore (10/01/1921 - 2/06/2009).
Barbara Bestar (1929), "Killers From Space" (1954).