200 Oldest Living Screen Stars of Note

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[Tom M]

This is why I love your work, Nathaniel. Love and respect for the medium and its history. What a list and so many movies I need to catch up on here!

[H]

I love the Tippi-Melanie-Dakota line of actressing. All talented, all beautiful, none take themselves too seriously! Each one totally deserved the stardom that she earned through very good work. Lovely lovely ladies.

[John T]

Shani Wallis not getting nominated is so odd-was she campaigned as lead or something for the role? It feels like a slam dunk in hindsight considering it was a Best Picture winner, got two other nominations, and Supporting Actress was pretty open in 1968.

[Joe]

I never realized Tom Skerrit was in his 80s. I thought he was a decade younger.

One thing that always blows my mind about list like this is how close we are to the past. Though she's english, Olivia de Havilland's gradnparents were born before the U.S. got rid of slavery, and before the British ruled India.

[Roger]

Constance Towers gives one of my favourite performances ever in Sam Fuller’s THE NAKED KISS. Legendary.

[Brendan]

This list warm my heart in a really difficult day. thanks, Nathaniel!

I am not prepared to say good bye to Julie Andrews, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Derek Jacob, Ian McKellen, Sean Connery, Ian Holm...

Please, more twenty years for everyone of them! please!

[Peggy Sue]

Glad to inform that Julieta Serrano is going to win all the Best Supporting Actress awards in Spain for Dolor y gloria.

[David]

How could would it be if they gathered all the Hitchcock ladies to present Best Picture next year??

[Jono]

Olivia DeHavilland and Lois Smith are so great. Angie too. X

[joel6]

Norman Lloyd is amazing. Saw him last year being interviewed and he is still sharp as a tack.

It is just astonishing that Diana Serra Cary/Baby Peggy’s starring career ended 95 years ago and she’s still here to tell about it! Her autobiography was fascinating.

June Lockhart is the daughter of the wonderful character actor Gene Lockhart, who was in dozens of classic films, and his British actress wife Kathleen Lockhart. June made her screen debut playing their daughter Belinda (they were the Cratchits) in the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol.

Lee Grant’s bio is a tremendous read.

Didn’t know much of Irene Papas’s filmography, and I’m still not terribly familiar, but I saw her in Iphigenia recently and she was electrifying.

I LOVE Ann Blyth! She had a decent if not terribly long career but I think her studio mismanaged her. After her fantastic showing in Mildred Pierce when they should have capitalized on her obvious affinity for noir vixens they turned her into a sweet ornamental doll in a series of musicals. She was pleasant but it was a waste of her natural ability.

Incredible that Max von Sydow has neither a competitive Oscar nor an Honorary by now.

It’s always surprising to discover that performers who seem to belong to different eras-Mamie Van Doren & Robert Duvall or Carroll Baker & Olympia Dukakis-are the exact same age and that Mitzi Gaynor who seems to harken even further back is younger than them all.

[Melchiades]

Hard to believe Sophia Loren and Maggie Smith, Shirley MacLaine, Judi Dench are the same age. Why do they say pasta is bad for health?

[RobMiles]

Re Ann Blyth. Many people have been slapped by Joan Crawford, but how many people have had the honour of slapping Joan Crawford.

[John T]

David-My actressexual heart just exploded at the thought.

[Lorna Gillespie-Trott]

This man is highly deserving of being included on this list: wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Maharis Please make my day and add him!

[Bette Streep]

This list isn't morbid at all. It's a wonderful reminder of some of the greatest actors of all time. If there is one sad thing about this list is knowing many of these great actors never got an Academy Award - or even nominated!!!

[NATHANIEL R]

Lorna -- done!

[reuvenmalter]

Yentl is streaming on Tubi

[NATHANIEL R]

Brendan -- i hope today is better for you!

[Terry]

Great write-up on Sidney Poitier - no black actor is a patch (including Harry and Denzel, though Iris is close, just needs a breakout role), before or since, on his tremendous drop-dead gorgeousness, elegance, superb acting, much more. I just saw No Way Out, Blackboard Jungle, In the Heat of the Night, and The Defiant Ones (last scene in that had me in tears). What an output and legacy.

[Terry]

^I forgot to also mention the wonderful A Patch Of Blue.

[Jakey]

Bob Newhart is still doing standup! He headlined in my city this June.

[Meyer Persow]

We had a wonderful family celebration for Nicky's (Nehemiah Persoff) 100th birthday here in Cambria CA. One forty family members and friends.

[Feline Justice]

Nathaniel, you with June Lockhart and I with Mitch Gaylord, also a birth name.

[NATHANIEL R]

Meyer -- that's incredible. Thanks for popping in and send our birthday wishes :)

[UA]

107 yo Renée Simonot, Catherine Deneuve's mother. born 10 September 1911, is still alive. Mainly a stage actress, she did appear is some films. She was also prolific at dubbing films, and incidentally used to be the french voice of one Olivia De Havilland.

Another one is 102 yo Vera Lynn, Britain's "national singer" of sort, who made few films in the'40s.

[Johnny]

Tom Skerritt in Rambo? I don’t think so.

[Bert Huys]

There are a number of very old - 100 years and older - and sometimes forgotten actors and actrices not in the list:
* Millicent Green (°1911)
* Renée Simonot (°10/11/1911), mother of Cathérine Deneuve
* Katsumi Tezuka (°31/8/1912), Japanese actor
* Mary Ward (°6/3/1914)
* Antonio Gradoli (°19/3/1917)
* Vera Lynn (°20/3/1917), the most famous British singer played in a few movies
* Dusty Anderson (°17/12/1918)
° Jeanne Manet (°28/6/1918), French actress
* Patricia Walthall (°16/3/1918)
* Betty Brodel (°25/11/1919)
* Orlando Drummond (°18/10/1919), Brazilian actor
* Caren Marsh (°6/4/1919)
* Doris Merrick (°6/6/2019)

You can perhaps include them in your update...

[Noah]

Rip Taylor has died.. but, I didn't see anybody else, on deaths on wikipedia.. which I basically studied all year.. I check that everyday..

[Herman G.]

Elizabeth Sellars died late last year.

[Marie Abbott]

Suzy Delair, Baby Peggy, Stuart Whitman, Orson Bean, Max von Sydow and Lynn Cohen have all died since the last update. And by the way, Mitchell Ryan was born in 1934 and not 1928.

[Bert Huys]

High Plains drifter. Yesterday I saw High Plains Drifter on tv.
Clint Eastwood is alive and kicking! and almost 90 years old!
Verna Bloom passed away last year, but Ted Hartley, William O'Connell and Buddy Van Horn are still alive and are not in your list.
- Ted Hartley was born on November 6, 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA as Theodore Ringwalt Hartley. He is an actor and producer, known for High Plains Drifter (1973), Race to Witch Mountain (2009) and Mighty Joe Young (1998). He was previously married to Dina - Merrill.
William O'Connell was born on August 20, 1933 in Richmond, Virginia, USA as William L. O'Connell Jr. He is an actor, known for Paint Your Wagon (1969), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) and Star Trek (1966).
- Buddy Van Horn was born on August 20, 1929. He is known for his work on High Plains Drifter (1973), The Dead Pool (1988) and Outbreak (1995).

[Marie Abbott]

Another death (see my posting above) - Honor Blackman "Pussy Galore" died today.

[Elba]

This site seems to be unmonitored at the moment, but for when they wake up, John Ericson has also passed away.

[Rich Kramer]

And Jerry Stiller.

[Lucette Delors]

The extraordinary and highly-accomplished French actor Michel Piccoli passed away on May 12 aged 94.

[Eric]

Iam Holm is dead.

[Rich Kramer]

So is Ben Cooper

[Eric]

Also Jerry Stiller, Suzy DeLair, Baby Peggy, John Ericson, Stuart Whitman, Orson Bean, Max Von Sydow.

[NATHANIEL R]

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