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200 Oldest Living Screen Stars
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Reader Comments (67)
Joel Schumacher just passed.
Joan Copeland 98 . Great actress and Arthur Miller's sister .
@Peter-I just read that. Shit.. Despite some of the shit movies he's made, he's also made some great ones. D.C. Cab, The Lost Boys, A Time to Kill, Phantom of the Opera, and Falling Down. You can't really beat those films in terms of the quality they had.
I saw Marge Champion in the '01 Broadway revival of FOLLIES - absolutely spellbinding.
Renée Simonot, 108, stage actress, mother of Catherine Deneuve
thevoid99- you’re probably the first person I’ve ever read classify the phantom of the opera as great lol. Personally the only one I can get excited about was The Lost Boys (I hate Falling Down), though others are fun. But by all accounts her was a very sweet, kind, and funny man who clearly loved working.
Betty White starring in a new lifetime Christmas movie - will she be the oldest to ever headline a movie?
Maggie Smith also starring in a new movie with Kathy Bates and Laura Linney - these are the moments that make life worth living
Audrey Dalton (1/21/34) was in My Cousin Tachel?
1938 - Liv Ullmann
Manuel -- -waaaaay too young for this list still :) which ends in mid 1934
We deserve Betty White and Carl Reiner turning 100.
Born today, June 22 are Meryl Streep (1949), Elizabeth Warren (1949) and Cyndi Lauper (1953).
Montserrat Carulla, the odd granny of The Orphanage, turns 90 in September.
"Gena Rowland turned 90." Isn't it Gena Rowlands?
Handsome crooner Pat Boone (6/01/1934) in some films: Bernadine, April Love, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Goodbye Charlie, more. Lately in pain commercials.
Oh how I wish that someone in Mexico would give Silvia Pinal one more great role.
You have Mitchell Ryan twice on the list (in 1928 and 1934). He is only one person and was actually born in 1934!
Hear hear on a blue ribbon panel for the Emmy Guest Actor/Actress race. Your list has reminded me of the year they lazily gave another Emmy to Margo Martindale for the season of The Americans she only appeared for about two minutes over Lois Smith's completely indelible performance on the same show.
A few typos:
It's Michel Bouquet not Bouqet
Year of birth for Barry Humphries and Linda Cristal say 1924 when it ought to be 1934
I can't believe so many great stars are still alive. Thank you for compiling this extraordinary list.
Rich -- thanks for pointing that out. I have now discovered that there are two birth years floating around for Mitchell Ryan and it's an odd case where they're 6 years apart (usually when there's a discrepancy it's a couple of years only.). Wikipedia and Dark Shadows sites say 1928 and Imdb says 1934. Hmmmm.
I think 1928 is correct since he's listed as joining the Navy in 1951 and it seems more likely he would have done that at 23 than at 17? On the other hand you can join the armed forces at 17 so maybe 1934 is correct. argh.
Ellen Burstyn should get another great role
Alan Arkin is a 4-time Oscar nominee.
Great list.
ben1283 - Margo should have stepped aside and let Lois compete in the category without her as a sign of respect for a character actress legend that came before and was clearly more deserving that year. You don't have to bag as many as Candice Bergen for Murphy Brown before doing the right thing.
Why did Hardy Kruger refuse his nomination?
Gene Hackman still kicking? If so he'd be 90.
I screened the Columbo episodes starring Lee Grant (Ransom for a Dead Man), Vera Miles (Lovely but Lethal), and Dick Van Dyke (Negative Reaction) over the weekend. Classic!
This is amazing. Made a list of legends over 90 earlier this year. Missed a few and some have died since (Vera Lynn, Honor Blackman, Jerry Stiller) but don't need to update now can just follow this.
Had no idea Vera Miles and Don Murray were still alive :-)
Stunning starlet: Sara Shane (5/28/1928): Films: Magnificent Obsession, Three Bad Sisters, The King and Four Queens. TV: Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock, The Outer Limits.
Ed -- added. thanks for the catch.
Leading B actress in the 1940s Jacqueline White (born 1922) Films include Return of the Bad Men, Crossfire, Mystery in Mexico, Nightsong, The Narrow Margin, The Capture, Seven Keys to Baldpate. She also had small parts in Thirty Seconds over Tokyo and The Harvey Girls.
Sara Shane has been nicely added (and in correct order), but date says 5/18/29 rather than correct 5/18/28.
Why isn’t Hal Linden (3/20/1931) not on your list?
Sad to report that Linda Cristal died two days ago.
And Marla Gibbs (6/14/1931) might be on this list, "The Jeffersons", "227", much more, still working it today!
Don 8 & Janet -- simply missed them. I knew I'd miss someone. Added. thank you
Great to find some lesser known 'stars' on this list. Nice work. May I suggest adding Australian actress Mary Ward, who is now 105 years old. Best known for her TV work (Prisoner, in particular) she has also appeared in a handful of Aussie features.
R.I.P. Carl Reiner and fellow Bermudian Earl Cameron, who both just left us. Thanks, gentlemen!
I would love to see Dame Patricia Routledge (born 1929) on your list. She played the haughty and snobbish Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping up Appearances and was prominent in many other roles on film and TV.
Patricia Routledge also in "To Sir, With Love."
I think in your opening summary, rather than Bernie Koeppel, you mean Bernie Kopell.
Thanks for a great and very accurate list.
Should Doc Severinson be on the list? He is 93
Jacqueline Scott passed away on July 23, 2020 (1 month after her husband, TV writer Gene Lesser, 10/15/1925 - 6/23/2020). And I think in your opening summary, rather than Bernie Koeppel, you mean Bernie Kopell.
Jacqueline Scott passed away on 7/23/2020, 1 month after her TV writer husband Gene Lesser (10/15/1925 - 6/23/2020). And I think in your opening summary, rather than Bernie Koeppel, you mean Bernie Kopell.
^Posted same statement twice - sorry about that.
Need to add Ed Ames (93) July 9, 1927, Daniel Boone,
Tomahawk throw on ‘The Tonight Show’ with Johnny Carson
Rhonda Fleming, most beautiful star, emerald green eyes and luxurious red hair, has passed at 97.
In the first paragraph Bernie Kopell's last name is misspelled, Jacqueline Scott died 7/23/2020, Michael Lonsdale passed 9/21/2020.
Marge Champion has also died.