Famous Nonagenarians

William Shatner, 92

Ann Blyth, 95 yesterday

Sister Mary Clarence

Sister Bertrille

Julie Newmar, 90 yesterday

Barbara Feldon, 90

Dick Van Dyke, 97

James Earl Jones, 92

Barbara Eden, 91 (92 next week)

Rita Moreno, 91

Clint Eastwood, 93

Bob Barker, 99

Joan Collins, 90

Michael Caine, 90

Marla Gibbs, 92

Benita Buttrell

Yoko Ono, 90

Kim Novak, 90

Willie Nelson, 90

Yoko recently

And when our hearts return to ashes

Estelle Parsons, 95

George Chakiris, 90

Roman Polanski, 90 today

Chita Rivera, 90

Eva Marie Saint, 99

Rosey Grier, 91

Anouk Aimée

91

Deirdre Hall, 97

Dr Ruth, 95

John Astin, 93

If any of these people ARE DEAD TO ME in the next few years I will blame the Curse Of Datalounge

Jimmy Carter, 98 Former President of the United States

Barbara Bain, 91

Mel Brooks, 97

Petulant Clark, 90

Robert Wagner, 93

I saw Mary Poppins in London just before COVID lockdown, and out comes Petula Clark singing "Feed the Birds". I spontaneously burst into ugly tears because I had no idea she was in the cast and both she and the song were big parts of my childhood. I think that may have been the campest moment of my life.

Handsome astronaut Vance Brand isn’t so famous, but if DL had been around half a century ago, he would’ve been celebrated here.

He’s 92 now.

Angie Dickinson, 91

Joel Grey, 91

Glynis Johns, 99

Back to Tippi circa 1964 on the pages of Town and Country posing in front of her Chrysler Imperial convertible parked outside the Hotel Bel-Air

So about 32-33 at the time.

Handsome homosexual Earl Holliman, 94

Police Woman nonagenarians reunite.

But R42 Wikipedia says Earl dated Jane Fonda and Dolores Hart.

Maybe at 94 he just hasn't found the right girl to settle down with yet?

Leontyne Price, 96

Earl Holliman doesn’t discuss sexuality in this clip, but it’s an interesting look at the film industry in the forties and fifties.

I didn’t know that Anouk Aimée from r26 was once married to randy Albert Finney.

Quincy Jones, 90

Bernie Kopell, 90

Abbe Lane, immortalized as Beene Gallini on the Brady Bunch, 90.

Sir David Attenborough 97yrs

Piper Laurie, 91

Dancer Bambi Lynn, 97

Carol Lawrence, 90

Ellen Burstyn, 90.

Carol Burnett, 90

Bob Newhart, 93

Marion Ross, 94

Julie Andrews is 87. We're so lucky she's still around. When I hear her singing, I think of my mom.

Bill Hayes, 98

Best known as Doug Williams on Days of Our Lives. Also: Hit #1 on Billboard chart in 1955 with "The Ballad of Davy Crocket".

Don Murray, 94

Frances Sternhagen, 93

Gene Hackman, 93

Shirley MacLaine, almost there. 89.

R59 you really improved many people’s day with that video

Norman Lear, 101

Lee Grant, 97

Roger Corman, 97

Is that Frances Sternhagen at r62? It looks like Gwen Verdon!

R69 - You might be right. I found that pic labeled as Sternhagen among others of Verdon. It wasn't easy trying to find a photo of her pre-60. I think she was born old.

She does seem like an old soul.

Here’s a pic from 1962.

Don Murray was dreamy.

R66, Norman Lear is a centenarian.

Husband & wife actors William Daniels (96) & Bonnie Bartlett (93).

Normal Lear! I mean, he's technically off-topic because he's 101 but he hasn't lost a brain cell. Amazing.

Ditto for the slightly more controversial Henry Kissinger, 100, brain intact. I know, I know... But impressive.

Gena Rowlands, 93

Is this where all the Adrenochrome is going?

Aren’t the tech bros entering middle age and panicking over their aging and mortality hogging all the Adenochrome?

Meryl Streep!

Tom Skerritt. I had no idea he was that old... he turns 90 this Friday.

The eternally elegant Claire Bloom, 92

How old is Gale Gordon? He’s gotta be in his 90s by now.

Joyce Randolph, Trixie Norton on "The Honeymooners" throughout the 1950s, is 98. She'll be 99 in October. She first played Trixie on the old Dumont Network in 1952, after Jackie Gleason hired her to replace Elaine Stritch, who was fired after playing Trixie once.

[quote]How old is Gale Gordon? He’s gotta be in his 90s by now.

Gale Gordon is now 117. However, he died in 1995 at age 89.

Vera Miles turned 94 yesterday.

Happy 90th to Tom Skerritt tomorrow!

I was just watching an old 1949 French movie with Micheline Presle and was astounded to see that she's still alive at age 101!

^. She turned 101 on Tuesday!

It’s apparently a big birthday week for nonagenarians and centenarians.

Priscilla ("No, I'm not one of those singing sisters!") Pointer, who turned 99 in May. Most famous for underreacting to Joan Crawford and, secondly, birthing Amy Irving.

I'll drink to that, R90

Great thread, OP!

With a few exceptions, most of these people are known for being not only talented but kind, too. Glad they're still with us.

Did anyone mention Mamie van Doren, Leslie Caron, or Terry Moore?

Notwithstanding her 50s getup in MD, Priscilla Pointer was a very elegant and beautiful middle-aged woman.

More Priscilla, circa the 80s: so far superior to the surgical nightmares of today, with their frozen boobies and stenciled eyebrows....

Like Norman Lear, noted upthread, Rachel Robinson, Jackie’s widow, recently turned 101.

Phyllis Coates, who played Lois Lane for the first season of the 1950s TV series "The Adventures of Superman," is still alive at 96.

Janis Paige, who starred in the original Broadway production of "The Pajama Game," which opened in 1954, and also did TV and movies, is 100 years old.

They're all so young!

Tom Skerritt turns 90 today.

R100, meet R87

R101, please introduce R100 and R87 to R81

Barbara Rush, 96.

Paul Sand, 91.

He has quite a filmography, highlighted by Can’t Stop the Music.

Lois Smith, 92 and still working.

She didn’t even really come into her own until her senior years.

Barbara Barrie, 92.

Hal Linden with Barbara Barrie, both 92.

Peter Lupus is 91.

Peter Lupus, obligatory Playgirl nude pic.

Pre-nonagenarian period.

50s starlet Debra Paget is 90

Peggy Dow from Harvey and Bright Victory is 95

I love Paul Sand, I had no idea he was in his 90s. He was on one of the best episodes of MTM show, playing an IRS auditor who fell for Mary. By all accounts, much of the dialogue between Sand and MTM was improvised.

Paul Sand was born Pablo Sanchez!

His father was Mexican American and his mother a Russian Jew.

I’ve always thought he had a great screen presence, affable and anxious - and vaguely sexy.

The beautiful man with a voice to match--Robert Fuller, 90.

Peter Marshall, longtime host of "The Hollywood Squares," is 97. His real name is Ralph Pierre LaCock.

Me in 60 years

French actress Anne Vernon is 99. She played Catherine Deneuve's mother in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Singer Barbara Dane

Director Mark Rydell

Laugh-In creator George Schlatter is 93.

[quote] Peter Marshall, longtime host of "The Hollywood Squares," is 97. His real name is Ralph Pierre LaCock.

He had to change his name to comply with the truth in advertising rule.

Carmen Dell'Orefice, world's oldest and highest-paid supermodel, 92.

Who, along with fellow model Beverly Johnson, posed nude last year.

Well, we’re down one at R11.

R30, the DL Curse has been unleashed.

If I mention Henry Kissinger will he die?

R123 - That asshole had it coming!

Don't ever laugh as a DL thread goes by

For you may be the next to die

Filmmaker Marcel Ophuls

Thanks a lot for the curse, DL assholes.

[quote] If I mention Henry Kissinger will he die?

Create a famous centenarians thread.

Brigitte Auber, 98.

Carroll Baker, 92

George Chakiris

Eva Marie Saint

Ray Anthony is still hopping at 101, waiting for the centenarian thread.

[quote]Create a famous centenarians thread.

Don't forget me!

Betty White and Bob Barker were both well-known animal lovers and supporters of animal protection organizations. Both died shortly before reaching their 100th birthdays.

I have a long way to go, bitch-troll from hell!

I just learned that character actor, William Smithers, who was all over television from the 50s into the 80s and probably best known as "Jeremy Wendell" on Dallas, is now 96.

Centenarian thread now open by request.

Actor/producer Mark Damon

William Russell, British TV veteran (many episodes of Dr. Who, Coronation Street, Harriet's Back in Town, and The Adventures of Sir Lancelot) and Alfie Enoch's dad, is 98.

John Towner Williams, 91: still composing and conducting dazzlingly complex and nuanced symphonic music whilst wearing a succession of identical black roll-neck sweaters.

Norman Jewison

Roger Corman is 97 and still producing schlock.

Fernanda Montenegro, 93, is still starring in Brazlilan movies.

Doc Severinsen is 96!

[quote] Norman Jewison

Canadian. Not a Jew.

Not a Jew, but Norman Jewison directed the movie version of "Fiddler on the Roof."

You can be Canadian and Jewish at the same time, r146.

Not Norman Jewison, though.

And don't forget me, R148.

What's the difference between a genarian and a nonagenarian?

Omara Portuondo, featured in the Buena Vista Social Club movie some years back, is 92.

June Lockhart - 98

Another June ... June Squibb

The advice scene ..lol

I know Vera Miles was mentioned earlier. Is there a recent photo on the internet of her? She hasn't acted in anything in over 25 years. I wonder how Miles looks these days.

Mitzi Gaynor!!!

Clint Eastwood, 92, one of the most handsome men ever to be in the moving pictures.

Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter.

Mitzi Gaynor and her gams are 91.

Broadway's Helen Gallagher (Maeve Ryan on "Ryan's Hope") is 97.

R154 Several birthday well wishers have put this photo up saying it's Vera Miles, no date with it, but it's definitely beyond her last film/tv appearance in the 90s. She apparently leads a very private, almost reclusive life in Palm Desert, California.

R160

I've previously seen that photo. It is a photo of a woman named "Vera Miles" but I don't believe she is the actress. The woman in the photo lives in England.

I still would love to see a current picture of the actress Vera Miles.

R161. Thanks for the clarification. I know people can age in unexpected ways, but I found it hard to believe that woman was a former Hollywood star.

Dame Virginia McKenna, 92. Now here's a woman who definitely never paid a visit to a plastic surgeon (which is actually kind of refreshing to see).

Actress Marisa Pavan

Taina Elg from Les Girls

Willie Mays

Herbert Blomstedt, 96 and still working

R161 Honestly, I questioned whether or not to put that photo up, because I've never seen anyone give a source or date with it, so I had my doubts. Your detective work is much appreciated.

Still no mention of me?

R169 Wagner's way up at R35.

Until Wednesday!

Petula Clark is 90

Maria Riva, Marlene Dietrich's daughter

James Ivory, 95

By the looks of it, Glenn has to be around 97.

Miss Rosemary Harris is turning 96 next month. She made her motion picture debut in 1954 in Beau Brummell, alongside Elizabeth Taylor.

R171, that hot fucker moves to the Centenarian thread in two days!

🎂 Happy birthday, Vic! 🎂

[quote]Miss Rosemary Harris is turning 96 next month. She made her motion picture debut in 1954 in Beau Brummell, alongside Elizabeth Taylor.

And she appeared on Broadway as recently as 2019 in the Lincoln Center revival of "My Fair Lady," replacing Diana Rigg as Mrs. Higgins. I saw Harris in it and spoke to her briefly at the stage door.

R178, that's so cool.

R171. Another nice picture of him here.

Vic was cute...Until he opened his mouth. Those teeth looked scary! Didn't they have dentists back then?

Actress and model Vikki Dougan

Nancy Olson

Dabney Coleman

Cindy Adams

Berry Gordy

Don King

Imelda Marcos

Ethel Kennedy

Clive Davis

Lee Adams and Charles Strouse, who wrote the music for Bye Bye Birdie

Composer John Kander

Constance Towers turned 90 in May.

Eileen Fulton is joining the club in September

His wife’s death is now being reported, but astronaut Jim Lovell is alive at 95. As is fellow astronaut, also 95, Frank Borman.

And Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin is 93. Maybe going into space boosts longevity.

Bob Newhart turned 94 today.

^ And Mitzi Gaynor just turned 92

We can wait, Bob.

Barbara Bain turned 92 today.

David McCallum turned 90 today.

[quote]Janis Paige, who starred in the original Broadway production of "The Pajama Game," which opened in 1954, and also did TV and movies, is 100 years old.

Former nonagenarian Janis turned 101 on September 16th.

It's always me!

Go away, R59, and come back in 3 years.

[quote] David McCallum turned 90 today.

R194 has blood on their hands.

John Cullum, 93

Dianne Fein...never mind.

David McCallum just turned 90. What's that?

Glynis Johns at R40 now enters the Ccentenarian Club.

I remember Glynis from an EC movie Vault of Horror where she chopped up a nagging Terry-Thomas.

Also, I saw her on Broadway singing Send in the Clowns in ALNM

We've also lost Phyllis Coates at R97 and Piper Laurie at R52.

Loved Phyllis Coates’ husky-voiced Lois Lane.

Berry Gordy is 94!

I think this is my favorite DL ever.

Carry on

[quote] Roman Polanski, 90 today

Or, using his favorite means for measurement, that's nearly 6 1/2 14 year old girls.

Dabney Coleman (listed upthread) turns 92 tomorrow.

Still working.

Wink Martindale, 90!

R210- He just turned 89 not 90.

90.

Cissy Houston, 90.

Legendary Gong Show judge and flasher Jaye P. Morgan, 92.

Caterina Valente, 92.

She was a permafixture on 1960s and 70s variety shows, playing guitar, dancing, and singing in multiple languages.

Willie Mays is also 92.

Quincy Jones

^r48

Nita Talbot, 93.

The YouTuber even throws DL a bone by closing the piece with a clip of Bea Benadaret.

June Lockhart, 98.

Mark Goddard R220 was SO FUCKING handsome.

Didn't quite make it: he died in October at 87.

^ I was more of a Guy Williams guy.

Strapping Sicilian daddy, just my ticket. He would be turning 100 this month, but he died decades ago.

James Hong,94 - 95 next month.

223 - He's an ancient Chinese secret.

R202, Glynis Johns passed away yesterday.

Robert Duvall turned 93 today.

Dumbasses are repeating names multiple times

Longtime St. John’s basketball coach Lou Carnesecca, who turned 99 today.

I like that we’re observing nonagenarian birthdays even when the person has already been posted, r227.

Handsome Jon Cypher from Hill Street Blues, Flipper, Dynasty and He-Man should turn 92 a week from tomorrow.

^ Hill Street Blues.

Jazz vocalist Helen Merrill

She’s 93!

Her Beatles album is a classic.

I love her r232

Madonna

I, as well.

Her only child died of COVID in the first wave in 2020.

He wrote and performed the original version of I Love Rock and Roll, later a career-saving hit for Joan Jett.

Tippi Hedren turned 94 today.

Tom Baker just turned 90.

He’s the first I think of as Doctor Who.

Former AMC host Nick Clooney turned 90 last week.

Father of George and brother to Rosemary.

R227 - It's like motherfucking history repeating!

Yoko Ono is 90. There is no God.

Robert Wagner turns 94 today.

Happy Birthday Tina Louise!

90 today!

Geriatric Ginger Grant, great grandma!

Tina Louise had old lady anger issues in her 30s and it only got worse. I've never -- NEVER -- heard a kind word about her, but I sure have heard a lot of stories, including from friends who met her.

Kim Novak is 91 today.

^ What, again?

Claire Bloom turns 93 today.

At 93 the bloom is certainly off the rose.

Alan Bates would have turned 90 today, if he were still alive.

Jimmy Carter, until Oct 1, if he makes it

Rita Moreno is 92, one year older than Chita Rivera was when Chita died in January.

Just a few weeks ago, all three of these women were still alive, and all over ninety!

The old man digging the grave in the beginning is Boris Karloff, by the way.

(If you've never watched this, please do--it's really fun. I think it's from The Garry Moore Show circa 1964 or so.)

Lee Marvin would have been 100 today.

Alejandro Jodorowsky, the director who almost made Dune, turned 95 on Saturday.

Vera Miles last appeared in Separate Lives, 1995 --

Another image

[quote] Lee Marvin would have been 100 today.

Big whoop. Copernicus would have been 551 today.

Lee Marvin and Copernicus and I have the same birthday. Merle Oberon, too, I think.

Debra Paget, 90.

Copernicus… Sizemeat?

R260 - It was astronomical!

Rue McClanahan would have been 90 today.

And she would've looked a hundred. Face by Rand McNally.

Economist and philosopher Thomas Sowell is 93 and still writing books.

Consumer advocate and third-party Presidential candidate Ralph Nader turns 99 today. He is still politically active.

He's 90, not 99

Noam Chomsky!

Joanne Woodward turns 94 years young today.

Thanks r266.

My fat fingers thank you.

[quote]Jimmy Carter, 98 Former President of the United States

He turned 99 last October, after this thread was started, and will be 100 this fall.

I wonder if the media will make a big deal out of it? They should.

I don't think we've ever had a former president cross the century mark.

Jimmy Thompson (b. December 9, 1923), who sang "Beautiful Girl" in SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, recently turned 100.

I think he and Rita Moreno are the only cast members still living.

When I was a gayling, I would often rewind this scene, because I thought he was so handsome.

R111, I just watched Peggy Dow as a double-dealin’ dame in Woman in Hiding staring Ida Lupino. (Currently on Criterion as part of a Gothic Noir series.) She was great! She retired shortly after this film when she landed an oil baron.

When I looked up the cast, I was stunned to see Peggy Dow will be turning 96 in a couple weeks. Then I wondered if she’d been added to this nonagenarian list.

Of course a gay was already on the job!

For some reason as a kid watching old movies on TV I really liked Peggy Dow. I think because I was a little kid, I loved the one where she played a reincarnated horse, opposite Dick Powell. I don't remember the name. Then I saw her in Harvey, and a movie about the home front during the Korean war, called I Want You (with some bigger stars, Dorothy McGuire, Dana Andrews, Farley Granger). Years later I looked her up and was surprised her career was so short.

Joyce Van Patten (will be 90 on March 9)...I was surprised she had been married to Martin Balsam (divorced in 1962) after seeing them play the parents of Mare Winningham in St. Elmo's Fire.

Barbara Feldon turns 91 today.

Michael Caine turns 91 today.

Gloria Steinem turns 90 today.

John Astin turns 94 today.

John Astin is alive? Did not know.

Gene Hackman is also 94. HIs wife is only 62.

Madonna.

R280 - Oh honey, not Madonna. She's not famous.

Peter Marshall was 98 today

R135- and one was a LESBO and the other was rumored to be a HOMO

Richard Chamberlain and Shirley Jones both turn 90 today.

Richard is dead dear. We stop counting people's ages once they have died. If not so, then Eva LaGallienne turned 125 last January.

R285, does Richard know he's dead?

R286 Eva LaGallienne told him.

Barbara Rush has died at age 97.

Shirley Jones has joined the Famous Nonagenarians Club. She turned 90 on March 31st.

Richard Chamberlain also turned 90 on March 31st.

R289 and R290 - see R284. Not to mention the various threads on their turning 90.

There's a film of older Barbara Rush at some theater, at a showing of The Young Philadelphians . Maybe it's the Castro Theater, maybe not, I forget. I can't look it up right now, but I liked it. She seemed very nice, very helpful and friendly. And somewhat nervous.

Roger Corman turns 98 today.

A birthday tribute to Peter Marshall, who turned 98 last week.

98 what?

The 97th birthday tribute, which includes '70s home movies, features, beginning at 57:29, a vigorous-sounding Peter celebrating his birthday.

May Britt turned 90 last month.

Jane Goodall turned 90 on April 3.

Sam Donaldson is 90, but his wig is only ten.

Taiwanese actress Tsai Chin turned 90 this year.

She was a Bond girl in You Only Live Twice. They brought her back for Daniel Craig’s poker game in Casino Royale.

^ Casino Royale.

Shirley Jones with her sons on her 90th birthday. She no longer looks like Shirley Jones, but I can't decide who it is she looks like.

^ She looks like an Irish Molly Picon.

It’s either the filter, or Shawn Cassidy is looking extra refreshed at r102.

I meant r302!

I think the Cassidy brother on the right - the lone one not to go into the business - looks the best.

R306: You don't remember Ryan's five-episode stint as "Kevin" on The Facts of Life?!?! (I kid) He became friends with the girls when his father dated Mrs. Garrett, and later moved into the attic above Edna's Edibles (for an episode). Sorta had a brief flirtation with Jo (they shared a kiss).

[quote]I think the Cassidy brother on the right - the lone one not to go into the business - looks the best.

At 58, he's also the youngest.

Alexander Butterfield, of Watergate fame, turned 98 on Saturday.

Joel Grey turned 92 today.

Ethel Kennedy turned 96 today.

[quote]John Astin is alive? Did not know.

He turned 94 last month and is the last, major cast member still living:

- Blossom Rock aka "Grandmama" (d. 1978)

- Ted Cassidy aka "Lurch" (d. 1979)

- Carolyn Jones aka "Morticia" (d. 1983)

- Jackie Coogan aka "Fester" (d. 1984)

- Ken Weatherwax aka "Pugsley" (d. 2014)

- Lisa Loring aka "Wednesday" (d. 2023)

He has even outlived 1991/1993 film "Gomez," Raul Julia, who died in 1994, which is 30 years ago now. Jeez.

Haven't seen Dame Joan Plowright mentioned here. Olivier's widow will be 95 this year. Her three pals, Dames in waiting if you will, all join the club later this year- Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, and Eileen Atkins were all born in 1934.

Darryl Hickman, 92.

Shirley Jones now looks like Helen Lawson attempting to retrieve her wig.

Legendary NBA coach & analyst extraordinaire, Hubie Brown, who is still working! (he's calling the Suns/Timberwolves playoff game on ESPN as I type this).

I'd rather listen to 90-year old Hubie call a game than any of those other clowns on ESPN & TNT. (Reggie Miller, Richard Jefferson, etc.) Love the parody account Hubie Talks Hoops -- because it's an affectionate/loving parody.

Gene Hackman is 94. I keep forgetting that he's still alive.

Diana Ross!

Diane Ross is 80,

Whoosh...

Happy 90th today to Shirley MacLaine!

Ouiser you know I love you more than my luggage.

Can't think of a mainstream play that screams "I was written by a gay man" more than Steel Magnolias.