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As that Dr Who list I did 16 months ago has had over 30 deaths since, it is now woefully out of date. Also, a number of other names have been confirmed as alive, which is nice. So, here's an update stretching to 1953 (ie actors/actresses/writers/directors 68 or older in 2021). Some folk are still difficult to track down, but I think we've got nearly every QO cert Dr Who alumni down now, including some who had kept their DOBs secret. Take a bow Jane Sherwin. If the year of birth is a rough estimate (see Peter Fraser, not a stage name but a bloody common one, the c for circa remains!) Nigel Johns – Young Silurian – is still alive but I can’t track his DOB. Ditto Cynthia Grenville who was “not an old lady” when she appeared in Brain of Morbius and was doing conventions recently. Lloyd McGuire is a stage name by looks of it. Edward Arthur lives in Spain. Geoffrey Bateman was born sometime during the 1940s but so were 20 other Geoffrey Batemans. Crawford Logan still does radio. Rachel Davies (State of Decay) is alive but clearly not the one born 1926 on BMD from Manchester - I think she was born circa 1940 and have plumped for that below for now! Jacqueline King is in her 60s. 1. 1920 – Arnold Yarrow 2. 1924 – William Russell, Donald Pelmear, Laurie Webb 3. 1925 – David Graham, Morris Perry, Ysanne Churchman, Hugh Lund (played a Zarbi), Peter Thompson (played a Primord) – can’t find 100% proof these last two are still going but better sourced people say they are as of 2020! 4. 1926 –Barbara Clegg 5. 1927 –June Brown, Frank Mills, Graham Rigby, Derek Smith, Wendy Danvers (c.) 6. 1928 –Peter Cellier, Michael Craig, Georgine Anderson, Bernard Cribbins, George Little 7. 1929 – Colin Jeavons, Steve Machin, John Woodvine, Clifford Rose, John Nettleton, Thelma Barlow, John Greenwood, Patricia Prior 8. 1930 – Henry Lincoln, Shirley Cooklin, Roy Evans. David Garfield, Henry Woolf, Lillias Walker, Gary Watson, Brian Peck, Maureen Heneghan, Henley Thomas 9. 1931 –Cy Town, Kenneth Cope, June Bland, Claire Bloom, Kenneth Seeger, Gordon Faith, Raymond Llewellyn (may actually be born in 1928) 10. 1932 – Sonny Caldinez, Carmen Munroe, John Gorrie, Jolyon Booth, Edward de Souza, Vera Fusek, Gabriel Woolf, Antony Carrick, Vilma Hollingberry, Wendy Gifford, Kenton Moore, Dinny Powell, Roy Spencer (c.), Andrew Lodge (c.), Jane Sherwin 11. 1933 – Bernard Lodge, Michael Allaby, Geoffrey Frederick, Patrick Godfrey, Donald Douglas, Michael McStay, Derek Martin, Rhoda Lewis, Sheila Hancock, Ian Frost, Mona Hammond, Joan Linder, Helen Dorward 12. 1934 –Mary Peach, Jeremy Young, Billy Cornelius, Ann Davies, Robert Aldous, Jean Marsh, Kenneth Ives, Gilbert Wynne, Vernon Dobtcheff, Christopher Benjamin, Tom Baker, Roy Macready, Sylvia Syms, Mitzi McKenzie, John Davies, Leila Hoffman, Martin Muncaster, Jean Challis, Nicholas McArdle (c.), Annette Crosbie, Burnell Tucker 13. 1935 – Tristan de Vere Cole, George Roubicek, Derren Nesbitt, Julian Glover, Michael Imison, Glenn Beck, Derrick Goodwin, Wanda Ventham, Susan Engel, Michael Jayston, Janet Henfrey, Anne Reid, David Daker, Allister Bain, Gregg Palmer (c.), Anna Barry, Valentine Palmer, Richard Martin 14. 1936 –Timothy Combe, Douglas Sheldon, David Savile, Richard Franklin, Tessa Shaw, Tim Barlow, Brian Blessed, Tony Scoggo, Richard Wilson, Jon Lauriemore, Terence Lodge, Peter Fraser (c.), Malcolm Rogers, Rhys McConnochie, Peter Laird, Dick Mills, Jennifer Hill 15. 1937 – Derrick Gilbert, Michael Kilgarriff, Tony Caunter, Eileen Helsby, Michael Ferguson, Hugh Futcher, Donald Gee, Tom Georgeson, Brian Grellis, Geoffrey Hinsliff, Sheila Reid, Gawn Grainger, William Gaunt, Ian Hogg, Vic Tablian, Martin Cort, Viktors Ritelis, David Arlen, Davyd Harries, Terrence Hardiman, Brian Cullingford, Darrol Blake, Steven Berkoff, Anthony Verner, Brian Wright (c.) , Brian Ellis 16. 1938 – Tina Packer, Milton Johns, Brian Hodgson, Warris Hussein, Spencer Chapman, Frances White, John Tillinger, David Weston, Tim Goodman, Christopher Dunham, Richard Kane, Christopher Robbie, Leslie Schofield, Laurence Harrington, Tim Preece, Julian Fox, Roy Boyd, David McKail, Eleanor Bron, John Savident, Tony Selby, Val McCrimmon, John Tordoff, Derek Jacobi, Penelope Lee, Col Farrell, Marcus Hammond, Martyn Huntley (c.), Roslyn de Winter, Douglas Ditta, Pamela Greer (c.), George Gallacio 17. 1939 –Geoffrey Kirkland, Ian Thompson, Peter Purves, Marina Martin, Lynda Baron, Eric Mival, Rudolph Walker, John Moreno, Paul Grist, Bob Baker, Garrick Hagon, Jonathan Newth, John Cleese, Ian McCulloch, Jonathan Burn, Edmund Pegge, James Fox, Ian McKellen, Meg Wynn-Owen, Ronald Rich (c.), Richardson Morgan (c.) 18. 1940 –Bernard Holley, Pauline Collins, Carole Ann Ford, Clive Doig, Neville Smith, Annette Robertson, David Calderisi, Stanley McGeagh, Alec Linstead, Tony Adams, Ben Howard, John Black, Barry Stanton, James Beckett, Judy Cornwell, Angela Douglas, William Wilde, Jim McManus, Gilly Fraser (c.), Ringo Starr, Brigit Forsyth, Michael Gambon, Nick Evans (c.) , Lyn Ashley, Alexandra Tynan/Sandra Reid (c.), ,June Murphy, Norman Tipton (c.) 19. 1941 – John Levene, Hannah Gordon, Martin Jarvis, Christopher Tranchell, Kay Patrick, Anneke Wills, Mike Lucas, John Atterbury, Geoffrey Beevers, Michael Walker, Andrew Robertson, David Gooderson, Christopher Hamilton Bidmead, Nerys Hughes, Ahmed khalil, Brian Miller, Polly James, David Ashton, Alan David, Roy Marsden, Angela Pleasance, Maurice O’Connell, Rachel Davies (c.), Roger Limb, David Warner, David Ashford, Claire Jenkins (c.), David Valla, Carl Rigg 20. 1942 – Illona Rodgers, Michael E Briant, Robert Sidaway, Prentis Hancock, Ian Talbot, Fernanda Marlowe, Stuart Fell, James Marcus, Patricia Maynard, Stephen Yardley, John Challis, Brian Croucher, Denis Lill, Paul Shelley, John D Collins, Chloe Ashcroft, Pam St Clement, Peter Symonds, Caroline Hunt, Margot Hayhoe (c.), John Bloomfield, Ernie Vincze, Bernard Lloyd-Jones, John Owens, David Bradley, David Quilter, Paul McCartney, Michael Elwyn, Jo Rowbottom, Wanda Moore, Harriet Philpin (c.), Gillian Brown (c.), Andrew Morgan, Paul Bentley 21. 1943 – Donald Sumpter, Kevork Malikyan, Virginia Wetherell, Maureen O’Brien, Valentino Musetti, Delia Lindon, Giles Block, George Layton, Ian Hines, David Simeon, David Griffin, Chris Boucher, Gregory de Polnay, John Leeson, Peter Straker, Colin Baker, Georgina Hale, Edward Peel, Sylvester McCoy, Roger Nott, Roger Murray-Leach, Julia Foster, Elliott Cairnes, Sue Pulford, Ellis Jones, Christopher Bailey (c.) 22. 1944 – Adam Verney, Frazer Hines, Fiona Walker, Paula Topham, Sally Faulkner, Graham Weston, Pik-Sen Lim, Philip Hinchcliffe, Catherine Schell, Barry Andrews, Nigel Lambert, Eric Saward, Timothy Block, Keith Drinkel, Martin Potter, Isla Blair, Matthew Robinson, Barbara Kinghorn, Faith Brown, Colin Spaull, John Ogwen, Richard Hartley, Patricia Quinn, Julian Holloway, Anne Robinson, Judith Paris, Paul Joyce, Ian Barritt, David Rowlands, John Flanagan, Bernard G High, 23. 1945 – Clive Merrison, Sandra Bryant. John Kane, Conrad Asquith, John Abbott, Andrew McCulloch, Graeme Harper, Michael Melia, Nicolas Chagrin, Alibe Parsons, Morgan Deare, Bill Lyons, Michael Brandon, Bill Paterson, Michael Bertenshaw, Tariq Anwar, Sarah Hellings, Dave Anderson, Michael Owen Morris (c.), Peter Robert Scott, Forbes Collins (c.), Leena Dhingra (c.), 24. 1946 –Richard Ireson, Miles Northover, Katy Manning, Graham Simpson, Tom Chadbon, Sheila Ruskin, Annie Lambert, Roger Davenport, Roy Holder, Martin Cochrane , Dicken Ashworth, Simon Williams, Penelope Wilton, Colin Prockter, Struan Rodger, Maureen Lipman, Robin Soans, James Acheson, Colette Gleeson, Timothy Dalton, Martin Fisk, David Suchet, Brian Cox, Graham Simpson, Felicity Kendal, Togo Igawa, James Snell, John Gleeson (c.), Susan Jerrard Baker (c.) 25. 1947 – Wendy Padbury, Petra Markham, Felicity Gibson, Guy Siner, Brendan Price, Adrienne Burgess, Michael Keating, Paul Seed, Tony Osoba, Michael Osborne, Christopher Neame, Paddy Kingsland, Michael Cochrane, James Warwick, Ann Holloway, Alec Sabin, Peter Burroughs, Terry Molloy, Rula Lenska, John Alkin, Stephen Churchett, Leslie Meadows, William Thomas, Jack Galloway, John Tallents, Ralph Arliss, Colin Stinton, Ann Widdecombe, George Costigan, Ozzie Yue, Lois Baxter, William Dudman, Colin Fay (c.), Anthony Rowlands, Richard Clark, Ken Bones 26. 1948 –Matthew Corbett, Stewart Bevan, Peter Howell, Gareth Armstrong, David Warwick, David Sibley, Paul Jerricho, Michael J Jackson, Anita Graham, Stephen Wyatt, Joseph Marcell, Ron Cook, Peter Walshe, Mat Irvine, Tony Virgo, Rusty Goffe, Miles Fothergill (c.), Ian McElhinney 27. 1949 – Susan Penhaligon, Andrew Johns, Rob Edwards, Neil Dalglish, Keith Skinner, Martyn Whitby, Jeananne Crowley, Zoe Wannamaker, Simon Callow, Geoffrey Sax, David Allister (c.), Judy Norman, Ian Gelder, Bill Nighy, Mike Elles, Deep Roy, Carmen Gomez, Keith Parry 28. 1950 – David Troughton, Cheryl Hall, Nick Hobbs, Pamela Salem, Nigel Plaskitt, Michael Cashman, Liza Goddard, Nitza Saul, Eric Deacon, David Chandler, Christopher Ryan, Rachel Bell, Sharon Duce, Annette Badland, Robert Pugh, Paul Lavers, Catherine Howe, Ian McNeice, Ricky Newby (c.), Jenny McCracken (c.), Jane How, Renu Setna, Elizabeth Parker, Lindsay Duncan, Harriet Walter 29. 1951 – Louise Jameson, Lalla Ward, David Yip, Tim Munro, Peter Davison, Simon Rouse, David Banks, Jeff Rawle, Philip McGough, David Rodigan, Chris Clough, Angela Bruce, Michael Fitzgerald, Don Warrington, Juliet Cadzow, Graham Turner, David Schofield 30. 1952 – Nina Thomas, Roderick Smith, Imogen Bickford-Smith, Ian Saynor, Clare Clifford, Alexei Sayle, Patrick Ryecart, Tomek Bork, Nicholas Gecks, Sharon Osborne, Albert Welling, Celia Imrie, Art Malik 31. 1953 – Rosalind Lloyd, Jennifer Lonsdale, Janet Fielding, Gareth Milne, Steve Morley, Trevor Cooper, Nabil Shaban, Malcolm Kohll, Christopher Guard, Deborah Manship, Marc Platt, Norman Pace, Gareth Hale, Gordon Tipple, Dona Croll, Ian Hanmore, Phil Davis, Stuart Milligan, Richard Hope, Lorelei King, Christopher Fairbank, Maureen Beattie At some point that isn't 1am on a work day I'll go back to this and bring up current health/etc too.

I'm so excited by this I've got the sort of stiffy that caused it in the first place. Ok, that may not actually be true.

Lester Wolff (surprisingly given the Mail's US politico love these days!)

Let's have a go: GA Rodion Jack Arends Jose Manuel Caballero Orlando Drummond Kveta Eretova Spencer McCall Isela Vega G Venkatasubbiah Ken Wilkinson These are the ones without a QO marked as such on the Celebrity pages. Might be others...wasn't there some Swedish actress @gcreptile recently came to light?

Certainly untouched photos reveal a different tale to the airbrushed publicity stills. Only this week 'natural' photos of Joan Collins, Kate Garraway & Louise Mitchin have been in the press & they certainly look their real age whereas Joan passes normally for 65ish, Kate for 40ish & Louise for 35ish.

Maki Kaji, known as The Godfather of Sudoku has died at 69

Times Obituary (Paywall) for director Anthony Parker: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tony-parker-obituary-sphrzszc5 Directing credits include Love Thy Neighbour, Shelley, Up The Elephant And Round The Castle and Never The Twain. As an actor he was reportedly the first policeman to be shown being killed on British Television, as PC Bob Penney in Dixon Of Dock Green. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662053/

Bandura gets an obit through the Yahoo loophole (the same loophole that refuses to cough up a QO for Ezra Nawi): https://uk.news.yahoo.com/albert-bandura-1925-2021-renowned-095354026.html

Mysteriously the LOTL is never complete because folk never seem to tell us about their obscure picks when they don't get obits!

Well, I'm still looking for obits for Jack Arends and Albert Bandura, looking less likely now. Since the beginning of March? Dunno, I'd have thought gcreptile was keeping tabs on who wasn't yet obiting.

In his defence he thought she was just like a woman

https://www.losangelesblade.com/2021/08/16/former-pflag-president-paulette-goodman-dies-at-88/ Gay rights activist and former president of American gay rights and advocacy organisation PFLAG national Paulette Goodman has died aged 88. Considered a great ally of the community in the USA.

Rangers legend Davie Wilson has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and dementia: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/in-your-area/lanarkshire/rangers-hero-lanarkshire-football-legend-24768463 He will no longer attend the games at Ibrox.

The all time points bit amuses me, as I am now in the top 20 (hooray for me!) but also something like 14th highest tally not to win the DDP. It is heavily skewered towards the last decade. Although it also shows how good folk like Octopus of Odstock and Rotten Ali and Banshees were at the game, to have not played for a while but still be well in the top 25 all time. (Although Ali's back this year after a long absence, which raised a huge cheer at DDP Towers!) I'm on 83 hits. Given the current 6 month drought 100 may take a wee while!

Groth's death leaves 10 baseball players who played in the 1940's that are alive (According to BR Bullpen). Eddie Robinson is 100 but is in decent shape. George Elder is also 100. The other 8 alive are Chris Haughey, Eddie Basinki, Tommy Brown, Carl Erskine, Larry Miggins, Cloyd Boyer and Bobby Shantz. All these guys with the exception of Robinson (who created a podcast) live private lives and have not had media mentions in basically forever.

Maurice Watkins, former director of ManU, dead at 79: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/15880036/man-utd-director-maurice-watkins-dead/ He was the current director of British Swimming, too.

R. Murray Schafer, a composer, writer and acoustic ecologist, has died. He was 88. Schafer died after a battle with Alzheimer's. https://www.cbc.ca/music/r-murray-schafer-composer-writer-and-acoustic-ecologist-has-died-at-88-1.5404868

German interview about his new album "Party your Hasselhoff". https://m.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/david-hasselhoff-die-fassade-broeckelt-mein-koerper-verfaellt-77383734.bildMobile.html "My body decays, the facade crumbles"... but he does feel fine. Clint Eastwood made him a compliment for his looks. Supposedly, he hasn't had a drop of Alcohol in years. He goes to cancer screenings regularly, and actually takes care of himself.

Oh wow, that reminds me of what they say about dementia afflicted people... music helps them remember things. Maybe he's already pretty far gone, but only functions through singing.

Just saw this on the TV- CBS- his wife says he is happy and doing well- and they have a pianist who comes in once a month and plays for him while he sings his songs- so even though performing live any more, he is still doing what he loves the best- just not before the public- I do wish him the best, it sounds like he is surrounded with love and support

Perhaps better than the alternative article of "Son overworks 95 year old Dad with alzheimers to exhaustion" You point stands, of course, work really does drive some people. Hopefully Tony Bennett keeps getting to sing and post on youtube and doing things within his realm

Honduran player at the 1982 Finals, Porfirio Betancourt reportedly dead from the COVID: https://www.eastafricanewspost.com/world-cup-player-with-honduras-dies-in-spain-82-porfirio-armando-betancourt-victim-of-covid-19-diez/

Felicity Kendal and Robert Lindsay starring in a stage production of Anything Goes (pics): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9710343/Felicity-Kendal-74-displays-impressive-flexibility-rehearsals-London-show.html Now I've done that show, and I am guessing they are not playing the young leads - because if they are, I want the cast list of the other characters who should be nearing their nineties! Amazing how really truly rough they look, compared with the mocked up picture promoting the show. That says nothing about their health, but Flic in particular I personally think looks older than her age.

Famous Cellist and Composer Jose Bragato dead at 101 https://slippedisc.com/2017/07/epic-cellist-dies-aged-101/

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/celebrities/15886186/bob-dylan-sued-sexually-abusing-drugs-alcohol-hotel-1965/ Bob Dylan being sued over allegations of sexual abuse in the 1960s.