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He's just joined the cast of a new half-hour sitcom as a series regular, so I doubt he's in bad shape. I assume this is the charity golf tournament you're referring to? He looks like your standard near-octogenarian IMO.

Gerald Potterton, the three-time Oscar nominee who directed the cult classic Heavy Metal and was an animator for Yellow Submarine, has died at 91: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/gerald-potterton-dead-heavy-metal-director-1235205298/

In the CA birth records, there is a Donald R. Smith born September 17, 1924 in Kern County. This Smith has a brother named J (yes, his name was just J). J is listed in the records as born in Los Angeles County on August 29, 1915, the same date as Jay R. Smith, the Our Gang actor who was Beezer's brother. So we can conclude this Donald R. Smith is Beezer. Based on the 2011 comment on the Our Gang wiki by the woman claiming to be Beezer's daughter, he was then living in Dade City, FL. Was this post true? Probably. There's a Don Smith with Beezer's exact date of birth who was still on the record living there this year. So this dead Smith has the same name and same month of birth, and died in Dade City. Yeah, I would say it is probably our man.

Howard Bier, the oldest living American politician, turned 103 the other day. Didn't realize his wife is also a centenarian:

Confirmed on FB by the Buddy Holly Educational Foundation.

This seems like it's probably her: Barbara B. Morgan, aka Barbara B. Quine, dead on June 9, 2013

I dunno, I wouldn't rule it out that he's alive. Unlike a lot of completely off-the-radar child actors, he's pretty easy to find in public records, and even the most up-to-date ones give no indication that he's dead. I would say, at the very least, he was probably still with us ~2 years ago. Not quite in implausible territory yet.

Wolfgang Petersen, the director of films including Das Boot, The Perfect Storm, Air Force One, and In the Line of Fire, dead at 81: https://deadline.com/2022/08/wolfgang-petersen-dead-director-perfect-storm-das-boot-air-force-one-1235093543/

Dead.

Anne Heche to be taken off life support: https://deadline.com/2022/08/anne-heche-brain-dead-injury-taken-off-life-support-1235090375/

Clean bill of health: Tippi Hedren: Showed up on Melanie Griffith's Instagram for her birthday this year. Looks good. Mamie Van Doren: Very active Tweeter and just wrote a book. Also the ex-wife of living centenarian Ray Anthony. Wonder how long their son will live! Carroll Baker: retired for nearly 20 years but appeared on the Hollywood Reporter podcast in 2021 and sounded very sharp. Obviously can't tell with just audio, but I'll give the benefit of the doubt that she isn't bedridden or a melting wax dummy or whatever. Marla Gibbs: looks and sounds terrific, still acts and does talk shows/game shows. Leslie Caron: did an hour-long Q&A this June. Voice is definitely a little shakier than it used to be, but nothing else that seems especially eyebrow-raising. Barbara Eden: Doesn't really act anymore but regularly does conventions and looks to be as sharp as ever. Nothing questionable here. Mitzi Gaynor: Regular Tweeter, still seems in great shape. Barbara Bain: still pops up in the occasional thing here and there. Looks and sounds good in recentish interviews. Angie Dickinson: last recorded on video in 2019, though the Daily Mail caught her walking about last year. Unless she's declined in the past few years during COVID, seems fine Rita Moreno: probably needs no comment. Norman Lear likely slipped her the immortality juice. Gena Rowlands: not especially active but pops up on her son's Instagram from time to time (most recently July 16). No obvious signs of poor health. Lois Smith: acts regularly in high-profile stuff and just won a Tony. Seemed sharp in the acceptance speech. Claire Bloom: looked great in a lengthy 2017 interview with Norman Lloyd and still acts. Barbara Barrie: appeared at some Broadway premieres last year. Has looked virtually the same for decades now. Hmm...: Joanne Woodward: has had Alzheimer's for ~15 years now. Hasn't been photographed since 2013. Recent documentary about her and Paul Newman implies she doesn't remember her husband or her career. Frances Sternhagen: hasn't acted in a decade or so. Don't see anything from her after 2013. Never a huge name, though, and could feasibly just be peacefully retired Vivian Pickles: hasn't acted this century and don't see anything from her since this Criterion post from 2012, so who knows TL;DR pretty much all of them seem to be fit as a fiddle, with Woodward as the only one known to be in failing health. So... might as well just pick one at random! Went with Bloom.

Anne Heche in "extremely critical" condition. In a coma and hasn't regained consciousness since the accident. https://deadline.com/2022/08/anne-heche-in-extremely-critical-condition-remains-in-a-coma-following-fiery-car-crash-1235087666/

Roger E. Mosley, who starred opposite Tom Selleck as Theodore "TC" Calvin on Magnum, P.I., dead at 83: https://www.tmz.com/2022/08/07/magnum-pi-star-roger-e-mosley-dead-dies/ EDIT: might have been from a car accident

Saw there was some discussion of this guy in this thread in 2020. He died earlier this year: https://www.dispatch.com/obituaries/b0059537

Several tweets reporting the death of Clu Gulager at 93. No obituaries out that I can see, but looks true.

Vin Scully dead at 94: https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/1554667166351253506

Pat Carroll dead at 95: https://deadline.com/2022/07/pat-carroll-dead-voice-of-ursula-in-the-little-mermaid-was-95-1235081904/

Most of the aggregates out there didn't notice his death, but MyLife did: "Rudy M Challenger, 83 Born: 10/02/1928 Passed: 08/22/2012 Van Nuys, CA"

Rudy Challenger, an actor known for his roles in blaxploitation movies and bit parts on sitcoms, looks to have died without much fanfare in 2012. His granddaughter tweeted about it last year, and he made it onto the Tonys In Memoriam list, but other than that, nothing. No mention on his IMDb or Wikipedia page (though I've submitted an update to the former based on public records). Has two mentions on this site, one of which was a pool selection this year.

George E. Marshall died in Ojai, California on August 27, 2013. Mildly surprising IMDb missed it, given there's an online obituary with the same DOB: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/ventura-ca/george-marshall-5648866 Helene Marshall died around summer 2015 under her maiden name. Can't track her down in any public records, but this showed up in the Beverly Hills Weekly:

Died off radar shortly before turning 94. Looks like a few sites got the memo (she's marked as deceased on radaris, etc.) Another case of someone dying completely unnoticed with no visible online obituary, despite having a sibling who got one: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/heraldtribune/name/grant-beardsley-obituary

Tony Dow dead at 77 (for real): https://www.tmz.com/2022/07/27/tony-dow-dead-dies-family-false-report-pass

Bob Rafelson, the New Hollywood director behind Five Easy Pieces and co-creator of The Monkees, is dead at 89: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/bob-rafelson-dead-five-easy-pieces-monkees-1235185462/

Wally Campo was probably born in 1923, not 1921. In a 1943 article from the College of the Pacific, a thespian named "Wally Campodonico" gets a fleeting mention. Given that the book "The Story of American International Pictures" gives Campo as majoring in drama there, it seems likely that's him. There's a "Wallace J. Campodonico" in the CA birth records born on April 23, 1923 in Alameda County, and per public records, he resides today as a 99-year-old in Valley Village/North Hollywood in LA. The IMDB date appears to have been plucked from a guy named "Walter Campo" who can indeed be found with that DOB in the CA birth records, but the college mention of "Campodonico" make it highly unlikely the actor was born with that last name, and I don't see any records for a Walter Campo who appears to live today.