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Going to work this morning I heard the news that Jack Jones had died... coming home I heard breaking news on the BBC that Jack Cardiff had died.... Ah well it's inevitable: Hit the road Jack. Sorry........

Joan Fontaine??

1923, I believe, and still alive. Thanks, I'll add that Checked Dracula, I think it's safe to presume she is the last surviving cast member as most of the other actors were older in the film and there are only three or so actors (in uncredited roles) that have no birth/death records... Josephine Joseph, who was the hermaphrodite, could still be alive... but it's unknown for sure. I did consider Josephine Joseph but I concluded that since she seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth and had a disfigurement... she's most likely dead but I'll put a question mark next to her name... Maybe a new thread is needed here... any ideas what to title it?

Not really sure if this belongs here but here are some of the last survivors of early Hollywood films... I got really bored so I spent ages going through IMDb rounding these up... 1930s **Dracula (1931)... Carla Laemmle (1909-2014) - last surviving cast member **Frankenstein (1931)... no surviving cast members **M (1931)... Hanna Maron (1923-2014) - last surviving cast member **Freaks (1932)... no surviving cast members; Josephine Joseph (born 1913, deceased) may still be living although it seems unlikely **The Mummy (1932)... no surviving cast members **Duck Soup (1933)... no surviving cast members **The Invisible Man (1933)... Gloria Stuart (1910-2010) - last surviving cast member **King Kong (1933)... difficult to tell but at least 2 surviving cast members - John Crawford (1920-2010 EDIT: removed from IMDb King Kong page so was never actually in the film) / Malcolm Potts (1925-2011) **Bride of Frankenstein (1935)... Mary Stewart (1913-1995) - EDIT: thought to be last surviving cast member, died sometime ago **Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)... no surviving cast members **A Star is Born (1937)... Leon Holmes (1913, died 1950s at sea) - EDIT: thought to be last surviving cast member, died decades ago **Bringing Up Baby (1938) - 2 surviving cast members - Buster Slaven (1922-2009) / Karl Slover (1918-2011) **Gone with the Wind (1939) - 10 surviving cast members - Olivia de Havilland (born 1916) / Ann Rutherford (1917-2012) / Alicia Rhett (1915-2014) / Mickey Kuhn (1932-2022) / Mary Anderson (1918-2014) / Ann Bupp (1922-2005) / Shirley Chambers (1913-2011) / Shep Houghton (1914-2016) / Tommy Kelly (1925-2016) / Dirk Wayne Summers (born 1931) **The Wizard of Oz (1939) - at least 10+ surviving cast members, including 5 dwarf actors (Olga C. Nardone (1921-2010) / Ruth Duccini (1918-2014) / Jerry Maren (1920-2018) / Margaret Pellegrini (1923-2013) / Karl Slover (1918-2011) and half a dozen or so child actresses 1940s **Pinocchio (1940)... Dickie Jones (1927-2014) - last surviving cast member **Citizen Kane (1941)... 5 surviving cast members - Louise Currie (1913-2013) / Frances E. Neal (1921-1988) / Gerald Pierce (1918-2011) / Edward Ryan (1924–1998) / Kathryn Trosper (1915-2016) **Casablanca (1942)... Madeline LeBeau (1923-2016) - last surviving cast member **Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)... 10 surviving cast members - Phyllis Thaxter (1919-2012) / Dorothy Morris (1922-2011) / Jacqueline White (born 1922) / Wally Cassell (1912-2015) / Myrna Dell (1924-2011) / Johnny Duncan (1923-2016) / Blake Edwards (1922-2010) / Peggy Maley (1923-2007) / Frances E. Neal (1921-1988) / Gordon Trigg (1924-2012) **It's A Wonderful Life (1946)... 9 surviving cast members - Virginia Patton (1925-2022) / Ronnie Ralph (born 1933) / Jeanine Ann Roose (1937-2021) / Carol Coombs (born 1935) / Karolyn Grimes (born 1940) / Larry Simms (1934-2009) / Jimmy Hawkins (born 1941) / Marian Carr (1926-2003) / Michael Chapin (born 1936) 1950s **The African Queen (1951)... Theodore Bikel (1924-2015) - last surviving cast member **A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)... 2 surviving cast members - Wright King (1923-2018) / Mickey Kuhn (1932-2022) **Roman Holiday (1953)... 6 surviving cast members - John Cortay (1916-1981) / Art Gilmore (1912-2010) / George Higgins (1917-2005) / Mimmo Poli (1922-1986) / Catherine Wyler (born 1939) / Judy Wyler (born 1942) **The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)... 2 surviving cast members - Geoffrey Horne (born 1933) / Peter Williams (1915-2003) I'll add more the next time I get hideously bored.... additions and corrections welcome...

The Guardian have given Ned a mention in the News in Brief section on their site... does that count as a sound obituary for the DDP?

Very interesting to see the ways in which people are reacting to his death... Unsurprisingly the twisted neo-Nazis at the vnn forum (who like to spend most of their time bragging about how they beat black people up and making anti-semitic jokes) are reporting it as "Sad News" and are calling him a "brave warrior" blah blah blah On the other hand Kirklees Unity hope that he rots in hell!

That article was written 4 days ago

Netherwood Hughes has died at the age of 108. That means there are only 6 verified WWI veterans left.... 2 living in the UK (Henry and Harry), 2 living in the USA (Frank and JohnB) 2 living in Australia (Claude and JohnC) ....... it's on

I think it was a mistake putting him on the list.... both Thatcher and Prince Philip will go before him... who knows maybe even Mugabe will

Dave Arneson, of Dungeons and Dragons fame has died of cancer aged 61, just a year after his fellow co-creator Gary Gygax died from a heart attack....

Siegfried Knappe, one of the last survivors of Hitler's bunker died back in December 2008 at the age of 91. I was considering him for inclusion in my DDP list a while back but there was no evidence to suggest he was still alive so I presumed that he was already dead... This follows the death of Armin D. Lehmann in October 2008 and means that there is only one, possibly two occupants of Hitler's Bunker still living.... 1) Richus Misch (born 1917) - Hitler's bodyguard 2) Günther Schwägermann (born 1915) - adjutant to Joseph Goebbels, survived WWII but not heard from since

The last surviving member of the Pegasus Bridge Operation, Colonel David Wood died on March 12 at the age of 86. ITV aired an obituary on the lunchtime news today.

According to wikipedia (i know!), Bill Erwin died on March 25 at the age of 94 from "natural causes"......... hmmmm

Any guesses as to what this statue might look like? or maybe....

I would go for never... but it's not an option

A bit dated now but: Something To Brighten Your Day... When you next find yourself with nothing to do,try this... 1.Create a new folder on your desktop. 2.Rename it "Jade Goody's Cancer" 3.Right click on it and click on delete 4.When the box "would you like to remove jade goodys cancer?" appears...Click "NO" 5.Repeat as many times as you like but NEVER click YES!

According to NME, doctors have found 8 stones in each kidney but they can't operate on them because of where they're located. He claims that he'll be in hospital for a long time yet but I think he'll be out in a few weeks... with a full recovery.

The numbering is not ordered by how much people want them to die but by how likely they are to die....

To be honest Grave Digger, he should be released. There is inconclusive evidence that he was guilty and most people have doubts to whether he actually did it. Another Sean Hodgson really - i.e. a fine example of the government shoving someone into prison because they don't have any pointers to the person who actually did it. And unlike Jade, he isn't an attention mongering whore - he didn't put himself in the spotlight and I doubt he wants to be in it to be honest.... we shouldn't really be cursing him and asking for his suffering to continue

She's gone to a better place..... a coffin under the ground so we won't have to listen to her squawking Well done Vinegar Tits

Very sad news.... she was a very talented actress who really didn't get enough credit and didn't get the chance to express her full capabilities whilst she was alive. It really pisses me off though that a great actress like Richardson spends two days in hospital dies... and then a low-life nobody like Jade Goody, who only became famous from making an arse of herself on a reality TV program, had months and months to live and is receiving too much sympathy from the general public... particularly single mothers Oh well at least some of the attention is off Goody now... the attention-craving cow's probably cursing at the TV as we speak....

Indeed.... hence the reason why they call her The Grand Dame of Dish. Good columnist... she announced just last week she would stop writing her column for the NY Post... after all she's no spring chicken herself... turned 85 last month... although still working, so maybe a reasonable DDP candidate in a few years time? Liz Smith? 85? She's not the Liz Smith is she? LOL No, the Liz Smith is 87.... and quite frail (although she's always been)... but she still manages to appear in the Paul O'Grady panto every year for some reason...

666? Yeah makes sense though.... if I was a Christian I'd be honest right now and say it straight... where she'd be heading I mean

Indeed.... hence the reason why they call her The Grand Dame of Dish. Good columnist... she announced just last week she would stop writing her column for the NY Post... after all she's no spring chicken herself... turned 85 last month... although still working, so maybe a reasonable DDP candidate in a few years time?

My birthday tomorrow... Could find an early present awaiting me when I turn the news on..... ok too far.... but still ... it's Jade Goody - not Harold Pinter or Wendy Richard... and to my disgust most the population are more familiar with Goody than the former two... despite Pinter achieving just about everything under the sun during his life, and Wendy Richard entertaining millions for over 4 decades