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    Came across a report by the BBC on the last war-time MP, Ernest Millington (93).

     

    He is the last remaining MP elected prior to the 1945 election (post-war), of which there are four remaining former MPs.... Millington, Michael Foot (95), John Freeman MBE (94) and Francis Noel-Baker (89).

     

    Additionally, there are four remaining former MPs from the 1950 election: Freeman, Foot, Reader Harris (95) and Robert Carr (92).

     

    All possibilites for 2010 but I doubt all of them will make it until next year... Foot should do though...

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    Samantha Orobator, up the duff and in the sh*t in Laos. Apparently pupped in the penitentiary, suggesting their interrogation techniques put Gene Hunt to shame. Likely to get mucho publicity for a short while at least. I mean, if they spared her till she'd sprogged and saw her off after that, it'd be very timely as a CPDP pick.
    Who?

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    When Jack Jones died I heard a news report suggesting there were half a dozen surviving members of the British contingent - originally numbering 2000 - of the International Brigade.

     

    There's a memorial site and a Wiki page but neither sports a definitive list of those still with us. Anyone know where such a list does exist?

    As far as I know, there is no such list. However, it was the 1930s, as apposed to the 1910s when WWI took place. However there were much less of them and they were all older at the time - if you give it another five years I'd say the list on wiki will be just about as reliable as it can be... but at the moment new names keep springing up in the media all the time... a new Fascist Forces members was added to the list on wiki last week so there are clearly much more out there than originally thought. I think it's safe to say there must be 50+.....

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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. :banghead:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Sorry........

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    **It's A Wonderful Life (1946)... 9 surviving cast members - Virginia Patton (born 19??)

     

    1923, I believe, and still alive.

     

    Thanks, I'll add that

     

     

    I think this should be it's own thread. However I do have one more... Carla Laemmle (born 1909) is believed to be the only surviving Dracula (1931) cast member. There are a few entries that don't have birth or death dates so I'm not too sure on those.

     

    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...

     

    **Freaks (1932)... no surviving cast members

     

    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?

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    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...

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    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 <_<

    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?

  22. Posted

    Death announced of Colin Jordan, veteran British neo-nazi. Politically active since 1943. Should get an obit in some of the broadsheets, as he was extremely notorious in the early 1960s.

     

    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!

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