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Are Robert Wagner, Russ Tamblyn, and Pat Boone the last leading men from the 50s? 

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1 hour ago, Gisooo said:

American actor Earl Holliman (Wikidead at 96

 

Everywhere FB tributes from his family members, press is coming

 

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A face and name that's only vaguely familiar to me, but regardless, lived a life that made for a very interesting Wiki read. Was once so sickly they reckoned he wouldn't survive childhood. Safe to say he defied that prediction! Seems like he was a genuinely nice guy too. Vegetarian, fed the homeless and campaigned for animals. 

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5 hours ago, msc said:

 @Gooseberry Crumble is going to be gutted.

 

Star of the first proper Twilight Zone episode.

I am gutted.  Very easy on the eyes back in the day and someone who was definitely  going to appear in some of my teams next year minus the DDP as I doubt  he'd  have been a  juicy unique  pick and I've  really got my mind and heart focused on finally getting 60 unique picks this time. 

Rest in peace to a special  part of my eye candy memories .

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Earl Holliman was the last surviving cast member of Forbidden Planet.

That's assuming that Jimmy Thompson (IMDb, born 1923) is deceased. He seems to have faded into obscurity.

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9 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

That's assuming that Jimmy Thompson (IMDb, born 1923) is deceased. He seems to have faded into obscurity

 

When did Jimmy died?

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1 minute ago, Gisooo said:

 

When did Jimmy died?


Re-read my post, and if it still doesn't make sense use Google Translate.

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Just now, Ulitzer95 said:


Re-read my post, and if it still doesn't make sense use Google Translate.

 

I didn't read it well, sorry

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Jacqueline White (Wiki) turned 102 today!

 

She may not have had the fame of Ava Gardner, Eleanor Parker or Doris Day, but she still remains one of the most beloved and unfortunately the last actresses from the Golden Age of Classic Hollywood and from 1922 class. Here are some photos on her 102nd birthday, she looks very good in my opinion, she still continues to sign autographs (a few days ago)

 

Fun Fact: I read somewhere that she was chosen to play Old Rose in Titanic (1997), but she turned it down because she had retired from acting in the 1950s when she was still young, so her role went to the legend Gloria Stuart (who was also her friend)

 

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On 27/11/2024 at 10:06, Ulitzer95 said:

Earl Holliman was the last surviving cast member of Forbidden Planet.

That's assuming that Jimmy Thompson (IMDb, born 1923) is deceased. He seems to have faded into obscurity.

 

Yes, a bit strange; he had his own singing number in the most famous musical movie of his time (albeit uncredited) and then nothing more is known about him.

 

I once read in a blog entry a few years ago that he had recently died, but of course not in a way that could really be verified. There are probably quite a few people called James Thompson.

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There's this from a YouTube comment section, seems credible but ymmv

 

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4 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:

There's this from a YouTube comment section, seems credible but ymmv

 

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In a weird way it's oddly specific but also not specific enough to give us any level of confirmation that he actually died when this person said he did...

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2 minutes ago, Comped said:

In a weird way it's oddly specific but also not specific enough to give us any level of confirmation that he actually died when this person said he did...


Do you feel the need to leave an inane, pointless comment on every thread on here?

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Legacy obit for American actor Bradford English (wiki), aged 82.

Perhaps best known for playing John Strode in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers. Has an amusing death in that film.

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On 08/06/2023 at 11:12, drol said:

Three Hollywood actors born in 1924 remain: Eve Marie Saint, Ted Hartley and Maria Riva.

 

Hope the last one standing is not Riva who is the most insignificant of them.


Looking into Ted Hartley (wiki) a little bit more...

It looks unlikely that he was actually born in 1924. I had always assumed this was accurate because his wife, Dina Merrill, was born in 1923, and most places online give his full name as Theodore Ringwalt Hartley. There are WWII records on Ancestry which match the purported name and date of birth.

HOWEVER, digging a little deeper, there is practically no mention of Hartley ever serving in WWII online. His personal website features an article from 1999 which gives his age age as 64. That would gibe us a birth year of 1934 or 1935.

BUT, here's an article on the newly weds from 1989. It gives his age as 59, suggesting a birth year of 1929 or 1930.

Various articles refer to him as T. R. Hartley or Theodore Hartley, so it's safe to assume that Theodore R. Hartley is indeed correct. However, I think the "Theodore Ringwalt Hartley" is somebody else. 

Would be great to solve this once and for all, but I suspect he was born between 1929 and 1935.

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23 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:


Looking into Ted Hartley (wiki) a little bit more...

It looks unlikely that he was actually born in 1924. I had always assumed this was accurate because his wife, Dina Merrill, was born in 1923, and most places online give his full name as Theodore Ringwalt Hartley. There are WWII records on Ancestry which match the purported name and date of birth.

HOWEVER, digging a little deeper, there is practically no mention of Hartley ever serving in WWII online. His personal website features an article from 1999 which gives his age age as 64. That would gibe us a birth year of 1934 or 1935.

BUT, here's an article on the newly weds from 1989. It gives his age as 59, suggesting a birth year of 1929 or 1930.

Various articles refer to him as T. R. Hartley or Theodore Hartley, so it's safe to assume that Theodore R. Hartley is indeed correct. However, I think the "Theodore Ringwalt Hartley" is somebody else. 

Would be great to solve this once and for all, but I suspect he was born between 1929 and 1935.

 

Found two census records, one for a Theodore R. Hartley born around 1925 in Nebraska (but living in Iowa), and the other of a "Teddy Hartley" born around 1934 in Omaha, Nebraska. Furthermore, there is also a residence record for a Theodore R Hartley born in November 1934, who lived in Los Angeles during the 70s (Hollywood?) and New York in late 1980s. I think it's him, as Merrill lived in NY most of her life and the pair married in 1989.

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There's an alumni newsletter from the Naval Academy on his website that lists him as "Ted Hartley '46". Cross-referencing with the other names at the bottom of the piece, the years refer to when we know they graduated the Academy (1980 for Montel Williams, 1968 for Jim Webb). It says he was "appointed" to the Academy at the age of 16, but you can't start studying there until you're at least 17 (assuming the rules now are the same they were then). The maths aren't mathing here, as the kids say.

EDIT: To muddy the waters even further, we know (or at least are told) he was in a plane crash in 1964 that forced him to give up a military life. This bio of him on an art gallery website from earlier this year gives his age at the time of that accident as 30, so a 1934 birth.

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SAG-AFTRA Fall/Winter Magazine 2024 is now out.

Already widely covered and has a Wiki page: John Amos, Afa Anoaʻi, John Aprea, Erica Ash, John Ashton, Susan Backlinie, Robert Banas, Joan Benedict Steiger, Joe Bonsall, Debra Byrd, Hodding Carter III, Cheng Pei-pei, Carol Higgins Clark, Roger Cook, Gavin Creel, Charles Cyphers, James Darren, Narsai David, Alain Delon, Lou Dobbs, Shannen Doherty, Phil Donahue, Jim Donovan, Ron Ely, Duke Fakir, Fatman Scoop, Teri Garr, Mitzi Gaynor, Ron Hale, Robert Harland, Ron Harper, Damon Harris, David Harris, Shaun Casey Held, Brad William Henke, Anne Heywood, Drake Hogestyn, Cissy Houston, Jack Jones, James Earl Jones, Tom Keith, Paula Kelly, Kris Kristofferson, Takayuki Kubota, Jon Landau, John Lasell, Elliot Lawrence, Phil Lesh, Dave Loggins, Stuart Margolin, Peter Marshall, Mitzi McCall, Chad McQueen, Sergio Mendes, Arthur Mitchell, Tony Mordente, Charlie Murphy, Dikembe Mutombo, Obi Ndefo, Bob Newhart, Michael Newman, Michael Nyqvist, Ken Page, Eddie Paskey, Sal Piro, Nicholas Pryor, Peter Renaday, Maria Richwine, Betty Rollin, Gena Rowlands, Whitney Rydbeck, Joe Scaife, Alan Scarfe, Marlena Shaw, James B. Sikking, Richard Simmons, Screamin' Scott Simon, Maggie Smith, JD Souther, Garn Stephens, Esta TerBlanche, Caterina Valente, Fernando Valenzuela, Toni Vaz, Ruth Westheimer, Patti Yasutake, Bob Yerkes

Off radar and has a Wiki page:

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Lindsey Ginter (wiki) – died on 1st September, aged 73. Notable credits in Beverly Hills Cop III, Pearl Harbor, and S.W.A.T.

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Mary-Pat Green (wiki) – died on 9th September, aged 72. Background actress.

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Christopher Morley (wiki) – died on 2nd November 2023, aged 72. Cross-dressing actor, known for his roles in General Hospital and Freebie and the Bean.

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Kam Yuen (wiki) – died on 24th June 2023, aged 82. Martial arts expert, consultant and stunt coordinator

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15 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Looking into Ted Hartley (wiki) a little bit more...

 

Would be great to solve this once and for all, but I suspect he was born between 1929 and 1935.

 

I looked into him last year. He was 100% born in 1924. Here he is in 1946:

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His old website had photos of his father Eugene and his sister Mary, which matches the above 1930 Iowa census. In 2022, he said his father "died suddenly when I was five years old". If you take him as literally as possible, this still rules out any DOB later than 1926/1927 (Eugene C. Hartley died in April 1932).

 

There's a birth notice for him in the Omaha World-Herald, November 9, 1924: "A son was born Thursday at the Omaha Maternity Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hartley. Mrs. Hartley was formerly Miss Dorothy Ringwalt." If you look at those records for Ted Hartley in California, they give his date of birth as November 6, 1934, so an exact match for this birth notice... outside of the fact that it's a decade off.

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47 minutes ago, arghton said:

Michael Cole being reported dead at 84.

Played Henry Bowers (as an adult) in the classic IT movie.

 

The actors are all getting on in age and could be worth a look in the next round of Deaths of the Silver Screen.

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I've seen this photo many times from the movie The Ladies Man (1961). How many of these ladies are still among us?

 

As far as I can see only 9.

 

Mary LaRoche (Wiki) 20/07/1920 – 09/02/1999

Patty Thomas (Wiki) 01/08/1922 – 29/03/2014

Peggy Caas (Wiki) 21/05/1924 – 08/03/1999

Gretchen Houser (IMDb) 19/02/1924 – 08/11/2007

Sheila Rogers (IMDb) 30/10/1924 – 07/06/2003

Jacqueline Fontaine (Wiki) 14/08/1927 – 01/08/1995

Gloria Jean (Wiki) 14/04/1926 – 31/08/2018

Paula Lane (IMDb) 16/10/1926 – 27/08/2015

Kathy Potter (IMDb) 15/12/1926 – 11/11/2014

Nancy Root (IMDb) 23/09/1929 – 14/05/2020

Dee Arlen (IMDb) 20/08/1930

Hope Holiday (Wiki) 30/11/1930

Mary LeBow (IMDb) 17/07/1930 – 07/03/2019

Sylvia Lewis (Wiki) 22/04/1931

Ann McRea (Wiki) 25/02/1931

Caroline Richter (IMDb) 20/05/1931 – 18/04/2021

Pat Stanley (Wiki) 12/04/1931

Lillian Briggs (Wiki) 03/06/1932 – 11/04/1998

Patricia Blair (Wiki) 15/01/1933 – 09/09/2013

Kay Tapscott (IMDb) 27/06/1933 – 08/08/2001

Beverly Wills (Wiki) 07/06/1933 – 24/10/1963

Shary Marshall (IMDb) 29/03/1935 – 31/05/2014

Patricia Olson (Wiki) 21/09/1935 – 14/10/2007

Madlyn Rhue (Wiki) 03/10/1935 – 16/12/2003

Dolores Erickson (Wiki) ?/09/1935

Francesca Bellini (IMDb) 06/11/1936

Daria Massey (Wiki) 02/06/1936

Faye Michael Nuell (IMDb) 03/03/1936 – 16/09/2020

Gloria Tennes (IMDb) 12/12/1937

Meri Welles (IMDb) 27/02/1937 – 27/08/1973

Marianne Gaba (Wiki) 13/11/1939 – 03/05/2016

Joan Staley (Wiki) 20/05/1940 – 24/11/2019

Darlene Tompkins (Wiki) 16/11/1940 – 18/07/2019

Karyn Kapucinet (Wiki) 06/03/1941 – 28/11/1963

 

Unknown ???

Vicki Bennet (IMDb)

Bonnie Evans (IMDb

Lynn Ross (IMDb)

 

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