People I Was Surprised To Find Are Still Alive

[Handrejka 1,903]

Rentaghost...From Wiki, so do not blame me for inaccuracies

• Michael Staniforth - Timothy Claypole (dead of The Aids)
  
• Edward Brayshaw - Harold Meaker (dead of hapless chumpery)
  
• Ann Emery - Ethel Meaker (sister of Dick of that ilk. Alive apparently)
  
• Anthony Jackson - Fred Mumford (1976-1978) "He died suddenly on 27th November 2006, having been taken ill during rehearsals of "Waiting for Godot"
  
• Michael Darbyshire - Hubert Davenport (1976-1978) (Old Victorian ghost, still with us)
  
• Molly Weir - Hazel the McWitch (1977-1984) (dead, surfeit of shortbread)
  
• Sue Nicholls - Nadia Popov (1981-1984) (Still very much alive)
  
• Christopher Biggins - Adam Painting (1978-1983; intermittently) (Very much alive)
  
• Hal Dyer - Rose Perkins (1978-1984) (Apparently still alive, and a member of the On the Buses fan club)
  
• Jeffrey Segal - Arthur Perkins (1978-1984) (Alive)
  
• Lynda La Plante - Tamara Novek (1980) (as Lynda Marchal) (Alive and cranking out potboiler crime series)
  
• William Perrie, John Asquith - Dobbin the Pantomime Horse (Ah, who f*****g cares)
  

 

 

Michael Darbyshire died in 1979, hence him not appearing in the second series. The others seem accurate though,oh and the Panto horse guys are alive, according to my better half they appeared in a recent Doctor Who Documentary

[Anubis the Jackal 77]

Balls! I remember that now. Ta Han.

 

 

Michael Derbyshire died in 1979, hence him not appearing in the second series. The others seem accurate though

[TAFKAG 70]

I was mildly surprised to find that songwriters Richard and Robert Sherman are both still alive in their 80s. The names may not be immediately familiar, but the tunes will be:

The Bare Necessities, I Wanna Be Like You (Oo-oo), Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Chim Chim Cher-ee, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Truly Scrumptious and, er,

, among others.

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

I was mildly surprised to find that songwriters Richard and Robert Sherman are both still alive in their 80s. The names may not be immediately familiar, but the tunes will be:

The Bare Necessities, I Wanna Be Like You (Oo-oo), Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Chim Chim Cher-ee, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Truly Scrumptious and, er,

, among others.

 

Man, there's stuff on their CV that should be punishable, by death.

[Anubis the Jackal 77]

How dare you, Mary. For 'Hushabye Mountain' they can be forgiven anything.

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

How dare you, Mary. For 'Hushabye Mountain' they can be forgiven anything.

 

I said 'stuff' not 'all.'

 

Did Dick Emery cover 'Hushabye Mountain' or am I confusing him with someone else?

[Anubis the Jackal 77]

Dick Van Dyke perhaps?

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

Somebody at work swears it's on a Dick Emery album that he suffered hearing in his mum's car as a nipper.

 

Nah, this is getting too trivial, I'm away to another thread.

 

But - afore I go - Dick's sister, Anne, is still up and about and working once in a while.

[TAFKAG 70]

Somebody at work swears it's on a Dick Emery album that he suffered hearing in his mum's car as a nipper.

 

Nah, this is getting too trivial, I'm away to another thread.

Oi, come back!! We've merely dipped a toe in the ocean of triviality.

 

Two of the more unlikely bedfellows in the Hushabye Mountain cover version stakes are mumsy actress Wendy Craig and Tindersticks pub singer Stuart Staples. The idea of the latter I find slightly disturbing.

[Anubis the Jackal 77]

As chance would have it, I once spent a very drunken night going through the full Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang songbook with Mr Staples.

 

Two of the more unlikely bedfellows in the Hushabye Mountain cover version stakes are mumsy actress Wendy Craig and Tindersticks pub singer Stuart Staples. The idea of the latter I find slightly disturbing.

[Banshees Scream 110]

As chance would have it, I once spent a very drunken night going through the full Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang songbook with Mr Staples.

I've never read a book while I was drunk in my life. That's just asking to be freaked out. No thanks.

 

I read just about everything else.

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

Italian screenwriter Tullio Pinelli will be 100 this week. He worked alongside legendary director Federico Fellini and also collaborated with Deathlist favourite Dino De Laurentiis.

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

Edward de Bono is still alive, B. 1933. Worth keeping an eye on I reckon cos if anyone could figure a way round death, it'd be him.

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

Sought after Serbs still very much alive. That's probably no surprise but the degree to which Karadzic in particular goes about his daily business - whatever that might be these days - is worth considering. There may, possibly, be some brave attempt to snatch him and heap justice on his head at some point. Don't bet on it, though.

[Canadian Paul 97]

For the lazy among us, and in case it vanishes ...

 

1901 - Eric Clavering

1904 - Doris Eaton-Travis

1905 - Carl Esmond, Charles Lane and Lilian Oldland

1906 - Barbara Kent

1907 - Leon Askin, Norah Baring, Dorothy Boyd, Anne Grey, Emily Perry and Renee St Cyr

1908 - Eddie Albert, Dorothy Bartlam, Sir John Mills and Ford Rainey

1909 - Marguerite Allan, Bruce Bennett, Victoria Hopper, Luise Rainer, Gloria Stuart and Carla Laemmle

1910 - Constance Cummings, Griffith Jones, Marc Lawrence, Al Lewis, Artie Shaw, Simone Simon, Anita Page, Mary Jackson, Edmundo Ros and Geoffrey Toone

 

Perry turned 100 the other day. Maybe this thread can be merged somewhere else, but I figured it might be the best place to mention it.

 

By the way, that post was almost three years ago and, out of all of them, Eaton-Travis, Lane, Kent, Perry, Bartlam (at least according to IMDb), Allan (ditto), Rainer, Stuart, Laemmle, Page, and Ros are still alive.

 

Claverling, Oldland, Baring, Boyd, and Grey were already dead at the time of the discussion too.

 

I just happened to be thinking about this and it happens to be exactly one year since my last update (barring the leap year) so, out of all of them, Eaton-Travis, Kent, Bartlam (apparentely she was alive at least as recently as March 2007), Allan (same caveat as last time), Rainer, Stuart, Laemmle, Page, and Ross are still alive - we only lost Lane and Perry over the year, perhaps a good survival rate given their ages.

[Vaagheid 141]

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[Canadian Paul 97]

I am pretty sure Bennett is also dead.

Remembered hearing something about it last year.

 

Right, but he was dead before the last update, so he wasn't included.

[Death Impends 7,964]

For the lazy among us, and in case it vanishes ...

 

1901 - Eric Clavering

1904 - Doris Eaton-Travis

1905 - Carl Esmond, Charles Lane and Lilian Oldland

1906 - Barbara Kent

1907 - Leon Askin, Norah Baring, Dorothy Boyd, Anne Grey, Emily Perry and Renee St Cyr

1908 - Eddie Albert, Dorothy Bartlam, Sir John Mills and Ford Rainey

1909 - Marguerite Allan, Bruce Bennett, Victoria Hopper, Luise Rainer, Gloria Stuart and Carla Laemmle

1910 - Constance Cummings, Griffith Jones, Marc Lawrence, Al Lewis, Artie Shaw, Simone Simon, Anita Page, Mary Jackson, Edmundo Ros and Geoffrey Toone

 

Perry turned 100 the other day. Maybe this thread can be merged somewhere else, but I figured it might be the best place to mention it.

 

By the way, that post was almost three years ago and, out of all of them, Eaton-Travis, Lane, Kent, Perry, Bartlam (at least according to IMDb), Allan (ditto), Rainer, Stuart, Laemmle, Page, and Ros are still alive.

 

Claverling, Oldland, Baring, Boyd, and Grey were already dead at the time of the discussion too.

 

I just happened to be thinking about this and it happens to be exactly one year since my last update (barring the leap year) so, out of all of them, Eaton-Travis, Kent, Bartlam (apparentely she was alive at least as recently as March 2007), Allan (same caveat as last time), Rainer, Stuart, Laemmle, Page, and Ross are still alive - we only lost Lane and Perry over the year, perhaps a good survival rate given their ages.

 

Also worth a mention that Ros is the only male from that list who's still alive.

[Cowboy Ronnie 78]

Adolf Hitler beheaded in Berlin

 

I wonder if They Saved Hitler's Brain

[Handrejka 1,903]

Illustrator Pauline Baynes who worked with C S Lewis and J R Tolkein, alive and obit worthy

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Baynes

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

Just discovered that Archie Norman, paediatrician and major contributor to medical research including this, is still breathing. Aged 96, but still a SHOO IN for a broadsheet obit.

[Death Impends 7,964]

Illustrator Pauline Baynes who worked with C S Lewis and J R Tolkein, alive and obit worthy

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Baynes

 

Not anymore

[M.Lawrenson 11]

Otto von Habsburg was 96 on Thursday. I'm betting he dies within a year, as his mother and grandmother (from whom he likely inherited his longevity) both died at 96.

[Handrejka 1,903]

Illustrator Pauline Baynes who worked with C S Lewis and J R Tolkein, alive and obit worthy

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Baynes

 

Not anymore

 

Good job I didn't say alive and well then eh?

 

Karl Peglau, the chap who designed the Ampelmaenner is still going.

 

http://www.ampelmann.de/html/karl_peglau_english.html

[Lard Bazaar 3,799]

People I Was Surprised To Find Are Still Alive - myself. I think my liver has finally packed up after this weekend. My skin is yellow, my tongue is white, my bowels are looser than Jodie Marsh's minge, I have double vision and am not sure where I live. I'd definitely get an obit in my local paper too, does that count?