People I Was Surprised To Find Are Still Alive

[arghton 6,724]

2008: "Musician played banjo on operating table while doctors carried out surgery on his brain"

I recall seeing the video somewhere before and today I stumbled upon it again on social media. Anyways, Eddie Adcock, he's still alive and now 85.

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Ed Williams from the Naked Gun series. Seemed decrepit back then and turns 98 this year.

[Zsa Zsa's leg 884]

Surprised to find that former Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan campaign manager Stu Spencer is still alive at 97. 

[LWCZ 188]

I was going through Billboard's first Top 100 chart (the predecessor to the Hot 100 record chart) published on November 12th, 1955, and was surprised that at least 5 people from the chart are still with us. Those being:

• Pat Boone (89)- #8 At My Front Door; #21 Ain't That A Shame; #52 No Arms Can Ever Hold You
• Jaye P. Morgan (92)- #19 Longest Walk; #37 Pepper-Hot Baby; #68 If You Don't Want My Love
• Mindy Carson (96)- #33 Wake The Town And Tell The People
• Peggy King (94)- #61 Learnin' To Love 
• John Perkins (92; of the Crew Cuts)-#89 Gum Drop

 

Sadly I couldn't find any more information on session members of The Dream Weavers, The Loreleis (Marjorie Gail Menefee (Richardson) and Margaret "Peggy" Reinagle, both born around 1936), Tommy (Russ) Gilberto of The Three Chuckles (died 1981), Glendon Kingsby of The Cadets, Bill Christ of The Gaylords (died 2017), members of Ray Charles Singers (who performed on the "Autumn Leaves" record) and Matthew Platt of The Turbans, so there's a slight chance there's more of them around these days.

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8 minutes ago, LWCZ said:

I was going through Billboard's first Top 100 chart (the predecessor to the Hot 100 record chart) published on November 12th, 1955, and was surprised that at least 5 people from the chart are still with us. Those being:

• Pat Boone (89)- #8 At My Front Door; #21 Ain't That A Shame; #52 No Arms Can Ever Hold You
• Jaye P. Morgan (92)- #19 Longest Walk; #37 Pepper-Hot Baby; #68 If You Don't Want My Love
• Mindy Carson (96)- #33 Wake The Town And Tell The People
• Peggy King (94)- #61 Learnin' To Love 
• John Perkins (92; of the Crew Cuts)-#89 Gum Drop

 

Sadly I couldn't find any more information on session members of The Dream Weavers, The Loreleis (Gail Menefee and Peggy Reinagle), Tommy (Russ) Gilberto of The Three Chuckles, Glendon Kingsby of The Cadets, Bill Christ of The Gaylords, members of Ray Charles Singers (who performed on the "Autumn Leaves" record) and Matthew Platt of The Turbans, so there's a slight chance there's more of them around these days.

 

I had pared through those charts in 2020/21 and during that time I found a music website ran by Gail Menefee's nephew that has an article on the Loreleis. The site is still being updated, so I'm inclined to assume Menefee still alive until he mentions otherwise. IDK if the same would apply to Reinagle.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Carroll Rehmke, the lady who was present when her friend Janet Adkins became Dr Jack Kevorkian’s very first assisted suicide — alive and well at 87 living near Seattle, WA.

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

More a reminder than a discovery, but as the Let it Be movie (1970) gets a reboot following the television series that mined all the footage it's dragging director Michael Lindsay-Hogg (seen here on the right in 1944) back into the newsfeeds. So much so, in fact, maybe the fact he turns 84 on Sunday might get mentioned too.

 

[The Watcher 317]

Yvonne Furneaux is 98 next week. She was the female lead in The Mummy (1959) which starred Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee. Some of the cast died way back in the 1970's.

[Ulitzer95 12,594]

48 minutes ago, The Watcher said:

Yvonne Furneaux is 98 next week. She was the female lead in The Mummy (1959) which starred Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee. Some of the cast died way back in the 1970's.

All this was mentioned little over a month ago…

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1 hour ago, Ulitzer95 said:

All this was mentioned little over a month ago…

Ah but the film was on today in which she appeared - on Legend formerly known as Horror Channel. Not sure why it was mentioned a month ago although I know she has appeared in a French thread but many will not know she did not appear exclusively in French films. Also her birthday is next week.

[Ulitzer95 12,594]

Just now, The Watcher said:

Ah but the film was on today in which she appeared - on Legend formerly known as Horror Channel. Not sure why it was mentioned a month ago although I know she has appeared in a French thread but many will not know she did not appear exclusively in French films. Also her birthday is next week.

Why are you facepalming me? I’m just telling you all of this was mentioned very recently by another member, thus it doesn’t merit being repeated. Learn to use the search function. You’ve been here long enough to know better.

[Ulitzer95 12,594]

The 1959 version of The Mummy is always available to watch for free if you have Amazon Prime. 
 

It’s also an awful movie. The 1930s version was far superior.

[Captain Hemlock 742]

I was watching a Three Stooges short called Rhythm and Weep the other day and researching the cast discovered that Gloria Patrice appears to be still alive at age 98

 

https://threestooges.net/cast/actor/398

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That Cecil Parkinson documentary @YoungWillzflagged up has brought up that Lord Sanderson of Bowden, then a Tory party big wig and who later wrote the report on why the Tories were doing shit in Scotland, is still alive aged 91. Retired from the Lords years ago.

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

To do with something I'm writing I was looking into the career of actress Wilma "Willi" Burke, looks like her Linkedin page is still active and can't see an obvious obit. Might be covered on death if only because she's the subject of the lyrics in Save the Last Dance for Me, written by her (then) husband Doc Pomus

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7 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said:

To do with something I'm writing I was looking into the career of actress Wilma "Willi" Burke, looks like her Linkedin page is still active and can't see an obvious obit. Might be covered on death if only because she's the subject of the lyrics in Save the Last Dance for Me, written by her (then) husband Doc Pomus

 

Do you have any idea for her date of birth?

[YoungWillz 21,044]

2 minutes ago, Gisooo said:

 

Do you have any idea for her date of birth?

April 27, 1933 according to IBDB: https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/willi-burke-78475

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

2 minutes ago, Gisooo said:

 

Do you have any idea for her date of birth?

 

No, she's very low profile though there's an IMDB page, but no Wikipedia page.

 

I'm thinking the few online obsessives who give a shit would have mentioned any death. She's apparently alive here:http://akadocpomus.com/cast/willi-burke/

 

 

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,689]

I didn't realise rock manager and 60s counterculture hellraiser Phil Kaufman has outlived most of his druggie rocker contemporaries and is now 89.

[Gisooo 3,329]

Bob Graham (IMDb), an American actor from Golden Age of Hollywood is still alive, for a few days he will be 99!

 

Here with actress Mitzi Gaynor (b. 1931)

 

[arghton 6,724]

He's a minor name, but I'm very suprised actor Charley Scalies (of The Wire, The Sopranos and others) is still alive. Most of his "notable" appearances were two decades ago, he looked very obese and old back then. Seems he's still alive, no idea how old he is now.

 

Edit, here's the part with him in the Sopranos:

 

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20 minutes ago, arghton said:

He's a minor name, but I'm very suprised actor Charley Scalies (of The Wire, The Sopranos and others) is still alive. Most of his "notable" appearances were two decades ago, he looked very obese and old back then. Seems he's still alive, no idea how old he is now.

He seems to have been 79 in 2019, making him about 84 now.

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

Was reminded whilst researching some stuff on paranormal scepticism/skepticism that Ray Hyman (who amongst other things was one of the first serious academics to openly state Uri Geller is a "fraud") is stll with us. 

 

96 yesterday and famous enough stateside that I'd guess the obits are nailed on

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Hyman#Hick-Hyman_Law

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On 19/06/2024 at 22:10, arghton said:

Edit, here's the part with him in the Sopranos:

 

 

Ah, thanks for that. I couldn't remember him in the Soprano's at all.

It's a dream-sequence which will be why - I pretty much always skip those on anything I re-watch (or at least ff if I need reminding of the gist).

[Spade_Cooley 9,523]

Honestly assumed Thomas Sowell died around the turn of the millennium. Still alive, 93, and only ever mentioned on this forum as a "possibility for 2018" and picks in Death by Numbers. Guaranteed QOs of all types.