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Part B (M - Z)

 

"Mad" Mike Hoare

Marge Champion

Marguerite Allan (IMDB now has her dead in 1994 - also born 1905, not 1909)

Mary Carlisle

Mary Wilson, Baroness of Rievaulx

Max Splodge

Michael York

Mieke Telkamp (d. 2016)

Noam Chomsky

Olivia De Havilland

Pearl Carr

Peter Carrington (Lord)

R Dean Taylor

Radovan Karadzic

Ratko Mladic

Ray Kennedy

Richard Adams (d. 2016)

Richard Carpenter

Richard O'Sullivan

Richard Sherman

Robert Guillaume

Robert Vaughn (d. 2016)

Roberta McCain

Rona Barrett

Ruth Westheimer

Sheila Mercier

Stanley Bates (Bungle)

Sue Nicholls

Susan Maughan

Takahito, Prince Misaka (d. 2016)

Teddy Johnson

Tippi Hedren

Tom Lehrer

Tony Soper

Vince Fumo

Werner Herzog

Wilford Brimley

William Perrie (?)

Yoshiko Kuga

Zizi Jeanmaire

Zsa Zsa Gabor (d. 2016)

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You know who is still alive? Norman Kember.

 

 

With the fate of most of the other Iraqi hostages from 2004, little wonder my memory keeps assuming he was killed at the time. But no, 85 and still going.

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Part B (M - Z)

 

"Mad" Mike Hoare

Marge Champion

Marguerite Allan

Mary Carlisle

Mary Wilson, Baroness of Rievaulx

Max Splodge

Michael York

Mieke Telkamp

Noam Chomsky

Olivia De Havilland

Pearl Carr

Peter Carrington (Lord)

R Dean Taylor

Radovan Karadzic

Ratko Mladic

Ray Kennedy

Richard Adams

Richard Carpenter

Richard O'Sullivan

Richard Sherman

Robert Guillaume

Robert Vaughn

Roberta McCain

Rona Barrett

Ruth Westheimer

Sheila Mercier

Stanley Bates (Bungle)

Sue Nicholls

Susan Maughan

Takahito, Prince Misaka

Teddy Johnson

Tippi Hedren

Tom Lehrer

Tony Soper

Vince Fumo

Werner Herzog

Wilford Brimley

William Perrie (?)

Yoshiko Kuga

Zizi Jeanmaire

Zsa Zsa Gabor

 

 

Good work, that's the furthest apart Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson have been in decades. Keep up the torture and we'll cash in on both of them.

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Lloyd Price, who had the first censored #1 in US chart history (a version of "Stagger Lee" that obfuscates the pimping and murder). I would have assumed he'd bit the dust some time in the 1970s amid a large pile of cocaine, but he's 83 and still with us.

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

  • Michael Staniforth - Timothy Claypole (dead 1987 of The Aids)
  • Edward Brayshaw - Harold Meaker (dead 1990 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". Hopefully he wasn't playing Godot, that would have been a long performance.
  • Michael Darbyshire - Hubert Davenport (1976-1978) (Old Victorian ghost, Died 1979)
  • Molly Weir - Hazel the McWitch (1977-1984) (dead 2004, surfeit of shortbread)
  • Sue Nicholls - Nadia Popov (1981-1984) (Still very much alive and in Coronation St)
  • 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 yet more out potboiler crime series)
  • William Perrie, John Asquith - Dobbin the Pantomime Horse (Ah, who f*****g cares)

 

 

Reportedly Ann Emery has died. The above list needs a serious update.

 

Edit: http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Ann-Emery-Original-Grandma-in-West-Ends-BILLY-ELLIOT-Passes-Away-20160929#

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Watching the Yes Minister/Prime Minister repeats on BBC2 has reminded me, so far, that Sydney Lotterby (b. 1926), Arthur Cox (b. 1934), Moray Watson (b. 1928), Andre Marrane (b. 1926) and Oscar Quitak (b. 1926) are still with us, and all highly obitable.

 

Amusingly, Quitak plays a Trident opposing adviser in YPM, and later shows up as a nuclear sceptic science advisor in A Very British Coup. I wonder if the latter was an in-joke.

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Now here's one I certainly thought was long gone:

 

Alf Ramsey's widow.

 

Makes me wonder about the other pre-1990 England manager widows:

 

 

Lady Ann Winterbottom, b. Feb 1923 - alive as of April 2013.

Norah Mercer d. 2013

Elsie Revie d. 2005

Lucy Greenwood - outlived Ron but has kept a low profile since, think she's still about but unsure.

Elsie Robson - still going, born circa 1937.

 

Lady Winterbottom and Lady Ramsey will certainly obit.

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Now here's one I certainly thought was long gone:

 

Alf Ramsey's widow.

 

Makes me wonder about the other pre-1990 England manager widows:

 

 

Lady Ann Winterbottom, b. Feb 1923 - alive as of April 2013.

Norah Mercer d. 2013

Elsie Revie d. 2005

Lucy Greenwood - outlived Ron but has kept a low profile since, think she's still about but unsure.

Elsie Robson - still going, born circa 1937.

 

Lady Winterbottom and Lady Ramsey will certainly obit.

 

 

Good spot

 

Couldn't find - albeit on the back of two minutes surfing, tops - any evidence Lady Winterbottom is dead. You'd assume some mention; even if only on the curiousity value of how long she'd lived. Hell, this lot and Harold Wilson and Anthony Eden's widows plus those of a few television stars - that's a top theme team right there, eh?

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Hmm, next year a theme team called Widow Cleaners, mayhaps?

 

(Awaits Toast telling me it's mayhap, or it's only to be used with the past participle of a subjective pronoun or summat :lol: )

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Hmm, next year a theme team called Widow Cleaners, mayhaps?

 

(Awaits Toast telling me it's mayhap, or it's only to be used with the past participle of a subjective pronoun or summat :lol: )

 

Perchance you will be disappointed. :)

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Ursala Le Guin.

 

Turns 87 tomorrow and I thought she was long dead.

 

Think I was confused with Marion Zimmer Bradley , who I thought was alive.

Totally missed her death and all the peado stuff about her.

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Ursala Le Guin.

 

Turns 87 tomorrow and I thought she was long dead.

 

Think I was confused with Marion Zimmer Bradley , who I thought was alive.

Totally missed her death and all the peado stuff about her.

 

Whenever I see that misspelled word I get a mental image of one of these.

 

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'Misspelt'...

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'Misspelt'...

 

Caught out using American English! embarrassed-smiley35.gif It's a fair cop, guv.

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You can't beat taking the kids to the seaside and hiring a paedo for a couple of hours to keep them amused. :)

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Seems an opportune time to update the lists from last year to include those mentioned on the thread in 2016 and deleting those who have died.

 

As always, if you know better....

 

A - L

 

Abi and Esther Ofarim

Albert Moses (d. 2017)

Andre Maranne

Angela Lansbury

Anita Harris

Ann Hamilton (British actress)

Ann Winterbottom (Lady)

Anton Mosimann

Antonio Tejero

Archie Norman (Doctor) (d. 2016)

Arthur Janov (d. 2017)

Arthur Cox (NI Actor)

Bernard Lewis (Historian)

Beverly Cleary

Bill Legend

Bill Macy

Bobby Brown (Footballer)

Brian Holland

Burt Bacharach

Carol Channing

Charles Van Doren

Christopher Biggins

Christopher Tolkein

Chuck Yeager

Cicely Tyson

Clare Hollingworth (d. 2017)

Clarissa Eden

Clifton James (d. 2017)

Colin Jeavons

Creed Taylor

David Edgerton (Entrepreneur)

David Graham (actor)

David Montgomery, 2nd Viscount of Alamein

Debra Mooney

Diana Serra Carey

Dick Cheney

Don Larsen

Eddie Holland

Eddie Stobart

Edgar Ray Killen

Edward De Bono

Elsie Robson (Lady)

Doris Day

Felix Silla

Francoise Gilot

Frank Windsor

Gary Glitter

George A Cooper

Georgia Holt

Gershon Kingsley

Gloria Vanderbilt

Glynis Johns

Hal Holbrook

Herb Stempel

Irving Kanarek

Irwin Corey (d. 2017)

Jack Elliott (Ramblin')

Jack Thompson (Aus actor)

James Galway

Janet Mead

Jean Coutu

Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

Jeannie Rousseau (d. 2017)

Jerry Maren

Joe Brown (climber)

John Asquith (?)

John Astin

John Gavin

John Mallory (?) (George Mallory's son)

John Patler

Joseph Kittinger II

Joseph Marcell

Joss Ackland

Ken Nordine

Kenneth Anger

Lamont Dozier

Leonard Fenton

Liam Cosgrave (d. 2017)

Lisa Loring

Lloyd Price

Lucy Greenwood

Lynda La Plante

Lyndon LaRouche

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M - Z

 

"Mad" Mike Hoare

Marge Champion

Mary Carlisle

Mary Wilson, Baroness of Rievaulx

Max Splodge

Michael York

Moray Watson (d. 2017)

Noam Chomsky

Norman Kember

Olivia De Havilland

Oscar Quitak

Pearl Carr

Peter Carrington (Lord)

Pierre Delaunay

R Dean Taylor

Radovan Karadzic

Ratko Mladic

Ray Kennedy

Richard Bach

Richard Carpenter

Richard O'Sullivan

Richard Sherman

Robert Guillaume (d. 2017)

Roberta McCain

Rona Barrett

Ruth Westheimer

Sheila Mercier

Stanley Bates (Bungle)

Sue Nicholls

Susan Maughan

Sydney Lotterby

Teddy Johnson

Tippi Hedren

Tom Lehrer

Tony Soper

Ursula K Le Guin

Victoria Ramsey (Lady)

Vince Fumo

Werner Herzog

Wilford Brimley

William Goldman

William Perrie (?)

Yoshiko Kuga

Zizi Jeanmaire

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Sepp Piontek, manager of the hipster's favourite football team, mid-80s Denmark. Didn't realise he was only in his mid-40s at the time.

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Hmmm

 

Max Spodge - listed above

 

Not that old but enough of a nutter to have put some miles on the body (though he ain't that old).

 

FB profile picture circa May 2015

 

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Barry Chuckle. He's 'died' so many times on Twitter it's become received knowledge. Blows my mind to see he's still going! 'Post truth' in action.

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Erich - Chariots of the Gods - Von Daniken is doing a gig in Manchester in March

 

81 years old

 

Link: http://awakeningufo.com/

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