World's Oldest Film People

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Halmyre

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Wednesday 17th April
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Prompted by the Guess Who Has Aged thread, I present a thought-provoking (and slightly scary) list for your edification. People from the film industry in their 90s and older (accurate as of Jan 2024):

ACTRESSES:

1919: Caren Marsh (The Wizard of Oz)
1922: Micheline Presle (Devil in the Flesh, 1947), Janis Paige (Silk Stockings), Jacqueline White (Crossfire, 1947)
1923: Glynis Johns (Mary Poppins)
1924: Anne Vernon (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 1964), Priscilla Pointer (Carrie, 1976), Eva Marie Saint (North by Northwest), Joyce Randolph (TV's The Honeymooners), Maria Riva (The Scarlet Empress, 1934)
1925: June Lockhart (TV's Lost in Space), Lee Grant (Shampoo)
1926: Marilyn Knowlden (Les Misérables, 1935), Helen Gallagher (TV's Ryan's Hope), Judith Magre (The Lovers, 1958)
1927: Barbara Rush (The Young Philadelphians), Lisa Lu (Crazy Rich Asians), Maria Victoria (La Criada Bien Criada, 1972), Rosemary Harris (Spider-Man), Estelle Parsons (Bonnie & Clyde), Genevieve Page (Belle de Jour)
1928: Peggy Dow (Harvey), Yvonne Furneaux (La Dolce Vita), Nancy Olson (The Absent-Minded Professor), Ann Blyth (Mildred Pierce), Rosa Rosal (Blessings of the Land, 1959), Marion Ross (TV's Happy Days), Kathleen Hughes (It Came from Outer Space)
1929: Vikki Dougan (The Tunnel of Love, 1958), Terry Moore (Come Back, Little Sheba), Patricia Routledge (TV's Keeping Up Appearances), Rebecca Schull (TV's Wings), Claire Maurier (La Cage aux Folles), Margaret Kerry (Disney's Peter Pan), Ann Robinson (The War of the Worlds, 1953), Bonnie Bartlett (TV's St. Elsewhere), Vera Miles (Psycho), Fernanda Montenegro (Central Station, 1998), Joan Plowright (The Entertainer), June Squibb (Nebraska, 2013)
1930: Tippi Hedren (The Birds), Peggy King (Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy), Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve), Mary Costa (Sleeping Beauty), Gena Rowlands (A Woman Under the Influence), Nita Talbot (TV's Hogan's Heroes), Lois Smith (East of Eden), Nancy Kilgas (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)
1931: Mamie van Doren (Untamed Youth, 1957), Claire Bloom (Limelight), Ann McCrea (TV's The Donna Reed Show), Carmen de Lavallade (Odds Against Tomorrow), Barbara Barrie (TV's Barney Miller), Carroll Baker (Baby Doll), Virginia McKenna (Born Free), Marla Gibbs (TV's The Jeffersons), Leslie Caron (Gigi), Ruth Maria Kubitschek (Frau Ella, 2013), Barbara Eden (TV's I Dream of Jeannie), Mitzi Gaynor (South Pacific), Silvia Pinal (Viridiana, 1961), Barbara Bain (TV's Mission Impossible), Angie Dickinson (Dressed to Kill, 1980), Vivian Pickles (Harold and Maude), Mary Louise Wilson (TV's One Day at a Time, 1976-1977), Anne Heywood (The Fox, 1967), Rita Moreno (West Side Story)
1932: Margit Carlqvist (Smiles of a Summer Night), Harriet Andersson (Cries & Whispers), Anouk Aimee (A Man and a Woman, 1966), Phyllida Law (The Winter Guest, 1997), Marisa Pavan (The Rose Tattoo, 1955), Prunella Scales (TV's Fawlty Towers), Nina van Pallandt (American Gigolo), Carol Lawrence (TV's Valley of the Dolls, 1994), Mitzi McCall (TV's The Flintstones Comedy Hour), Felicia Farr (Kiss Me, Stupid, 1964), Petula Clark (Finian's Rainbow), Diane Ladd (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore), Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore), Abbe Lane (The Wanderers, 1956), Inga Swenson (The Miracle Worker, 1962)
1933: Chita Rivera (Chicago), Margaret Whiting (Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, 1977), Kim Novak (Vertigo), Sheila Hancock (Buster, 1988), Sandra Milo (Juliet of the Spirits, 1965), Barbara Feldon (TV's Get Smart, 1965-1970), Renee Taylor (TV's The Nanny, 1993-1999), Shani Wallis (Oliver! 1968), Carol Burnett (TV's The Carol Burnett Show, 1967-1978), Francoise Fabian (My Night at Maud's, 1980), Sian Phillips (TV's I, Claudius, 1976), Constance Towers (TV's General Hospital, 1997-2023), Joan Collins (TV's Dynasty, 1981-1989), Madhur Jaffrey (Chutney Popcorn, 1999), Julie Newmar (TV's Batman, 1966-1967), Debra Paget (The Ten Commandments), Tsai Chin (You Only Live Twice), Eileen Fulton (TV's As the World Turns, 1960-2010), Patricia Crowley (TV's Please Don't Eat the Daisies), Kathleen Nolan (TV's The Real McCoys, 1957-1962), Jackie Joseph (The Little Shop of Horrors, 1960), Kathryn Grant, aka Kathryn Crosby (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, 1958)

ACTORS:

1924: Woody Woodbury (For Those Who Think Young, 1964), William Russell (TV's Dr. Who, 1963-1965 - and father of Harry Potter's Alfred Enoch)
1925: Bill Hayes (TV's Days of Our Lives), Dick Van Dyke (TV's The Dick Van Dyke Show)
1926: Stanley Baxter (The Fast Lady, 1962), Terry Kilburn (Goodbye, Mr. Chips, 1939)
1927: William Daniels (The Graduate), William Smithers (Papillon)
1928: Paul Dooley (Popeye), Earl Holliman (The Rainmaker, 1956)
1929: Carl Banas (TV's Babar, 1989-1990), Michael Craig (The Mysterious Island), Jerry Adler (TV's The Sopranos), James Hong (Big Trouble in Little China), Jonathan Haze (The Little Shop of Horrors, 1960), Don Murray (Bus Stop, 1956), Bob Newhart (TV's Bob Newhart), Jerry Hardin (TV's The X-Files)
1930: Gene Hackman (The French Connection), Robert Wagner (TV's Hart to Hart), John Cullum (TV's The Day After), John Astin (TV's The Addams Family), Clive Revill (Avanti!), Alan Oppenheimer (TV's He-Man and the Masters of the Universe), Will Hutchins (TV's Sugarfoot, 1957-1961), James McEachin (Play Misty for Me), Clint Eastwood (Dirty Harry), Feng Ku (Death Kick, 1973), Peter Weck (Aimee and Jaguar, 1999), Mario Adorf (The Tin Drum), Carlo Reali (La Cage aux Folles), Armin Mueller-Stahl (Shine, 1996)
1931: Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies), James Earl Jones (Star Wars), Dominic Chianese (TV's The Sopranos), Hal Linden(TV's Barney Miller), William Shatner (TV's Star Trek), James Tolkan (Back to the Future), Robert Ito (TV's Quincy, M.E.), Robert Colbert (TV's The Time Tunnel, 1966-1967), Darryl Hickman (The Grapes of Wrath), Malachy McCourt (TV's Oz), Freddy Quinn (Only the Wind, 1961), Ronnie Schell (TV's Gomer Pyle)
1932: Dabney Coleman (WarGames, 1983), Jon Cypher (TV's Hill Street Blues), Paul Sand (The Hot Rock, 1972), Joel Grey (Cabaret), William Roache (TV's Coronation Street), Jan Malmsjö (Fanny & Alexander), Peter Lupus (TV's Mission: Impossible), Rosey Grier (The Thing With Two Heads), George Chakiris (West Side Story, 1961), Tatsuya Nakadai (Ran, 1985)
1933: Julio Medina (TV's Villa Alegre, 1970s), Michael Caine (Alfie, 1966), Bob Dornan (TV's 12 O'Clock High, 1965-1967), Mark Damon (House of Usher, 1960), Brett Halsey (Return of the Fly, 1958), Bernie Kopell (TV's The Love Boat, 1977-1987), Robert Fuller (TV's Emergency!, 1970s), Gary Clarke (TV's The Virginian, 1960s), Tom Skerrit (Alien), Greg Mullavey (TV's Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, 1976)

DIRECTORS:

1924: Robert M. Young (Dominick & Eugene)
1926: Roger Corman (The Little Shop of Horrors, 1960), Mel Brooks (Blazing Saddles), Norman Jewison (Fiddler on the Roof)
1927: Alvin Rakoff (City on Fire, 1979), Jaime de Armiñán (La Hora Bruja, 1985), Jerry Schatzberg (Panic in Needle Park, 1971), Elliot Silverstein (Cat Ballou), Marcel Ophuls (The Sorrow & the Pity, 1969), Madeline Anderson (I Am Somebody, 1969)
1928: James Ivory (The Remains of the Day), Harold Becker (Sea of Love, 1989)
1929: Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, 1970), Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond)
1930: Frederick Wiseman (Titicut Follies, 1967), Larry Peerce (Goodbye, Columbus, 1969), Robert Carl Cohen (TV's Inside Red China,1957)
1931: Hector Olivera (Rebellion in Patagonia, 1974), Ted Kotcheff (Weekend at Bernie's), Jan Troell (The Emigrants, 1971), Bill Persky (TV's The Dick Van Dyke Show), Yoji Yamada (Twilight Samurai, 2004), Alain Cavalier (Therese, 1986), Márta Mészáros (Diary for my Children, 1984), Paolo Taviani (The Night of the Shooting Stars, 1982)
1932: Alfonso Arau (Like Water for Chocolate), Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night), Alexander Kluge (Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave, 1974), Jerzy Hoffman (The Deluge, 1974), Jean-Paul Rappeneau (Cyrano de Bergerac, 1990), Elaine May (The Heartbreak Kid, 1972), John Glen (For Your Eyes Only, 1981), Alanis Obomsawin (Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, 1993), Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer), Edgar Reitz (TV's Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany, 1984)
1933: William Fruet (TV's Goosebumps, 1995-1998), Liliana Cavani (The Night Porter, 1974), John Boorman (Deliverance), Jack Hill (Coffy, 1973), Costa Gavras (Z, 1968), Yoko Ono (Rape, 1969), Sidney J. Furie (Lady Sings the Blues, 1972), Tinto Brass (Caligula, 1979), Jean Becker (Conversations with my Gardener, 2007), Ken Jacobs (Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son, 1969), M.T. Vasudevan Nair (Nirmalyam, 1973), Roman Polanski (Rosemary's Baby)

PRODUCERS:

1927: Arthur Cohn (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, 1970)
1929: Sandy Frank (TV's Battle of the Planets, 1978), Sid Krofft (Pufnstuf), Joan Ganz Cooney (TV's Sesame Street)
1930: Albert Ruddy (The Godfather), Frank Price (TV's The Virginian, 1963-1967)
1931: Irwin Winkler (Goodfellas)
1932: George Stevens, Jr. (The Diary of Anne Frank), George Schlatter (TV's Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, 1968-1973)
1933: Quincy Jones (The Color Purple), Lou Adler (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)

MISCELLANEOUS:

1923: Józef Hen (novelist/screenwriter: The Boxer and Death, 1963)
1924: Lee Adams (lyricist: Bye Bye Birdie)
1925: Alan Bergman (composer: TV's Maude)
1926: Robert McGinnis (poster designer: Breakfast at Tiffany's), Gene Shalit (critic), Peter Marshall (host: TV's Hollywood Squares), David Attenborough (host: TV's The Living Planet)
1927: Maggie Lettvin (TV's Maggie & the Beautiful Machine, 1969-1979) John Kander (composer: Cabaret)
1928: Charles Strouse (composer: TV's All in the Family), Richard M. Sherman (composer: Mary Poppins' Chim Chim Cheree), Johnny Gilbert (Announcer: TV's Jeopardy!)
1929: Billy Williams (cinematographer: Gandhi)
1930: Silvio Santos (Brazilian TV host)
1931: Robert MacNeil (host: TV's MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour), Caroline Graham (writer: TV's Midsomer Murders, 1999-2010), Dan Rather (TV broadcaster, 1981-2005)
1932: Marlene Fanta Shyer (writer: TV's I Dream of Jeannie, 1967), John Hart (broadcast journalist), John Williams (composer: Star Wars), Lalo Schifrin (composer: TV's Mission: Impossible), Joe Morgenstern (critic), Belva Davis (CBS & NBC journalist), Theodor Pistek (costume designer: Amadeus)
1933: Charles Osgood (TV host: CBS Sunday Morning), Tony Brown (host of TV's Tony Brown Journal, 1978-2008), Joan Bakewell (BBC arts correspondent), Wink Martindale (host of TV's Tic Tac Dough)

Evercross

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Wednesday 17th April
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Halmyre said:
1926: Stanley Baxter (The Fast Lady, 1962)
Wow. I hadn't realised Stanley Baxter was still alive. His name sticks out for me for being a fellow Scot and a regular on TV during my childhood. His 'Parliamo Glasgow' skits being particularly memorable.



Edited by Evercross on Wednesday 17th April 09:32

Halmyre

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Wednesday 17th April
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Evercross said:
Halmyre said:
1926: Stanley Baxter (The Fast Lady, 1962)
Wow. I hadn't realised Stanley Baxter was still alive. His name sticks out for me for being a fellow Scot and a regular on TV during my childhood. His 'Parliamo Glasgow' skits being particularly memorable.



Edited by Evercross on Wednesday 17th April 09:32
Another from your childhood (probably) who isn't on the list, Glen Michael.