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To: patriot08
This is one of my favorites, was a western junkie in my preteens. Most of the stars are gone and one more, of the few left, has joined them. There may be a handfull of current artists that can match them but it's not many.


29 posted on 12/17/2009 12:23:35 PM PST by Peter Horry (Those who aren't responsible always know best.)
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To: Peter Horry

Ah, the good old days, when hot women were laying out in the desert to be tripped over...


30 posted on 12/17/2009 12:31:44 PM PST by PLMerite (Ride to the sound of the Guns - I'll probably need help.)
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To: Peter Horry

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I know. I loved the music in ‘Portrait of Jennie’.

Here is a list of old movie stars and celebs still living that you might find interesting:

The following 294 living people are all at least 80 years old:
(*) indicates 90 to 99 (56 people on this list)
(!) indicates 100 and over (1 person on this list)

Julie Adams - actress, “Creature From the Black Lagoon”
Marty Allen - game show panelist
Ed Ames - tomahawk-throwing actor
Richard Anderson - actor, “The Six Million Dollar Man”
Patty Andrews - singer, the Andrews Sisters
Bill Archer - U.S. congressman
James Arness - actor, “Gunsmoke”
Ed Asner - actor, Lou Grant
Richard Attenborough - film director, “Gandhi”
Lauren Bacall - actress
Chuck Barris - TV host, “The Gong Show”
Dave Brubek - jazz pianist
Hal David - songwriter, “What the World Needs Now is Love”
Conrad Bain - actor, “Diff’rent Strokes”
Howard Baker Jr. - U.S. senator/White House chief of staff
Roger Bannister - runner
Bob Barker - game show host
(*) Gene Barry - actor, “War of the Worlds”
Harry Belafonte - calypso singer
Orson Bean - actor, “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”
Pope Benedict XVI - Roman Catholic pope
Tony Bennett - singer
Yogi Berra - baseball player
Chuck Berry - rock ‘n’ roll pioneer
James Best - actor, “The Dukes of Hazzard”
(*) Barbara Billingsley - actress, “Leave It to Beaver”
George Blanda - Hall of Fame NFL football player
(*) Ernest Borgnine - actor
Robert Bork - U.S. Supreme Court nominee
Frank Borman - U.S. astronaut
Tom Bosley - actor, “Happy Days”
Boutros Boutros-Ghali - U.N. secretary-general
Ray Bradbury - science fiction author
Ben Bradlee - editor, The Washington Post
Peter Breck - actor, “The Big Valley”
Mel Brooks - director, “Young Frankenstein”
Joyce Brothers - advice columnist
Helen Gurley Brown - editor, “Cosmopolitan”
Barbara Bush - U.S. first lady
George Bush - U.S. president
(*) Robert Byrd - U.S. senator
(*) Frank Cady - actor; “Green Acres”
Sid Caesar - actor
Charlie Callas - comedian
Pierre Cardin - fashion designer
Scott Carpenter - U.S. astronaut, Project Mercury
Jimmy Carter - U.S. president
Rosalynn Carter - U.S. first lady
Fidel Castro - Cuban dictator
Carol Channing - actress
Jack T. Chick - Christian cartoonist/publisher
Noam Chomsky - leftist linguist
Dick Clark - TV host and producer
Robert Clary - actor, “Hogan’s Heroes”
Mike Connors - actor, “Mannix”
Denton Cooley - heart surgeon
Jackie Cooper - actor
(*) “Professor” Irwin Corey - comedian
Javier Perez de Cuellar - U.N. secretary-general
Tony Curtis - actor
Bill Daily - actor, “I Dream of Jeannie”
Vic Damone - singer, “On the Street Where You Live”
Jean Darling - actress, “The Little Rascals”
Hal David - songwriter, “What the World Needs Now is Love”
Al Davis - pro sports executive, Oakland/L.A. Raiders
Ann B. Davis - actress, “The Brady Bunch”
Doris Day - actress
Dorothy DeBorba - actress, “The Little Rascals”
(*) Olivia De Havilland - actress
(*) Dino De Laurentiis - film producer
Jimmy Dean - singer/sausage producer
Jeremiah Denton - U.S. POW in Vietnam / U.S. senator
Little Jimmy Dickens - country singer
(*) Phyllis Diller - actress
Anatoly Dobrynin - Soviet diplomat
(*) Bobby Doerr - baseball player
Bob Dole - U.S. senator
Fats Domino - rock and roll pioneer
(*) Kirk Douglas - actor
Hugh Downs - TV host
Deanna Durbin - actress, “Three Smart Girls”
Richard Dysart - actor, “L.A. Law”
Blake Edwards - film director, “The Pink Panther”
Queen Elizabeth II - British head of state
Nanette Fabray - actress
Peter Falk - actor, Columbo
Jules Feiffer - cartoonis, “The New Yorker”
Al Feldstein - editor, “MAD”
(*) Bob Feller - baseball player
Tom Foley - U.S. speaker of the House
Fyvush Finkel - actor, “Boston Public”
Eddie Fisher - singer
(*) Joan Fontaine - actress
(*) Betty Ford - U.S. first lady
Whitey Ford - Hall of Fame baseball player
(*) John Forsythe - actor
Bernard Fox - actor, “Bewitched”
Jonathan Frid - actor, “Dark Shadows”
(*) Zsa Zsa Gabor - actress
Joe Garagiola - major leaguer & TV host
James Garner - actor, “The Rockford Files”
(*) Betty Garrett - actress, “Laverne & Shirley”
Valery Giscard d’Estaing - French president
John Glenn - U.S. astronaut & senator
Richard Gordon - U.S. astronaut, Apollo 12
Berry Gordy - record producer, Motown
(*) Michael Gough - actor, “Batman”
(*) Billy Graham - evangelist
Andy Griffith - actor
Peter Graves - actor, “Mission: Impossible”
Shecky Greene - comedian
Robert Guillaume - actor, “Benson”
Alexander Haig - U.S. general & cabinet member
Barbara Hale - actress, “Perry Mason”
Monty Hall - game show host
Milo Hamilton - baseball announcer
Pat Harrington Jr. - actor, “One Day at a Time”
Donald Harron - actor, “Hee Haw”
Ray Harryhausen - film producer, “Jason and the Argonauts”
(*) Ernie Harwell - baseball announcer, Detroit Tigers
(*) Knut Haugland - explorer, Kon-Tiki
Richard “Racehorse” Haynes - criminal defense attorney
Hugh Hefner - publisher, “Playboy”
Hal Holbrook - actor, “Lincoln”
Ernest Hollings - U.S. senator
(*) Lena Horne - singer
Gordie Howe - NHL hockey player
Lee Iacocca - automobile manufacturer
(*) Monte Irvin - Hall of Fame baseball player
Al Jaffee - cartoonist, “MAD”
Sonny James - country singer
Conrad Janis - actor, “Mork and Mindy”
Arte Johnson - actor, “Laugh-In”
Russell Johnson - actor, “Gilligan’s Island”
Jennifer Jones - actress, “The Song of Bernadette”
Bil Keane - cartoonist, “The Family Circus”
George Kennedy - actor, “The Naked Gun”
Tom Kennedy - game show host, “Password Plus”
Jack Kevorkian - assisted suicide practitioner
Ralph Kiner - Hall of Fame baseball player
B.B. King - blues musician
Henry Kissinger - U.S. secretary of state
Jack Klugman - actor
Ed Koch - mayor of New York
(*) C. Everett Koop - surgeon general
Sid Krofft - TV producer, “Land of the Lost”
(*) Jack LaLanne - fitness guru
Jake LaMotta - boxer, middleweight champion
Angela Lansbury - actress, “Murder, She Wrote”
Lyndon LaRouche - U.S. presidential candidate
Don Larsen - major leaguer, NY Yankees
Tommy Lasorda - major-league manager
Frank Lautenberg - U.S. senator
Cloris Leachman - actress, “Phyllis”
Norman Lear - TV producer
Christopher Lee - horror film actor
Stan Lee - comic book writer, “Spiderman”
Tom Lehrer - musical satirist, “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park”
Len Lesser - actor, “Seinfeld”
Jerry Lewis - actor, “The Nutty Professor”
(*) Art Linkletter - TV host and pitchman
James Lipton - TV host, “Inside the Actor’s Studio”
June Lockhart - actress, “Lost In Space”
Gina Lollobrigida - actress
(*) Herbert Lom - actor, “The Pink Panther”
Jim Lovell - U.S. astronaut
(*) Lee MacPhail - baseball executive
(*) Nelson Mandela - South African politician
Benoit Mandelbrot - mathematician, fractals
Imelda Marcos - Philippine first lady
Rose Marie - actress/game show panelist
Peter Marshall - game show host, “The Hollywood Squares”
George Martin - music producer, The Beatles
Nan Martin - actress, “The Drew Carey Show”
(*) Tony Martin - singer/actor
Jim McDivitt - U.S. astronaut, Apollo 9
George McGovern - U.S. senator
John McLaughlin - political commentator/host
Robert Michel - U.S. congressman
(*) Marvin Miller - baseball players negotiator
(*) Mitch Miller - bandleader
(*) Al Molinaro - actor, “Happy Days”
Walter Mondale - U.S. vice president
Roger Moore - actor, James Bond
(*) Harry Morgan - actor
Ennio Morricone - film soundtrack composer, “The Mission”
Hosni Mubarak - Egyptian president
Roger Mudd - TV journalist
Stan Musial - basball player
(*) Yasuhiro Nakasone - Japanese prime minister
Noel Neill - actress, “Adventures of Superman”
Bob Newhart - actor, “The Bob Newhart Show”
(*) Edwin Newman - newscaster
Leslie Nielsen - actor, “The Naked Gun”
James Noble - actor, “Benson”
Hugh O’Brian - actor, “Wyatt Earp”
Maureen O’Hara - actress
Patti Page - singer, “The Doggie in the Window”
Arnold Palmer - golfer
(*) Don Pardo - TV announcer, “Saturday Night Live”
Fess Parker - actor, “Davy Crockett”
Joe Paterno - college football coach
Shimon Peres - Israeli prime minister
William Perry - U.S. secretary of defense
Prince Philip of the U.K. - British royal family member
Bum Phillips - NFL football coach
T. Boone Pickens - oil industry executive
Sidney Poitier - actor
Ray Price - country singer
Charlotte Rae - actress, “The Facts of Life”
James Randi - magician
Joyce Randolph - actress, “The Honeymooners”
Nancy Reagan - U.S. first lady
Carl Reiner - actor/director
Don Rickles - comedian
(*) Oral Roberts - preacher
Pernell Roberts - actor, “Bonanza”
Robin Roberts - Hall of Fame baseball player
Cliff Robertson - actor, “Charly”
Dale Robertson - actor, westerns
(*) David Rockefeller - chairman, Chase Manhattan bank
(*) Andy Rooney - TV news commentator
Mickey Rooney - actor
Al Rosen - baseball executive
Marion Ross - actress, “Happy Days”
Dan Rostenkowski - U.S. congressman
Jane Russell - actress & bra spokeswoman
Eva Marie Saint - actress, “North By Northwest”
(*) J. D. Salinger - author, “Catcher in the Rye”
Vidal Sassoon - hairdresser
Phyllis Schlafly - activist, Eagle Forum
(*) Helmut Schmidt - W. German chancellor
James Schlesinger - U.S. secretary of defense
Red Schoendienst - baseball manager
Robert Schuller - preacher
(*) Sherwood Schwartz - TV producer
Earl Scruggs - banjo player, “The Ballad of Jed Clampett”
Vin Scully - baseball announcer, Los Angeles Dodgers
(*) Pete Seeger - folk musician
Maurice Sendak - children’s writer, “Where the Wild Things Are”
Doc Severinsen - bandleader, “The Tonight Show”
Ravi Shankar - sitar player
(*) Yitzak Shamir - Israeli prime minister
Ariel Sharon - Israeli prime minister
(!) George Beverly Shea - gospel singer
Liz Sheridan - actress, “Seinfeld”
(*) Sargent Shriver - U.S. political candidate
George Shultz - U.S. cabinet secretary
Neil Simon - playwright, “The Odd Couple”
Duke Snider - Hall of Fame baseball player
Jean Stapleton - actress, Edith Bunker
John Paul Stevens - U.S. supreme court justice
Ted Stevens - U.S. senator
Jerry Stiller - actor, “Seinfeld”
Larry Storch - actor, “F-Troop”
Alan Sues - actor, “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In”
Gordie Tapp - performer, “Hee Haw”
Chuck Tanner - baseball manager, Pittsburgh Pirates
Shirley Temple - actress
Margaret Thatcher - British prime minister
Helen Thomas - White House reporter
Frank Thornton - actor, “Are You Being Served?”
Grant Tinker - TV executive (NBC)
Y. A. Tittle - Hall of Fame football player
(*) Abigail Van Buren - advice columnist
Dick Van Patten - actor, “Eight is Enough”
Gloria Vanderbilt - fashion designer
Dick Van Dyke - actor
Gore Vidal - novelist, “Lincoln”
Abe Vigoda - actor, “Barney Miller”
Paul Volcker - chairman, U.S. Federal Reserve
Claus von Bulow - acquitted attempted murder defendant
Ralph Waite - actor, “The Waltons”
Clint Walker - actor, “Cheyenne”
Mort Walker - cartoonist, “Beetle Bailey”
(*) Mike Wallace - TV journalist
(*) Eli Wallach - actor
Joseph Wapner - television judge
John Warner - U.S. senator
(*) Kitty Wells - country singer
Adam West - actor, “Batman”
Ruth Westheimer - sex counselor
Betty White - actress
Slim Whitman - country singer
Andy Williams - singer, “Moon River”
Dick Williams - Hall of Fame baseball manager
Esther Williams - swimmer
Roger Williams - pianist, “Born Free”
Jonathan Winters - comedian
(*) John Wooden - NCAA basketball coach
Jim Wright - U.S. speaker of the House
Chuck Yeager - test pilot
Alan Young - actor, “Mister Ed”
(*) Efrem Zimbalist Jr. - actor


Here are the most recent changes to the list above:

Ed Asner - turned 80
Dick Clark - turned 80
(*) Anatoly Dobrynin - turned 90
Berry Gordy - turned 80
Conrad Janis - added
Maurice Sendak - added
(!) Claude Levi-Strauss - died
(*) Joseph Wapner - turned 90
(*) Alan Young - turned 90


http://www.whosaliveandwhosdead.com/actors.asp

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44 posted on 12/17/2009 3:21:36 PM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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