kato
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How come no one mentioned this yet. He was way before my generation but I liked him. I think he was a true gentleman.
A surprising number make it intot heir 80s and 90s. They have a better life expectancy than rock/r&b performers, who seem to average between 55-65.Peter Hamilton said:I just mentioned Glenn Ford to my mother a few days ago--She watches AMC a lot and a Glenn Ford/Jack Lemon western was on--We were talking about how few of the old-timers were still around--she always liked him---looks like he had an amazing career,started in movies in 1940!-----so who's next? Mickey Rooney(86)? the great Kirk Douglas(90)?--not too many make it to 99(Eddie Albert) or 100 like Bob Hope and George Burns
BillyGoatGruff said:A surprising number make it intot heir 80s and 90s. They have a better life expectancy than rock/r&b performers, who seem to average between 55-65.
All the great actors of the 1930s are long gone. The ones from the 1940s are nearly extinct. Now the ones from the 1950s are starting to die off with alarming regularity. I suspect to see Christopher Lee leave us in the next couple of years, as well as Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Wyman (if she isn't dead already), Ben Gazarra, Peter Falk, Kirk Douglas and probably another member of the original Star Trek cast.
Probably his greatest role was that of flint in the BBC version of GORMENGHAST. He certainly had the most screen time and dialog of any of his films I can remember. I was of the impression he was of Gypsy/Russian extraction, but you never can tell with Hollywood press releases.Peter Hamilton said:agree--Chrisopher Lee is great--he was excellent in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones-- and truly superb in the first Lord Of The Rings movie,which is one of the greatest movies of all time---Lee made a great Dracula also--he was born of an Italian noble family in 1922,makes him 84 now
BillyGoatGruff said:A surprising number make it intot heir 80s and 90s. They have a better life expectancy than rock/r&b performers, who seem to average between 55-65.
All the great actors of the 1930s are long gone. The ones from the 1940s are nearly extinct. Now the ones from the 1950s are starting to die off with alarming regularity. I suspect to see Christopher Lee leave us in the next couple of years, as well as Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Wyman (if she isn't dead already), Ben Gazarra, Peter Falk, Kirk Douglas and probably another member of the original Star Trek cast.