A few days ago, ex-US president Jimmy Carter passed away, having only recently celebrated his 100th birthday on 1st October, and it got me thinking...
It reminded me that after again watching the marvellous 1971 film The French Connection I looked for for more info and discovered that Gene Hackman is still alive and kicking – he'll be 95 next month!
As I looked at Hackman’s body of work, I noticed that Warren Beatty and Faye Dunnaway his co-stars in the 1967 movie Bonnie and Clyde are also still with us, currently 87 and 83 respectively.
Impressed and delighted, I started compiling a list of elderly famous faces, not just actors, adding to to the list as and when someone popped into my head.
The list got longer and longer and I didn't really know what to do with it until now because Jimmy’s passing has reminded me that at the end of the year we often look back at the people we’ve lost in the last 12 months and I thought it would be nice, a good idea, to celebrate the people who are still with us.
Some tenuous London links to Jimmy Carter:
A ghostsign in Walworth Rd, scraffito in Carter Lane EC4, a cafe in Homerton (also RIP), Carters' Steam Fair (shown during its last travelling show in July 2022) and mosaic threshold in Maida Hill (more here)
A ghostsign in Walworth Rd, scraffito in Carter Lane EC4, a cafe in Homerton (also RIP), Carters' Steam Fair (shown during its last travelling show in July 2022) and mosaic threshold in Maida Hill (more here)
Eva Marie Saint, 4 July 1924June Lockhart, 25 June 1925Dick Van Dyke, 13 Dec 1925David Attenborough, 8 May 1926
Desmond Morris, 24 Jan 1928
Mel Brooks, 28 June 1926
Estelle Parsons, 20 Nov 1927Noam Chomsky, 7 Dec 1928Frank Gehry, 29 Feb 1929
Joan Plowright, 29 Oct 1929Tippi Hedren, 19 Jan 1930Buzz Aldrin, 20 Jan 1930Gene Hackman, 30 Jan 1930Robert Wagner, 10 Feb 1930Joanne Woodward, 27 Feb 1930
Douglas Hurd, 8 March 1930
Jasper Johns, 15 May 1930
Clint Eastwood, 31 May 1930
Bernie Ecclestone, 28 Oct 1930
Robert Duvall, 5 Jan 1931Norman Tebbit, 21 March 1931Barbara Eden, 23 Aug, 1931Rita Moreno, 11 Dec 1931Gerhard Richter, 9 Feb 1932
Prunella Scales, 22 June 1932Phylidda Law, 6 July 1932Ellen Burstyn, 7 Sep 1932Petula Clark, 15 Nov 1932
Katharine, Duchess of Kent, 22 Feb 1933
Frankie Valli, 3 May 1934
Kim Novak, 13 Feb 1933Sheila Hancock, 22 Feb 1933
Michael Caine, 14 March 1933Michael Heseltine, 23 March 1933
Joan Bakewell, 16 April 1933Willie Nelson, 29 April 1933Joan Collins, 23 May 1933Roman Polanski, 18 Aug 1933Tom Skerritt, 25 Aug 1933Tom Baker, 20 Jan 1934Richard Chamberlain, 31 March 1934Shirley Jones, 31 March 1934
Jane Goodall, 3 April 1934
Shirley MacLaine, 24 April 1934Frankie Valli, 3 May 1934
Alan Bennet, 9 May 1934Nanette Newman, 29 May 1934Eileen Atkins, 16 June 1934Jamie Farr, 1 July 1934Jean Marsh, 1 July 1934Sofia Loren, 20 Sep 1934Brigitte Bardot, 28 Sep 1934Judi Dench, 9 Dec 1934
You'll also find a short version of this on Substack
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