50 Oldest Living Celebrities Alive Until Now 2023

While scientists continue to search for ways to prolong life, some people have found the secret to living longer than 100 ages. For these people, age doesn’t matter, and they continue to enjoy life even near or over 100 years old. It is generally believed that creative people live bright but short lives. But the characters mentioned in this article have demonstrated the opposite.

Key Takeaways

• These celebs demonstrate that age is just a number. Many of them are in their 90s and 100s and still thrive and inspire others.
• Betty White is a national treasure and one of history’s most revered actors. She is still going strong at 99 years old.
• With careers spanning decades, Harry Belafonte, Tony Bennett, and Cloris Leachman are all among the oldest living celebrities.
• Kane Tanaka, who is 117 years old, is the world’s oldest living person. She attributes her long life to her enjoyment of board games.
• Jeanne Calment, a 122-year-old woman, attributed her long life to olive oil, cigarettes, chocolate, and wine.
• Maria Riva, the daughter of legendary actress Marlene Dietrich, is still performing at the age of 98.
• June Lockhart, who starred in the iconic TV show “Lost in Space,” is also 98.
• Many of these celebrities have received multiple prizes and accolades over the course of their careers, demonstrating that age is no barrier to achievement.
• Despite their elderly ages these celebrities’ ability and enthusiasm continue to inspire and delight people all around the world.
• Their longevity serves as a reminder to all of us to take care of ourselves and live life to the fullest regardless of the number of candles on our birthday cake.

1. Iris Apfel

Full Name	Iris Apfel
Date of Birth	August 29, 1921
Age	101
Place of Birth	Queens, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Businesswoman, Interior designer, Fashion designer, Model

Iris Apfel (née Barrel; born August 29, 1921) is a businesswoman, interior designer, and fashion icon from the United States. From 1950 to 1992, Apfel ran a textile business with her husband, Carl, including a contract with the White House that lasted nine presidents. 

In retirement, she received critical acclaim for a 2005 show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, which featured her collection of costume jewelry styled with clothes on mannequins as she would wear it. She has become a fashion icon, signing with IMG as a model in 2019 at the age of 97, and she was featured in Albert Maysles’ 2014 documentary Iris.

2. Walter Mirisch

Full Name	Walter Mortimer Mirisch
Date of Birth	November 8, 1921
Age	101
Place of Birth	New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Film producer

American film producer Walter Mortimer Mirisch was born on November 8, 1921. Mirisch is president and chief head of the creation of The Mirisch Partnership, a free film creation organization, which he shaped in 1957 with his sibling Marvin and stepbrother Harold. As the producer of In the Heat of the Night (1967), he won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

From 1924 to 2005, he married Patricia Kahan; Anne Mirisch Sonnenberg, Andrew Mirisch, and Lawrence Mirisch were their three children. Lawrence, his son, established the Mirisch Agency. On November 8, 2021, Mirisch turned one hundred.

3. Ray Anthony

Full Name	Raymond Antonini
Date of Birth	January 20, 1922
Age	100
Place of Birth	Bentleyville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Musician, bandleader

Ray Anthony (January 20, 1922) was born in Bentleyville, Pennsylvania, on January 20, 1922. His family relocated to Cleveland, where he spent most of his childhood. He studied trumpet with his father there. He was a Glenn Miller and His Orchestra member from 1940 to 1941. Anthony formed Big Band ’80s in the early 1980s, with other members including Buddy Rich, Harry James, Les Brown, and Alvino Rey.

Anthony, who has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is still active as a bandleader and musician[when?]. His later works departed from his earlier Big Band jazz style, ranging from MOR and lounge music to blues, film, and television themes.

4. Margia Dean

Full Name	Marguerite Louise Skliris
Date of Birth	April 7, 1922
Age	100
Place of Birth	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Beauty queen, actress

Margia Dean (born April 7, 1922) is an American former beauty queen and stage and screen actress of Greek descent who had a successful career in Hollywood films from the 1940s to the early 1960s.

She was born in Chicago, Illinois, but moved with her parents to San Francisco, California, when she was a child. She began acting at seven, appearing on stage in various child roles, and later won the Women’s National Shakespeare Contest for her performance as Juliet in a Romeo and Juliet production. In 1939, she was named “Miss San Francisco” and “Miss California” for her modeling efforts. In the “Miss America 1939” pageant, she finished fifth behind Patricia Donnelly.

5. Norman Lear

Full Name	Norman Milton Lear
Date of Birth	July 27, 1922
Age	100
Place of Birth	New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation	Producer, screenwriter

American producer and screenwriter Norman Milton Lear was born on July 27, 1922. He has produced, written, created, or developed more than 100 shows. All in the Family, which won numerous awards, as well as Maude, One Day at a Time, Sanford and Son,  The Jeffersons, and Good Times are just a few of the well-known 1970s sitcoms that Lear is credited with creating.

Lear has continued to actively produce television, resulting in the 2022 Netflix revival of Good Times and the 2017 remake of One Day at a Time.

6. Janis Paige

Full Name	Donna Mae Tjaden
Date of Birth	September 16, 1922
Age	100
Place of Birth	Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer

Janis Paige is a retired American actress and singer born Donna Mae Tjaden on September 16, 1922. She was five years old when she first started singing in community amateur productions in Tacoma, Washington. She relocated to Los Angeles after graduating high school, working as a pin-up model and singing at the Hollywood Canteen during World War II. This would result in a film deal with Warner Bros., though she later left the company to pursue live theatre work, making appearances in several Broadway productions. She continued to alternate between acting in films and on stage for most of her career.

7. Bert I. Gordon

Full Name	Bert Ira Gordon
Date of Birth	September 24, 1922
Age	100
Place of Birth	Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S.
Occupation	Film director

Born on September 24, 1922, Bert Ira Gordon is an American director and special effects artist. His most notable works include King Dinosaur (1955),  Earth vs. the Spider (1958), The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), Village of the Giants (1965), and Empire of the Ants. He is writing and directing science fiction and horror B-movies (1977).

Most of Gordon’s work is in the style of giant monster movies, and he used rear projection to produce special effects for these movies. Forrest J. Ackerman gave him the moniker “Mr. B.I.G.” in honor of his initials and the creatures frequently appearing in his movies.

8. Jacqueline White

Full Name	Jacqueline Jane White
Date of Birth	November 23, 1922
Age	100
Place of Birth	Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Jacqueline Jane White (born November 23, 1922) is an American former actress, she had a brief career in Hollywood during the 1940s and early 1950s working as a contract player at both studios MGM and RKO. 

She is perhaps best remembered for her roles in the movies Crossfire (1947) and The Narrow Margin (1952). She is one of the last living actresses from the heyday of Hollywood.

9. Henry Kissinger

Full Name	Henry Alfred Kissinger
Date of Birth	May 27, 1923
Age	99
Place of Birth	Fürth, Bavaria, Weimar Republic
Occupation	Politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant

American politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant Henry Alfred Kissinger KCMG was born in Germany on May 27, 1923, and held the positions of national security advisor and secretary of state during the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. 

Having fled Nazi Germany with his family as a Jew in 1938, Kissinger was a bright student who graduated from Harvard College with a BA degree summa cum laude in 1950 after studying under William Yandell Elliott. At Harvard University, he earned his MA in 1951 and his Ph.D. in 1954, respectively.

10. Glynis Johns

Full Name	Glynis Margaret Payne Johns
Date of Birth	October 5, 1923
Age	99
Place of Birth	Pretoria, Union of South Africa
Occupation	Actress, dancer, pianist, singer

Musical-voiced The actor Mervyn Johns’ daughter Glynis Johns (born 5 October 1923). She  was born in South Africa while her parents were on tour there (her mother was a concert pianist), and is best known for her light comedy roles and frequent flirting.  Despite this, she has always been proud of her Welsh heritage.

11. Bob Barker

Full Name	Robert William Barke
Date of Birth	December 12, 1923,
Age	99
Place of Birth	Darrington, Washington, U.S.
Occupation	Television personalitygame show host

American television game show presenter Robert William Barker is now retired. On December 12, 1923, he was born.  From 1972 to 2007, Barker was the host of The Price Is Right, the longest-running daytime game show in North American television history.

Barker presented Truth or Consequences from 1967 to 1987, which ran from 1956 to 1975. Barker presided over the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants. After his wife Dorothy Jo passed away from lung cancer in 1981, he started to support animal rights.

12. Mike Nussbaum

Full Name	Myron G. Nussbaum
Date of Birth	December 29, 1923
Age	99
Place of Birth	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, director

Actor and director Myron G. Nussbaum was born in the United States on December 29, 1923. Nussbaum was raised in Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood and was born into a Jewish family. After participating in World War II military service, he returned to Chicago and got married shortly after. His Army duties included serving as General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s chief of the message center, where he sent the official notification of Germany’s surrender. He co-owned a pest control company with his brother-in-law for 20 years.

13. Carole Cook

Full Name	Mildred Frances Cook
Date of Birth	January 14, 1924
Age	98
Place of Birth	Abilene, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

On January 14, 1924, Mildred Frances Cook was born in Abilene, Texas, becoming Carole Cook. She was an actress and comedian who worked as Lucille Ball’s protégé. Cook played Mrs. Peacham in the 1956 off-Broadway version of The Threepenny Opera. The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Sixteen Candles, Grandview, U.S.A., American Gigolo, Summer Lovers, and Palm Springs Weekend were some of the movies she appeared in.

In the fourth season episode of Hart to Hart, Cook played the lead. The 2002 Theatre Ovation Award for Lifetime Career Achievement went to Julie Cook. She was the first married couple to receive such honors, together with her actor husband, Tom Troupe.

14. Noreen Nash

Full Name	Norabelle Jean Roth
Date of Birth	April 4, 1924
Age	98
Place of Birth	Wenatchee, Washington, U.S.
Occupation	Film actress

Noreen Nash, an American actress in film and television, was born Norabelle Jean Roth on April 4, 1924. She began her acting career with uncredited roles at MGM. She made her film debut in The Southerner in 1945. Subsequently, she mainly played the lead in b-movies from the late 1940s and early 1950s, including The Red Stallion (1947), The Checkered Coat (1948), and Phantom from Space (1950). (1953). She stopped acting in 1962, went to college, and eventually started writing books after publishing several.

15. Priscilla Pointer

Full Name	Priscilla Marie Pointer
Date of Birth	May 18, 1924
Age	98
Place of Birth	New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

American actress Priscilla Marie Pointer was born on May 18, 1924. In the late 1940s, she started her career in theater, appearing in Broadway plays, among other venues.  In the early 1950s, Pointer made television appearances after relocating to Hollywood. However, she didn’t start regularly acting on the screen until the 1970s.

16. Eva Marie Saint

Full Name	Eva Marie Saint
Date of Birth	July 4, 1924
Age	98
Place of Birth	Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) and she is an American film, stage, and television actress. In her 70-year career, she has won an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as nominations for a Golden Globe Award and two British Academy Film Awards. Following the deaths of Olivia de Havilland in 2020 and Angela Lansbury, Saint became the oldest living and later earliest surviving winner of an Academy Award, as well as one of the last remaining stars from Hollywood’s Golden Age.

17. Jimmy Carter

Full Name	James Earl Carter Jr.
Date of Birth	October 1, 1924
Age	98
Place of Birth	Plains, Georgia, U.S.
Occupation	Politician

James Earl Carter Jr. was born October 1, 1924, and he was the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He previously served as Georgia’s 76th governor from 1971 to 1975 and as a state senator from 1963 to 1967 as a Democrat. Carter stayed active in political and social endeavors after leaving the government, and he was gotten the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his humanitarian efforts.

18. Joyce Randolph

Full Name	Joyce Sirola
Date of Birth	October 21, 1924
Age	98
Place of Birth	Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Joyce Randolph, an American actress, best remembered for her role as Trixie Norton on the television sitcom The Honeymooners, was born Joyce Sirola on October 21, 1924.

Randolph married rich marketing entrepreneur Richard Lincoln Charles on October 2, 1955, the day following the debut of The Honeymooners. Richard Charles, 74, died in 1997. Randolph Richard Charles (born in 1960) is a marketing specialist. Tim Redding’s grandma.

19. Maria Riva

Full Name	Maria Elisabeth Sieber
Date of Birth	December 13, 1924
Age	98
Place of Birth	Berlin, Germany
Occupation	Actress, author

Maria Elisabeth Riva (born December 13, 1924) is a former American actress of German descent. In the 1950s, she worked for CBS and became one of the first stars of early kinescope television. She is Marlene Dietrich’s daughter, and she wrote a biography about her mother in 1992.

She was briefly engaged to actor Richard Haydn in early 1943 but married the same year actor Dean Goodman, whom she divorced in 1944. Maria met her second husband, scenic designer William Riva, during the summer of 1947, he was teaching a graduate acting and directing course at Fordham University. They married on July 4th of the same year. Maria and her husband were happily married for more than 50 years till he died in 1999. She has four boys with him.

Riva remained connected with many of her mother’s colleagues and contacts, including Brian Aherne,  Edward R. Murrow, Jean Gabin, and Yul Brynner, with whom she participated in United Cerebral Palsy telethons in the 1950s.

20. June Lockhart

Full Name	June Lockhart
Date of Birth	June 25, 1925
Age	97
Place of Birth	New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

June Lockhart (born June 25, 1925), she is an American actress. June began her career in the 1930s and 1940s in films such as A Christmas Carol and Met Me in St. Louis. She predominantly appeared on television in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as on stage and in films. She performed mother roles in two television shows, Lassie and Lost in Space.

 She also played Dr. Janet Craig in the CBS comedy Petticoat Junction (1968–70). She has received two Emmy nominations and one Tony Award. She is one of the few remaining performers from Hollywood’s Golden Age, with a career lasting over 80 years.

21. Lee Grant

Full Name	Lyova Haskell Rosenthal
Date of Birth	October 31, 1925
Age	97
Place of Birth	New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Actress and director

Lee Grant is an American actress, documentarian, and director who was born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal on October 31, around the mid-1920s. In 1951, she made her film debut as a juvenile shoplifter in William Wyler’s Detective Story, alongside Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker. Lee received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal and the Best Actress Award 1952 Cannes Film Festival.

Lee directed the documentary Down and Out in America, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature in 1986, and she also received a Directors Guild of America Award for Nobody’s Child same year.

22. Carla Balenda

Full Name	Sally Bliss
Date of Birth	November 22, 1925
Age	97
Place of Birth	Carthage, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Carla Balenda (born Sally Bliss on November 22, 1925) is a former film and television actress from the United States. She was born in Carthage, New York, on November 22, 1925. Carla attended high school in Baldwin, Long Island, and did summer stock theatre. She had contracts with RKO Pictures and Columbia Pictures, but “she didn’t truly gain her stride until she was picked to be Mickey Rooney’s TV sweetheart,” according to a 1954 newspaper story.

She changed her name to Carla Balenda after appearing in “a few modest roles in RKO pictures” as Sally Bliss. She elaborated: “Sally Bliss was simply adorable. And I’m not at all cute. That moniker would definitely categorize me in ingenue positions – and I’m not the kind.” Balenda appeared on television as Pat in The Mickey Rooney Show (1954-1955) and Betty Leonard in The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu (1955). (1955-1956).

23. Dick Van Dyke

Full Name	Richard Wayne Van Dyke
Date of Birth	December 13, 1925
Age	97
Place of Birth	West Plains, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, comedian, singer, dancer, writer

Richard Wayne Van Dyke was born December 13, 1925 who is a comedian and actor from the United States. His award-winning career in cinema, television, and theater has spanned seven decades.

He started off as a radio and television comedian, as well as in nightclubs and on the Broadway stage. In 1961, he co-starred with Chita Rivera in the original production of Bye Bye Birdie. He earned the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for this performance.

24. Alan Greenspan

Full Name	Alan Greenspan
Date of Birth	March 6, 1926
Age	96
Place of Birth	New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Economist

He started his career as a radio and television personality. Alan Greenspan (born March 6, 1926) is an American economist who served as the Federal Reserve’s 13th chairman from 1987 to 2006. Through Greenspan Associates LLC’s company, he works as a private adviser and assists businesses.

President Ronald Reagan nominated him to the Federal Reserve in August 1987. He was reappointed at four-year intervals until retiring on January 31, 2006, following the second-longest term in the position, trailing only William McChesney Martin. Ben Bernanke was named as President George W. Bush’s successor.

25. Gene Shalit

Full Name	Eugene Shalit
Date of Birth	March 25, 1926
Age	96
Place of Birth	New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Journalist, film critic, literary critic, television personality, author, press agent

Eugene Shalit (born March 25, 1926) is a former journalist, television personality, film and book reviewer, and author from the United States. He began working part-time on NBC’s The Today Show in 1970 and continued to do so until his retirement on November 11, 2010. He is well-known for his use of puns, his huge handlebar mustache and fluffy hair, and colorful bowties.

26. Peter Marshall

Full Name	Ralph Pierre LaCock
Date of Birth	March 30, 1926
Age	96
Place of Birth	Huntington, West Virginia, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, singer, TV host, radio personality

Ralph Pierre LaCock (born March 30, 1926), best known as Peter Marshall, is a former game show presenter, television and radio personality, musician, and actor from the United States. From 1966 until 1981, he was the original presenter of The Hollywood Squares and had almost fifty television, film, and Broadway credits.

John Robert Powers gave Marshall his stage name. Powers had selected the surname Marshall for Peter’s sister (who later changed her name to Joanne Dru), and Peter took it early in his career and matched it with an anglicized form of his middle name.

27. Roger Corman

Full Name	Roger William Corman
Date of Birth	April 5, 1926
Age	96
Place of Birth	Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation	Film director, producer, actor

Roger William Corman was born on April 5, 1926, is an American film, producer, director,  and actor. His films are based on works with an established critical reputation, such as his series of low-budget cult films based on Edgar Allan Poe stories. He has been dubbed “The Pope of Pop Cinema” and is a pioneer in independent film. Corman, admired by members of the French New Wave and Cahiers du Cinéma.

28. Shecky Greene

Full Name	Fred Sheldon Greenfield
Date of Birth	April 8, 1926
Age	96
Place of Birth	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Comedian

Fred Sheldon Greenfield, aka Shecky Greene, was an American comedian (born April 8, 1926). His performances in Las Vegas, Nevada nightclubs, where he became a headliner in the 1950s and 1960s, have made him famous. He has been in several movies, including Tony Rome; Part I of World History; also Splash.

Greene has appeared as a guest star on television shows such as Love, American Style, and Combat! Offstage, Greene’s principal energy was Pureblood dashing. Greene has had three marriages. He wed Nalani Kele in 1972, and they had a child in 1982. Depression and bipolar disorder, stage fright, gambling, panic attacks, and drug and alcohol abuse hampered Greene’s career.

29. David Attenborough

Full Name	David Frederick Attenborough
Date of Birth	May 8, 1926
Age	96
Place of Birth	Isleworth, Middlesex, England
Occupation	Broadcaster, naturalist, presenter

Sir David Frederick Attenborough was born on 8 May 1926, is an English broadcaster, naturalist, natural historian, and novelist.

He is best known for co-creating and presenting the nine natural history documentary series that compose the Life collection, a comprehensive overview of animal and plant life on Earth, with the BBC Natural History Unit.

30. Marilyn Knowlden

Full Name	Marilyn Knowlden
Date of Birth	May 12, 1926
Age	96
Place of Birth	Oakland, California, U.S.
Occupation	Child actress

Marilyn Knowlden was born May 12, 1926, in Oakland, California. Worked with film stars such as James Cagney, Katharine Hepburn,  and Claudette Colbert. Six of her films were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. Knowlden studied at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s Little Red Schoolhouse instead of Hollywood’s prestigious schools for child actors. Appeared in Greta Garbo and Clark Gable’s 1931 film Susan Lenox. Knowlden appeared in Imitation of Life (1934) and David Copperfield (1935). Both films were nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. She played the same character in both films, Cosette in Les Misérables and Florence Udney in Anthony Adverse. In Gone With the Wind, Knowlden was a candidate for the part of the youngest sister of Carreen O’Hara. She played princess Marie Thérèse of France in Marie Antoinette and Laurie Martin in Angels with Dirty Faces. Knowlden married World War II Army Captain Richard Goates in 1946.

31. Yvonne Furneaux

Full Name	Elisabeth Yvonne Scatcherd
Date of Birth	May 11, 1928
Age	94
Place of Birth	Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Occupation	Actress

French-British actress Yvonne Furneaux was born Elisabeth Yvonne Scatcherd on May 11, 1928. Yvonne is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and has worked on numerous genre productions as well as with renowned directors like Peter Brook, Federico Fellini, Roman Polanski, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Claude Chabrol.

Elisabeth Yvonne Scatcherd, the daughter of English parents residing in Roubaix, France, became Furneaux. Joseph Scatcherd, a director at a nearby Lloyds Bank branch, was her Yorkshireman father. Amy Furneaux, her mother, was a Devon native. Jeanne was her sister.

32. Mel Brooks

Full Name	Melvin James Kaminsky
Date of Birth	June 28, 1926
Age	96
Place of Birth	Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, comedian, filmmaker

As a writer and comic for Sid Caesar’s variety program Your Show of Shows, Brooks (born June 28, 1926) launched his professional career. He co-created the popular television sitcom Get Smart with Buck Henry (1965–1970). His most well-known movies were Blazing Saddles, The Twelve Chairs, and The Producers (1967). (1974).

33. Norman Jewison

Full Name	Norman Frederick Jewison
Date of Birth	July 21, 1926
Age	96
Place of Birth	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Director, producer, screenwriter

A retired Canadian film and producer, television director, and the brains behind the Canadian Film Centre, Norman Frederick Jewison CC OOnt was born on July 21, 1926.

Jewison was given the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement in 2003 in recognition of his numerous contributions to the Canadian film industry.

34. Tony Bennett

Full Name	Anthony Dominick Benedetto
Date of Birth	August 3, 1926
Age	96
Place of Birth	New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Singer, painter

Tony Bennett was born Anthony Dominick Benedetto on August 3, 1926, is an American retired singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz. Bennett is also a painter, with works under his birth name on permanent public display in a number of institutions. In Astoria, Queens, New York, he founded the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts.

35. Barbara Rush

Full Name	Barbara Rush
Date of Birth	January 4, 1927
Age	95
Place of Birth	Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Barbara Rush is an American actress born on January 4, 1927. As a result of her performance in the American science fiction film It Came from Outer Space in 1953, Rush won the Golden Globe Award in 1954 as the most promising female newcomer. She became a regular performer in the television series Peyton Place later in her career. She also appeared in TV movies, miniseries, and other shows, like the family drama 7th Heaven and the soap opera All My Children. She also starred in films like The Young Lions, Young Philadelphians,  Robin and the 7 Hoods, and Hombre.

Rush wedded entertainer Jeffrey Tracker in 1950; 1955 marked their separation. In 1959, she wed publicist Warren Cowan, but they split up in 1969. After meeting at an Engelbert Humperdinck concert, Rush wed sculptor Jim Gruzalski in 1970. In 1973, they split up.

Christopher Hunter (with Hunter) and Claudia Cowan (with Cowan) are Rush’s two children. The latter is a Fox News journalist. She is actress Carolyn Hennesy’s aunt. Rush has been living in the Harold Lloyd Estate in Beverly Hills, California, since May 1997.

36. Phyllis Coates

Full Name	Gypsie Ann Evarts Stell
Date of Birth	January 15, 1927
Age	95
Place of Birth	Wichita Falls, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Phyllis Coates is a retired American actress with a more than fifty-year career. She was born Gypsie Ann Evarts Stell on January 15, 1927. The role of reporter Lois Lane in the 1951 film Superman, the Mole Men, and the first season of the television series Adventures of Superman made her a household name.

Coates, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Stell, was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, on January 15, 1927. She relocated to Los Angeles with her mother after completing her studies at Odessa High School. Coates studied at Los Angeles City College under the name Gypsy Stell.

37. Kenneth Anger

Full Name	Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer
Date of Birth	February 3, 1927
Age	95
Place of Birth	Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Occupation	Filmmaker, actor, author, occultist

Kenneth Anger is an underground experimental filmmaker, actor, and author from the United States. He was born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer on February 3, 1927. Since 1937, he has only made short films. Nine of his works have been grouped together as the “Magick Lantern Cycle.” His films have been described as having “elements of erotica, documentary, psychodrama, and spectacle,” combining surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult. 

As a fan of the English gnostic mage and poet Aleister Crowley and a follower of Thelema, the religion that Crowley founded. In many of his films, Kenneth emphasized occult themes.

38. H.M. Wynant

Full Name	Chaim Winant
Date of Birth	February 12, 1927
Age	95
Place of Birth	Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation	Actor

H. M. Wynant, known by his stage name Chaim Winant, was born in America on February 12, 1927. Wynant made his feature film debut as an Indian in Samuel Fuller’s Run of the Arrow (1957). He played Yellow Bull, a Sioux Indian, in the 1958 Walt Disney film Tonka. He played General Philip Sheridan in the 1961 episode “The Red Petticoat” on Death Valley Days.

39. Harry Belafonte

Full Name	Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.
Date of Birth	March 1, 1927
Age	95
Place of Birth	New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Singer, actor, activist

American musician, activist, and actor Harry Belafonte was born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr. (born March 1, 1927). In the 1950s, he introduced the Trinbagonian Caribbean melodic style to a large international audience as ostensibly the finest Jamaican-American pop performer. His debut album Calypso from 1956, was the first by a single artist to sell one million copies.

Harry is best known for his recordings of “The Banana Boat Song,” with its signature “Day-O” lyric, “Jump in the Line,” and “Jamaica Farewell.” Belafonte was a close confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Civil Rights Movement.

40. William Daniels

Full Name	William David Daniels
Date of Birth	March 31, 1927
Age	95
Place of Birth	New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Actor

American actor William David Daniels was born on March 31, 1927. He is most recognized for his television appearances, notably those of George Feeny in the sitcom Kid Meets World and Mark Craig in the drama series St. Elsewhere, for which he received four Individuals’ Decision Grant designations. He also played the role of KITT on the television series Knight Rider.

He led the union’s efforts during the commercial actors strike in 2000 while serving as president of the Screen Actors Guild.

41. Gina Lollobrigida

Full Name	Luigia Lollobrigida
Date of Birth	4 July 1927
Age	95
Place of Birth	Subiaco, Kingdom of Italy
Occupation	Actress, photojournalist

Luigia “Gina” Lollobrigida, an Italian actress, photographer, and politician, was born on July 4, 1927. She was a prominent European actress throughout the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s, a time when she became a global sex icon. Currently, Lollobrigida is one of the few prominent, still-living international performers from the Hollywood film industry’s Golden Age.

Lollobrigida started a second profession as a photographer as her film career began to wane. She scored a coup in the 1970s when she was granted access to Fidel Castro for a personal interview.

42. Doc Severinsen

Full Name	Carl Hilding Severinsen
Date of Birth	July 7, 1927
Age	95
Place of Birth	Arlington, Oregon, U.S.
Occupation	Musician, bandleader

Clarence Hilding “Doc” Severinsen, a retired American jazz trumpeter, was the conductor of the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and featured by the NBC Orchestra (born July 7, 1927). Minnie Mae (1897–1998) and Carl Severinsen welcomed Severinsen into the world in Arlington, Oregon (1898–1972).

The only dentist in Arlington, his father, was born in Germany to a Danish father and a Swiss mother, who gave him the moniker “Doc.” When he was nine years old, he won a state trumpet competition, joined an all-state band at thirteen, and tried out for Tommy Dorsey at fourteen but was not hired.

43. Ed Ames

Full Name	Edmund Dantes Urick
Date of Birth	July 9, 1927
Age	95
Place of Birth	Malden, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Singer, actor

Ed Ames (conceived Edmund Dantes Urick; An American singer and actor (born July 9, 1927), also known by his stage name Eddie Ames. He is best known for playing Mingo in the television series Daniel Boone. He is also known for his pop hits from the middle to late 1960s. Along with his siblings, he was also a member of the Ames Brothers, a well-known group that sang in the 1950s.

Ames was born in Malden, Massachusetts, USA, to Jewish parents David Urick (also known as Eurich) and Sarah (Zaslavskaya), both of whom had immigrated from Ukraine. From a family of nine, he was the youngest, with five boys and four girls. Ames came from a poor family as a child. He studied literature and classical and operatic music at the Boston Latin School. The double-sided singles “Rag Mop” and “Sentimental Me” were their first major hits in the 1950s.

44. Rosalynn Carter

Full Name	Eleanor Rosalynn Carter
Date of Birth	August 18, 1927
Age	95
Place of Birth	Plains, Georgia
Husband	Jimmy Carter

She is the wife of President Jimmy Carter, Eleanor Rosalynn Carter (born August 18, 1927) held the position of First Lady of US from 1977 to 1981. Carter is the second-longest-living American First Lady behind Bess Truman. Each family member of Jimmy’s had a distinct relationship with Rosalynn.

Amy’s nanny for the most of the time from 1971 until Jimmy Carter’s presidency ended was Mary Prince, an African American woman who was wrongfully convicted of murder and eventually pardoned, in part because of Rosalynn’s conviction in Prince’s innocence.

45. Rosemary Harris

Full Name	Rosemary Ann Harris
Date of Birth	19 September 1927
Age	95
Place of Birth	Ashby, Suffolk, England
Occupation	Actress

Rosemary Ann Harris is an English actress born on September 19th, 1927. Rosemary has been nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award, in addition to receiving Primetime Emmy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and Tony Awards. The American Theater Hall of Fame inducted Harris in 1986.

Before making her Broadway debut in 1952, Harris began her stage career in 1948. She has won four Drama Desk Awards and has been nominated for nine Tony Awards for her work on the New York stage.

46. Cleo Laine

Full Name	Clementine Dinah Bullock
Date of Birth	28 October 1927
Age	95
Place of Birth	Uxbridge, Middlesex, England
Occupation	Singer, actress

Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth DBE, she is an English jazz and pop singer and actress born Clementine Dinah Bullock on October 28, 1927. She is renowned for her vocal range and scat singing. 

Despite having a contralto’s natural range, she produces a G above high C, giving her a compass of over three octaves. Only Laine has ever been nominated for a Grammy in the jazz, popular, or classical music categories. She is the surviving spouse of jazz musician and composer Sir John Dankworth.

47. Estelle Parsons

Full Name	Estelle Margaret Parsons
Date of Birth	November 20, 1927
Age	95
Place of Birth	Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer, stage, director

She has received five Tony Award nominations (four times for Lead Actress of a Play and once for Featured Actress). Parsons was enshrined in the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2004.Her grandson is former Chicago Bears and Jacksonville Jaguars guard Eben Britton named after his great-grandfather, Estelle’s father. She adopted a son, Abraham, born in February 1983.

She co-starred with Jack Lemmon in Ernest Thompson stage play in Los Angeles in 1983. Parsons told Johnny Carson that Lemmon had been her first boyfriend, when they were teenagers in the 1940s.

48. Paul Dooley

Full Name	Paul Brown
Date of Birth	February 22, 1928
Age	94
Place of Birth	Parkersburg, West Virginia, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, writer, comedian

Paul Dooley is an American character actor, writer, and comedian who was born Paul Brown on February 22, 1928. He is well-known for his parts in Popeye, Breaking Away, and Sixteen Candles.

Since November 18, 1984, Dooley has been married to Winnie Holzman, whom he initially met at a New York City improv acting workshop. The couple resides at Toluca Lake in Los Angeles, California, with their daughter Savannah. On September 19, 1958, he wed Donna Lee Wasser; their marriage eventually ended in divorce. From his first marriage, he has three kids.

49. Joss Ackland

Full Name	Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland
Date of Birth	29 February 1928
Age	94
Place of Birth	London, England
Occupation	Actor

Edward Sidney Jocelyn Ackland CBE, an English retired actor who was born on February 29, 1928, has performed in more than 130 roles in film and television. 

On August 18, 1951, Ackland and Rosemary Kirkcaldy were wed; he was 23, and she was 22. She was an actress, and when they shared a stage in Pitlochry, Scotland, Ackland wooed her. The pair originally had difficulties because Ackland’s acting career was only getting started. Ackland operated a tea plantation in Lilongwe, Malawi, where they first settled [when? ], for six months before concluding it was too risky and moving to Cape Town, South Africa. Despite the fact that they both found solid acting employment in South Africa, they both moved back to England in 1957 after two years.

50. Jan Shepard

Full Name	Josephine Angela Sorbello
Date of Birth	March 19, 1928
Age	94
Place of Birth	Quakertown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Actress

Jan Shepard (born Josephine Angela Sorbello) is a retired American actress. Josephine Angela Sorbello was born in 1928 to Sicilian-born parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Sorbello, in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. While attending Quakertown High School, where she graduated as salutatorian of her class, and she participated in local musicals.

The Pasadena Playhouse is where Shepard developed her acting abilities. She acted alongside Elvis Presley in the movies Sabre Jet, King Creole (1958), and Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966), both before and after his enlistment in the Army and the passing of his mother. 

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