EHV_Emmetts

I don't think he is with us any longer?

penfold

Pretty sure he is...but retired.

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

EHV_Emmetts

Alfred Burke

Oops, yes you're right. I was getting him confused with someone else.

dogstar

I used to confuse him with Alfred Lynch ( now deceased ) but since my partner's ex-husband has lent me the Public Eye DVD collection I have no excuse any more!

Only a fool looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart....

lornaluftfan

Mickey Rooney? B.1920, still going strong performing with wife Jan.

EHV_Emmetts

That's what I did. Many apologies to Mr. Burke.

Freddy

Ken Russell at 82 is still in production.

Freddy

The world wags on.

funlover

I believe the late Kathleen Harrison passed 100 before she passed on.

CaptainWaggett

I think she knocked about 10 years off her age during her working life but had to 'fess up eventually. She had stopped working some time before she got her telegram though. Athene Seyler was another actor who reached her century.

wadsy

Francis Lederer, whilst his last role was at age 72, he bcame an acting

teacher who was still working at 100 years old!!

philips

Harrison lived to 103 and Seyler 101. Estelle Winwood also reached 101, making her last film at age 94.

It seems the longest lived film actor was Mabel Richardson, who had bit parts in two films in 1923: DeMille's original version of The Ten Commandments and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and worked as an extra in others. She died in 2001 aged 110.

The Austrian film star Liane Haid died in 2000 at the age of 105. And there was Mary Ellis who lived to 105, dying in 2003. She starred in a few British films of the 1930s and also a couple of episodes of the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series, the last in 1994 when she would have been 95 or 96. Dutch actor Johannes Heesters appeared in his first film in 1924. He's still appearing on stage and TV aged 104.

Longest-lived director that I know of is George Abbott, mainly a Broadway legend though he directed or co-directed a few movies. He died a couple of months before his 108th birthday. Still around is Jean Delannoy (100) and Manoel de Oliviera - 99 and still making movies! Also Kaneto Shindo, born in 1912, has just completed a new film.

Lastly, Frederica Sagor Maas worked as a screenwriter from the 1920s, for example on 1925's The Plastic Age (Clark Gable appears as an extra!) and Flesh and the Devil (1927 - with Garbo and Gilbert) - she's nearly 108. Coincidentally, fourth-billed in the latter film is Barbara Kent, who is still alive at 101.