A family member put on a game show that included Brian Blessed and I commented it ‘must be old as he’s been dead for a while’?
Nope. 88 and going strong.
Who else has surprised you?
he is 88 and still alive
Not gonna say because I don’t want to jinx it
OJ SIMPSON
James Earl Jones prior to him actually passing away.
Yes. I think his character dies in one of the Jack Ryan films (clear and present danger?) and for years my brain thought that was real life…
His character in The Blacklist did perish.
John Astin (Gomez from The Addams Family)
Holy crap, I thought he was dead too… Turns out it was Raul Julia, Gomez in the Addams Family movies.
Brian Blessed (88) is still alive, so is John Rhys-Davies (80). But we did lose large, loud, Scotish actor Robbie Coltrane (72). :(
I thought Mr dress up was dead for years before he actually died . Pretty sure that was just a Canadian show so most people probably have no idea what I’m talking about . But he was like Mr Rogers and made lots of cool things with construction paper and glue .
Also keeping with the theme of Canadian Treasures who moved here from America, I thought Robert Munsch had passed away, but turns out he’s still kicking. Though he’s come out and said that he is suffering from dementia and no longer able to write.
One of my earliest school memories is him coming to read to us in the school library.
Poor Americans don’t know what they missed out on. There’s a very small list of people who I would legitimately call “Canadian Treasures” and he’s pretty much at the top of it.
The kicker is, he was an american who came to Canada to help Mr. Rogers develop a Canadian version of his show, and then decided to stay.
He came to my small town and did a show there. Huge highlight of my childhood. My sister got an autograph for me, but I lost it somewhere. Such a great show.
Anita Bryant, as I found out recently.
Bob Barker only died a year ago. I thought for a long time he had gone in, like, 2010 or so.
Jürgen Habermas.
Earl Holliman of “Police Woman” fame. He passed just the other day.
You’ve misunderstood the assignment.
Doh. You are correct. I guess I would have passed the assignment if I had replied last week.
So close… But no cigar!
I know this isn’t exactly what this is for as this person is dead, but i was certain harold reimis (egon from ghostbusters) died in the early 90s but it turned out he died in 2014. I had it in my head that they didnt make a ghostbusters 3 back in the 90s because he had died.
Michael Caine
He is??? Well, I guess today I learned
Dick Van Dyke
Elvis
