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- Walter Mirisch – 100. The only living Oscar-winning centenarian, Mirisch picked up his prize in 1968 for his work as the producer of In The Heat of the Night.
- Eva Marie Saint – 97. Saint won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1955 for her role as Edie Doyle in Elia Kazan’s On The Waterfront, playing opposite Marlon Brando.
- Alan Bergman – 96. Bergman and his wife Marilyn, who died in January this year, were a songwriting duo who collected three Oscars in their career, as well as four Emmys and a couple of Grammys.
- Lee Grant – 95. Grant received her first Oscar nomination in 1951 for playing a shoplifter in her film debut Detective Story. A year later she was placed on the Hollywood blacklist as a suspected Communist, and was unable to work for over a decade.
Mar 24, 2024 · While likely not the absolute first feature-length fiction film, The Story of the Kelly Gang earns distinction as the earliest surviving narrative movie of considerable length. It loosely dramatizes notorious Australian outlaw Ned Kelly and his gang across multiple reels.
- Elisabeth Waldo - Born June 1918
- Caren Marsh Doll - Born April 1919
- June Spencer - Born June 1919
- Frances Wessells - Born August 1919
- Ray Anthony - Born January 1922
- Janis Paige - Born September 1922
- Eva Marie Saint - Born July 1924
- Jimmy Carter – Born October 1924
- Dick Van Dyke – Born December 1925
- Roger Corman – Born April 1926
Elisabeth Waldo is 105 years old, making her the oldest living celebrity still alive today. A violinist, composer and conductor, Elisabeth Waldo began her impressive musical career on her family’s ranch in Washington State. She was singing by the age of three and playing a small violin by the age of five. Waldo received a scholarship to the Curtis ...
Credit: Boyd Magers, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Born in Hollywood, California, Caren Marsh Doll is known as a stage and screen actress, dancer and all-around entertainer. Marsh appeared in numerous Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movies from 1937 to 1948. She’s perhaps best known for being Judy Garland’s stand-in during The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Ziegfi...
Having only retired in 2022 at the age of 103, June Spencer is perhaps best known to fans of The Archers, a BBC radio soap in which she played the role of matriarch Peggy Woolley for more than 70 years. Her character featured in the very first episode, all the way back in 1951! In July 2012, Spencer was awarded an honorary degree by the University ...
Born in the USA and having studied at both the University of Denver and New York University, Wessells is a dancer and dance teacher who continued working well into her late nineties - retiring only a few years ago! As a professional dancer, Wessells performed in the Latin Ballet of Virginia’s 2016 production of The Legend of the Poinsettia. Many pe...
Credit: General Artists Corporation/photo by Maurice Seymour, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Ray Anthony is best known for being an American bandleader and is the last surviving member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Anthony later went on to form his own group - The Ray Anthony Orchestra. This band achieved their biggest success with a cover o...
Credit: Rogers & Cowan, public relations, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Born in Tacoma, Washington, Janis Paige began singing in local amateur shows at the age of just five. She moved to Los Angeles after high school, where she became a singer at the Hollywood Canteen during World War II. This led to a film contract with Warner Brothers. Pai...
Credit: 20th Century Fox. Photographer not credited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Eva Marie Saint is one of the oldest living actresses with a career spanning over 70 years. She has worked in film, theatre, radio and television, and has won an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as multiple nominations at the Golden Globes and...
Credit: White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Jimmy Carter is best known for serving as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981, before being succeeded by Ronald Reagan. Some of Carter’s biggest accomplishments across his four years as president include protecting 103 million acres of Alaskan land, creating the Departm...
Credit: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Dick Van Dyke is a beloved American film actor and entertainer. Aged 98, he is one of the oldest living actors. Van Dyke’s acting career started after being drafted to serve in the Second World War. He quickly established himself as a family favourite, on both American television - in The D...
Credit: Angela George, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons One of the most influential figures in film across the 20th and 21st centuries alike, Roger Corman has spent the majority of his life working in the low-budget movie industry. Corman’s second movie - Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954) - was created with a budget of just $12,000 and took on...
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- Francis Rigaud. Born: 22 March 1920. Starting out scripting four Darry Cowl and Francis Blanche comedies, Rigaud made his directorial bow with Les Nouveaux Aristocrates (1961).
- Manos Zacharias. Born: 9 July 1922. Having directed the documentary short The Truth About the Children of Greece (1948) while head of the film section of the EAM-ELAS resistance movement during the Greek civil war, Zacharias trained at IDHEC in Paris and VGIK in Moscow.
- George Morrison. Born: 3 November 1922. Undeterred by having a 1942 version of Dracula destroyed in the London Blitz, Morrison made information films while scouring archives for the 300,000 feet of footage edited into Mise Éire (1959), a history of Irish nationalism that was the first feature in the native language.
- Jean-Charles Tacchella. Born: 23 September 1925. A critic for L’É cran français and a co-founder of the Objectif 49 cine-club that helped shape nouvelle vague sensibilities, Tacchella returned to his roots in Travelling avant (1987).
Maria Branyas (born 4 March 1907) of Spain is the world's oldest living person whose age has been validated. [2] John Tinniswood (born 26 August 1912) of the United Kingdom is the world's oldest living man whose age has been validated.
RankNameBirth DateAge As Of 29 May 202414 March 1907117 years, 86 days223 May 1908116 years, 6 days38 June 1908115 years, 356 days425 July 1909114 years, 309 daysOct 8, 2019 · Weighing in at 2.11 seconds long, ‘Roundhay Garden Scene’ was filmed at Oakwood Grange, the family home of Le Prince’s wife, Elizabeth Whitely.
Oct 28, 2020 · vimeo.com. The Roundhay Garden Scene, as featured in “The First Film,” is today widely considered both the oldest film in existence and the first ever made. Circa 1888, the short sequence is...
