Longest living TV series cast?

OK maybe there's no way to measure this, but I was struck by how long most of The Untouchables cast lived (must've been the bootleg booze):

Robert Stack - 84
Bruce Gordon - two weeks shy of his 95th birthday
Paul Picerni - 88. He and Gordon died within 8 days of each other
Steve London - 85
Anthony George - agent Cam Allison in the first season; he was apparently being groomed to become a major supporting player on the show until he quit to take the lead in the cult series Checkmate, 84
Abel Fernandez - b. 1930
Nick Georgiade - supposedly b. 1933, though I suspect he may be older
Nehemiah Persoff, who famously played Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik as well as Waxey Gordon in another episode, will be 97 this year.
(I hope I didn't jinx those last three guys)

The two "exceptions" to this are Jerry Paris, who played Ness' right hand man Martin Flaherty in the first season (60) and Frank Wilcox, who was Ness' immediate superior, Federal attorney Beecher Asbury (a few days shy of 67, though again I suspect he was older).

Can any other series match that, or come close?

Everybody in this pic lived to be at least 80

 

I don't have the exact ages of everyone but pretty much all from The Dick Van Dyke Show is still alive with Carl, Dick, and Rose Marie all in their 90s.

 

Great show.

 

No Morey, no peace!

 

Jerry Paris was on this show as well. As the OP said he lived only to age 60 and Morey Amsterdam lived into his 80s(I think). Richard Deacon's Mel Cooley died in his early 60s as well. Everybody else seems to be alive.

 

In an older thread, I think we found the the cast of I'M DICKENS, HE'S FENSTER was the oldest show with all cast members surviving. That thread was from 2011, and I haven't checked on the cast's current condition.

 

"Your Show of Shows"

Sid Caesar - 91
Imogene Coca - 92
Carl Reiner - 94 and still alive
Howard Morris - 85
Bill Hayes - 90

Writers:
Mel Brooks - 89 and still alive
Woody Allen -80 and still alive
Neil Simon - 88 and still alive
Mel Tolkin - 94

 

Carl Reiner is 94, Dick Van Dyke is 90, and Rose Marie is 92. Ann Guilbert who played neighbour Millie Helper is still alive too (87), and Larry Mathews who played Richie (60) is as well.

 

the baby of the bunch!

 

With the exception of Ted Knight, isn't every main actor from The Mary Tyler Moore show alive? Cloris Leachman turned 90 today! I'm not counting Nancy Walker and she only became a main character on Rhoda. Maybe MTM has an effect on her hit shows!

 

Must be the trousers ... I mean the Capri pants.

 

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (debuted in 1969)

• Scooby-Doo: Don Messick (died in 1997 at age 71)
• Fred: Frank Welker (70)*
• Daphne: Indira Stefanianna (70)
• Velma: Nicole Jaffe (74)
• Shaggy: Casey Kasem (died in 2014 at age 82)

* Welker has been the voice of Fred in every version of Scooby-Doo with the exception of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo and has also taken over the role of Scooby-Doo.

Source: Wikipedia

 

The Dick Van Dyke show was the first one that came to mind, acknowledging that Morey Amsterdam is no longer with us. Puzzling how life works out sometimes, every one of the adult characters on Bewitched, for example, are gone but almost all of the Dick Van Dyke actors are still here.

M*A*S*H had a pretty good run until the fairly recent deaths of Harry Morgan, Larry Linville and Wayne Rogers.

 

I'm sure there must be others, but the only older shows where all the cast members are still living that I can think of are "The Facts Of Life", "The Love Boat" and "Chips". "Benson" would have been another, but James Noble died a month ago.

 

I shoulda thought of YSOS*. I watched a few minutes of Mel Tolkin's interview for the Museum of Broadcasting just a coupla days ago.

*I'm considering YSOS and Caesar's Hour as one show, as Sid Caesar himself did. For some reason Carl Reiner apparently does not.

Joe Stein - 98!
Danny Simon - 86
Sheldon Keller - 85

According to Wikipedia Bill Hayes is still alive

Dancer Bambi Linn, who was a YSOS regular with her then husband Rod Alexander (their bits are always cut from the highlight reels), is 90.

And Woody Allen only wrote for the post-Caesar's Hour specials. But since this is a friendly discussion and not a Music Board death match ("Gary Chester played drums on 'Sugar Sugar' you ignorant piece of $#@&!!!!"), I won't press the point.

Morey Amsterdam was 87. Sheldon Leonard was 6 weeks shy of 90.

Bill Persky is 84. Sam Denoff was 83. Garry Marshall is in his 80s.

Richard Deacon is another I suspect of chopping years off his age, though even so he didn't make 70.

Obviously Carl Reiner is contagious

Must've been a really old thread -- Emmaline Henry, who played Mrs. Dickens (she's probably best remembered as nosy Amanda Bellows on I Dream of Jeannie) died in 1979.

Can't compete with some listed here, but just thought I'd mention The Odd Couple:

Tony Randall - 82

Jack Klugman - 90

Al Molinaro - 96

Garry Marshall - b. 1934

The Rockford Files:

James Garner - 86

Noah Beery - 81

Joe Santos - 84

Roy Huggins - 87

Jack Garner - 84

Is there some lesson here about modern geriatric medicine?

Or is it that if you do a TV series, make sure Carl Reiner is somehow involved?

 

The Magic Carl Reiner Spell doesn't hold if you consider "Head of the House" (the pilot where Reiner played Rob Petrie). Barbara Britton, the original Laura Petrie, died at 60. Morty Gunty, the original Buddy Sorrell, died at 55, shortly after appearing as one of the guys in the deli in "Broadway Danny Rose". But overall if you add in the 2000-year-old man (who is currently 2055), Reiner's average is still phenomenal.

 

Not only is Bill Hayes still alive, he still appears a few times a year as "Doug Williams" on "Days of Our Lives".

 

I think the all-time champ is Betty White. Star of 1950's Life With Elizabeth, and two other 1950's "Betty White" shows. She's 94, still alive, and still working. If there is another 1950's TV star who matches that, I can't think of them immediately. (Vin Scully doesn't count...but he wins the sports category).

 

I apologize to Bill for misreporting his demise!

 

Don't blame me...

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Abel Fernandez with Robert Mitchum

 

A little off topic, but everyone from the movie Ordinary People is still alive except, ironically, the guy who played the son who drowned in the movie during the flashback scenes.

 

You want irony? I'll give you irony:

 

The Monkees, all in their 70's. Davy Jones would have been 70 now.

 

But he died so it negates your post.

 

So many great tv shows, casts,storyline.
Which begs the question
What TV show would you like to live in?