English playwright Ray Cooney is 92. Best known for his farces, Run for Your Wife (1983), ran for nine years in London's West End. He also wrote Not Now, Darling (1973), Two into One (1981), and Wife Begins at Forty (1985), amongst others. He also wrote the British horror film The Hand (1960), and Carry On style comedy film What a Carve Up! (1961, with Sid James and Kenneth Connor).
The late Queen's cousin, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, is 89. For 50 years he presented the trophy to the winner of Wimbledon so he was a familiar face on TV. Here he is at a recent Wimbledon, presenting the trophy with Kate Middleton.
Oh my, Sandy Koufax is on on the list. I was at the Dodgers' Vero Beach spring training camp in the mid-1980s standing with my arms folded taking in the scene and was conscious of someone who had pulled up next to me. After a minute or so I turned my head to the left, saw who it was and turned back. It was Koo, standing there with his arms folded looking straight ahead just like me. I had met plenty of other pro baseball players by then. Only three players could turn my legs into Jello if I ever met them: Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays...and Sandy Koufax. He was known for being a private person and so I didn't say anything. We must have looked like two ordinary guys at the ballpark just watching the goings-on, nothing more. Hard to believe Lefty is 88.
And today he celebrates his 89th birthday!
Meanwhile Russ Tamblyn - the last surviving brother from Seven Brides For Seven Brothers - is 90 today! Two brides survive - Julie Newmar (91) and Ruta Lee (89).
Here are Russ and Ruta being interviewed earlier this year on Rob Word's YouTube channel 'A Word On Westerns'.
With Carl Erskine's passing earlier this year, Koufax is the last living person to have been in uniform for a pennant winning team of the Brooklyn Dodgers (was on the World Series roster as a "bonus baby" in 1955 and 1956 but did not play). The one other living person to have worn the Brooklyn Dodger uniform as a player would be Bob Aspromonte, whose ML debut came in a single at bat for Brooklyn in 1956 (he was back in the minors the next three years and didn't get back to the Dodgers until 1960 when they were in LA. Bob, when then had a journeyman career for the next decade, is now 86).
The one other living person to have worn the Brooklyn Dodger uniform as a player would be Bob Aspromonte, whose ML debut came in a single at bat for Brooklyn in 1956 (he was back in the minors the next three years and didn't get back to the Dodgers until 1960 when they were in LA. Bob, when then had a journeyman career for the next decade, is now 86).
Haven't forgotten him at the hot corner. Nor bro Ken who was an AL manager after his playing days--and is still with us at 93!
Suzy Kendall turned 88 yesterday. She appeared in The Liquidator (1965), Psycho Circus (1966), To Sir, With Love (with Sidney Poitier, 1967), Up the Junction (1968), The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), Torso (1973), Story Of A Cloistered Nun (1973), Tales That Witness Madness (1973), Spasmo (1974), and Craze (1974).
Here she is with Tony Musante in The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970).
Barbara Steele is 87. She was in Black Sunday (1960), The Pit & The Pendulum (1961), 8 1/2 (1963), The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962), The Long Hair of Death (1964), Castle Of Blood (1964), Shivers (1975), Piranha (1978), and Lost River (2014).
She also produced the US television miniseries War and Remembrance (1988–89).
US actor John Considine is 89. He appeared in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Irwin Allen disaster film When Time Ran Out (1980, with an all star cast), Fat Man and Little Boy (1989), Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995), and The Book of Stars (1999). But he's probably best known for his many, MANY TV roles, including Murder She Wrote (three times), My Favourite Martian (twice), Combat! (three times), Gomer Pyle (three times), Mannix (three times), The FBI (nine times), Hart To Hart (twice), Knight Rider (twice) and MacGyver (three times), playing different characters each time.
Here he is playing the villain in the Knight Rider episode 'Knight In Disgrace' (1984), left, with Ken Foree.
