On Friday, December 9, 2016 at 5:39:34 PM UTC-5, Michael OConnor wrote:
> I believe he is the first major entertainment celebrity to hit the century mark since Bob Hope, and before that George Burns.
Here's what I posted in April of 2015 (slightly edited, with additions - this does not include the living):
Adolph Zukor (producer - often uncredited), 1873-1976
Estelle Winwood (The Glass Slipper) 1883-1984
George Abbott (director, Damn Yankees) 1887-1995
Irving Berlin (composer), 1888-1989
Athene Seyler (The Inn of the Sixth Happiness), 1889-1990
Hal Roach (producer: The Little Rascals), 1892-1992
George Burns (Oh, God!), 1896-1996
Mary Ellis (The 3 Worlds of Gulliver), 1897-2003
Irving Rapper (director: Now, Voyager), 1898-1999
Margaret Booth (editor: Romeo & Juliet, 1936) 1898-2002
Frederica Sagor Maas (writer: Flesh and the Devil, 1926), 1900-2012
Leni Riefenstahl (director: Triumph of the Will), 1902-2003
Bob Hope ("Road to" series), 1903-2003
Johannes Heesters (Die Fledermaus, 1946), 1903-2011
Marie Glory (L'argent, 1928), 1905-2009
Bruce Bennett, aka Herman Brix (Tarzan, 1935), 1906-2007
Barbara Kent (Flesh and the Devil, 1926) 1907-2011
Run Run Shaw (Hong Kong producer), 1907-2014
Dercy Gonçalves (Absolutamente Certo, 1957), 1907-2008
Tullio Pinelli (writer: La Dolce Vita), 1908-2009
Jean Delannoy (director: La passion de Bernadette), 1908-2008
Manoel de Oliveira (director: I'm Going Home), 1908-2015
Carla Laemmle (Dracula), 1909-2014
Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld), 1910-2014
Gloria Stuart (The Invisible Man), 1910-2010
Paulette Dubost (The Rules of the Game), 1910-2011
Kaneto Shindô (director, The Island), 1912-2012
Douglas Slocombe, (cinematographer, Raiders of the Lost Ark), 1913–2016
Elmo Williams, (producer and Oscar-winning editor, High Noon), 1913–2015
Richard L. Bare, (director, TV's Green Acres), 1913–2015
Herb Jeffries (The Bronze Buckaroo), 1913-2014
Ellen Albertini Dow (Wedding Crashers), 1913–2015
Marc Platt, (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers), 1913–2014
Olaf Pooley, (TV's Dr. Who), 1914–2015
Amelia Bence, (The Gaucho War), 1914–2016
Leslie H. Martinson, (director, Batman: The Movie), 1915–2016
Vladimir Zeldin, (Ten Little Indians, 1987) 1915–2016
Jack Rollins (producer, Annie Hall), 1915-2015
Van Alexander, (composer/conductor, TV's I Dream of Jeannie), 1915–2015
Harry Rabinowitz, (composer/conductor, The Talented Mr. Ripley) 1916–2016
Of course, I may have missed a few obscure names.
Lenona.