Actors From TV's Black and White Era Who Are Still Alive

[icecream]

The Ruggles is one of TV's earliest sitcoms which aired from 1949-1952. Judy Nugent who played one of the little twins on it just died. That got me to wonder who all from TV's start before color shows came mid-60s is still around.

[stevea]

From Father Knows Best:

--Elinor Donahue
--Bill(y) Gray
--Lauren Chapin
--Roberta Shore
--Yvonne Lime
--Jimmy Bates

From The Donna Reed Show:

--Paul Petersen
--Shelley Fabares
--Patty Petersen

From The Honeymooners:

--Joyce Randolph

From Dennis the Menace:

--Jay North
--Ronny Howard
--Jeannie Russell

From Leave it to Beaver:

--Jerry Mathers
--Stephen Talbot
--Jeri Weil
--Karen Sue Trent
--Robert "Rusty" Stevens
--Tiger Fafara
--Buddy Hart/BuddyJoe Hooker
--Richard Correll

[biffbronson]

From Make Room for Daddy:

-- Sherry Jackson
-- Angela Cartwright
-- Penney Parker

Also, Veronica Cartwright is still with us from Leave It to Beaver.

From My Three Sons - pre-color:

-- Stan Livingston
-- Barry Livingston
-- Cynthia Pepper
-- Ricky Allen

From The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis:

-- Tuesday Weld
-- Warren Beatty
-- Darryl Hickman

[DJM77]

Originally Posted by biffbronson

From The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis:

-- Tuesday Weld
-- Warren Beatty
-- Darryl Hickman

Dwayne Hickman

Sheila James is also still living.

[Merry24]

I Love Lucy
Keith Thibodeaux

Lassie
June Lockhart
Timmy Provost

The Andy Griffith Show Pre Color
Elinor Donahue
Ronny Howard
Keith Thibodeaux

The Dick Van Dyke Show
Dick Van Dyke

The Patty Duke Show
Paul OKeefe

The Munsters
Butch Patrick

[stevea]

Originally Posted by DJM77

Dwayne Hickman

Sheila James is also still living.

Without looking it up, I think Dwayne Hickman died a few years ago.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by Merry24

I Love Lucy
Keith Thibodeaux

Lassie
June Lockhart
Timmy Provost

The Andy Griffith Show Pre Color
Elinor Donahue
Ronny Howard
Keith Thibodeaux

The Dick Van Dyke Show
Dick Van Dyke

The Patty Duke Show
Paul OKeefe

The Munsters
Butch Patrick

From Lassie, the actor is Jon Provost, who played Timmy.

From The Dick Van Dyke Show, we could add thar Larry Mathews is still alive, too.

From the 60s black and white shows, we could add that John Astin of the Addams Family is still with us, as is Pat Priest of The Munsters.

[TJ]

Originally Posted by stevea

Without looking it up, I think Dwayne Hickman died a few years ago.

Dwayne Hickman died on January 9, 2022, at the age of 87.

His older brother, Darryl Hickman, is still living at age 92.

In 1959 and 1960, Darryl appeared on younger brother Dwayne's CBS sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, playing his older brother Davey in three different episodes ("The Right Triangle" (1959), "Deck the Halls" (1959), and "Where There's a Will" (1960)) during the first season while home on break from college before being written out of the show.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by biffbronson

From Make Room for Daddy:

-- Sherry Jackson
-- Angela Cartwright
-- Penney Parker

Also, Veronica Cartwright is still with us from Leave It to Beaver.

From My Three Sons - pre-color:

-- Stan Livingston
-- Barry Livingston
-- Cynthia Pepper
-- Ricky Allen

From The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis:

-- Tuesday Weld
-- Warren Beatty
-- Darryl Hickman

I thought of another one still with us from Leave It To Beaver - Pamela Baird.

From The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, only a few of the young kids who appeared at varying times are still alive: Barry and Stanley Livingston, Billy Mumy. I saw Kelly Corcoran (brother of Noreen Corcoran from Bachelor Father) on a season 13 episode recently at age 6--just looked him up and he died in 2002. There are other kids who appeared on that show who are probably still with us--another one I just thought of is Jerry Mathers, who appeared briefly in an around-1952 episode. Just thought of another one still alive--Roberta Shore.

Speaking of Bachelor Father I can think only of Ginny Tiu, a kid actor and pianist who appeared in only one episode, who is still with us.

[Dude111]

Its good to see so many still about

[space1999]

Rawhide - Clint Eastwood

The Addams Family - John Astin

[biffbronson]

Originally Posted by stevea

From The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, only a few of the young kids who appeared at varying times are still alive: Barry and Stanley Livingston, Billy Mumy.

Kent McCord made dozens of appearances (a semi-regular you might say) in the late Ozzie & Harriet seasons, in Ricky's college fraternity, and Kent is still with us.

[24/7 reruns]

Bob Newhart- 1961's The Bob Newhart Show
Carol Burnett- Stanley and The Garry Moore Show
Clint Howard - The Andy Griffith Show
Lassie (sort of) - Last appearance was on the movie Lassie Come Home (2020)

[icecream]

Originally Posted by 24/7 reruns

Lassie (sort of) - Last appearance was on the movie Lassie Come Home (2020)

That would not be possible for a dog to live 60-70 years.

[24/7 reruns]

Originally Posted by icecream

That would not be possible for a dog to live 60-70 years.

True, Hence "sort of".