Orson Bean /Passenger Trains

[Miningman]

Orson Bean 

 

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/orson-bean-actor-rip.929097/

 

 

https://members4.boardhost.com/OtherUPRRs/msg/1355448539.html

 

 

[Overmod]

And what about Kevin Conway from "Atomic Train"? ...

[Miningman]

I saw Orson Bean just this Christmas on Mark Steyn's Christmas Special Show. The guy was sharp as a tack.. get hit by a car at 91.  Fickle finger of fate?  

Kevin Conway, gone at 77.... many credits to his name, I'm sure Flintlock remembers him from' Gettysburg' . I remember him best as Kahless the Klingon. 

[Paul_D_North_Jr]

Atomic Train, the movie:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Train 

 imdb.com/title/tt0144039/ 

Kevin Conway, the "Yuppie Driver":

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0176724/?ref_=tt_cl_t44 

(Don't think I ever saw it - doesn't seem like I missed much.) 

(Tom Clancy's book The Sum of All Fears also had a small-scale terrorist nuclear bomb destroying the ("Mile High"?) football stadium in Denver.  I believe it came out circa 1992 - Atomic Train was 1999.) 

- PDN. 

[Miningman]

Now Robert Conrad has died... 2020 is going to be pretty bad for this ! 

[SD70Dude]

James Earl Jones turned 89 last month, and Willam Shatner will celebrate the same birthday in March.

But I was most surprised to learn that Olivia de Havilland is still with us, a spry youngster of 103!

[Flintlock76]

Miningman

Now Robert Conrad has died... 2020 is going to be pretty bad for this ! 

 

Not Bob Conrad too!  Oh brother.  I remember the whole Second Marine Air Wing at Cherry Point NC used to grind to a halt on Tuesday nights when "Baa Baa Blacksheep" was on!  Not exactly authentic    but everybody just LOVED that show!  Great cast!  Great characters!  And some good flying too!

Kevin Conway?  Sure, I remember him in "Gettysburg" as Buster Kilrain, another great character in a fine film.  

Kirk Douglas, Orson Bean, Kevin Conway, Bob Conrad...

Hang in there Olivia!  

[BaltACD]

Unfortunately we are all of a age where our heros from our younger days are that much older than we are.  At least these heros are not a member of the '27 Club'.

Anyone having had a active life longer than we have had have had a good life.

[NKP guy]

 

 

BaltACD

Unfortunately we are all of a age where our heros from our younger days are that much older than we are.

Next thing you know, someone's going to announce that Al Jolson has died.

 

 

 

[Overmod]

NKP guy

Next thing you know, someone's going to announce that Al Jolson has died.

Remember the old saying about how no one really dies until the last person remembering him quits?

Jolson's been gone nearly half a decade now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-final-night-in-blackface-baltimores-al-jolson-impersonator-calls-it-quits/2015/11/12/3fb90254-8805-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee_story.html

[54light15]

Jolson was a patron saint of the Friar's Club in Los Angeles, at least that was the impression I got from an interview with George Burns many years ago. He spoke of "Jolie" as if he passed away the week before. 

[Paul_D_North_Jr]

Overmod

Remember the old saying about how no one really dies until the last person remembering him quits? . . . 

A recent movie - I believe it was the one about the teenager in Mexico or a South American county about the "Day of the Dead" (Nov. 1st?) - said that there are 3 deaths: 1) when one physically expires; 2) when the body is interred; and 3) when no one remembers you.  My daughter says that's about 2 generations.  Personal experience tends to confirm that - at least in my family, no one now living personally remembers anyone before grandparents, and don't know much about anyone before that.  

- PDN.   

[tree68]

Paul_D_North_Jr

Personal experience tends to confirm that - at least in my family, no one now living personally remembers anyone before grandparents, and don't know much about anyone before that.  

That phenomenon makes me appreciate even more the work my aunts did on the family geneology.  I've had times, however, when the memory my forebears did have didn't square with actual records.  I've been working on one of the geneology websites, adding the information I have from the aunts' work, as well as what appears to be work in the line done by their mother at a young age.

I was talking to someone this past weekend who I have known for a while - turns out there may be a familial link, although I think I have a lot of digging to do to find it.  The fact that some place names rang a bell with them speaks to the possibilities, though.

[Electroliner 1935]

My older brother (+5 yrs) used to say, "Don't get old". Unfortunatly he died about 14 years ago. At 84, I am not as good as I would like to be but I hope I have another ten years or more before this life goes. And yes, two generations is about as far back as I can remember. All great grandparents were deceased before I joined this world.