Although the Golden Age of Hollywood ended over 50 years ago, some of the actors from that period are still alive today. Not only are these actors still alive, but some of them are still actively working in the industry. From sophia loren , and Brigitte Bardot to Clint Eastwood, and Dick Van Dyke , these are the names of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
1/ Barbara Parkins :
Born : May 22, 1942, Canada.
Age : 80 years.
Years Active: 1961–1998.
Barbara initially tried to make it as a singer when she first moved to los angeles at age 16. But By the age of 24 she was already nominated for an Emmy.
Parkins was involved in two of the most highly publicized projects of the 1960s, the ABC primetime serial Peyton Place, and the film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann’s best-selling novel, Valley of the Dolls.
Parkins posed for nude pictorials in the May 1967, February 1970 and May 1976 editions of Playboy magazine.
Her last work was in the 2006, audio commentary for the DVD release of Valley of the Dolls.
2/ Britt Ekland :
Born : October 6, 1942 , Sweden.
Age : 80 years.
Years Active: 1959–present.
Britt Ekland wasn’t just an actress, but a singer and a model as well.
The Swedish beauty appeared in many movies, including The Night They Raided Minsky’s in 1968 and Get Carter in 1971, which established her as a sex symbol.
In 1974, she appeared as a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun.
Her high-profile social life, her 1964 marriage to actor Peter Sellers and her relationship with singer Rod Stewart made her one of the most photographed celebrities in the world during the 1970s.
In 2020 Ekland appeared in Season 4 of BBC TV’s The Real Marigold Hotel. She Also toured the country in a production of The Cat and the Canary playing Mrs. Pleasant.
3/ Ann-Margret Olsson :
Born : april 28, in 1941, sweden.
Age : 82 years.
Years Active: 1954–1991.
Ann-Margaret Olson was one of the world’s most prominent sex symbols through the 60’s and 70’s.
Not only was she is an accomplished actress, having won five Golden Globes, but was also a singer with a Top 20 hit song in 1961, a charting album in 1964, and she scored a disco hit in 1979. Some even considered her the female version of Elvis Presley.
In 2018, she guest-starred in The Kominsky Method.
4/ Warren Beatty :
Born : March 30, 1937,
Age : 86 years.
Years Active:
The actor and filmmaker was credited with ushering new Hollywood in the late 1960s. Beatty’s career has spanned over six decades and he has been nominated for 14 Academy Awards, winning Best Director for Reds (1981).
Beatty is the only person to have been nominated for acting in, directing, writing, and producing the same film, and he did so twice: first for Heaven Can Wait, and again for Reds.
In 1999, he was awarded the Academy’s highest honor, the Irving G. Thalberg Award.
His recent work was in the 2016 film Rules Don‘t Apply.
Beatty has been married to actress Annette Bening since 1992, They have four children.
5/ Robert Redford :
Born : August 18, 1936,
Age : 86 years.
Years Active:
The actor and filmmaker is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, the Cecil B DeMille Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Famous for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, The Great Gatsby, All the President’s Men, The Natural, and Out of Africa.
In August 2018, Redford announced his retirement from acting after completion of the film the old man and the gun.
6/Ursula Andress :
Born : March 19, 1936, Switzerland.
Age : 87 years.
Years Active: 1954–2005.
The Swiss-German actress, former model and sex symbol has appeared in American, British and Italian films.
Her breakthrough role was as Bond girl in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (in 1962).
She’s Also famous for : Casino Royale (1967), The Blue Max (1966), The Southern Star (1969), The Fifth Musketeer (1979), Clash of the Titans (1981).
In 1995, Andress was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the “100 Sexiest Stars in film history.”
Her last role to date was in the low-budget 2005 Swiss feature The Bird Preachers. She also appeared in the documentary Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory (in 2008).
7/ Sophia Loren :
Born : 20 September 20, 1934 , Italy.
Age : 88 years.
Years Active: 1950–present.
She started her acting career at 14 and has continued well into her 80s.
She’s won an Academy Award, a Grammy, five Special Golden Globes, and many other honors.
During the 1950s, she starred in films as a sexually emancipated persona and was one of the best known sex symbols of the time.
Loren’s performance as Cesira in the film Two Women (1961) won her the Academy Award for Best Actress, She also holds the record for having earned seven David di Donatello Awards for Best Actress.
She was named by the American Film Institute as one of the greatest stars of Classical Hollywood cinema, and as of 2023, is one of the last surviving major stars from the golden age of hollywood era.
Her last appearance was in the 2020 film, The Life Ahead.
8/ Brigitte Bardot :
Born : 28 September 28, 1934, France.
Age : 88 years,
Years Active: 1952-1973
Bridget was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s.
She started her acting career in 1952, and achieved international recognition in 1957 for her role in And God Created Woman.
Although she withdrew from the entertainment industry in 1973, she remains a major popular culture icon.
She had acted in 47 films, performed in several musicals, and recorded more than 60 songs, and was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985.
9/ Kim Novak :
Born : February 13, 1933, Illinois, U.S.
Age : 90 years,
Years Active: 1954–1991
A retired film and television actress and painter, Novak began her career in 1954, and quickly became one of Hollywood’s top box office stars, appearing in Picnic (1955), The Man With The Golden Arm (1955), and Pal Joey (1957).
She is widely known for her performances as Madeleine Elster and Judy Barton in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 thriller Vertigo.
After a disappointing experience during the filming of Liebestraum (1991), she permanently retired from acting,
Her contributions to cinema have been honored with two Golden Globe Awards, an Honorary Golden Bear Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
10/Barbara Eden :
Born : August 23, 1931, Arizona, U.S.
Age : 91 years.
Years Active: 1950–present.
Barbara Eden’s most notable role was as Jeannie in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie, from 1965 to 1970.
Her other notable work include Flaming Star (1960), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961), and Harper Valley PTA (1978).
On November 17, 1988, Eden received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to television.
11/Clint Eastwood :
Born: May 31, 1930, California, U.S.
Age : 92 years.
Years Active:
He rose to international fame with his role as the “Man with No Name” in Sergio Leone’s “Dollars Trilogy” of Spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s, and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity.
His greatest commercial successes are the adventure comedy Every Which Way but Loose (1978), and its action comedy sequel Any Which Way You Can (1980).
An Academy Award nominee for Best Actor, Eastwood won Best Director and Best Picture for his Western film Unforgiven (1992) and his sports drama Million Dollar Baby (2004).
12/ Barbara Rush :
Born : january 4, 1927, in Colorado, U.S.
Age: 96 years.
Years Active: 1950 – Present.
In 1954, Rush won the Golden Globe Award as most promising female newcomer for her role in the 1953 American science-fiction film It Came from Outer Space.
Following her big win, Rush’s career continued to take off and she had roles in several movies, stage productions, and TV shows.
Some of Rush’s most notable TV credits include Peyton Place, All My Children, and 7th Heaven.
Although Rush’s career has slowed significantly since 2007, she still makes appearances for the Theatre Guild in Orange County.
13/Lee Grant :
Born : October 31, 1925, new york city, U.S.
Age: 97 years,
Years Active: 1933 – Present
Lee Grant has worked as an actress, director, and documentarian for over 70 years!
For her film debut in the 1951 Detective Story, Grant earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and won one for her role in the 1975 Shampoo.
She also had lead roles in films such as Valley of the dolls and In the Heat of the Night in 1967.
Grant later turned her focus to directing, In 1986, she won a Directors Guild of America Award for Nobody’s Child.
And In 1987, the documentary she directed, Down And Out in America, tied for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
After a fourteen-year hiatus, Lee Grant played a small part in the film Killian & the Comeback Kids (2020).
15/ Dick Van Dyke :
Born : december 13, 1925, Missouri, U.S.
Age : 97 years.
Years Active: 1947 – Present.
An American actor, entertainer, and comedian, His award-winning career has spanned seven decades in film, television, and stage.
Van Dyke is the recipient of multiple awards, including a Golden Globe, Tony, Grammy, a Daytime Emmy, and four Primetime Emmys.
He landed his own TV show with CBS, The Dick Van Dyke Show, which aired from 1961 – 1966.
He also had numerous iconic roles in some of the most famous movies ever, including Mary Poppies, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and the screen version of Bye Bye Birdie.
Van Dyke still very active and occasionally appears in movies.
16/Glynis Johns :
Born : October 5, 1923 , South Africa
Age : 99 years.
Years Active: 1923–1999.
Recognised as a film and Broadway icon, Johns has a career spanning eight decades, in which she appeared in more than 60 films and 30 plays.
She is the recipient of awards and nominations in various drama award denominations, and as one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood and classical years of British cinema, she has several longevity records to her name.
With the death of Olivia de Havilland in 2020, Johns became the oldest living Academy Award nominee in any acting category and in 2021, and with the death of Betty White, she became the oldest living Disney Legend.
17/ Janis Paige :
Born : September 16, 1922 , U.S.
Age : 100 years.
Years Active: 1944–2001.
A retired actress and singer, She used to alternate between film and theatre work for much of her career.
Beginning in the mid-fifties, she would also make numerous television appearances, as well as starring in her own sitcom It’s Always Jan.