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Poll: Methuselahs of the Movies

The following actors are 90 years or older, and are still kickin' as of 2018. Which do you consider to have had the best career over their many years?

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*to be included the actor must be at least 90 on their birthday in 2018, which is the age listed on each entry

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    Norman Lloyd

    104 years old - 69 acting credits, 39 producing credits on IMDb Career highlights: Saboteur, Spellbound, Limelight, Dead Poets Society, St. Elsewhere
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    Olivia de Havilland

    102 years old - 60 acting credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Gone with the Wind, To Each his Own (lead actress Oscar), The Heiress (lead actress Oscar), A Midsummer Night's Dream

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    Kirk Douglas

    102 years old - 93 acting credits, 30 producing credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: Champion, The Bad and the Beautiful, Lonely Are the Brave, Paths or Glory, Spartacus - honorary Oscar

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    Carol Channing

    97 years old - 30 acting credits on IMDb Career highlights: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hollywood Squares; on Broadway: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Hello, Dolly! (Best Actress Musical Tony), Lorelei - special award Tony in 1968, lifetime achievement Tony in 1995
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    Betty White

    96 years old - 116 acting credits on IMDb Career highlights: The Mary Tyler Moore Show (supporting actress Emmy), Golden Girls (lead actress Emmy), Hot in Cleveland, The Proposal, known as the "First Lady of Game Shows" - two additional Emmys for guest acting
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    Carl Reiner

    96 years old - 99 acting credits, 25 writing credits, 21 directing credits, 12 producer credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: Your Show of Shows/Caesar's Hour (two Emmys), The Dick Van Dyke Show (five Emmys), The Jerk, the Ocean's movies - one additional Emmy for writing and one for guest acting

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    Doris Day

    96 years old - 43 acting credits, 119 soundtrack credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: Calamity Jane, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Pillow Talk, The Doris Day Show - lifetime achievement Grammy

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    Glynis Johns

    95 years old - 91 acting credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: Mary Poppins, The Sundowners, 49th Parallel, While You Were Sleeping; on Broadway: A Little Night Music (lead actress musical Tony)

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    Eva Marie Saint

    94 years old - 80 acting credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: On the Waterfront (supporting actress Oscar), North by Northwest, A Hatful of Rain, People Like Us (supporting actress in a special Emmy), Exodus

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    Cicely Tyson

    94 years old - 91 acting credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (supporting actress in a movie), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (lead actress in a special Emmy), Fried Green Tomatoes, The Help; on Broadway: The Trip to Bountiful (lead actress play Tony)

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    Hal Holbrook

    93 years old - 133 acting credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: All the President's Men, Lincoln (lead actor limited series Emmy), The Firm, Into the Wild; on Broadway: Mark Twain Tonight (lead actor play Tony) - three additional Emmys for specials

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    June Lockhart

    93 years old - 172 acting credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: Lost in Space, Lassie, Petticoat Junction, Meet Me in St. Louis; on Broadway: For Love or Money (performance by a newcomer Tony)

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    Honor Blackman

    93 years old - 114 acting credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: The Avengers, Goldfinger, Jason and the Argonauts, The Upper Hand; on the London stage: Nunsense, My Fair Lady

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    Angela Lansbury

    93 years old - 111 acting credits, 29 soundtrack credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: The Manchurian Candidate, Murder, She Wrote, Beauty and the Beast; on the London stage and Broadway: Mame (lead actress musical Tony), Dear World (lead actress musical Tony), Gypsy (lead actress musical Tony), Sweeney Todd (lead actress musical Tony), Blithe Spirit (lead and supporting actress play Tonys) - Honorary Oscar

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    Lee Grant

    93 years old - 103 acting credits, 24 directing credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: Peyton Place (supporting actress drama Emmy), In the Heat of the Night, Shampoo (supporting actress Oscar), Mulholland Drive, Down and Out in America (documentary Oscar); on Broadway: Two for the Seesaw, The Maids - additional Emmy for acting in a special

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    Dick Van Dyke

    93 years old - 79 acting credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: The Dick Van Dyke Show (four lead actor drama Emmys), Mary Poppins (soundtrack Grammy), Bye Bye Birdie (featured actor Tony), Diagnosis: Murder - additional Emmy for children's program

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    Cloris Leachman

    92 years old - 280 acting credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: The Last Picture Show (supporting actress Oscar), Young Frankenstein, The Facts of Life, Malcolm in the Middle (two guest actress comedy Emmys), The Mary Tyler Moore Show (two supporting actress comedy Emmys) - five additional Emmys for various projects

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    Mel Brooks

    92 years old - 56 acting credits, 44 acting credits, 27 soundtrack credits, 23 producing credits, 12 directing credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: Get Smart, Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein; on Broadway: The Producers (screenplay Oscar, three Tonys) - three Grammys, four Emmys, earned an EGOT

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    Michel Piccoli

    92 years old - 233 acting credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: Belle de jour, Le Mépris, La Belle Noiseuse, Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie, Mauvais sang

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    Sidney Poitier

    91 years old - 55 acting credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: Lilies of the Valley (lead actor Oscar), To Sir with Love, In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; on Broadway: A Raisin in the Sun - one Tony, one Grammy, honorary Oscar

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    Harry Belafonte

    91 years old - 21 acting credits, 54 soundtrack credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: Carmen Jones, Island in the Sun, the Banana Boat Song and Day-O, BlacKkKlansman, known as the "King of Calypso" - Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Oscar, one Emmy, one Tony, three Grammys plus one honorary Grammy

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    William Daniels

    91 years old - 120 acting credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: St. Elsewhere (two lead drama Emmys), Boy Meets World, The Graduate, Knight Rider; on Broadway: 1776, A Little Night Music

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    Jerry Stiller

    91 years old - 113 acting credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: Seinfeld, The King of Queens, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Hairspray, half of the Stiller and Meara comedy duo

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    Gina Lollobrigida

    91 years old - 68 acting credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: The Wayward Wife, Woman of Rome, Sheba and Solomon, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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    Rosemary Harris

    91 years old - 60 acting credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: Notorious Woman (lead actress limited series Emmy), Tom & Viv, Spider-Man and sequels; on the London stage and Broadway: The Lion in Winter (actress play Tony), The Seven Year Itch, Hamlet

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    Mitchell Ryan

    90 years old - 136 acting credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: Dark Shadows, Dharma & Greg, Lethal Weapon, North and South; on Broadway: Wait Until Dark

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    Joss Ackland

    90 years old - 196 acting credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: White Mischief, Lethal Weapon 2, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Hunt for Red October; on Broadway and London stage: Evita, A Little Night Music

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    Estelle Harris

    90 years old - 97 acting credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: The Toy Story movies, Seinfeld, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Dave the Barbarian, The Brothers Flub

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    Orson Bean

    90 years old - 103 acting credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Desperate Housewives, Being John Malkovich, Anatomy of a Murder; on Broadway: Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

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    Marion Ross

    90 years old - 192 acting credits on IMDb

    Career highlights: Happy Days, The Glenn Miller Story, The Drew Carey Show, Teacher's Pet, The Evening Star


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