The Nifty Nineties

[Grant]

Next into the 90s club will be Bruce Mars, God willing, in two weeks.
Then 9 months before anyone else can make it.
But there are 70+ others who hopefully will eventually join. Those 6 or 7 child actors will likely outlive many of us!

 

[Cmdr. Loskene]

Hoping he will be the first of many! And also hoping someone has told him about his unique distinction today.

 

[Grant]

Bruce Mars

Bruce Mars

Bruce Mars (born 23 October 1935; age 89) played Finnegan in the Star Trek: The Original Series first season episode "Shore Leave" and Charley in the second season episode "Assignment: Earth". His acting career was quite short, making a total of three movie appearances and about a dozen...

memory-alpha.fandom.com

 

[David Ziegler]

With the 60 year anniversary coming up, which of the group seem likely to make appearances? Shatner is scheduled for Vegas in August & Derrick Partridge, Julie Newmar, Joan Collins and Nancy Kovak for Hollywood Show in January so far.

 

[Grant]

Although not a TOS actor, Noel De Souza turned 100 on Dec 27, 2025. He appeared on Voyager as "Gandhi". That now makes 3 living 100-year-old Trek actors.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Although not a TOS actor, Noel De Souza turned 100 on Dec 27, 2025. He appeared on Voyager as "Gandhi". That now makes 3 living 100-year-old Trek actors.

May it mean that Bill has a long way to go.

 

[Grant]

David Frankham turned 100...!
The 2nd living TOS actor that is 100 and the 4th overall living Trek actor currently 100 years old.

Congratulations good sir!

 

[Maurice]

Desilu casting director Joseph F. D'Agosta is 90, and he may be on stage right now in a play today in L.A. (link).

This is me with him when we finally met last August.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

John Wheeler, Actor, Singer Known for ‘Star Trek’ and an Iconic McDonald’s Commercial, Dies at 95

He also appeared in five Broadway musicals, recurred on ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ and played William Frawley in a TV movie.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Grant]

So sadly with his loss we are down to 26


Marc Grady Adams 100
David Frankham 100
William Smithers 98
William Blackburn 96
Michael Forest 96
Naomi Pollack 95
William Sargent 95
William Shatner 94
Michael Dante 94
Christopher Held 94
Brett Dunham 94
Antoinette Bower 93
Joan Collins 92
Meade Martin 92
Julie Newmar 92
Max Kleven 92
James Daris 92
Lou Antonio 92
Shirley Bonne 91
Nancy Kovack 90
Garrison True 90
Leslie Parrish 90
Lee Meriwether 90
Derek Partridge 90
Mal Friedman 90
Bruce Mars 90
26

 

[Grant]

The members lost from this list since the first post on Sept. 1, 2017 are --
Harry Landers
Ned Romero
Robert Phillips
Morgan Woodward
David Hurst
John Winston
Jack Donner
Steve Marlo
Harry Basch
Joanne Linville
Patrick Horgan
Bob Herron
John Arndt
Robert Brown
John Copage
Willaim O'Connell
Michael Barrier
John Wheeler

Other TOS actors who lived to 90 and passed before 2017
Seamon Glass
Charles Stewart
William Schallert
Michael Ansara
Gary Walberg
John Crawford
Warren Stevens
Jason Wingreen
Lloyd Kino
Don Keefer
Anna Karen
Richard Carlyle
Ed Reimers
James Gregory
Byron Morrow
Jane Wyatt
Rhodie Cogan
John Abbott
Georgia Schimdt
Elisha Cook Jr.
Morgan Farley
Ian Wolfe

REST IN PEACE