Betty White, phooey! She's just a young whipper-snapper. Who we need to host "Saturday Night Live" is someone threatening to die at any moment, Gloria Stuart. Stuart, who will 100 on July 4, is one of the oldest living actors alive at the moment. Certainly the most prominent old actor. She appeared in "The Old Dark House" in 1932, and more recently in some minor film called "Titanic" in 1997.
Up until a couple of years ago, I would have said Charles Lane, who died at age 102. And the last Ziegfield Follies girl (Doris Eaton Travis) just died at 106. Are there any older actors alive today? Please let me know.
UPDATE: Here's a list I copied from http://www.hollywoodmemoir.com/90
Celebrities 100 years old or older (as of Summer 2009)
Frederica Sagor Maas 109 (Screenwriter, Essayist, Author)
Johannes Heesters 105 (Actor, 87 Year Career, STILL ACTIVE)
Doris Eaton Travis 105 (Actress, Dancer, Ziegfeld Girl)
Mona Ray (104)
Barbara Kent 102 (Actress)
Dorothy Young 102 (Performer)
Miriam Seegar 101 (Actress)
Pola Illery 100 (Actress)
Dorothy Bartlam 100 (Actress)
Dolores Hope 100 (Wife of Comedian-Actor Bob Hope)
Celebrities 90 years old or older (Summer 2009)
Gloria Stuart 99 (old Lady on "Titanic")
Luise Rainer 99 (Actress)
Carla Laemmle 99 (Actress,niece of the founder of Universal Studios)
Dorothy Janis 99 (Early Hollywood Screen Siren)
Mitch Miller - 98
Lupita Tovar 98 (Mexican sweetheart of the 1930's)
Gustav Lantschner (98)
Yvette Le Bon (98)
Paulette Dubost (98)
Brigette Borchert (98)
Baby Marie Osborne (97)
Mary Carlisle 97 (Original Blonde Bombshell)
Annalisa Ericson (95)
June Havoc (95)
Michael D. Moore (94)
Alicia Rhett 94 (Oldest Living Cast Member of "Gone with the Wind")
Jack LaLanne - 94
Harry Morgan - 94
Olivia de Havilland 93 (Melanie from "Gone with the Wind")
Frank Coghlan Jr. (93)
Isuzu Yamada (92)
Ernest Borgnine - 92
Kirk Douglas - 92
Zsa Zsa Gabor - 92
Lena Horne 92
Joan Fontaine 91 (Olivia de Havilland's sister, Actress also)
Phyllis Diller (91)
Mary Healy 91
Patricia Andrews 91 (Last Living Andrews Sister)
Frances Bay 91
Marjorie Lord 90
Ruth Duccini 90 (Munchkin in "The Wizard of Oz")
Louis Jourdan 90
Betty Garrett 90
Pamela Blake 90
Helen Wagner 90
Ellen Albertini Dow 90
Joyce Redman 90
Radu Beligan 90
Audrey Totter 90
Diana Serra Cary (90)
Virginia Davis (90)
Vondell Darr (90)
Andy Rooney - 90
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Mickey Rooney, B.B. King, Dick Clark, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard... are not 90 yet.
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