Leonard Cohen’s morbid remarks about waiting for death some weeks before his death had made me think about the 1930s generation who were actively working and not thinking about death. So the day that Clint Eastwood (86) releases his latest film Sully into Irish cinemas, and a day after Woody Allen turned 81 having recently made his first TV show, I thought I’d round up some people born in the 1930s who are still very much alive and well and working as hard as ever.
Clint Eastwood
Woody Allen
Donald Sutherland
Glenda Jackson
Michael Caine
James Earl Jones
Vanessa Redgrave
Martin Sheen
Dustin Hoffman
Anthony Hopkins
Maggie Smith
Ian McKellen
Quincy Jones
Harvey Keitel
Morgan Freeman
Diana Rigg
William Shatner
Robert Redford
Ridley Scott
John Williams
Judi Dench
Judd Hirsch
George Takei
Philip Glass
Lily Tomlin
Jane Fonda
Terence Stamp
Derek Jacobi
Eileen Atkins
Steve Reich