I just finished watching "Judgment at Nuremberg" and realized that the first 25 credited actors are all dead with the exception of William Shatner. That came out in 1961 and got me thinking of which most recent movie have all the cast members died.
shareWith the exception of Dan Ackroyd the vast majority of the cast and singers of The Blues Brothers (1980) has died.
J Bulishi
J Candy
C Fisher
A Franklin
J Hooker
C Calloway
R Charles
J Brown
Many other of the smaller character actors have also passed on (Nazi General, Bob's County bunker owner, The head nun and many members of the band)
And the director is a murderer too.
shareWell... manslaughter in the Twilight Zone accident
But what I like about your question is that there is a DEFINITE answer to it.
Do you define ALL as to everyone with speaking parts or just the main cast?
It's kind of a cool bit of trivia that has to be constantly updated.
Also it needs a cool name for movies that qualify, like 'Skeleton Crew'
I based the question on Judgment at Nuremberg where 24 of the first 25 actors credited are dead. Not sure if they all speak.
shareJudgement at Nuremberg is a good example as it is a film with a huge cast. From two years later, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World has an even larger cast, most or all of whom are no longer with us. Interestingly, it's another Stanley Kramer movie.
shareI know 1961 was a long time ago, but it doesn't seem like 24 of the 25 cast members should be dead. Let's just say someone was born in 1938, that would make them 82 now and 23 when the film came out. I feel there should be more of the cast alive.
shareAn Unremarkable Life (1989) has three main roles - Patricia Neal, Shelley Winters and Mako, all now dead. But of course there are actors in smaller roles who are still alive. This is a tough question -- I guess it would be almost impossible to pinpoint a film which provides the perfect answer, as most films from at least the late 50s/early 60s would, I would imagine, have at least a couple of actors still living.
shareThat's what's so shocking about Judgment at Nuremberg. Only one cast member still alive out of 25 people. I think there should be at least 4 or 5.
shareWell considering Shatner was considerably younger than most of the cast... Maximilian Schell was the only other principal, I believe, born as late as 1930, and he lived to be 83. If Tracy, Widmark, Dietrich etc were still alive they'd be well over 100 - even Clift would be 99, Garland 97. I think it'd be more unusual for multiple members of a cast from an almost 60 year old film to still be alive, considering most of them were in their forties and above at the time!
shareIt seems like there should have been younger people in the cast. Schell seems younger than he was in the film.
shareThere probably should have been... Garland was clearly too old for her character. But Tracy, Widmark, Lancaster etc were playing older, more experienced veteran characters.
I think Schell seemed like a man in his early thirties, which he was at the time. Anyway, he walks off with the movie IMO.