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In January 2022, an online advertisement claimed that the world's oldest living star was 106 years old. It showed a black and white picture of a handsome, perhaps familiar-looking Hollywood actor, and read: At 106, He Is Probably the World's Oldest Living Star. While it was true at one point that one of the world's oldest living movie and television stars was 106 years old, the ad was outdated and misleading. First, the picture in the ad showed former Hollywood actor Steve McQueen, who died in 1980 at age 50. (The picture was credited to photographer John Dominis.) Upon clicking the ad, we were led to a 156-page slideshow article titled, Seasoned Celebrities Who Are Still Alive Today. We soon discovered that the reference to the world's oldest living star was about legendary Hollywood icon Norman Lloyd, who died on May 11, 2021, at age 106. Lloyd didn't appear on any of the 156 pages in the long article, because it all was nothing more than misleading clickbait. In the lengthy story, we found that deceased actors Ed Asner, Hal Holbrook, Christopher Plummer, and Betty White were all included as if they were still alive, meaning that the article had not been updated in some time. According to IMDb, Lloyd was best known for his work in Dead Poets Society, Saboteur, Limelight, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Age of Innocence, Spellbound, A Walk in the Sun, and St. Elsewhere. After his death, the Associated Press published a remembrance of his life: In the 1950s, it was acclaimed film director Alfred Hitchcock who may very well have saved Lloyd's career during what was known as The Red Scare: In sum, yes, Lloyd was once the world's oldest living star at 106 years of age. However, he died in May 2021. The misleading online ad was still displayed on an unknown number of websites in early 2022. For these reasons, we have rated this claim as Outdated.
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