Michael Murphy might not command the same reverence as Kirk Douglas but he’s surely worthy of a mention on this list, and not simply because he’s still going in 2024. Murphy’s role as Father Draddy in “The Arrangement” was one of his earliest following small parts in 1967’s “Double Trouble,” 1968’s “Countdown” and “The Legend of Lylah Clare,” and 1969’s “That Cold Day in the Park.” But after his work on Elia Kazan’s film, he went on to establish an enviable career in the industry.

Many of his best-known roles came from his frequent work with Robert Altman. From 1963 to 2004, Murphy appeared in 12 of the director’ films, TV series, and miniseries, perhaps most notably playing the lead role in mockumentary series “Tanner ’88.” The best part of this is that Murphy reprised his role as “Fmr. U.S. Congressman” Jack Tanner in Martin Scorsese’s 2019 quasi-documentary “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story,” in which the director and Dylan blended real and fictitious elements (Murphy’s character contributing to the latter).

Elsewhere, Murphy gained recognition for his performance as Jill Clayburgh’s husband, Martin, in Paul Mazursky’s 1978 effort “An Unmarried Woman” (1978) and as Woody Allen’s buddy, Yale, in “Manhattan” (1979). He continued acting throughout the following decades, delivering yet another notable turn in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Magnolia” in 1999.

Now 86, Murphy seems to be enjoying a quiet life, having told his local Maine news station back in 2018 that his life is “so relaxed” and adding, “There’s something about living here in the woods, I look out the window and, you get a dog, everything kind of mellows.”