Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War (2024) featured a cast of 159 tracked actors. Of these, 26 (32%) are still alive today and 55 have passed away. The oldest surviving cast member is Lee Grant, age 100. This TV series starred Aylam Orian and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
32% still with us· verified cast16% of full cast · incl. 78 unverified
Survivorship
Cast Reunion Index: 32% still living
Avg. Age at Death: 71.6 yrs
Deaths by Year
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Cast159 members
| Person | Character | Status | DOB | Age | DOD | Age in 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Aylam Orian Self - Vladimir Putin | Self - Vladimir Putin | Living | 04/09/1968 | 58 | — | 56 |
 Franklin D. Roosevelt Self - President of the United States 1933 - 1945 (archive footage) | Self - President of the United States 1933 - 1945 (archive footage) | Deceased | 30/01/1882 | 63 | 12/04/1945 | 142 |
 Harry S. Truman Self - President of the United States 1945 - 1953 (archive footage) | Self - President of the United States 1945 - 1953 (archive footage) | Deceased | 08/05/1884 | 88 | 26/12/1972 | 140 |
 Adolf Hitler Self - Fuehrer and Chancellor of Germany (archive footage) | Self - Fuehrer and Chancellor of Germany (archive footage) | Deceased | 20/04/1889 | 56 | 30/04/1945 | 135 |
 Albert Einstein Self - Physicist (archive footage) | Self - Physicist (archive footage) | Deceased | 14/03/1879 | 76 | 18/04/1955 | 145 |
 Joseph Stalin Self - Leader of the Soviet Union 1924 - 1953 (archive footage) | Self - Leader of the Soviet Union 1924 - 1953 (archive footage) | Deceased | 18/12/1878 | 74 | 05/03/1953 | 146 |
 Angela Merkel Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Living | 17/07/1954 | 72 | — | 70 |
 Hillary Clinton Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Living | 26/10/1947 | 78 | — | 77 |
 Boris Yeltsin Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 01/02/1931 | 76 | 23/04/2007 | 93 |
 George W. Bush Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Living | 06/07/1946 | 80 | — | 78 |
 Bill Clinton Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Living | 19/08/1946 | 80 | — | 78 |
 Tony Blair Self | Self | Living | 06/05/1953 | 73 | — | 71 |
 Condoleezza Rice Self | Self | Living | 14/11/1954 | 71 | — | 70 |
| Self | Living | 23/03/1954 | 72 | — | 70 | |
 Viktor Yanukovich Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Living | 09/07/1950 | 76 | — | 74 |
 Helmut Kohl Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 03/04/1930 | 87 | 16/06/2017 | 94 |
 Mikhail Gorbachev Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 02/03/1931 | 91 | 30/08/2022 | 93 |
 George H. W. Bush Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 12/06/1924 | 94 | 30/11/2018 | 100 |
 Ronald Reagan Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 06/02/1911 | 93 | 05/06/2004 | 113 |
 Pope John Paul II Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 18/05/1920 | 84 | 02/04/2005 | 104 |
 Egon Krenz Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Living | 19/03/1937 | 89 | — | 87 |
 Günter Schabowski Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 04/01/1929 | 86 | 01/11/2015 | 95 |
 Yuri Andropov Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 02/06/1914 | 69 | 09/02/1984 | 110 |
Tom Nichols Self - Professor Emeritus, U.S. Naval War College | Self - Professor Emeritus, U.S. Naval War College | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Garrett M. Graff Self - Author, Raven Rock | Self - Author, Raven Rock | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Mary Elise Sarotte Self - Author, Not One Inch | Self - Author, Not One Inch | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
 Robert Gates Self - U.S. Secretary of Defense 2006 - 2001 | Self - U.S. Secretary of Defense 2006 - 2001 | Living | 25/09/1943 | 82 | — | 81 |
Giorgi Kandelaki Self - Georgian Politician & Historian | Self - Georgian Politician & Historian | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
 Garry Kasparov Self - Russian Chess Grandmaster | Self - Russian Chess Grandmaster | Living | 13/04/1963 | 63 | — | 61 |
Pavel Palazchenko Self - Interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev | Self - Interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Rose Gottemoeller Self - NATO Deputy Secretary General 2016 - 2019 | Self - NATO Deputy Secretary General 2016 - 2019 | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
 Kaja Kallas Self - Prime Minister of Estonia | Self - Prime Minister of Estonia | Living | 18/06/1977 | 49 | — | 47 |
Tim Naftali Self - Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University | Self - Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Audra J. Wolfe Self - Author, Freedom's Laboratory | Self - Author, Freedom's Laboratory | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Stephen Kinzer Self - Author, Overthrow | Self - Author, Overthrow | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Tom Z. Collina Self - Co-Author, The Button | Self - Co-Author, The Button | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
 Vladimir Putin Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Living | 07/10/1952 | 73 | — | 72 |
Sam Nunn Self - Co-Founder, Nuclear Threat Initiative | Self - Co-Founder, Nuclear Threat Initiative | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Lesley M.M. Blume Self - Author, Fallout | Self - Author, Fallout | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
 Richard Rhodes Self - Author, The Making of the Atomic Bomb | Self - Author, The Making of the Atomic Bomb | Living | 04/07/1937 | 89 | — | 87 |
Gregg Herken Self - Author, Brotherhood of the Bomb | Self - Author, Brotherhood of the Bomb | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Akira Yamada Self - Professor of History, Meiji University | Self - Professor of History, Meiji University | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Alex Wellerstein Self - Author, Restricted Data | Self - Author, Restricted Data | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
J. Samuel Walker Self - Author, Prompt and Utter Destruction | Self - Author, Prompt and Utter Destruction | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Kazuhiko Togo Self - Grandson of Shigenori Tôgô | Self - Grandson of Shigenori Tôgô | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Ukeru Magosaki Self - Head of Japan's Intelligence & Analysis Bureau 1997 - 1999 | Self - Head of Japan's Intelligence & Analysis Bureau 1997 - 1999 | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Howard Kakita Self - Japanese-American | Self - Japanese-American | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Gar Alperovitz Self - Author, Atomic Diplomacy | Self - Author, Atomic Diplomacy | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Keiko Ogura Self - Hiroshima Resident | Self - Hiroshima Resident | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Kunihiko Ida Self - Hiroshima Resident | Self - Hiroshima Resident | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
