About the only movie I can think of where
Bruce Dern lives is FAMILY PLOT. He was the go to guy for grisly deaths, dying graphically in MARNIE, HUSH HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE, THE ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE, THE INCREDIBLE TWO HEADED TRANSPLANT, THE COWBOYS, etc.
FUN FACT: Bruce Dern's godmother was Eleanor Roosevelt and his godfather was Adlai Stevenson.
Dern meets little MARNIE
I thought he looked familiar; he was in an episode of Rawhide