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Actors who've always looked old

Was Max von Sydow ever actually young?

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by Anonymousreply 174April 20, 2021 5:36 AM

Humphrey Bogart

Fred Astaire

by Anonymousreply 1August 22, 2017 3:47 AM

Mel Gibson

by Anonymousreply 2August 22, 2017 3:50 AM

Sean Penn

by Anonymousreply 3August 22, 2017 3:50 AM

Sean Connery.

by Anonymousreply 4August 22, 2017 3:51 AM

Angela Lansbury

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by Anonymousreply 5August 22, 2017 3:51 AM

Madonna

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Adele

by Anonymousreply 7August 22, 2017 3:52 AM

James Cromwell

by Anonymousreply 8August 22, 2017 3:52 AM

Tom Hiddleston

by Anonymousreply 9August 22, 2017 3:52 AM

Clint Eastwood

by Anonymousreply 10August 22, 2017 3:53 AM

Leslie Howard, Michael Fassbinder.

by Anonymousreply 11August 22, 2017 3:53 AM

Assbender

by Anonymousreply 12August 22, 2017 3:53 AM

Cloris Leachman

by Anonymousreply 13August 22, 2017 3:54 AM

Robert Duvall

by Anonymousreply 14August 22, 2017 3:54 AM

Glenn Close

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Albert Finney

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by Anonymousreply 16August 22, 2017 3:54 AM

Jessica Lange

by Anonymousreply 17August 22, 2017 3:55 AM

Tommy Lee Jones

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Peter O'Toole

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by Anonymousreply 19August 22, 2017 3:56 AM

Angelina Jolie

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Leslie Nielsen

by Anonymousreply 21August 22, 2017 3:57 AM

Bill Murray

by Anonymousreply 22August 22, 2017 3:57 AM

Phillip Seymour Hoffman , Paul Giametti

by Anonymousreply 23August 22, 2017 3:58 AM

Shelley Winters

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by Anonymousreply 24August 22, 2017 3:58 AM

Catherine Zeta-Jones

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by Anonymousreply 25August 22, 2017 3:58 AM

Margot Robbie

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by Anonymousreply 26August 22, 2017 4:00 AM

Pearl Bailey

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by Anonymousreply 27August 22, 2017 4:02 AM

Jurassica

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by Anonymousreply 28August 22, 2017 4:02 AM

Dakota Johnson is 24 and looks 44.

by Anonymousreply 29August 22, 2017 4:03 AM

Melissa Leo

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by Anonymousreply 30August 22, 2017 4:03 AM

Nicolas Cage

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Shirley MacLaine

by Anonymousreply 32August 22, 2017 4:04 AM

Harry Dean Stanton (1966)

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by Anonymousreply 33August 22, 2017 4:05 AM

Olsen twins

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by Anonymousreply 34August 22, 2017 4:05 AM

Susan Sarandon

by Anonymousreply 35August 22, 2017 4:06 AM

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by Anonymousreply 36August 22, 2017 4:07 AM

Maggie Gyllenhaal

by Anonymousreply 37August 22, 2017 4:09 AM

^ She looked younger than her age until 2013 then she got wrinkly

by Anonymousreply 38August 22, 2017 4:10 AM

Maggie Gyllenhaal is a good one. She has those big innocent eyes but her face has always been so wizened.

by Anonymousreply 39August 22, 2017 4:11 AM

He husband aged suddenly too

by Anonymousreply 40August 22, 2017 4:11 AM

Her*

Beyonce

by Anonymousreply 41August 22, 2017 4:12 AM

Kurt Russell, Susan Hayward, Michelle Williams, Daniel Day Lewis, Karen Black, Joe Pesci

by Anonymousreply 42August 22, 2017 4:12 AM

Beulah Bondi. The actress who played her daughter in "Make Way For Tomorrow" was actually older than her.

by Anonymousreply 43August 22, 2017 4:12 AM

Edward James Olmos, Oprah Winfrey has always looked middle aged.

by Anonymousreply 44August 22, 2017 4:14 AM

Eugene Levy

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by Anonymousreply 45August 22, 2017 4:17 AM

Jennifer Lawrence

by Anonymousreply 46August 22, 2017 4:19 AM

Omar Shariff, Orson Welles, Lauren Bacall, Frances McDormand

by Anonymousreply 47August 22, 2017 4:20 AM

Dakota Fanning

by Anonymousreply 48August 22, 2017 4:21 AM

Jimmy Durante

Character actor Burt Mustin

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by Anonymousreply 49August 22, 2017 4:22 AM

Whoever thinks that Laverne Cox is 33 has a vision problem

by Anonymousreply 50August 22, 2017 4:25 AM

Walter Matthau

Jerry Orbach

Carroll O'Connor

by Anonymousreply 51August 22, 2017 4:33 AM

That diabetic Quaker oatmeal guy. Can't think of his name

by Anonymousreply 52August 22, 2017 5:10 AM

Wilford Brimley, R52. But he was never even famous until he was old(er).

by Anonymousreply 53August 22, 2017 5:24 AM

ELLEN CORBY, best remembered for playing Grandma Walton. She always looked OLD. Below is ELLEN at age 32 from when she had a small part in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE.

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by Anonymousreply 54August 22, 2017 5:31 AM

Hume Cronyn at age 31:

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by Anonymousreply 55August 22, 2017 5:32 AM

Character actor Fred Clark was another who looked old even when young. Shown below with Betty Grable from HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE, Fred was all of 38 when he made this. He looks 58.

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by Anonymousreply 56August 22, 2017 5:36 AM

He doesn't look it now but when he was young, ERIC BRAEDEN shown here from 1965 at age 24 looked far older than he was>

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by Anonymousreply 57August 22, 2017 5:46 AM

Character actor Charles Lane who lived to be 102 always looked like he was pushing 70.

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by Anonymousreply 58August 22, 2017 5:49 AM

KELT is the oldest and MOST racist poster on DATALOUNGE. He looks 83 but he's only 71.

by Anonymousreply 59August 22, 2017 5:52 AM

R59

88 if he's aday

by Anonymousreply 60August 22, 2017 6:20 AM

Brimley was only 50 when he appeared as one of the seniors in "Cocoon." His fellow male geriatrics were in their 70s.

by Anonymousreply 61August 22, 2017 6:24 AM

Angry lesbians tend to look way older than they are too.

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by Anonymousreply 62August 22, 2017 6:29 AM

Tracy and Hepburn.

by Anonymousreply 63August 22, 2017 6:34 AM

Jeremy piven

by Anonymousreply 64August 22, 2017 8:39 AM

David Janssen. I was surprised to see that he was 32 when "The Fugitive" first aired.

by Anonymousreply 65August 22, 2017 8:56 AM

Kurt Russell in The One and Only Genuine Original Family Band which is why the Giggly Girl started going with him when she should have been taking a motherly concern in him..

by Anonymousreply 66August 22, 2017 9:27 AM

I think Harry Dean Stanton might actually be a WW2 veteran. He was already middle aged in that shot from 1966 at R33.

by Anonymousreply 67August 22, 2017 2:35 PM

Hal Holbrook

by Anonymousreply 68August 22, 2017 2:50 PM

I was going to mention Sam Waterston because he's mostly known for "Law & Order" and other productions he's made in his older years, but looking up photos, he was actually very hunky in his youth and starting out in his acting career.

by Anonymousreply 69August 22, 2017 2:55 PM

Mary-Kate but not Ashley Olsen

by Anonymousreply 70August 22, 2017 3:30 PM

Young Max looks surprisingly like Paul Bettany.

by Anonymousreply 71August 22, 2017 4:22 PM

[quote]Kurt Russell,

Whaaat?

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by Anonymousreply 72August 22, 2017 4:44 PM

Patrick Stewart. He was old looking in Excaliber.

by Anonymousreply 73August 22, 2017 4:49 PM

Robert Ryan

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by Anonymousreply 74August 22, 2017 4:59 PM

R2, check out Mel Gibson in his earliest films, such a baby face. Even in Mad Max (the first one). They had to scruff him up for the Road Warrior.

by Anonymousreply 75August 22, 2017 5:01 PM

Also Maggie G has the same issue as Swoozie Kurtz, "marionette" lines from nose to corners of mouth. Always makes you look older. As character actresses I guess they didn't feel it necessary to fix this with plastic surgery.

by Anonymousreply 76August 22, 2017 5:06 PM

Lee Marvin, sort of.

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by Anonymousreply 77August 22, 2017 5:06 PM

r70

Which one was the abortion?

by Anonymousreply 78August 22, 2017 5:11 PM

Soap star Erika Slezak always looked old and very matronly.

by Anonymousreply 79August 22, 2017 5:21 PM

DL Fave Abe Vigoda.

by Anonymousreply 80August 22, 2017 5:23 PM

Sylvia Miles. This is the youngest picture of her I can find. I'm guessing from the 50s because she looked way older by the 60s.

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by Anonymousreply 81August 22, 2017 5:33 PM

Meryl

by Anonymousreply 82August 22, 2017 6:21 PM

Sam Waterston is very youthful and totally swoonworthy in Much Ado which at least in part is on youtube.

I don't believe a better and more attractive Benedict is seen on video or film.

by Anonymousreply 83August 22, 2017 8:00 PM

Walther Matthau

Spencer Tracy

Tom Ewell

William Holden

James Cromwell

Morgan Freeman

Doris Roberts

Ellen Corby

Tommy Lee Jones

Michael Caine

Patrick Stewart

Richard Burton

Maggie Smith

Bea Arthur

Kathy Bates

Harry Dean Stanton

Judi Dench

by Anonymousreply 84August 22, 2017 8:40 PM

Irish actor and Beckett specialist Patrick Magee. He was born in 1922 and is only 41 in the linked photo from "Dementia 13" where he was only just over 40 when it was filmed in 1963. He looks well over sixty.

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by Anonymousreply 85August 22, 2017 8:43 PM

Oh, come on. When Mel Gibson and Clint Eastwood were young they looked young. And they both looked damn fine, too.

by Anonymousreply 86August 22, 2017 10:39 PM

Sam Jaffe.

by Anonymousreply 87August 22, 2017 10:46 PM

Laura Benanti. No way that bitch isn't pushing 50.

by Anonymousreply 88August 22, 2017 10:50 PM

R84 Judi Dench

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by Anonymousreply 89August 22, 2017 11:40 PM

Back in the day she was Zeffirelli's Juliet in his famous stage production of R and J so she had to be young looking

by Anonymousreply 90August 23, 2017 12:15 AM

All those actors playing parents in old sitcoms still look old to me even though I'm approaching the same age. Was their casting deliberate, or is it the case where if you see something as a kid you can't unsee it? Anyone else feel this way?

by Anonymousreply 91August 23, 2017 12:17 AM

R19, everyone should look so old--and gorgeous --as Peter O'Toole in that shot.

by Anonymousreply 92August 23, 2017 12:23 AM

Robert Young (ironically).

by Anonymousreply 93August 23, 2017 12:30 AM

William Powell

by Anonymousreply 94August 23, 2017 12:34 AM

Robert Young and Ray Milland always looked old.

by Anonymousreply 95August 23, 2017 12:34 AM

R92 As a 76-year-old man he looked well in Tudors. He died 5 years after this.

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by Anonymousreply 96August 23, 2017 12:35 AM

And if he hadn't spent three quarters of his life drinking he would have turned into a distinguished mature man like Cary Grant.

by Anonymousreply 97August 23, 2017 12:37 AM

R92, Peter O'Toole was no doubt strikingly handsome but he definitely looked well older than he was in Lawrence of Arabia. A lot of people in this thread are British and Northern European, which is no mere coincidence.

by Anonymousreply 98August 23, 2017 12:41 AM

Kevin Spacey

Walt Disney He died at 66 and looked ancient!

Peggy Cass

by Anonymousreply 99August 23, 2017 12:44 AM

Disney was a huge smoker and an obsessed never satisfied man. This is going to age you big time.

Amazing he lived to 66 and with the cultural changes just happening he died just in time. December of '66. Perfect timing.

by Anonymousreply 100August 23, 2017 12:55 AM

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by Anonymousreply 101August 23, 2017 1:07 AM

R95, take a look at Milland and Young in the 1930s movies. For example, Milland in "Easy Living"--young, and gorgeous.

by Anonymousreply 102August 23, 2017 1:15 AM

Robert Mitchum

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by Anonymousreply 103August 23, 2017 1:53 AM

Jennifer Aniston

Helen Mirren

Susan Sarandon

Jennifer Lwrence

Margot Robbie

Cate Blanchett

Naomi Watts

by Anonymousreply 104August 23, 2017 3:31 AM

Maureen Stapleton. Here she is in Wild is the Wind with Brando. She's 32 yo, he's 33.

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by Anonymousreply 105August 23, 2017 5:38 AM

Derek Jacobi

by Anonymousreply 106August 23, 2017 5:42 AM

Randy Quaid was born with Grandpa face.

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by Anonymousreply 107August 23, 2017 7:42 AM

Jackie Burroughs. Played Olympia Dukakis' mother in 'Further Tales of the City' but was actually 8 years younger than her.

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by Anonymousreply 108August 23, 2017 12:00 PM

Constance Ford

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by Anonymousreply 109August 23, 2017 12:03 PM

Nicol Williamson

David McCallum

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Bob Newhart

by Anonymousreply 111August 23, 2017 12:24 PM

Hugh Grant

by Anonymousreply 112August 23, 2017 12:40 PM

James Caan

by Anonymousreply 113August 23, 2017 12:40 PM

The Olsen twins look like fucking shit.

Walter Matthau always looked old. Some of you are spot on, some of you are nuts.

by Anonymousreply 114August 23, 2017 1:19 PM

r67, ok but how is he still alive? If he was 40 in 66, he'd be 90-ish now. Is he 90? How is he still walking around and acting on the new Twin Peaks and, as far as I know, still hanging out at clubs on the Strip, playing with his band, picking up starfuckers and doing blow? Maybe he's eternal.

by Anonymousreply 115August 23, 2017 4:01 PM

HDS is 91.

by Anonymousreply 116August 23, 2017 4:09 PM

I just found this Harry Dean Stanton Festival:

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by Anonymousreply 117August 23, 2017 4:11 PM

Lorne Greene

by Anonymousreply 118August 23, 2017 7:46 PM

You're an idiot r 110. Look up David McCallum in The Great Escape.

by Anonymousreply 119August 23, 2017 10:54 PM

Kate Winslet

Always fat and old

by Anonymousreply 120August 24, 2017 4:45 AM

Jacqueline Bisset

by Anonymousreply 121August 24, 2017 4:45 AM

George Michael's family blasts 'sensationalist' TV docu-drama about the late singer's life after Greek actor who plays his Lebanese lover Fadi Fawaz boasts of his starring role

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by Anonymousreply 122August 24, 2017 4:48 AM

Buddy Ebsen.

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Ian McKellen

by Anonymousreply 124August 24, 2017 6:54 AM

Glenn Close

by Anonymousreply 125August 25, 2017 2:50 AM

William Frawley

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by Anonymousreply 126August 25, 2017 3:07 AM

Soap star Erika Slezak always looked old and very matronly.

Genetics obviously. Her father Walter also looked older than he was, and maybe a bit matronly too.

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by Anonymousreply 127August 25, 2017 3:18 AM

Thanks for making me look him up, r102. Whoever knew Ray Milland once looked like THAT.

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by Anonymousreply 128August 25, 2017 3:43 AM

Michael Caine

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Patrick Stewart

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by Anonymousreply 131August 25, 2017 3:50 AM

George Clooney

by Anonymousreply 132August 29, 2017 9:37 AM

Christopher Lee

by Anonymousreply 133August 29, 2017 1:10 PM

Rachel Bloom is 29 and looks past 40. Very matronly she is.

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by Anonymousreply 134August 29, 2017 1:15 PM

Walter Brennan

by Anonymousreply 135August 31, 2017 8:30 AM

Whoopi Goldberg

by Anonymousreply 136August 31, 2017 8:30 AM

Samuel L Jackson

by Anonymousreply 137August 31, 2017 8:31 AM

Keith fucking Richards

by Anonymousreply 138August 31, 2017 8:31 AM

Ed Harris

by Anonymousreply 139August 31, 2017 8:33 AM

Morgan Freeman

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by Anonymousreply 140August 31, 2017 8:34 AM

Great list. I think we are all looking at people with what I would call "personality". They're very recognizable.

by Anonymousreply 141August 31, 2017 8:38 AM

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Barbara Bush

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by Anonymousreply 142August 31, 2017 10:22 AM

Christopher Lee

by Anonymousreply 143September 3, 2017 6:17 PM

Steve Martin

by Anonymousreply 144September 3, 2017 7:12 PM

Kathleen Noone once joked that she was "born 40". Here she is a very mature looking 17 year old high school student.

Her character on All My Children, Ellen, was several years older than she was in real life.

She never aged all that much after she actually hit middle age. She looked better really in the 1990s than in the 1970s.

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by Anonymousreply 145September 3, 2017 8:03 PM

Rebecca Wisocky is another example. People on IMDb in the past made comments they couldn't believe she was only in her 40s.

Her birthdate was correct though. She was very mature looking as a High School senior in 1990.

Some people just always look mature. It's not always necessarily a bad thing.

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by Anonymousreply 146September 3, 2017 8:21 PM

Anne Ramsey was only 59 when she died.

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by Anonymousreply 147September 3, 2017 8:25 PM

147 replies and no mention of me ?

by Anonymousreply 148September 3, 2017 8:29 PM

R96

The older he became, the more O'Toole looked like 1/3 of the old queens one sees in Palm Desert.

by Anonymousreply 149September 4, 2017 1:22 AM

Holy shit r147 she looked 70 something. Possibly a drinker ?

by Anonymousreply 150September 4, 2017 1:50 AM

R105. Neither Marlon Brando nor Maureen Stapleton were in Wild is the Wind. Are you thinking of The Fuggitive Kind, perhaps?

by Anonymousreply 151September 4, 2017 2:42 AM

Fugitive, that would be.

by Anonymousreply 152September 4, 2017 2:43 AM

Toni Collette

by Anonymousreply 153September 4, 2017 6:38 PM

Burt Mustin

by Anonymousreply 154September 4, 2017 6:40 PM

Emma Wtson

by Anonymousreply 155September 4, 2017 6:42 PM

German actress Nina Hoss is only 42 and has looked 50 for years.

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by Anonymousreply 156September 4, 2017 9:01 PM

Maggie didn't look young for her age, especially when she was in her twenties.

by Anonymousreply 157September 4, 2017 9:08 PM

Jezza Renner

by Anonymousreply 158September 4, 2017 9:25 PM

Amy Adams

by Anonymousreply 159September 4, 2017 9:30 PM

Cรฉline Dionne

by Anonymousreply 160September 5, 2017 10:04 AM

Dionne Warwick

Aretha

by Anonymousreply 161September 6, 2017 9:20 AM

Edward G Robinson

Thelma Ritter

by Anonymousreply 162September 6, 2017 9:43 AM

Kidman

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by Anonymousreply 163September 6, 2017 12:32 PM

Eddie Redmayne

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by Anonymousreply 164September 6, 2017 12:34 PM

Edward G. Robinson

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by Anonymousreply 165September 6, 2017 12:48 PM

Jackie Cooper owns this thread. Just google images of him if you are unfamiliar with who he was. As a kid he already had the face of a 40 year old.

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by Anonymousreply 166September 6, 2017 1:09 PM

Ruth Gordon

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by Anonymousreply 167September 6, 2017 6:13 PM

I always thought Ruth Gordon was Jewish and shocked to find out she wasn't.

by Anonymousreply 168September 6, 2017 6:34 PM

Michael J. Pollard and Burt Young always looked 10-20 years older.

by Anonymousreply 169April 20, 2021 3:27 AM

William Schallert owns this thread.

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by Anonymousreply 170April 20, 2021 3:46 AM

Sidney Poitier

by Anonymousreply 171April 20, 2021 3:47 AM

Carroll O'Conner- He looked 63 when All In The Family premiered but he was only in his late 40's.

by Anonymousreply 172April 20, 2021 3:50 AM

Lynne Thigpen

by Anonymousreply 173April 20, 2021 3:52 AM

R168 thatโ€™s a subject for another thread.

by Anonymousreply 174April 20, 2021 5:36 AM
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