Middle-aged and older British actors when young

Ralph Fiennes

Mark Rylance was a stunning twink!

Too bad he waited 20 years to get his hard cock sucked on film.

Damien Lewis.

Iain Glen.

Some were still beautiful when they started making movies.

Young Ian McKellen as Hamlet.

Young Patrick Stewart.

Julian Sands

Julian Sands' young bum.

R7 That sure as hell isn't young Patrick Stewart. This is young potato-faced PS:

Withdrawn. That picture is of the late Andy Whitfield but has been posted elsewhere as Stewart.

Anthony Hopkins

John Hurt

Jude Law, twink with a hairline

More twinky Jude Law

David Tennant, nude onstage

Tom Courtenay

Young Ian Ogilvy.

Sigh.

Derek Jacobi.

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Scott Antony (he hasn't made a film in decades but was very hot when he was doing pictures)

Sean Bean.

Here is a better photo of Terrence Stamp

Max Beesley in Tom Jones.

Colin Firth.

It's Terence, R23. And the first one is far more interesting.

Ray Winstone started out as a boxer, not actor. Cute.

Hey, what about me?

Not British but from the UK

Ian McKellen

Young looks better than old.

Some of these guys have been in the appreciative public eye since that age: Jude Law, Tom Courtenay, Julian Sands, Derek Jacobi, Terence Stamp ...

Many of them have the young British actor look. You know the type. And it's really not that attractive.

Mark Rylance was adorable as a young'un. But, even though he's a bit rough looking now, he's incredibly sexy (to me). Maybe it's just because he's so damn good at what he does. He has kind eyes....

Malcolm Macdowell

Rufus Sewell

[quote] It's Terence, [R23]. And the first one is far more interesting.

That's arguable. But the point of this thread is British actors when YOUNG.

Alan Bates

Oliver Reed.

Anton Lesser, who these days is in everything (Sir Thomas More in WOLF HALL, Harold Macmillan in THE CROWN).

[quote] Not British but from the UK

Scottish Sean Connery IS British. "British" means "from the isle of Great Britain," which includes England, Scotland, and Wales.

Rupert Everett in his modeling days.

Hugh Grant

Hugh Laurie (became much more attractive as he aged)

Rupert Graves from Maurice

Stephen Fry

Ian McShane was stunning.

Jared Harris

Charles Dance.

Kenneth Branagh looked like a Muppet before he made Henry V.

Yes, R37, if you bother to click on the link at R20, you'll see that this younger image of Stamp is superimposed over the more recent Stamp, who still looks not bad at all for 81. I thought that it was an interesting comparison and visual effect.

Young John "Inspector Morse" Thaw.

John Hurt

What am I? Chopped liver?

Some of these guys were never attractive, like Hugh Laurie. But I am surprised how many of them were insanely hot (Charles Dance) or adorable (Mark Rylance, Jared Harris). Rylance and Dance have mostly kept their looks, and are handsome in late middle age/old age, but poor Jared Harris really hit a wall.

Hey! Rufus Sewell is STILL STUNNING!!

Yeech, these people are only hot by British standards. They'd fade away next to the hotties of any other country.

Except for Rufus Sewell and Ioan Gruffudd.

Jared Harris wasn't really good looking even when young: bad teeth, bad skin, potato nose.

Young Colin Firth was a hot piece.

Young David Tennat was adorbs.

There will never be a cuter twink than young James McAvoy (who is 40 this year and therefore counts as middle-aged).

R60, meh. He’s no Rupert Graves.

Mark Rylance is English, but grew up in the U.S.

Rupert Graves then, Rupert Graves now, Rupert Graves forever!

Oh, I forgot Rupert Graves.

One more young Terence Stamp.

Robson Green

Check him out in "Touching Evil" and "Reckless"

Trevor Howard - not classically handsome but very hawt and that voice . . .

Michael Caine

Roger Moore - he was stunning in his early years, if you look at those old reruns of The Saint.

Michale Sheen

David Niven (oh the brave pilot in A Matter of Life and Death)!

^*Michael Sheen

And another vote for Iain Glen, although after seeing him as the debauched PI in "Jack Taylor", I'd still bed him today.

R57 - Yes, who'd want to look at a young Jude Law, eh?

Patrick Stewart was hot. He could get it.

Jeremy irons is ageless and still a hot daddy. So is charles dance.

Michael Caine, David Niven, Roger Moore and Jeremy Irons were international famous stars from a young age. I don’t believe they qualify for what OP is listing

Jeremy Irons at the beginning of his career in a small role from British series, 'The Pallisers' in 1974

When it comes to men's looks, [italic]chacun à son goût.[/italic] What I find attractive is not necessarily what you will find attractive, and vice-versa.

I find many British men gorgeous. If [italic]you[/italic] don't, you don't.

A very young Peter O'Toole

^. He looked blind even then back in the 50s. Both he and his wife had nose jobs around 1960.

It feels like it was only yesterday...

Young Ricky Gervais looked like Bowie

Benedict Cumberbatch in his 'penis experimentation' schooldays. Did he have plastic surgery? Because he looks quite different now.

The stunning Jeremy Brett

That's not Wand Ventham's so. It looks like one of those mashup pics - that Richard guy from the britcom "Coupling" mixed with someone else.

R83 you're right. It's a lookalike. My apologies. Here is a young Cumberbitch

Girlfriend, hold my earrings....

R34, I'll scratch your eyes out.

R44, I had a huge crush on the younger Hugh Laurie when he was doing British comedies and being goofy and silly. I was happy for him with his ‘House’ success but didn’t find him nearly as appealing.

Why not a picture of young Jeremy Brett?

There already is one, R87. More won't hurt though

Brett was at his peak in '63 in MFL.

Olivier tried to talk him out of leaving the National and going to Hollywood to make the film. I always wondered about that.

He was dubbed at his peak.

Sean Connery, twink edition

That's pedo edition, R91

That last photo of Sean Connery looks like it was a daguerrotype taken by Julia Margaret Cameron for the opening of the Crystal Palace.

Most sources identify that photo as Connery when he was 19, R92. He served in Royal Navy as a stoker from the age 16 until being discharged on medical grounds three years later.

This must be pre Bond but he looks pretty rough. Bodybuilding (which he did for a time) can fuck up the face.

This must be pre Bond but he looks pretty rough. Bodybuilding (which he did for a time) can fuck up the face.

This must be pre Bond but he looks pretty rough. Bodybuilding (which he did for a time) can fuck up the face.

Apologies for duplicate posts. The post button was sticking.

Richard Burton

Timothy Dalton, 1970

Trying again... Timothy Dalton..

Hey, people used to think I was kinda cute.

A very young David Hemmings.

Before Blow Up.

Timothy Dalton still hot at seventy something.

[quote] Robson Green. Check him out in "Touching Evil" and "Reckless"

He's still hot. He was shirtless at least once on GRANTCHESTER and naked (no dick shot) on BEING HUMAN.

[quote] Robson Green. Check him out in "Touching Evil" and "Reckless"

He's still hot. He was shirtless at least once on GRANTCHESTER and naked (no dick shot) on BEING HUMAN.

Alec Guinness.

Young Alex Guinness looks like a high school Biology teacher.

Richard Todd (The Dambusters, The Long and the Short and the Tall) was surprisingly hunky a for British actor of his generation.

Not to mention his beautiful eyes.

Since we're including dead actors, which Brit was ever more dashing than young Olivier?

Dirk Bogarde

Christopher Lee

Ben Whishaw now pushing 40, here at 23 as Prince Hamlet.

Speaking of the dead, the once rising star Edward Judd, most famed for his appearance ias the smart-talking alcoholic reporter in the sci-fi classic "The Day the Earth Caught Fire". Stunning but a problem character whose career never quite jelled as it should have.

Nicholas Clay

Richard Harris (RIP) - not gorgeous but hawt hawt hawt.

The lovely John Castle.

R117, Richard Harris was Irish, but here's a photo anyway.

Hywel Bennett looked a bit like Zac Efron in Twisted Nerve and then hit the wall hard with his eyebags and face bloat. Did he become a big drinker or something? A shame. He was so pretty.

Poor Hywel definitely went from angelic cute to your pervy boozy uncle rather quickly.

Some get better looking with age.

Mark Bonnar in his early 30s...

Mark Bonnar at 50.

Ewan McGregor in The Pillow Book, when he was in his early 20s. Never looked better, and he went full frontal!

Full frontal Pillow Book Ewan

Martin Freeman (star of The Hobbit and Sherlock).

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Daniel Craig in 1992

Gary Oldman 1978

Young Derek Jacob. Never hot, but had a certain winsome charm.

The Welsh are British.

Richard Todd as a dashing soldier in WWII:

O'Toole had quite a long nose as seen from the side. He had it done for Lawrence. He went from striking looking to beautiful. He was open about it 'I want to be a movie star.' Of course his drinking made him look old even before he turned 40. And he never really had a big popular hit after Lion. I guess though there are those who would argue for My Favorite Year but it wasn't the sensation Lion was.

Damn! I’m straight and even I can find hotter pictures of Derek Jacobi. Anyway, some stills from The Day of the Jackal.

He's still not hot there, R134.

But I bet he did alright. And he was Cassio in the Olivier Othello which counts for something. I mean you couldn't have Cumberbatch in the role it would be ludicrous.

I like Jacobi in that last photo. He looks good and has a strong presence

Michael York as a young man. He was a big deal in the 70s, but I could never quite get past the nose.

MacCorkindale was a better looking, sexy version of York.

I never thought MacCorkindale was much of an actor, though. He was dreadful in Death on the Nile: What helped him is that Mia Farrow and Lois Chiles were even worse.

Lois Chiles was very believable as a corpse.

This scene in DotN cracks me up every time. She's so, so terrible.

I used to think Lois Chiles was terrible until I happened upon Creepshow 2 on night on cable and she was hilarious in that. Intentionally hilarious I should say.

Well...

Chiles was so beautiful that I was willing to forgive her inept line readings.

Simon Ward had a rare, androgynous beauty.

Michael Kitchen

At his most succulent—

Julian.

Michael Caine

Christopher Eccleston

a young Sean Bean

When I saw Sean Bean, I was thinking Mr. Bean, but it wasn’t him so I looked him up. Rowan Atkinson wasn’t a bad looking younger man.

Alan Rickman 1975

Tobias Menzies

Rory Kinnear was cute.

Timothy Dalton

Jonny Lee Miller

Someone needs to get a tissue sample from Terrence Stamp and clone him!

God damn Jonny Lee Miller was hot.

Well done, our Rose.

Re Jacobi: he has one of the most charming autobiographies I've ever read. Reading about his childhood in the Britain of the 1940s and 1950s was wonderful, especially as his working-class family was close and supportive. It's called "As Luck Would Have It". Recommend it.

Sexy older

Sexy younger

R163 Strong was already wearing a hairpiece in that pic.

Strong has always been sexy.

Martin Clunes

Neil Morrissey