Stars who were hot as hell when they were younger but did NOT age well

James Spader

Micky Rourke

Barbara Payton. Are we including gals?

It's the ones with mental health problems who self-medicated.

Bridget Fonda

Barbara Pepper.

Ray Milland

Franchot Tone

Russell Crowe.

Vince Vaughn. Hot for a minute then the inner ugly started to show.

Billy Zane OWNS this thread.

Tom Cruise

Desi Arnaz.

Does anyone age well without surgical interventions and botox?

Brendan Fraser - not just because he got fat but his sexiness was short lived.

Leonardo DiCaprio

The Tiger Blood guy with the famous dad.

Jan Michael Vincent

Helmet Berger

/Helmut

Pauline Kael claimed DeNiro, one of those actors she was hot for, lost his looks when he got fat for Raging Bull. After he slimmed down his beauty was gone.

Jan Michael Vincent is a great example

R14 - yes. Frances Farmer was still beautiful as she got older.

Jan Michael Vincent is the BEST example

Pussy Galore

R22 don't you think she got a facelift?

Elvis Presley

Elvis is a good one

Shirley Knight.

Russel Crowe owns this thread.

He is playing Göring now.

Greta Scacchi

Russell.

A long way from “LA confidential” ….

Kathleen Turner

Sigh….

Is it too soon to mention Jake Gyllenhaal?

Joaquin Phoenix was hot in gladiator then fell off a cliff

Michael Madsen RIP

[quote] A long way from “LA confidential” ….

True. but at least he owns it. R31

Exactly, and so did Brando…Kurtz.

Errol Flynn was hot until death. Marlon Brando...well we know he blew up like he was in the Thanksgiving Parade. And Johnny Depp still looks pretty good when he cleans up.

You know who's aging REALLY WELL???? Brad Pitt. It's a sin how hot he is at 61.

[quote] And Johnny Depp still looks pretty good when he cleans up.

Hi Johnny 👋

R40, you know we can see Johnny Depp, don't you?

r37 I never thought of Michael Madsen as "hot as hell."

I get Michael Madsen, Vincent Gallo and Tom Sizemore mixed up but they all were pretty hot when young.

All aged badly. Madsen was probably the most talented and was in some great films.

He was also married to Chers' sister Georgeanne.

Rupert Everett thread closed

Tyrone Power was the very epitome of not aging well. During his prime he was the best looking actor in Hollywood. But he chain smoked and was an alcoholic. When died of of a massive heart attack at age 44 he looked like he was in his sixties..

He son on the other hand, Tyrone Powqer Jr, who was born a few months after his death, and inherited his looks, has obviously lived a healthy life. He is 66 and looks better than his father did in his forties.

From Travolta to Revolta-What Happened Vinnie Barbarino!!

RICHARD GREICO!!

Monty Clift's looks went downhill rather quickly, of course the car accident didn't help, nor the booze, nor the pills...

Matt Bomer.

MICKEY ROURKE

I think Bomer still looks good

Mark Hamill. I found him almost beautiful in Star Wars. Then he smashed his face in that car accident and seems to have had a shitty plastic surgeon. He became plain looking, had no career acting outside of the Star Wars franchise and became a voice actor for animated cartoons. With age he now he looks like an underground troll. A grotesque out of a Fellini film. Babe Paley and Ann Margret had the world's most gifted doctors.

Val Kilmer

Jude Law

M Clift's car accident took away his beauty. His features remained the same but he looks off compared to his former self.

Colleen Camp.

I second Jude Law. He was gorgeous up to Sherlock Holmes. And even gorgeouser as a Twunk in that old Holmes TV episode.

He looked bloated in that terrible Star Wars spinoff.

John James

Erik Estrada

Both very hot in the 80s, then...kerplunk !

For some reason even though I admit he's(was) a very good looking guy Jude Law who should be my type isn't. I saw him in the play I believe it was called Indiscretions. He had a frontal nude scene. The lady's head in front of me was blocking the view. I of course could have moved my head a couple of inches to take it all in. I was too lazy to bother. Now if Roger Rees who was also in the play was nude they would have had to carry me out on a stretcher.

I saw "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Quad Cinema this afternoon. I'd never seen it on a large screen before. Brando was breathtakingly handsome and hot as hell....in every damn scene! What an excellent movie, incredible acting and play.

I saw "Who Killed Teddy Bear" at the Film Forum yesterday. Sal Mineo was very sexy, great body. Unfortunately, he was murdered when he was 37, botched mugging outside his garage according to Wikipedia. I guess you could say he didn't age at all.

^ Memories of a nice, nice man

Rest In Peace, Roger Rees.

There was a younger phase when Albert Brooks was really sexy - in an unassuming way.

Not saying he hasn't aged well, but no more.

Val Kilmer, Bill Holden, Gig Young

Ava Gardner, Vivien Leigh, Veronica Lake

I think this thread should have been "Stars who were hot as hell when they were younger and aged well. The thread would have been over by Post 9.

The last time I found Brando still hot was in Last Tango in Paris. Then everything went to hell.

Christian Bale

Tony Curtis

Agree about Bill Holden, R64.

The difference between Bill Holden of Sunset Boulevard (1951) and Bill Holden of Network (1976) is sad.

R67 Holden was absolutely gorgeous in GOLDEN BOY with DL fave Barbara Stanwyck.

People get old, they get too much sun, they smoke, they drink, they don't exercise, they eat crap food....most people don't age well.

The living celebrities who aged the best that i can think of are probably Paul Rudd and Morgan Fairchild.

She had plastic surgery. I'm not sure about him.

Tom Selleck

Another vote for William Holden. He was one fine looking man. Good actor, too.

Paul Rudd must have had plastic surgery. Same with Jason Bateman. Both look amazing!

Val Kilmer

Val had cancer R74, that's a disqualification.

Erik Estrada got hot again. He has a daddy vibe now that he lost weight. Mel Gibson - prime example.

He lost his beauty before that. It was primarily because he was a chain smoker but he also had packed on the pounds too.

Alain Delon - young

Val Kilmer was an uncann;y resemblance to Jim Morrison in The Doors.

Alain Delon - old

Ashley Judd. She was hot in those 90s films. Now I look away. Axl Rose was never hot to me but was to the masses. Now? We all know what an over-sized unflushed turd looks like.

Mel Gibson

Brooke Shields

Courtney Cox was so beautiful, but she ruined her looks with fillers and plastic surgery. Same with Madonna.

Priscilla Presley is another example of someone who ruined her looks with plastic surgery.

Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole were gorgeous young men, but drink and cigarettes did a real number on their looks.

Sadly, Ava Gardener. In her 20s and 30s, Gardner was the best looking woman ever in Hollywood. Her hard living caught up with by her mid 40s. She wasn't ugly but looked far older than her years.

No one has aged as well as Donna Mills.

Al Pacino had a very brief window of hotness when he starred in the first Godfather movie. By the time he did the second Godfather movie a few years later, he had aged considerably with bags under his eyes and overall just seemed less attractive,

Mickey Rooney was cute during his Andy Hardy days and in those musicals with Judy in the 1940s, but by his early thirties, he had aged rapidly and looked years older than his actual age.

R85 - I don't think Burton aged as badly as O'Toole.

Aldo Ray. He got fat.

Alcohol destroyed Buster Keaton’s looks.

Buster young:

Buster old:

Rupert Everett is/was also a whiny bitch about aging and being a gay actor. No one forced you to get a facelift, bitch!

(More importantly, he didn’t have any close friends that may have talked him out of it or referred him to tread lightly.)

R82, I think Brooke Shields has aged well; she lost her astonishing beauty after about age 25, but that's different from not aging well. Her figure is remarkable and her skin is still good at 60.

Also, she deserves a ton of credit for not succumbing to loads of plastic surgery.

I feel bad for saying this because I love him as an actor but Willem Dafoe was so hot in the 1980s and just looks weird now.

Christopher Walken was extremely attractive in the 1970s, especially during the making of The Deer Hunter, but in the 80s he began to look more sinister and aged rapidly.

[quote]We all know what an over-sized unflushed turd looks like.

Thanks to the season finale of AJLT we certainly do.

Ashley Judd has had severe health problems requiring her to take steroids on a long term basis. Hence the puffy look. My point being that her appearance is not the result of life style choices like Russell Crowe’s.

Or they get murdered by a black male.

- Sal Mineo

Richard Dean Anderson

I was very surprised to see how cute Walken was as a chorus boy on Broadway in the 60s. Already by the 70s he started to look strange. See Annie Hall.

Donna Mills has the best plastic surgeon in the world. She doesn't look strange at all and she should look very strange like Jo Van Ark. Ann Margret also looks terrific. Everybody loves her. And from what I hear she was quite the wild cat when young. Well who wouldn't have wanted to make constant love to Bobby Rydell while they were making Birdie. Then she moved on to Elvis. Then to Roger Smith. What a life. No wonder she's a happy person.