# Actors trying to avoid age **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 30, 2011, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826 "2011-07-30T12:30:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/21 "2011-07-30T20:46:10Z")
I agree that Arnold doesn’t look bad at all now. He had work a long time ago to fix his lower jaw, which made him a lot more attractive. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/22 "2011-07-30T21:00:26Z")
Arnold looks fine in his photo. Sylvester Stallone, Micky Rourke, and Burt Reynolds are the ones who can’t help but look creepy even with all the power of Hollywood and professional cinematographers working at it. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/23 "2011-07-30T21:09:46Z")
That’s a particularly unflattering picture of Harrison Ford, though. He does look pretty good for his age. [This video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWTtMdXAazs&feature=player_embedded) is not only hilarious, but it gives you a better idea of who Ford is right now. This was from the Jimmy Kimmel show a couple of days ago. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/24 "2011-07-30T21:17:40Z")
The actor who looked best for his age, without (as far as I know) any plastic surgery was Paul Newman. This is what he looked like at age 69: [Paul Newman in “Nobody’s Fool”](http://thecinemaguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/image13.jpg). He also raced in the Baja 500 and the 24 hours of Daytona in 2005, when he was 80 years old (and he’s still in the record books as the oldest driver to be part of a winning team, when his team won Daytona in 1995 when he was 70). If cancer hadn’t gotten him, he probably would have lived to be 100. He was in great shape. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/25 "2011-07-30T21:59:46Z")
FTR, [here](http://i2.listal.com/image/527063/600full-mickey-rourke.jpg) is Mikey Rourke from the mid 1980s, I think. I am fairly sure this dates from _Year of the Dragon_. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/26 "2011-07-30T22:29:22Z")
I know he’s not an actor, but the first person that comes to mind is Paul McCartney and his shoe-polish hair. > **[Paul McCartney](https://www.imdb.com/media/rm2532544256/nm0005200)** > > Paul McCartney Ringo Starr, on the other hand, has aged much more gracefully. > **[Ringo Starr](https://www.imdb.com/media/rm293640960/nm0823592)** > > Ringo Starr I’m uncertain whether he’s had work done (if he has, it was done right), but I think Ryan O’Neal, whose around the same age as both Ringo and Paul, looks fantastic for his age. He’s 70 now. > **[Ryan O'Neal](https://www.imdb.com/media/rm181572864/nm0641939)** > > Ryan O'Neal in Bones (2005) ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@Lady\_of\_the\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_of_the_Lake)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/27 "2011-08-01T20:43:27Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > The actor who looked best for his age, without (as far as I know) any plastic surgery was Paul Newman. > > This is what he looked like at age 69: [Paul Newman in “Nobody’s Fool”](http://thecinemaguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/image13.jpg). Wow, you are correct, he looked very good for 69! ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/28 "2011-08-01T20:53:00Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > …looks as good as ever. amen. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/29 "2011-08-01T21:02:21Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > I’m uncertain whether he’s had work done (if he has, it was done right), but I think Ryan O’Neal, whose around the same age as both Ringo and Paul, looks fantastic for his age. He’s 70 now. > > [Ryan O'Neal](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm181572864/nm0641939) I saw him on Oprah a couple months ago, he’s definitely had a lot of work done, and it’s not so flattering when you see him actually moving. He really has the face-pulled-too-tight look. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/30 "2011-08-01T21:24:42Z")
> [@postcards](#): > > Karen Allen, on the other hand… Karen Allen looked just fine for a woman approaching 60. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/31 "2011-08-01T21:31:44Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Of course it’s artificial. He got his face pounded into hamburger while he was boxing and it had to be surgically repaired. > > [Mickey Rourke: I've hacked off so many people in Hollywood, who the hell would give me an Oscar? | Daily Mail Online](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1150506/Mickey-Rourke-Ive-hacked-people-Hollywood-hell-Oscar.html) Yes, but he also says in that link that he picked the wrong surgeon to fix his face. So it’s (probably) not just because he got busted up in boxing and needed reconstructive surgery, but that he got **bad** surgery. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/32 "2011-08-01T21:38:04Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Aging? Both are in their 70s and Reynolds is only four years away from 80. They have _ **aged** _ and they look like the old men they are. Before-and-after pictures of Kenny, just to illustrate the point: [![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bQ0SqifjNcg/TEICTdqdxhI/AAAAAAAAYiU/o2vj3BkH6M0/s1600/kenny-rogers-plastic-surgery-2.jpg) ](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bQ0SqifjNcg/TEICTdqdxhI/AAAAAAAAYiU/o2vj3BkH6M0/s1600/kenny-rogers-plastic-surgery-2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/33 "2011-08-01T21:38:09Z")
He’s also unusual for _admitting_ he’s had surgery. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/34 "2011-08-02T12:55:57Z")
[Joan Van Ark](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-499391/Knots-Landing-star-Joan-Van-Arks-shocking-look-reveals-failure-turn-time.html) has destroyed her face with cosmetic surgery. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/35 "2011-08-02T13:07:41Z")
I see your Mickey Roarke and raise you a [Meg Ryan](http://www.savvyskin.com/pics/plastic-surgery-meg-ryan.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/36 "2011-08-02T13:50:52Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > Karen Allen looked just fine for a woman approaching 60. I wouldn’t kick her out of the temple. ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/37 "2011-08-02T14:01:39Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > [Joan Van Ark](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-499391/Knots-Landing-star-Joan-Van-Arks-shocking-look-reveals-failure-turn-time.html) has destroyed her face with cosmetic surgery. Gah! What the hell happened to her?! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/38 "2011-08-02T14:04:44Z")
I recently saw a photo of 1960s sex kitten **Carroll Baker** at a premiere and I thought, “Omigod, she looks _terrible!_” Then I realized, “oh, right, she looks like what a woman of her age _is supposed to look like_.” Not used to seeing that on the red carpet! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/39 "2011-08-02T14:28:35Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > [Joan Van Ark](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-499391/Knots-Landing-star-Joan-Van-Arks-shocking-look-reveals-failure-turn-time.html) has destroyed her face with cosmetic surgery. But she was creepy looking to start. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826/40 "2011-08-02T16:08:21Z")
Meg Ryan is tragic. She used to have a fantastic ‘girl next door’ look, now she looks like a circus freak. And she’s not that old, either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-trying-to-avoid-age/590826.md?page=3)