# Actors who age badly **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 4, 2001, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385 "2001-11-04T02:21:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385/1 "2001-11-04T02:21:04Z")
To keep things balanced: Jon Voight. ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_O.Pinion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/839c29/32.png) [@Frank\_O.Pinion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_O.Pinion)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385/2 "2001-11-04T02:25:14Z")
Marlon Brando. No. 1 in this category. ---
**Author:** ![Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnac_the_Magnificent)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385/3 "2001-11-04T02:35:13Z")
Kathleen Turner. Hot as a torch in “Body Heat.” Ten years later, looked like an NFL linebacker. ---
**Author:** ![Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnac_the_Magnificent)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385/4 "2001-11-04T02:36:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Country Squire \* > \*\*Kathleen Turner. > > Hot as a torch in “Body Heat.” Ten years later, looked like an NFL linebacker. \*\* Must learn to read… ---
**Author:** ![Mofo\_Rising](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mofo\_Rising](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mofo_Rising)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385/5 "2001-11-04T02:42:36Z")
[Corey Haim](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Haim,+Corey) and [Corey Feldman](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Feldman,+Corey). Wait a minute, they’re as great as they ever were. What am I thinking? Rock on! ---
**Author:** ![highjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed8c4c/32.png) [@highjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/highjack)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385/6 "2001-11-04T02:57:32Z")
Mark Hamill … Luke Skywalker [Then](http://us.imdb.com/EGallery?source=mptv&group=1030&photo=11513_0021.jpg&path=pgallery&path_key=Hamill,+Mark) [Now](http://us.imdb.com/EGallery?source=granitz&group=0406-the&photo=hamill_m.ark&path=pgallery&path_key=Hamill,+Mark) ---
**Author:** ![lucie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed8c4c/32.png) [@lucie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucie)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385/7 "2001-11-04T03:05:19Z")
John Travolta. All I can say is Yikes! ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385/8 "2001-11-04T03:12:16Z")
Robert Redford…it breaks my heart seeing him now…☹ ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385/9 "2001-11-04T04:05:58Z")
Michael Douglas ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385/10 "2001-11-04T04:10:47Z")
Bruce Willis. However, I never thought he was all that and a six pack back in his salad days. Unfortunately now, though, he looks like a skid-row bum, only not as sober. Arnold Swarzenegger. Wow. It was like one day, YUM-MEEE. The next day, ACK! Michael Jackson. I don’t think I need to elaborate here. Don Johnson. (insert vomit sounds here). Get a decade, Vice-Roy. Grampa Jones and you could be interchangeable at this point. See how well the ravages of booze and idiot women mark their place on your worn-out, looks-pretty-crappy-with-the-whiskers-_now_ face? Lee Majors. Six million bucks wouldn’t do it now on your life. Guys usually tend to age better than women. But when they don’t, well, they are really the pits. I’d hate to see Jim Carrey in about ten years. Talk about Jerry Lewis’s evil twin… ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385/11 "2001-11-04T15:00:46Z")
When I think of “actors who age badly” I always think of Robert Redford first. This dude must’ve done a helluva lot of tanning in his younger days. Oh. My. God. Harrison Ford is getting there fast. Not quite there yet. He’s still pretty cute for an old guy. Michael Douglas. Ick! What’s up with the jowls, man?? If you’re gonna have a young babe like Catherine Zeta Jones (And I STILL don’t know how to explain THAT relationship. Blech!), you need to have a friggin’ facelift! You can afford it!! I personally do not care for Sean Connery either. Most women will spit on me and call me a blasphemer for that. He was a hottie when he was young, but now…Yeesh!. Part of it is that his whistly-lispy-S’s are more pronounced. Makes me shudder, and not in a good way. does he have badly fitting dentures or something? I disagree with the opinion about Bruce Willis. For some reason I still think he’s drool-worthy. Mmm…bruce… Lorie ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385/12 "2001-11-04T20:11:51Z")
Connery is better now than he was then. And Douglas has already had at least one major facelift, which has given him that freakish faux-human look. Jan Micheal Vincent is the male embodiment of the word “Hag”, after being gorgeous as a young man. Another (semi-obscure) one that fell completely to pieces after being an exquisitely beautiful young man is Leonard Whiting, who played Romeo in the 1968 Zefferelli film. I saw a picture of him in People about 6 years ago and he looked like a really bad and tubby Phil Collins. Yipes. And I so don’t get the Robert Redford votes. He’s just not baby-faced anymore, now he’s a ruggedly handsome older man. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385/13 "2001-11-04T22:16:15Z")
Mr. Blue Sky trumped me with Jon Voight. Oh man! Marlon Brando. Orson Welles. Beau Bridges – and, arguably, his brother Jeff. And don’t get me started on the Baldwin brothers! Last but not least, Jack Nicholson. Anyone feel like guessing who, of today’s hot young faces, will fare badly also? Leo DiCaprio? Done deal! ---
**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385/14 "2001-11-04T23:26:24Z")
Clint Eastwood. Don’t get me wrong, the guy still has one of the most interesting faces on the planet, but when he was young he looked like a kind of a “young old guy” if you know what I mean. Now he is DR OLD FROM OLD CITY, CAPITAL OF OLDLAND. And he wears his belt above his waist. Old man. Really cool old man, I mean REALLY, but there’s no fooling us with a Shatner (corset and wig) combination here. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385/15 "2001-11-05T00:14:46Z")
The guy who plays Angel, David Boreanaz (sp?). He’s what, thirty? He looks like he’s pushing fifty. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385/16 "2001-11-05T01:48:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by highjack \* > \*\*Mark Hamill … Luke Skywalker > > [Then](http://us.imdb.com/EGallery?source=mptv&group=1030&photo=11513_0021.jpg&path=pgallery&path_key=Hamill,+Mark) > > [Now](http://us.imdb.com/EGallery?source=granitz&group=0406-the&photo=hamill_m.ark&path=pgallery&path_key=Hamill,+Mark) \*\* To be fair, Mark Hamill was involved in an accident that pretty much ruined his looks. It’s why he retired from before-the-camera work for a while. Robin ---
**Author:** ![NaSultainne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@NaSultainne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NaSultainne)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385/17 "2001-11-05T02:11:21Z")
Ditto on **Robert Redford**. Really, **Stoid** , what _are_ you thinking, woman? (Blond men should only be lifeguards, doncha know.) He’s looking so yellowy tannish…_blech_ definitely fits. Ditto again on **Michael Douglas**. He used to be such a hottie, too. Now, don’t you just wonder if Catherine makes him turn off the light when he walks into the room? ::shudder:: Ditto one more time on **Jan Michael Vincent**. Another one lost to booze and beatings. Now, this one I haven’t seen yet. Yeah, he still looks good, which is obviously the problem. I mean, doesn’t it make you think “Portrait of Dorian Gray” when you even _think_ the name…Dick Clark? ---
**Author:** ![Mofo\_Rising](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mofo\_Rising](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mofo_Rising)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385/18 "2001-11-05T04:53:40Z")
Oh yeah, [Mickey Rourke](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Rourke,+Mickey). I don’t think anybody expected how wholeheartedly he would embrace sleaze culture. Oh well, [Barfly](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0092618) was good. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385/19 "2001-11-05T05:15:00Z")
I don’t think Arnold or Lee Majors or many of these other guys look that bad. They are the age they are. What’s the big deal? They look fine, for a guy that is XX years old. That’s what I say. As far as Mark Hamill, he has aged\*…differently…\*, but he doesn’t look that bad. I just saw him last night in the most delightful film, 1999’s “Walking across Egypt”, where he plays a small town’s local dog catcher. He looks about 40 (and I think he is over 40) and he looks like a …dog catcher. He doesn’t look much like Luke anymore, but damn - he looks like a non-unattractive, 40 year old dog catcher! What’s so lamentable about that? Why can’t these people be _allowed_ to look their age? Ditto the rather obscure reference to Leonard Whiting. He starts to look a bit seedy (and far older than his 20-something years) in the TV Movie “Frankenstein: The True Story”. He looks A LOT older than his years just a few years later, in another film whose name I cannot remember. And he was probably the most beautiful young man I’d ever seen, in “Romeo and Juliet”. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385/20 "2001-11-05T07:28:51Z")
Julian Sands. Absolutely stunning in _A Room With A View_, but now … [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-age-badly/91385.md?page=2)