# Actors who always look the same age

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 8, 2011, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-always-look-the-same-age/605495 "2011-12-08T11:57:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-always-look-the-same-age/605495/21 "2011-12-08T18:10:47Z")

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> [@Argent\_Towers](#):
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> [Animal Mother](http://www.indiana.edu/~polfilm/studen04/howden/Adam%20Baldwin%20is%20Animal.jpg)
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> [Jayne Cobb](http://images.wikia.com/firefly/images/d/d0/Jayne.jpg)
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> Adam Baldwin looks almost exactly the same.

And now [John Casey](http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID11363/images/Adam_Baldwin_Chuck.jpg).

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-always-look-the-same-age/605495/22 "2011-12-08T18:14:42Z")

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> [@VOW](#):
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> Adrienne Barbeau
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> Stephanie Powers
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> (please note: I haven’t seen either of these two ladies in years, so they may have well caught up to the painting in the attic!)

Here’s a [picture](http://www.bowkera.com/images/KGO/Alan%20&%20Adrienne%20800.JPG) of Barbeau from 2008. A little off her prime but she’s looking good for 63.

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**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-always-look-the-same-age/605495/23 "2011-12-08T19:23:01Z")

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Walter Brennan.

StG

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**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-always-look-the-same-age/605495/24 "2011-12-08T19:31:55Z")

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> [@Annie-Xmas](#):
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> And Morgan Freeman. Did he ever look young??

Yes. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX-zwBic89g](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX-zwBic89g)

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**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-always-look-the-same-age/605495/25 "2011-12-08T19:33:40Z")

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Another born-middle-aged actor: Peter Cushing.

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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-always-look-the-same-age/605495/26 "2011-12-08T19:36:07Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Here’s a [picture](http://www.bowkera.com/images/KGO/Alan%20&%20Adrienne%20800.JPG) of Barbeau from 2008. A little off her prime but she’s looking good for 63.

Yabba dabba do!

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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-always-look-the-same-age/605495/27 "2011-12-08T19:40:17Z")

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Burgess Meredith already looked old as a [Lieutenant in in WWII](http://www.lonesentry.com/blog/the-rear-gunner.html). Certainly older than that hack from the Bonzo movies who plays his CO.

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-always-look-the-same-age/605495/28 "2011-12-08T20:03:09Z")

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I’d say Burt Lancaster looked pretty much the same from around 1948 to at least the late '60s.

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**Author:** ![GovernmentMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@GovernmentMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GovernmentMan)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-always-look-the-same-age/605495/29 "2011-12-08T22:01:08Z")

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Whoopie Goldberg

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**Author:** ![Winston\_Bongo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9adbd/32.png) [@Winston\_Bongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Bongo)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-always-look-the-same-age/605495/30 "2011-12-08T22:10:42Z")

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Michael J. Fox

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**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-always-look-the-same-age/605495/31 "2011-12-08T22:14:37Z")

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> [@Krav\_Manga](#):
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> Another that springs to mind is Max Von Sydow - that guy looks the same now as he did in the Exorcist.

Note that although the make-up on Linda Blair in **The Exorcist** received the most attention, the real make-up triumph was the old-age make-up on Max Von Sydow who was only 44 at the time. That’s the make-up job few realized was a make-up job.

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**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-always-look-the-same-age/605495/32 "2011-12-08T22:20:13Z")

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Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you the ageless [Andie MacDowell](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000510/)

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**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-always-look-the-same-age/605495/33 "2011-12-08T22:30:40Z")

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That 2008 pic of Adrienne Barbeau was incredible. NO WAY does she look 63!

Wonder how Stephanie Powers is holding up?  
~VOW

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-always-look-the-same-age/605495/34 "2011-12-08T23:43:52Z")

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Danny DeVito, maybe? Although he did used to be a little less bald.

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**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-always-look-the-same-age/605495/35 "2011-12-08T23:47:47Z")

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Gary Coleman, anyone?

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-always-look-the-same-age/605495/36 "2011-12-09T00:39:49Z")

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> [@StGermain](#):
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> Walter Brennan.
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> StG

I’ve seen him in movies made in the '30s, and he was actually quite good-looking. But he always \*\*\*sounded \*\*\*like his was in his 80s.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-always-look-the-same-age/605495/37 "2011-12-09T00:43:34Z")

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Liza Minnelli.

Bea Arthur.

Joel Gray (until, practically overnight, he became all wrinkly).

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-always-look-the-same-age/605495/38 "2011-12-09T00:49:20Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
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> Liza Minnelli.

[Respectfully](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2mnhfSdSZqQ/TcGlgEqDpKI/AAAAAAAAAEo/SXYKaF6Zlkw/s1600/Cabaret%2BLiza%2BMinnelli%2BMien%2BHerr.jpg) [disagree](http://indianapolis-indiana.funcityfinder.com/files/2010/03/Liza-Minnelli-Indianapolis-Symphony-Orchestra.jpg).

She’s a handsome old broad, but one of those things is definitely not like the other.

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**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-always-look-the-same-age/605495/39 "2011-12-09T00:58:25Z")

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Heather Locklear looks better now than she did on _Melrose Place_ in the early 90s. Her plastic surgeon is an absolute genius.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-always-look-the-same-age/605495/40 "2011-12-09T14:16:17Z")

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I first saw Ray Liotta as an adolescent playing Joey Perini on the soap Another World. He got taller and heavier, but he still looks like Joey Perini.

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