# Actors who have always looked like middle-aged guys **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 1, 2016, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-always-looked-like-middle-aged-guys/741959 "2016-01-01T23:51:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-always-looked-like-middle-aged-guys/741959/21 "2016-01-02T16:38:09Z")
Bea Arthur ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-always-looked-like-middle-aged-guys/741959/22 "2016-01-02T17:32:09Z")
Carroll O’Connor ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-always-looked-like-middle-aged-guys/741959/23 "2016-01-02T19:05:36Z")
[Richard Deacon](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0212586/?ref_=nv_sr_2). He often told the story of being a young man and asking an established actor how to break into the business. The person said, “Aren’t you a little old to be starting out?” They guessed mid-forties; he was twenty-five. The person said. “You’ll never be out of work.” ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-always-looked-like-middle-aged-guys/741959/24 "2016-01-02T21:40:43Z")
Mr. Drummond on Diff’rent Strokes! (Conrad Baines?) Ms. Hathaway on _Beverly Hill Billies_ ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-always-looked-like-middle-aged-guys/741959/25 "2016-01-02T21:51:15Z")
Someone who looked ancient for most of his career rather than middle-aged and well-known to anyone who watched any TV prior to the 80s…[Burt Mustin](https://www.google.com/search?q=burt+mustin&safe=off&rlz=1C1RNRC_enUS581US581&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwidtsCFjozKAhUIKyYKHQBJDY0Q_AUIBygB&biw=1600&bih=785). ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-always-looked-like-middle-aged-guys/741959/26 "2016-01-02T23:14:02Z")
Harry Morgan. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-always-looked-like-middle-aged-guys/741959/27 "2016-01-03T01:02:16Z")
Ronald Reagan, but that is more old age than middle age. Reagan had the same hairstyle from his 20’s till his death. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-always-looked-like-middle-aged-guys/741959/28 "2016-01-03T01:04:04Z")
John Larroquette ---
**Author:** ![usm89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7cd45c/32.png) [@usm89](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usm89)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-always-looked-like-middle-aged-guys/741959/29 "2016-01-03T01:12:44Z")
Just watched Bernadette Peters jn “Mozart in the Jungle” either good makeup or good skin she looks great and not a bit like a middle aged man. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-always-looked-like-middle-aged-guys/741959/30 "2016-01-03T01:18:54Z")
> [@usm89](#): > > Just watched Bernadette Peters jn “Mozart in the Jungle” either good makeup or good skin she looks great and not a bit like a middle aged man. Perhaps you should start a thread about actors who don’t look like middle aged men. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-always-looked-like-middle-aged-guys/741959/31 "2016-01-03T01:39:52Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I don’t think Thelma Ritter ever looked like a middle aged guy. Thelma Ritter has _always_ looked like a middle aged guy. With boobs. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-always-looked-like-middle-aged-guys/741959/32 "2016-01-03T02:45:14Z")
Harry Dean Stanton. I think he was born looking middle-aged and went downhill from there. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-always-looked-like-middle-aged-guys/741959/33 "2016-01-03T03:13:45Z")
Since we’re listing athletes, I’ll mention a nutrition celebrity, Dr. Andrew Weil. His hair retained most of its pigmentation back in the 60’s/70’s, but he did have the middle-age look with some gray in the beard and bald on top. He actually hasn’t aged a bit appearance-wise over the last 30 years or so. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-always-looked-like-middle-aged-guys/741959/34 "2016-01-03T21:25:43Z")
> [@dwyr](#): > > Harry Morgan. Thanks for this, I was trying to remember the other M_A_S\*H guy! McLean Stevenson ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-always-looked-like-middle-aged-guys/741959/35 "2016-01-04T08:28:24Z")
[Margaret Hamilton](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002121/?ref_=tt_cl_t7) was only 37 when she played the Wicked Witch of the West, making her younger than everyone else in the cast except Judy Garland (17) and Ray Bolger (35), who played the Scarecrow. But the makeup and the character made her seem much older. She lived to age 82, outliving everyone except Bolger. ---
**Author:** ![Obeseus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbce88/32.png) [@Obeseus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obeseus)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-always-looked-like-middle-aged-guys/741959/36 "2016-01-04T09:00:53Z")
William Devane. I first became aware of him when he played JFK in “Missiles of October” in 1974, which was released shortly after Devane’s 39th birthday. He always struck me as looking a lot older than he was. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-always-looked-like-middle-aged-guys/741959/37 "2016-01-04T11:17:09Z")
William Hickey always looked ancient. Tommy Lee Jones is far younger than Clint Eastwood and Donald Sutherland, but played their contemporary in “Space Cowboys.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-have-always-looked-like-middle-aged-guys/741959.md?page=1)