# Actors Who Looked "Old" for a LOOOONG Time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 27, 2020, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-looked-old-for-a-loooong-time/847069 "2020-01-27T18:44:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 85
**Author:** ![Powers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Powers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Powers)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-looked-old-for-a-loooong-time/847069/85 "2020-01-31T00:15:06Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Christopher Lloyd has always looked kind of old. He was born in 1938, which means that when he did “Back to the Future,” he would have been roughly the same age as George and Lorraine in the movie (assuming they were about 17 in 1955). Yet, even in the 1955 scenes he’s supposed to be an old dude, or at least middle-aged. Christopher Lloyd would have been 47 in 1985, yes, but Doc Brown would have been in his 70s by then. All the characters who appeared in both 1955 and 1985 – George, Lorraine, Strickland, Doc, and Biff – were played by actors appropriate for their 1955 ages and then aged up (well except maybe James Tolkan as Strickland) for their 1985 scenes. In the sequel, one of the first things 77-year-old Doc does is strip off his aging mask (which Doc had used to hide his de-aging treatments from Marty) so that Lloyd could play him without makeup. Powers &8^] --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-who-looked-old-for-a-loooong-time/847069)._