# Edward Hibbert's face

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edward-hibberts-face/602998>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 15, 2011, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edward-hibberts-face/602998 "2011-11-15T10:13:28Z")\
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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:** [November 15, 2011, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edward-hibberts-face/602998/1 "2011-11-15T10:13:28Z")

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[Edward Hibbert](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0382503/) is perhaps best known for his role of restaurant critic Gil Chesterton on \*Frasier. \*I always wondered about his oddly-shaped right cheek/jaw, also seen [here](http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=s&biw=1154&bih=1132&tbm=isch&tbnid=w07enMFHkYdMEM:&imgrefurl=http://www.timessquaregossip.com/2010/08/stars-out-for-trust-broadway-opening.html&docid=zq01C02QKSKeFM&imgurl=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZZ-CqtHjAnk/TGWtx7IftPI/AAAAAAAB684/0BwLo8mJ2Iw/s1600/Edward%252BHibbert.jpg&w=369&h=512&ei=hjrCTsy0G8Hf0QGc1dWZDw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=421&vpy=286&dur=5765&hovh=265&hovw=191&tx=102&ty=146&sig=115393832862358866273&page=1&tbnh=145&tbnw=101&start=0&ndsp=39&ved=1t:429,r:9,s:0). It could possibly be the result of cancer surgery. Anybody know?

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edward-hibberts-face/602998/2 "2011-11-15T21:43:51Z")

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LOL I was over in the [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=631293) about David Boreanz’ face and was looking up the name if Edward Hibbert to mention him there … and this thread popped up.

I have no idea what could have happened to his face, it is very disfigured, isn’t it?

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**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edward-hibberts-face/602998/3 "2011-11-15T23:19:17Z")

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If you Google “edward hibbert jaw” you can see that someone has speculated that he may have [Parry-Romberg syndrome](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parry%E2%80%93Romberg_syndrome).

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edward-hibberts-face/602998/4 "2011-11-15T23:36:17Z")

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Lucky for his career he’s a stage actor; such a problem isn’t as distracting (and thus a career problem) when there aren’t close-ups.

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**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edward-hibberts-face/602998/5 "2011-11-16T00:13:27Z")

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I guess I assumed he had some sort of surgery on his jaw with some bone loss. I always thought it gave his face character and made him more distinctive, sort of like David Bowie’s mismatched eyes or Stephen Colbert’s cockeyed 😃 ears.