Keith Michell did an incredible “eat my shorts Jonathan Rhys Meyers” performance as Henry VIII in which (without CGI) he aged from a fit and trim (and horny) man of about 19 to a morbidly obese and prematurely old (and impotent) tyrant. He was in his mid or late 30s at the time. (I never saw the second season of The Tudors- did JRM start putting on weight?)
That may be true re All In The Family, but the 20-year age difference between the actors Hemsley and Sanford is an established fact. My post was in regards to that age difference and the closeness in age between the husband and wife they played.
Having met Eisenberg, that is almost EXACTLY what was going on with him during filming. He was in a really awkward spot, because he was an adult, but was playing a kid, so most of the other cast members treated him like a kid anyway.
I suppose that could have something to do with why he’s an asshole now, but that could just be his normal personality. 
JRM hasn’t put on much weight yet, but the second season finale showed him digging in to a whole swan- looks like they will start linking him with gluttony/emotional eating?
Yeah, I guess my point was that Sanford was pretty close to her character’s age, Hemsley wasn’t.
I only skimmed the thread and just realized it was Isabel Sanford being discussed, so I’ll mention SANFORD & SON. Whitman Mayo was about 25 years younger than his character of Grady; actor was in his mid 40s and the character was around 70. (Foxx was about 15 years younger than the character of Fred.)
Vicky Lawrence was in her early 20s when she first played Mama as a recurring character on The Carol Burnett Show, an age difference of around 50 years. She was in late 30s when she started the TV show and I think Mama was made a bit younger as well, so about a 30 year age difference.
Anyone know how old Tyler Perry’s M’dea is supposed to be?
In the tv series MASH, Jamie Farr played Klinger, who was supposed to be 18-20, when Farr himself actually served in Korea… he was in his late 40’s, so, a 30-year difference.
The film Excalibur is full of these “age differences.”
Some examples:
Nigel Terry who played the teenaged King Arthur was 36 at the time.
Gabriel Byrne, who portrayed Arthur’s father Uther Pendragon was actually five years younger than Terry,
Helen Mirren, who was portraying Morgana Le Fey, Arthur’s OLDER half sister was the same age as Nigel Terry
Boris Karloff was 45 when he played the title role in The Mummy who was presumably thousands of years old.
Makes me ponder: what’s the word for something that returns from the grave, hungering for the flesh of the living? It’s like “mummy”… Vampire? Ghoul?
As long as the dead are walking the Earth…
In Lincoln, Sally Field (age 66) played Mary Todd Lincoln (age 47).
In the Holy Week series, who played 950-year old Noah?
Just because it’s a zombie thread, doesn’t mean you should ignore the rules! (True, not stated perfectly clearly in the OP – though implied strongly enough – but fully clarified in a post early in the thread.)
43 year old Josh Brolin played the 29 year old past version of Agent K in Men in Black 3. Well, he stated he was 29. J observed that he had some road miles on him.
A lot of actors that have been cast as Richard III -Rathbone, Olivier, Price, McKellen, were older than he was (32 when killed at Bosworth).
Similarly Marcus Agrippa is usually cast as older than his contemporary Octavian, HBO Rome is an exception.
In the late 1960s sitcom, Kaye Ballard and Roger C Carmel were only a few years older than "their son Jerry Fogel. Ballard was born in 1925, Carmel 1932 and Fogel 1936
Mary Pickford practically made a career out of playing roles too young for her. At about age 28, she played the title role in Pollyanna who I think was supposed to be 11. At about age 37 she played the title role in Coquette who I think was supposed to be about 18. At 41, she even screen-tested for the role of Alice in a planned Alice in Wonderland movie. Alice was seven years old in the book. That film was never made, which I think is a mercy.
Warren Beatty was 41 when he played a pro football quarterback in Heaven Can Wait, 44 when he played the 30-ish John Reed in Reds, 54 when he played Bugsy Siegel (who died at 41)
Beatty was 53 when he made Dick Tracy. Tracy’s age is never given, but co-star Glenne Headly, who played Tracy’s girlfriend, was 18 years younger than Beatty.
Sally Thomsett played an 11 year old in The Railway Children when she was 20, Jenny Agutter, then 17 played her older sister. According to Wikipedia
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Not the biggest, but Wet Hot American Summer had a bunch of 30 year olds playing teenagers. Now they’re planning on doing a prequel, 14ish years later, with the exact same cast.
EVERYBODY in that movie was way too old for his/her role.
Jan-Michael Vincent kept getting cast as young, wet-behind-the-ears hotshots even when he was pushing 40. He was supposed tro be playing Ali’s much younger love!
I can’t remember which film, but I remember Roger Ebert taking Jackie Chan to task in a review for casting an actress as his mother who was 3 years younger than him, while Chan himself played a character in his early 20s.