# Older (above 60) actors you consider cool **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 8, 2006, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-above-60-actors-you-consider-cool/338981 "2006-01-08T06:03:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-above-60-actors-you-consider-cool/338981/21 "2006-01-08T15:23:05Z")
Leslie Nielsen–Anyone who can transition from drama to slapstick comedy has to be a pretty cool dude. Jack Palance–'Nuff said. (seconded…no, thirded…) Sam Elliott ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-above-60-actors-you-consider-cool/338981/22 "2006-01-08T15:37:39Z")
Christopher Lee. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-above-60-actors-you-consider-cool/338981/23 "2006-01-08T16:23:39Z")
Michael Caine Tommy Lee Jones Gene Hackman Dominic Chianese (Uncle Junior on The Sopranos) Robert Loggia ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-above-60-actors-you-consider-cool/338981/24 "2006-01-08T16:32:53Z")
[Edward James Olmos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_James_Olmos) is so cool that it doesn’t matter that he’s only 58. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-above-60-actors-you-consider-cool/338981/25 "2006-01-08T16:38:47Z")
> [@AlbertRose](#): > > [Edward James Olmos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_James_Olmos) is so cool that it doesn’t matter that he’s only 58. Yeah, but you have to figure that his mustache is nearly as old, if not older, so the total sum of their ages easily qualifies him. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-above-60-actors-you-consider-cool/338981/26 "2006-01-08T16:55:22Z")
Donald Sutherland’s pretty cool, and he’s Canadian. But my vote would definitely have to go for Sir Ian McKellan (or possibly Christopher Lee). ---
**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:** [January 8, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-above-60-actors-you-consider-cool/338981/27 "2006-01-08T17:03:32Z")
Hector Elizondo. At 69 he makes me go all droolish. Robert Reford - not because he’s physically aged well, he hasn’t. But because he seems to care for a lot of things outside himself. StG ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-above-60-actors-you-consider-cool/338981/28 "2006-01-08T17:18:28Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > That voice. Those eyes…the stories he can tell. How 'bout it. Another one I’d do without hesitation. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-above-60-actors-you-consider-cool/338981/29 "2006-01-08T17:35:09Z")
I’d like to hang out and have a few beers with Gene Hackman or Morgan Freeman. And I bet Eli Wallach would have some good stories to tell about working with practically everyone. It’s a pity Robert Mitchum bit the dust some time ago; I’d love to hear him say, “Build my gallows high, baby,” in real life. As for women still attactive into their sixties, I’m going to pick Dames Helen Mirren and Diana Rigg. Talking about actors who are too cool to care about their shitty films, Michael Caine has to be at the top of the heap; his comment about _Jaws: The Revenge_ (“I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”) takes the prize. Donald Sutherland is a close runner up. Harrison Ford, on the other hand, just seems…confused, as if he’d like to make a good film once in a while, but can’t seem to get around to actually reading a script. As far as I’m concerned, he retired his talent hat after _The Fugitive_, and he wasn’t even the best actor in that film. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-above-60-actors-you-consider-cool/338981/30 "2006-01-08T19:20:41Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > And I bet Eli Wallach would have some good stories to tell about working with practically everyone. Even a tired and emotional deputy leader of Britain’s Labour Party. (See the “Personal Problems” section [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brown%2C_Baron_George-Brown), also the “Foreign Secretary” section for the origin of “tired and emotional.”) Michael McKean is still plenty cool, but he won’t turn 60 until October of next year. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-above-60-actors-you-consider-cool/338981/31 "2006-01-08T20:16:35Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > That stupid earring and the trophy girlfriend disqualify him. Trophy girlfriends are uncool now? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-above-60-actors-you-consider-cool/338981/32 "2006-01-08T20:19:38Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Trophy girlfriends are uncool now? 😃 They display a certain insecurity that is uncool. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-above-60-actors-you-consider-cool/338981/33 "2006-01-08T20:21:56Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > They display a certain insecurity that is uncool. Eh, fair enough. He still rescues people in his helicopter. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-above-60-actors-you-consider-cool/338981/34 "2006-01-08T20:29:41Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Eh, fair enough. He still rescues people in his helicopter. Yeah, but Michael Caine is…Michael Caine. Not many people know that. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-above-60-actors-you-consider-cool/338981/35 "2006-01-08T20:37:31Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > Yeah, but Michael Caine is…Michael Caine. > > Not many people know that. No he’s not. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-above-60-actors-you-consider-cool/338981/36 "2006-01-08T21:18:32Z")
I thought Michael Caine was Sir Maurice Mickelwhite… An explanation for the coolness of our older generation. People in their sixties were in their twenties and thirties during the 1960s, when many many young people broke from the traditions of the WWII generation. Even those celebrities who define themselves as conservative are conservative by today’s standards. In the 50s they’d be considered “out there” on the fringe in many ways. Plus, so many older men and women (not just celebrities) are much more health conscious than their chain-smoking red meat eating parents and grandparents. They just look cooler. IMHO Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![Jackie\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/22d042/32.png) [@Jackie\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackie_Blue)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-above-60-actors-you-consider-cool/338981/37 "2006-01-08T21:27:02Z")
Robert Duvall and Gene Hackman are in a category all their own for me 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-above-60-actors-you-consider-cool/338981/38 "2006-01-09T00:15:50Z")
> [@Sir Rhosis](#): > > I thought Michael Caine was Sir Maurice Mickelwhite… Nobody deserves a name like that…not even someone who starred in _Blame It On Rio_. Stranger [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-above-60-actors-you-consider-cool/338981.md?page=1)