# Oldest man who sired a child? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 29, 2005, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-man-who-sired-a-child/323978 "2005-09-29T03:16:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-man-who-sired-a-child/323978/1 "2005-09-29T03:16:36Z")
The Guinness Book of World Records has a cateogy for Oldest Mother, but the copy I have (which is admittedly a bit out of date) lacks a category for Oldest Father. My google searching skills don’t seem to be turned up anything conclusive. Does anyone have any idea? ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-man-who-sired-a-child/323978/2 "2005-09-29T03:25:24Z")
The oldest I know of is Tony Randall of **The Odd Couple** fame. He reportedly fathered a child at around at around 79. [Cite](http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/okeefe061504.html) ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-man-who-sired-a-child/323978/3 "2005-09-29T03:41:28Z")
> [@Stuffy](#): > > The oldest I know of is Tony Randall of **The Odd Couple** fame. He reportedly fathered a child at around at around 79. [Cite](http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/okeefe061504.html) Yeah. The trouble with this sort of thing is you can’t be sure without tests. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-man-who-sired-a-child/323978/4 "2005-09-29T04:03:19Z")
According to [this](http://www.sexualrecords.com/WSRprev.html) and other sources, the record holder was one Les Colley of western Victoria, who fathered a child at the ripe old age of 93 and change! > [@](#): > > Mine worker Les Colley (1898-1998), from the town of Ararat in western Victoria, made world headlines as the world’s oldest father at age 93 yr. 10 mo., when his son Oswald was born in July 1992. “I never thought she would get pregnant so easy, but she bloody well did,” he told the papers, discounting the possibility that perhaps HE had more to do with this miracle of fertilization. A non-drinker and non-smoker, he remained active up to the very end, succumbing to pneumonia four months shy of his 100th birthday. ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-man-who-sired-a-child/323978/5 "2005-09-29T14:28:51Z")
It sticks in my mind from years back that “the oldest man to father a child was 108”. IIRC it was in an old copy of the Guinness Book of Records, at least 15 years or more old. Here it is not uncommon for sheikhs to father children well into their eighties. The head of Emirates Airline, Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, was born in the [**year of his father’s death**](http://www.sheikhmohammed.co.ae/english/dubai/fatherofDubai_ruler1.asp). Saeed was around 80 when he died. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-man-who-sired-a-child/323978/6 "2005-09-29T16:44:40Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > According to [this](http://www.sexualrecords.com/WSRprev.html) and other sources, the record holder was one Les Colley of western Victoria, who fathered a child at the ripe old age of 93 and change! He seems amazed by how easily she got knocked up. How old was _she_?