# Pictures of Celebrities looking unrecognizable **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 8, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435 "2010-06-08T15:54:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435/1 "2010-06-08T15:54:49Z")
Inspired by [this](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/c/c8/20081126065006!CheG1951.jpg) picture. Can you find a picture of a celebrity or anyother famous person where you would not make the connection between the person in the photo and the media image. The ground rules 1. No baby or toddler or early to mid teen pictures,. Young adult are fine 2. No pictures where makeup, prosthesis or any other artificial thing has been placed or prcess done on thier face. 3. No disguises of any sort. Fire away. Incidentally the above is a 22 year old Che Guevara. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435/2 "2010-06-08T16:19:56Z")
[Who](http://lakehighlands.net/famous/MorganFairchild/MorganFairchild100x143.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435/3 "2010-06-08T16:23:48Z")
Here’s the writer Christopher Hitchens as an Oxford student (left) and more recently. I had no idea he was once so slender and handsome: > **[The Times & The Sunday Times](https://www.thetimes.co.uk/)** > > News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times ---
**Author:** ![Rrose\_Selavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rrose\_Selavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rrose_Selavy)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435/4 "2010-06-08T16:28:20Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > [Who](http://lakehighlands.net/famous/MorganFairchild/MorganFairchild100x143.jpg)? Well the file name says Morgan Fairchild so I’ll take a guess at that.😃 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435/5 "2010-06-08T16:38:12Z")
> [@Rrose\_Selavy](#): > > Well the file name says Morgan Fairchild so I’ll take a guess at that.😃 You got lucky that time. I was trying to find an older picture of her, when she didn’t look quite so comely. No luck. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435/6 "2010-06-08T16:43:26Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Inspired by [this](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/c/c8/20081126065006!CheG1951.jpg) picture. > > […] > > Fire away. Incidentally the above is a 22 year old Che Guevara. Huh. Looks like [Benicio del Toro](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benicio_del_Toro) was a good match to play him in the most recent film of his life, then. I can’t find a good still photo to use as a pop quiz here, so I’ll just say that I thought that Kathie Lee Gifford was almost unrecognizable without her usual for-TV makeup job on the recent no-makeup Today Show stunt. The [initial still image on this video](http://www.bellasugar.com/Today-Show-Anchors-Without-Makeup-8408464) (for me at least) is the two anchors’ (Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee) no-makeup photos side-by-side. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435/7 "2010-06-08T16:46:28Z")
Who’s the [guy on the left](http://donnatrussell.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/fantasticks.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435/8 "2010-06-08T16:47:50Z")
> [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](#): > > Here’s the writer Christopher Hitchens as an Oxford student (left) and more recently. I had no idea he was once so slender and handsome: The anti-alcohol PSA pretty much writes itself. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435/9 "2010-06-08T16:47:56Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Who’s the [guy on the left](http://donnatrussell.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/fantasticks.jpg)? That nose, it’s got to be Jerry Orbach. ETA: I just checked Wikipedia. I was right! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435/10 "2010-06-08T17:01:46Z")
OK, [one more](http://www.littleorley.com/images/withcamera72b.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435/11 "2010-06-08T17:03:07Z")
[The two on the left.](http://images.tmcnet.com/tmc/misc/article-images/Image/mybodyguard_promo01.jpg) (both in their late teens) ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435/12 "2010-06-08T17:07:23Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > OK, [one more](http://www.littleorley.com/images/withcamera72b.jpg). Woody Allen? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435/13 "2010-06-08T17:07:50Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > OK, [one more](http://www.littleorley.com/images/withcamera72b.jpg). George Burns? Probably not, he looks too tall. > [@RealityChuck](#): > > [The two on the left.](http://images.tmcnet.com/tmc/misc/article-images/Image/mybodyguard_promo01.jpg) (both in their late teens) Adam Baldwin and Matt Dillon ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435/14 "2010-06-08T17:08:17Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > [The two on the left.](http://images.tmcnet.com/tmc/misc/article-images/Image/mybodyguard_promo01.jpg) (both in their late teens) Adam Baldwin and Matt Dillon. Dillon was in so many movies when he was younger that I’d probably have a harder time recognizing him from a current picture. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435/15 "2010-06-08T17:09:48Z")
Not George Burns, not Woody Allen. This guy is slightly more obscure, yet still well known. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435/16 "2010-06-08T17:13:44Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Not George Burns, not Woody Allen. This guy is slightly more obscure, yet still well known. Damn. That’s a good one. I won’t post the answer because I hacked it. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435/17 "2010-06-08T17:17:45Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > OK, [one more](http://www.littleorley.com/images/withcamera72b.jpg). Looks a little like Roy Scheider to me. Can’t really tell with so much stuff in front of his face. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435/18 "2010-06-08T17:27:25Z")
Here’s a better [picture](http://www.littleorley.com/images/lump2.jpg) of him, with not so much stuff in front of his face. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435/19 "2010-06-08T17:28:10Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Not George Burns, not Woody Allen. This guy is slightly more obscure, yet still well known. Milton Berle? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435/20 "2010-06-08T17:30:13Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > Milton Berle? Nope. With that long face? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-of-celebrities-looking-unrecognizable/542435.md?page=2)