# What is up with Douglas Slocombe's head?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 20, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-up-with-douglas-slocombes-head/738082 "2015-11-20T15:08:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-up-with-douglas-slocombes-head/738082/1 "2015-11-20T15:08:56Z")

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He’s 102 and will be 103 in February. He is a great cinematographer, retiring with Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

[Here he is in 2011.](http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/72823000/jpg/_72823007_slocombe-2011.jpg) What is wrong with his head?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-up-with-douglas-slocombes-head/738082/2 "2015-11-20T15:12:55Z")

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[Nothing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver_spot).

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**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-up-with-douglas-slocombes-head/738082/3 "2015-11-20T16:03:05Z")

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He’s an example of why balding men, and especially balding Caucasian men, should wear hats when outdoors.

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**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-up-with-douglas-slocombes-head/738082/4 "2015-11-20T16:44:46Z")

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Now that the question is answered, I can thank you for updating me on how the Cryptkeeper is doing these days! 🙂

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**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-up-with-douglas-slocombes-head/738082/5 "2015-11-20T22:25:11Z")

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When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not, hmm?

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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-up-with-douglas-slocombes-head/738082/6 "2015-11-20T22:48:58Z")

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Dear baby Jesus on a cracker.

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**Author:** ![Stoneburg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Stoneburg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoneburg)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-up-with-douglas-slocombes-head/738082/7 "2015-11-20T22:50:40Z")

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Considering the head is 102 years old by now, I think it looks OK. I wonder what his testicles look like by now… 102 years of gravity and entropy… _shudder_

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**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-up-with-douglas-slocombes-head/738082/8 "2015-11-20T22:59:33Z")

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> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> URL=“[http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/72823000/jpg/\_72823007\_slocombe-2011.jpg](http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/72823000/jpg/_72823007_slocombe-2011.jpg)”]Here he is in 2011. What is wrong with his head?

Nothing.

Uneven skin pigmentation is a normal feature of old age. That’s what a 103 year old Caucasian head looks like. It ain’t pretty, but considering most people are dead by that age he’s looking pretty good under the circumstances.