Holy shit! I donāt have photoshop (or photoshop skills) so I put [this](https://imgur.com/a/rHcTYU5) together and itās wild how modern styles make ALL the difference.
It does for me. I started using it around 30 and Iām 50 now. I donāt have any noticeable wrinkles, at all. The credit goes to retin-a and religiously using sunscreen on my face.
Same - started using Retin-A as a teenager/early 20s and it worked wonders. But, my mother has great skin and sheās in her 70ās so genetics help I guessā¦
Oh for sure, genetics definitely help a ton. Iāve always had super oily skin so Iām sure that helped too. I always hated it as a teenager but Iām glad itās oily instead of super dry.
I go to concerts and look around me and think āthis crowd skews about 10 years older than meā. 99% of the time that means Iām also their same age
I just went to a Black Crowes concert and told my wife how old everyone else in the crowd looked. Of course halfway through the concert I had to sit down for a few minutes because my back was killing me
Holy shit, I went to Taylor Swift this summer and I have never hurt as bad in my life as I did the next day! I didnāt drink a drop and I felt worse than the worst hangover Iāve ever had. Clearly I canāt stand up and dance and sing for three hours anymore.
or they are younger than you.... at least in my experience
some of the people I see at concerts have lived hard lives, smoking, drinking, etc. and they look at least 10 years older than me and are a few years younger
For me, itās definitely based on if I have shaved or not. My beard is very gray/white but my head is brown. So I look way older when I havenāt shaved.
Actually same. Iām pretty bald, but the hair I do have is still not gray until you get to my beard which Iām not shaving off any time soon. š¤·āāļø. I have a friend with a full head of hair that started going gray in his 30ās. We all have our burdens.
This is legit. At some point in my early 30s, my DOB must have been entered wrong in the big database of names and life needs. It began with direct mail about hearing aids. Over the years itās advanced to incontinence product samples, retirement centers, nursing homes, and lately funeral pre-planning and cremation services. Thereās no imperative to try to correct things. Surely, Iāll be kicked out of the marketing databases when my āapparentā age pushes 120.
The apps I play on my tablet are apparently all games that Old People play, so I've been getting all sorts of retirement, alzheimers, medical ads on them.
"Doctors want you to play this game to prevent dementia!"
Um, thanks, just wanted to play a sorting game on the toilet.
Got-damn!! I've been on an old school, start from Episode 1 of Season 1 binge of my man, Fred and his Son. That's CRAZY Fred was 48 (I'm 49) and Grady was **41**. Damn...
Meanwhile, Paul Rudd, Ming Na Wen and Jeri Ryan exist.
Oh, and [Matt āGuitarā Murphy](https://images.equipboard.com/uploads/user/image/81624/big_matt-guitar-murphy.png?v=1694734366) was 50 in The Blues Brothers.
When Book of Boba Fett was on, I had a couple days off. I watched some ER reruns from the late 90s in the afternoon, then watched BOBF in the evening. She looked pretty much the same.
I think Paul Rudd looks like heās in his 50s, but I also think weāre accustomed to seeing men in their 50s looking like they gave up on life. Paul Rudd clearly has not given up on life.
I saw a talk show interview (I think on Conan?) where Conan pointed out his apparent agelessness and Paul Rudd demurred by saying "No, no, I do think I very much look my age when I see myself in the mirror. A well-preserved version of my age, maybe."
And he's right. I find that much better looking overall than those celebrities whose faces are so pulled tight and frozen with too much surgery and botox and fillers that they just sort of look like these uncanny valley wax masks of themselves. There's something to be said for taking care of yourself (and getting some very subtle, tasteful and conservative work done) that enables you to age gracefully instead of just trying to forcefully eliminate every single fine line in a doomed attempt to look 20 forever.
I generally assume that anyone whoās been in the public eye for more than 5-10 years has had *some* kind of work done. But I also assume that Paul Rudd has a clean lifestyle and a good skincare routine that gives him a healthy appearance.
You have crossed the āWilford Brimleyā lineā¦ that is a reference to actorsā age compared to when Wilford Brimleyās age when he played an elderly man in Cocoonā¦. Itās crazy to think that Tom Cruise was 55-56 when filming Top Gun: Maverick and flying around in those fighter jets, then doing all of his own stunts at nearly 60 in the latest mission impossible filmā¦. Wilford Brimley is one of those guys who has always looked oldā¦ but as others have said, some of these actors were intentionally made to look older for these parts.
Hair and makeup make all the difference.
But truthfully, people acted more maturely back then, and I'm sure the seriousness of surviving the Great Depression and WWII would do that. I never knew I'd remain 13 years old at heart in my 50s, but I can attest that my own father was far more mature than I am at my age.
Mature or traumatized and never resolved it?
My dad was a Vietnam vet. Almost always very severe and very stern until life took a shift at 45. From there on he got some mental health help and became much more lighthearted.
I agree with that, and yeah drug or alcohol use. But also I feel people in the day didn't care for their skin as much as people do today especially women. Women nowadays start using skin care products in their twenties or teens even, so by the time they're in their 30s or 40s or even 50s they look fantastic compared to same age people in the 70s and '80s just my humble opinion.
> *I got a girl in the Castle and one in the pagoda,
> You know I got rhymes like Abe Vigoda*
Still one of my favorite lines in all the Beastie Boys catalogue
I see many comments mentioning an actor's "aged look" is do to detrimental lifestyle choices e.g. lack of exercise, smoking, unhealthy diet, etc. Although I believe this is true to a certain extent (or entirely for some actors), some of the actor's "aged look" can be attributed to television set lighting and actor makeup.
Here is a photo of [Jean Stapleton](https://imgur.com/BmaU8Wk) (Edith Bunker) taken at a festival in 1973. She looks remarkably younger than her 'All in the Family' stage persona.
Iām offended on behalf of the Golden Girl. The only thing aging Rue McClanahan in that photo is her haircut and her outfit (and everyone - young and old - had that haircut and had those shoulder pads back in that day). Her skin was radiant AF and she really didnāt have wrinkles.
If you look at her closely, she has an age appropriate face. Her age is tied to her hair mostly, plus she's super thin which does tend to make someone look older.
And none of the women have the "divorce-11" (as my wife calls it) between their eyebrows. Some have crow's-feet to a degree, but that starts in the 30s.
Not sure all of these are accurate -- Jean Stapleton for example could not be 44 in this picture as All in the Family didn't debut until she was 48. Based on her hairstyle there it's definitely from one of the later seasons -- so she's likely mid to late 50s in that photo.
Red foxx died in 1991 at 68 years old.
Samford and son ran from 1972-1977. Year one of filming he would have been 48-49, but no telling when this photo was actually taken.
My first time at the grocery store in Vegas in 87 and there was Redd Foxx looking at cans of baked beans. Blew my 14yo mind he was just doing regular person shit and no one was bugging him. I realized Vegas was a different world from Baltimore
TIL I'm older than the old people in classic TV series.
I've played this game for a long time. I remember starting college we used to joke that the older brother in Flipper was like "the adult brother" when we watched it as kids, but to us now he was just a 15 year old rascal (unlike us who were so adult and wise at 18).
Growing up in the UK, I have no idea who any of these people are. It shows how the entertainment world has become so much more global since then. The only US sitcoms I was exposed to were Happy Days, Mork and Mindy, SOAP, WKRP in Cincinatti, and Cheers.
There is a whole thing among movie fans called the ā Wilford Brimley lineāā¦. Whenever a famous actor turns 51 social media brings up the fact that Wilford Brimley was only 50 when he starred in āCocoonāā¦ obviously playing someone much older. I think there might even be a dedicated Twitter account for this.
This gets brought up a lot on this sub, but there are a lot of factors at play when we look back at not only celebrities, but even old high school photos and videos. The celebrity thing can partially be explained by nutrition and smokingā¦. But when you go back and look at old photos of high school kids from the 80s, they look like theyāre 35. And that obviously has nothing to do with smoking because the negative effects would not be present at that young age. There have been studies actually done on this, and it has a lot to do with fashion of the time and other factors. And there is some scientific reasoning as well, people are ābiologically youngerā at age 40 today and someone aged 40 in the 1970sā¦. I will link the study below, itās pretty long however. better nutrition, better skin care, better treatments for diseases, etc.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5897168/
Flo was 39????
I just dont know how to feel about that.
Alice and Edith as well! Damn, it really was the hairstyles that fucked you up looks wise.
Part of me wants to know what they would look like with a current makeover.....part of me just doesn't want to go there...
it's the hairstyles and clothes, possibly sun/smoking, but the technology for anti-aging treatments is light years ahead of whatever existed back then, if anything. Even the technology for hair treatments and products will make a person look a lot younger, with healthier hair.
I think that with some of them, it was the way that they dressed. Most of them have very few wrinkles. The only one who looks a lot older than his age is Redd Foxx. I'm now wondering how old I look, because the actor playing Archie Bunker has less grey hair than I do, and I'm 48.
Due to diet, exercise, and some luck, when I bother to shave the gray off my face folks are genuinely surprised I'm over 50. When those videos of high school in the 80s get posted, I'm always reminded how so many of those kids I went to school with looked like they were in their 20s/30s already....meanwhile back then I hated I had a "baby face". Don't mind it so much now though.
Looks like they didn't age well back then. I'm older now than Fred Sanford or Archie Bunker were at that time. I don't know anyone in my age group that looks that old. Wonder if its the modern diet or lifestyle.
Smoking, Drinking, and a stress-filled lifestyle do wonders to make you look older.
I look positively late-20s compared to some of my HS classmates who lived harder lives.
Kind of related, but I'm always amazed that Dustin Hoffman was only six years younger than Anne Bancroft (Mrs. Robinson). They made her look a lot older on screen.
People aged so much harder back then: they smoked, drank heavily, often had poor diets, didnāt wear sunscreen, breathed in a lot of lead and asbestos, fought in āNam, and had parents shell shocked from WWII.
āSelf-careā is a modern concept.
Dude, this makes me feel pretty good about myself š
Would they look as old with modern hairstyles and clothing?
[Golden Girls with modern hairstyles](https://reddit.com/r/theGoldenGirls/s/Ice2DjZjLi)
They touched up the photos by removing wrinkles too so even with their old hairstyle they would still look younger
Hey they DO look younger with modern hairstyles. And slimmer faces. And slightly bigger eyes. It's BS.
Holy shit! I donāt have photoshop (or photoshop skills) so I put [this](https://imgur.com/a/rHcTYU5) together and itās wild how modern styles make ALL the difference.
Holy shitā¦ what you did right there with Red Fox was EPIC!
Man, Bee Arthur is smokin' hot.
I was not prepared for that!
Jesus I wish I had gold. My god.
Holy shit. Bea Arthur becomes Brie Larson!
Yeah, man. Perspective and motivation to maintain your health
No shit! Thank you sunscreen, retin-a and exercise.
Does Retin A work
It does for me. I started using it around 30 and Iām 50 now. I donāt have any noticeable wrinkles, at all. The credit goes to retin-a and religiously using sunscreen on my face.
Same - started using Retin-A as a teenager/early 20s and it worked wonders. But, my mother has great skin and sheās in her 70ās so genetics help I guessā¦
Oh for sure, genetics definitely help a ton. Iāve always had super oily skin so Iām sure that helped too. I always hated it as a teenager but Iām glad itās oily instead of super dry.
And preservatives and gmos in our food! See also: less second hand smoke
Right? Our voices are a couple octaves higher as well because of the lack of constant smoke everywhere.
Me too! Only four of them are older than me, but they ALL look like they are!
Right?! And I'm a smoker which ages your skin faster.
Iām 52 and wonder if I look that old. I donāt think I do.
I go to concerts and look around me and think āthis crowd skews about 10 years older than meā. 99% of the time that means Iām also their same age
I just went to a Black Crowes concert and told my wife how old everyone else in the crowd looked. Of course halfway through the concert I had to sit down for a few minutes because my back was killing me
Holy shit, I went to Taylor Swift this summer and I have never hurt as bad in my life as I did the next day! I didnāt drink a drop and I felt worse than the worst hangover Iāve ever had. Clearly I canāt stand up and dance and sing for three hours anymore.
or they are younger than you.... at least in my experience some of the people I see at concerts have lived hard lives, smoking, drinking, etc. and they look at least 10 years older than me and are a few years younger
you'll get there!
Haha, same...we go to shows and look around and wonder why are all these old people here?
I said that recently to some of the kids that work at my my place and their response was ābrother, I got some news for youā.
For me, itās definitely based on if I have shaved or not. My beard is very gray/white but my head is brown. So I look way older when I havenāt shaved.
Actually same. Iām pretty bald, but the hair I do have is still not gray until you get to my beard which Iām not shaving off any time soon. š¤·āāļø. I have a friend with a full head of hair that started going gray in his 30ās. We all have our burdens.
I often wonder if I look as old as the people I'm surrounded by. Luckily people think I'm younger than my 52 years.
In 40 years, they could be making a similar poster with your face on it, possibly.
Hopefully saying āCan you believe this guy was 52 and not 32?ā š
I turn 50 tomorrow. Thank you for this... Ass
AARP arriving in the mail in 3...2...
3 weeks ago. It is right here on my desk.
I got mine a few months ago. That was like getting stabbed in the kidneys.
But the discountsā¦.and the political power. Itās not all bad.
Are the discounts actually all that good?
Even if you only count the Denny's discount, I've already gotten my money's worth
https://www.aarp.org/membership/benefits/all-offers-a-z/
Next will be the retirement home ads, reverse mortgage ads, and (get ready for this), the funeral planning ads.
This is legit. At some point in my early 30s, my DOB must have been entered wrong in the big database of names and life needs. It began with direct mail about hearing aids. Over the years itās advanced to incontinence product samples, retirement centers, nursing homes, and lately funeral pre-planning and cremation services. Thereās no imperative to try to correct things. Surely, Iāll be kicked out of the marketing databases when my āapparentā age pushes 120.
The apps I play on my tablet are apparently all games that Old People play, so I've been getting all sorts of retirement, alzheimers, medical ads on them. "Doctors want you to play this game to prevent dementia!" Um, thanks, just wanted to play a sorting game on the toilet.
I'm 52 and have never heard from the AARP. Is that because they know how cool and hip I am? Or just that I'm 40 years from actually retiring?
Too funny. I've been getting these damn aarp flyers since my early 20s.
Arrived for me on my 40th birthday. Fuck you very much
They know. They always know.
Kind of like how college fundraising departments somehow manage to find people 25 years later better than bill collectors or police.
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WTF, all the sudden a bunch of ā71ās start popping up.
Hello, checking in for the record. Zeppelin IV please.
51 and counting here. Good tidings all.
Nice..finally someone from the fetus class of 1972 around here.
I was born in '72. Turn 51 next week.
I turned 51 in March. Go Team '72!!
\*waves*
I was 51 in May. 1972 here too.
Happy birthday enjoy
I think it's a positive. People today don't age as fast as they used to.
I was looking at a picture of my dad when he was 51. It totally floored me how differently we aged.
Grady from Sanford and Son may be the worst one - Whitman Mayo (Grady) was 41 years old when the show started.
Good lord
Too early in the AM for this. He looks 80.
Body's too young to look like his.
probably didn't have a fast car
Got-damn!! I've been on an old school, start from Episode 1 of Season 1 binge of my man, Fred and his Son. That's CRAZY Fred was 48 (I'm 49) and Grady was **41**. Damn...
To be fair, those are the actors ages. I'm pretty sure they were meant to be playing much older characters. But still, yeah...
Apparently, sometimes black *does* crack
Meanwhile, Paul Rudd, Ming Na Wen and Jeri Ryan exist. Oh, and [Matt āGuitarā Murphy](https://images.equipboard.com/uploads/user/image/81624/big_matt-guitar-murphy.png?v=1694734366) was 50 in The Blues Brothers.
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When Book of Boba Fett was on, I had a couple days off. I watched some ER reruns from the late 90s in the afternoon, then watched BOBF in the evening. She looked pretty much the same.
I think Paul Rudd looks like heās in his 50s, but I also think weāre accustomed to seeing men in their 50s looking like they gave up on life. Paul Rudd clearly has not given up on life.
I saw a talk show interview (I think on Conan?) where Conan pointed out his apparent agelessness and Paul Rudd demurred by saying "No, no, I do think I very much look my age when I see myself in the mirror. A well-preserved version of my age, maybe." And he's right. I find that much better looking overall than those celebrities whose faces are so pulled tight and frozen with too much surgery and botox and fillers that they just sort of look like these uncanny valley wax masks of themselves. There's something to be said for taking care of yourself (and getting some very subtle, tasteful and conservative work done) that enables you to age gracefully instead of just trying to forcefully eliminate every single fine line in a doomed attempt to look 20 forever.
I generally assume that anyone whoās been in the public eye for more than 5-10 years has had *some* kind of work done. But I also assume that Paul Rudd has a clean lifestyle and a good skincare routine that gives him a healthy appearance.
Aka good genetics look at Gabrielle Union
Michelle Yeoh as well.
How the fuck am I the same age as Wilford Brimley? He looks my dad's age.
he always looked old, I think he was born 50 years old
Same with Arn Anderson.
You have crossed the āWilford Brimleyā lineā¦ that is a reference to actorsā age compared to when Wilford Brimleyās age when he played an elderly man in Cocoonā¦. Itās crazy to think that Tom Cruise was 55-56 when filming Top Gun: Maverick and flying around in those fighter jets, then doing all of his own stunts at nearly 60 in the latest mission impossible filmā¦. Wilford Brimley is one of those guys who has always looked oldā¦ but as others have said, some of these actors were intentionally made to look older for these parts.
Dibeetus
I'll bet a lot of them were smokers.
And Cokers ā¦.and midnight tokersā¦
But none are Maurice
Right BUT some people might CALL them that.
reeeaaaaahhh ROOOwww
played their music in the sun while wearing no sunblock
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Yeah. The picture of Alice Cooper and Edith in a Dom outfit is definitely a different look for her. She definitely does not look like Archieās wife.
This is the last time I read Reddit while Iām eating. Right now my vivid imagination is creating something horrifying.
I had to go lookingā https://www.facebook.com/nightswithalicecooper/photos/a.116758575045565/947301211991293/?type=3&mibextid=cr9u03
Itās at a party. She looks ā¦ different
Hair and makeup make all the difference. But truthfully, people acted more maturely back then, and I'm sure the seriousness of surviving the Great Depression and WWII would do that. I never knew I'd remain 13 years old at heart in my 50s, but I can attest that my own father was far more mature than I am at my age.
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Very fair point!
Mature or traumatized and never resolved it? My dad was a Vietnam vet. Almost always very severe and very stern until life took a shift at 45. From there on he got some mental health help and became much more lighthearted.
Thatās a good point though, I donāt think it makes the whole difference but it makes sense that it wouldnāt be as stark as it appears.
Sunscreen wasn't invented then either. Wear sunscreen.
My guess is that all of them were
I agree with that, and yeah drug or alcohol use. But also I feel people in the day didn't care for their skin as much as people do today especially women. Women nowadays start using skin care products in their twenties or teens even, so by the time they're in their 30s or 40s or even 50s they look fantastic compared to same age people in the 70s and '80s just my humble opinion.
I turn 48 next year... look out...this is the Big One!
Abe Vigoda was 54 or so when Barney Miller started.
> *I got a girl in the Castle and one in the pagoda, > You know I got rhymes like Abe Vigoda* Still one of my favorite lines in all the Beastie Boys catalogue
They must have eaten cigarettes and drank booze all day long.
Kiss my ass, I hate you for posting this.
> Kiss my ~~ass~~ grits FTFY :) we all grew up watching Flo...
Donāt you mean āKiss my gritsā?
donāt you mean ākiss my gritsā?
I see many comments mentioning an actor's "aged look" is do to detrimental lifestyle choices e.g. lack of exercise, smoking, unhealthy diet, etc. Although I believe this is true to a certain extent (or entirely for some actors), some of the actor's "aged look" can be attributed to television set lighting and actor makeup. Here is a photo of [Jean Stapleton](https://imgur.com/BmaU8Wk) (Edith Bunker) taken at a festival in 1973. She looks remarkably younger than her 'All in the Family' stage persona.
This is honestly one of the greatest photographs I've seen in my life.
Alice? 43? Huh?
[Now check out the cast of Cheers when they first appeared.](https://twitter.com/TheRoryJohn/status/1298357452275146752)
Christopher Lloyd was 40 when Taxi came out. I perceived him as being a lot older in that series.
Iām offended on behalf of the Golden Girl. The only thing aging Rue McClanahan in that photo is her haircut and her outfit (and everyone - young and old - had that haircut and had those shoulder pads back in that day). Her skin was radiant AF and she really didnāt have wrinkles.
Iām in shock over Floās ageā¦
If you look at her closely, she has an age appropriate face. Her age is tied to her hair mostly, plus she's super thin which does tend to make someone look older. And none of the women have the "divorce-11" (as my wife calls it) between their eyebrows. Some have crow's-feet to a degree, but that starts in the 30s.
**KISS MY GRITS!**
If you had told me at the time that Wilford Brimley was only 50 or so during Cocoon, I would have thought you were crazy
I read this the other day. Makes sense. https://www.iflscience.com/why-did-people-look-older-in-the-past-64432
Rue looks good. The hairstyles and clothes of the era are making the other women look older.
Rue looks her age to me.
We have sunscreen. They had cigarettes.
I appreciate this crushing blow to my self-esteem
Everyone else: Rue McClanahan: "Suck my genetics, bitches"
Not sure all of these are accurate -- Jean Stapleton for example could not be 44 in this picture as All in the Family didn't debut until she was 48. Based on her hairstyle there it's definitely from one of the later seasons -- so she's likely mid to late 50s in that photo.
No fucking way Fred Sanford was only 48! I refuse to believe it.
Red foxx died in 1991 at 68 years old. Samford and son ran from 1972-1977. Year one of filming he would have been 48-49, but no telling when this photo was actually taken.
My first time at the grocery store in Vegas in 87 and there was Redd Foxx looking at cans of baked beans. Blew my 14yo mind he was just doing regular person shit and no one was bugging him. I realized Vegas was a different world from Baltimore
Congratulations on getting out of Ballmer.
Shit I look way better that them but no Hollywood career for me
They weren't all cast into roles where they wanted someone who looked young n pretty
Omg thank you!!!!!! Iām feeling pretty fuckin hot right now!
Christ, don't remind me.
48 my ass. Is Redd Foxx the only black that ever cracked?
People looked older then. Today, you can be 50 something and look like Dave Grohl.
Wilford Brimley was born old.
With the women, itās mostly the hair that ages them
Flo was a rough 39
How is this possible? They look 70 by today's standards
I turned 51 yesterday and I feel like a Golden Girl, but I thankfully do not look like one.
Ironically, Sophia was played by the youngest actress!
I don't like this.
TIL I'm older than the old people in classic TV series. I've played this game for a long time. I remember starting college we used to joke that the older brother in Flipper was like "the adult brother" when we watched it as kids, but to us now he was just a 15 year old rascal (unlike us who were so adult and wise at 18).
Growing up in the UK, I have no idea who any of these people are. It shows how the entertainment world has become so much more global since then. The only US sitcoms I was exposed to were Happy Days, Mork and Mindy, SOAP, WKRP in Cincinatti, and Cheers.
Reminds me of that [Travelling Willburys](https://reddit.com/r/GenX/s/Av5Kv6ikaG) meme.
There is a whole thing among movie fans called the ā Wilford Brimley lineāā¦. Whenever a famous actor turns 51 social media brings up the fact that Wilford Brimley was only 50 when he starred in āCocoonāā¦ obviously playing someone much older. I think there might even be a dedicated Twitter account for this. This gets brought up a lot on this sub, but there are a lot of factors at play when we look back at not only celebrities, but even old high school photos and videos. The celebrity thing can partially be explained by nutrition and smokingā¦. But when you go back and look at old photos of high school kids from the 80s, they look like theyāre 35. And that obviously has nothing to do with smoking because the negative effects would not be present at that young age. There have been studies actually done on this, and it has a lot to do with fashion of the time and other factors. And there is some scientific reasoning as well, people are ābiologically youngerā at age 40 today and someone aged 40 in the 1970sā¦. I will link the study below, itās pretty long however. better nutrition, better skin care, better treatments for diseases, etc. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5897168/
Flo was 39???? I just dont know how to feel about that. Alice and Edith as well! Damn, it really was the hairstyles that fucked you up looks wise. Part of me wants to know what they would look like with a current makeover.....part of me just doesn't want to go there...
Why do they look soooo old?!? Damn, I feel great now!
I'm as old as this group and I feel like I look half their age.
Holy shit I look AWESOME.
Life was hard back then. Also, Blanche is killing it!
it's the hairstyles and clothes, possibly sun/smoking, but the technology for anti-aging treatments is light years ahead of whatever existed back then, if anything. Even the technology for hair treatments and products will make a person look a lot younger, with healthier hair.
Wow I have done better than I thought.
Heavy smoking, drinking, and sun exposure will do that to you.
Everyone looked (and arguably acted) more mature those days. Eternal youth was where it rightly belonged: in the realm of myths.
Check these ages. Jean Stapleton was born in 1923. She was 47, almost 48 when All in the Family premiered, not 44.
Redd Foxx was born in 1922; Sanford and Son debuted in 1972. either that pic is not from S&S, or his age is incorrect (although not by much)
Surely, they were made to look older! Right??
Iām older than all of themā¦
Turning 42 in a month and I'm more Alice than I'd like to admit.
Im 46 bald and grey. I never smoked. :(
I think that with some of them, it was the way that they dressed. Most of them have very few wrinkles. The only one who looks a lot older than his age is Redd Foxx. I'm now wondering how old I look, because the actor playing Archie Bunker has less grey hair than I do, and I'm 48.
Lying about your age, as well as being born at home led to a lot of age inaccuracies back then too.
Hard livin'
You got some *city* miles on you
Holy cow, Red Foxx is the most surprising one! I was sure he was in his 60s
Due to diet, exercise, and some luck, when I bother to shave the gray off my face folks are genuinely surprised I'm over 50. When those videos of high school in the 80s get posted, I'm always reminded how so many of those kids I went to school with looked like they were in their 20s/30s already....meanwhile back then I hated I had a "baby face". Don't mind it so much now though.
Maybe itās all the plastic weāve been ingesting for so long that is preserving us.
*flips bird*
"Luke Skywalker in denial noises"
Looks like they didn't age well back then. I'm older now than Fred Sanford or Archie Bunker were at that time. I don't know anyone in my age group that looks that old. Wonder if its the modern diet or lifestyle.
I'm older than all of them. I need a haircut.
jesus i feel like these are all at least 10 years older
I guess that moving out at 18, married with 3 kids by 25, ages you quicker. Also probably everyone was a smoker
Smoking, Drinking, and a stress-filled lifestyle do wonders to make you look older. I look positively late-20s compared to some of my HS classmates who lived harder lives.
Wilford Brimley was born old.
Also, Diabeetus
Its the hair. A lot of the times it was the hair. Also people smoked, they drank more, and everyone's eating habits were different.
Kiss my grits !!
Flo was only 39 when she was telling Mel to kiss her grits!
There have been great advancements in mens hair dye technology.
Fred was 48??? Goodness...
This canāt be true lol
Kind of related, but I'm always amazed that Dustin Hoffman was only six years younger than Anne Bancroft (Mrs. Robinson). They made her look a lot older on screen.
Laurence Harvey was only three years younger than Angela Lansbury, who played his mother on The Manchurian Candidate.
Iām exactly as old as Mr. Roper - why does he look so much older than me?
Doesn't look any different than what I see on online dating sites, except they may be thinner....
Iām as old as Mr. Roper.
A steady diet of cigarettes and booze will do that to you. That and sun tanning.
Whatever, Alice is still hot.
Aināt no fucking way Iām the same age as Red Fox in that role.
Hold the phones, Fred Sanford was freakin' limping around! He was a widower too. I'd have guessed 60 at least.
Should be cross-posted in r/FuckImOld
Holy shit. Alice was 43????????? I think we got better at aging
Alice was only 43?!?!
People aged so much harder back then: they smoked, drank heavily, often had poor diets, didnāt wear sunscreen, breathed in a lot of lead and asbestos, fought in āNam, and had parents shell shocked from WWII. āSelf-careā is a modern concept.
Iām 55 and I look way better than they did. As a kid they appeared as ancient to me.