Connery 32?
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mrnocal — 12 years ago(June 30, 2013 11:20 AM)
Yes, Gibson also looked much older than his actual age. Not so sure that "saggy old balls" is an acceptable comparison to an actor just looking older than his/her actual age without prosthetics/makeupbut so be it. Honestly, if Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon looked like "saggy old balls", well then let's have more of those saggy old balls!!! Gibson was HOT in Lethal Weaponalthough I do agree looked older than his 31 years.
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vinidici — 11 years ago(March 30, 2015 05:19 PM)
Yes, Gibson also looked much older than his actual age. Not so sure that "saggy old balls" is an acceptable comparison to an actor just looking older than his/her actual age without prosthetics/makeupbut so be it.
although I do agree looked older than his 31 years.
Besides, Gibson's cop character was a Vietnam veteran who HAD to be several years older than Gibson's actual age. I don't know of many people born in 1956 who did tours of duty in 'Nam.
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knifeparty2004 — 12 years ago(November 11, 2013 05:44 PM)
Connery has aged prematurely all his life, he started balding at 21 and by the late 50s already had a receding hairline. He wore a toupee for every one of his Bond films. So yeah Connery was an older looking 32 yo but I think it just depends on the person not necessarily the era. Cary Grant is another actor from the same era (slightly older), who seemed to defy aging.
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raf-33 — 10 years ago(August 01, 2015 02:10 AM)
Agree'd, though at some point it went in to reverse, like he is made from malfunctioning nanobots or something. For instance when he gets to boff Catherine Zeta in that cat burglar caper he looks like a respectable 55-year old when in reality by the millennium he no longer had to pay for a TV licence and would be receiving a subsidy on his heating bills.
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roman2886 — 9 years ago(May 28, 2016 05:47 AM)
Mel Gibson used too look old for his age now like sean connery he looks younger now he is older when Mel Gibson was in Mad Max he was only 22 he looked 32 he was 30 in Lethal Weapon he looked 40 why don't today's 30 year old's look that mature.
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roman2886 — 9 years ago(May 27, 2016 05:02 PM)
Yeah that is true he must have looked 24 25 when he was 14 15 people in their 30's looked so old back than people in their 30's don't look anywhere near as old as Sean Connery did when he was in his 30's people in their 30's today look younger 30's is the new 20's back then being in your 30's was like being in your 40's Sean Connery always had a Older looking face he must have looked 33 34 when he was 23 24 he started too lose his hair at 21 he started to age prematurely from a young age he was already 6ft 2in at the age of 12 that's a 1 ft 2 inches taller the average 12 year old.
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TxMike — 12 years ago(November 15, 2013 07:03 AM)
If you look back at any number of actors who were in their early 30s back in the 1950s or 1960s you would think the same thing for most of them. I believe it is just a reflection of what we now look at as "young", more of a way of dressing and behaving. As a 32-yr-old Connery in the movie is dressed in a way that makes him seem like he is middle aged.
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joe_538 — 12 years ago(January 17, 2014 02:58 PM)
I just found out not too long ago Victor Buono was 30 when he started playing King Tut on the old Batman series. Then there was Orson Welles in Citizen Kane (25) and Joan Leslie in Yankee Doodle Dandy (16) Those two take the cake.
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JohnnyWeissmuller — 12 years ago(March 27, 2014 07:47 AM)
Connery looked great in Dr. No and was in the prime of life as Bond, although he certainly seemed to age quickly by the time of Diamonds are Forever. He was only 40 or 41 here, which isn't old and is hardly middle aged, but compare him to Tom Cruise, Kevin Bacon or Brad Pitt, now in their fifties, or Frank Sinatra approaching 50 in Von Ryan's Express, and Connery appears to be older. It's a non-issue, of course; he was fit, handsome and at the top of his career in many ways. Elvis Presley also looked older than his years at 40/41, as did Orson Welles and Bing Crosby, Who seemed positively ancient in his fifties.
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joe_538 — 12 years ago(March 27, 2014 08:04 AM)
Where premature aging is concerned, Warren G. Harding must have been the youngest old person who ever lived:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Warren_Harding_c1882_age_17.jpg
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pawtrax67 — 11 years ago(October 01, 2014 09:07 PM)
People who lived through the 30's and 40's had a hard look on them even at a young age. I think it had something to do with living through a major war and a depression.
You have to remember that people smoke, drank, and didn't eat very well back then.
That's why they have a hard look on them.
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dimsum73-1 — 11 years ago(November 05, 2014 06:48 PM)
People just looked older back then. When I see pictures of my late grandfather in his 30's he already looked old. He was in WWII, so I'm sure that had something to do with it. But today people just look younger at an older age. There is a lot of truth now to the term "40 is the new 20."
