The Bizzarre Aging of David McCallum
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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David McCallum is seventy eight. SEVENTY EIGHT! I bring this up because we're watching NCIS, and he's on it, and he looks sort of late forties early fifties. Nowhere near approaching eighty.
I mean, look at this picture.
His hair is a little darker than it used to be - presumably dyed back to natural mousy brown, as opposed to bleached blonde like it was in the sixties - but aside from that he looks pretty much the same as he did in Sapphire and Steel. His costar in that, the lovely Gurkha-rescuing Joanna Lovely, famous in Ab Fab for playing the never-aging Patsy, now looks older than him.
I mean, think of the context. This man is two years OLDER than Jon Pertwee was when he died. He's TWENTY THREE years older than Bill Hartnell was when he first played the Doctor. He's FIFTEEN years older than Prince Charles for Cthulhu's sake!
The man must have a picture in the attic. He MUST have.magister and I have a theory as to whose it is, too. If he looks late forties/early fifties he must have stopped aging in the early eighties.
And we know who suddenly started looking really raddled in the early eighties, don't we boys and girls?
Yes, I'd be pulling that face too, John. I really would.
I mean, look at this picture.
His hair is a little darker than it used to be - presumably dyed back to natural mousy brown, as opposed to bleached blonde like it was in the sixties - but aside from that he looks pretty much the same as he did in Sapphire and Steel. His costar in that, the lovely Gurkha-rescuing Joanna Lovely, famous in Ab Fab for playing the never-aging Patsy, now looks older than him.
I mean, think of the context. This man is two years OLDER than Jon Pertwee was when he died. He's TWENTY THREE years older than Bill Hartnell was when he first played the Doctor. He's FIFTEEN years older than Prince Charles for Cthulhu's sake!
The man must have a picture in the attic. He MUST have.
magister and I have a theory as to whose it is, too. If he looks late forties/early fifties he must have stopped aging in the early eighties.And we know who suddenly started looking really raddled in the early eighties, don't we boys and girls?
Yes, I'd be pulling that face too, John. I really would.
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Date: Thursday, August 25th, 2011 10:39 pm (UTC)He's a year older than Leonard Cohen, Annette Crosbie and Maggie Smith.
And just to finish things off, he's 7 years older than John Hurt.
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Date: Thursday, August 25th, 2011 10:46 pm (UTC):D
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Date: Friday, August 26th, 2011 05:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Thursday, August 25th, 2011 11:08 pm (UTC)maybe mccallum'll start to change once he gets closer to his 90s, like christopher lee did.
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Date: Thursday, August 25th, 2011 11:14 pm (UTC)no subject
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