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He always looked 60 years old


Even in the early 80's when he was making The Thing, I thought he was like 52. Turns out he was 32 but he had grey balding hair and wrinkles of a man twice his age. And now he looks like he's 150...his Wikipedia picture is almost horrific. I know he was a lifelong smoker but he had to have been smoking 6 packs a day for 30 years to look like that. geez. William Friedkin was 12 years older than him but looked better at 87 than Carpenter did at 70.

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