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always looked old, no matter what he was in, he looked old in it!


it's unbelievable. i was watching him in ride a crooked trail made in 1958 and he somehow looked old in it even! i think they tried to make him look older than his age in this movie because he has a lot of gray hairs but still, his face looks at least 45 years old even though he was only 38 years old in this.

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Indeed.

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i'm glad you agree with me. it's like was this guy ever young, ever a child?

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He was made up to look older in "Kotch." The actor who played his son, Charles Aidman, was just five years younger. Walter did what I thought was a great job of having us believe he was 70-something when he was actually just 50 at the time.

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He is one of my favorite actors.

There is one movie he stared in called 'Hopscotch'(1980) where he has an INCREDIBLE amount of ear hair! I mean alot!

I am puzzled as to why nobody on the shoot bothered to tell him. His ear hair is actually so prominent that it is distracting to the viewer.

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yuck. now are you talking about coming out oh his ear hole or just the side of his ear? now, there is nothing grosser than when a guy has thick, long ear hair coming out of his ear hole.

i just watched the bad news bears finally and oh my gosh he has a lot of chest hair.

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It seems like the make-up and hairdo people on set would have taken care of his ear hairs.

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Fuzzy stuff almost completely covered his earhole. A few shots at the beginning of the movie.

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He's like Patrick Stewart and Angela Lansbury, one of those people who spent about fifty-sixty years looking middle-aged.

Which kind of sucks when they're young, but it's great when they're older! Eternally middle-aged people dont start looking old until they're 90 or so.

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He look'a like a mackerel!

Mama Ragetti in Grumpier Old Men

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