Watching the first Hammer Quatermass film, starring Lionel Jeffries, who would go on to direct The Railway Children. He's 28. How the fuck is he only 28?
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Dennis Waterman at 27 looked like a modern 47 year old. Wartime rationing in childhood and a world of passive smoking. Men didn't go to the gym or have a skincare routine.
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He went bald at 19 during his war service in Burma (he blamed the humidity). It’s usually one or more of smoking, no sunscreen or war service.
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There's a film he did, The Secret of my Success where he plays multiple characters - and he's a Von Stroheim type where is completely bald/shaven headed with no tache, and he actually looks like his age. Honor Blackman's the same age btw. And still looks a decade younger.
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I'd be interested in seeing that. I've very find memories of him from watching First Men in the Moon as a child.
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Where he is IRL younger than the supposed young female lead, Martha Hyer.
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Tough. Paper. Round
sep 2, 2025, 4:39 pm • 3 0 • view
He looked like that throughout his entire career!
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