Sons older than fathers

[DaveJ]

What instances can you think of where an actor playing the son, was in fact older than the actor playing the father?



I mean in cases where no special make up was used.



Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang springs to mind. Lionel Jeffries is a couple of years younger than Dick Van Dyke - he had large mutton-chop side-burns in the film but no other 'ageing' devices.



regards



Dave

[GRAEME]

This is close! Joan Sims plays Patsy Rowlands' mum in Carry On Behind. There wasn't a year between them - although Patsy was the younger.

[philly]

Mother and son , Craig Cash born 1960 is 3 years older than Carol Aherne who played his mum in the Mrs Merton sitcom.

[Tonch]

Dick Emery, who played Gaylord the bovver boy, was almost 19 years older than Roy Kinnear who played his dad!

[Moor Larkin]

Dick Emery, who played Gaylord the bovver boy, was almost 19 years older than Roy Kinnear who played his dad!

......... I'm guessing Jimmy Clitheroe could have a part to play in this thread.........

Jimmy Clitheroe, The Kid Himself

[Windyridge]

I believe Phyllis Calvert and Patricia Roc were almost exactly the same age. Phyllis played Pat's mother in "Madonna of the Seven Moons"!

[Mr Sloane]

Angela Lansbury was only three years older than Larry Harvey when she played his mother in the Manchurian Candidate.

[didi-5]

Angela Lansbury was only three years older than Larry Harvey when she played his mother in the Manchurian Candidate.

And only ten years older than Elvis Presley when she played his mother in Blue Hawaii.

[karen]

Ernest Borgnine (born 1917) played the father of Kirk Douglas' (born 1916) in The Vikings. He was also only a few years older than Tony Curtis (born 1925) who played his other son.

[CaptainWaggett]

Mary Clare was three years younger than Claude Rains, her son in The Clairvoyant and Michael Hordern was a couple of years younger than Errol Flynn, his son in The Dark Avenger

[karen]

Tom Hanks and Sally Field aren't that far apart age-wise and they played mother and son in that awful Gump film.

[cassidy]

John Macintire born in 1907 played Robert Ryan's (1909) father in "Horizons West" 1952

[GRAEME]

Tom Hanks and Sally Field aren't that far apart age-wise and they played mother and son in that awful Gump film.

Ten years only between them.

Only 7 years between father Sean Connery and son Dustin Hoffman in Family Business.

[sisterluke]

Tom Hanks and Sally Field aren't that far apart age-wise and they played mother and son in that awful Gump film.

Interestingly, they played near lovers in Punch Line made a few years earlier than Forrest Gump. A young man with an older woman eh! Even more strange.

[Gerald Lovell]

Jessie Royce Landis (born 1896) played the mother of Cary Grant (born 1904) in North by Northwest.

[zzfredzz]

Laird Cregar (born 1913) played the father of James Ellison (born 1910) in Charley's Aunt (1941).

[judylou]

I believe the actress who played Bea Arthur's mother in Golden Girls, was in fact younger than at least one of the "girls".

[GRAEME]

I believe the actress who played Bea Arthur's mother in Golden Girls, was in fact younger than at least one of the "girls".

Of Golden Girls Bea Arthur, Betty White and Rue McClanahan, only Rue was actually younger than Estelle Getty! Bea and Betty were both a year older.

And of the four, only Betty is still with us.

[CaptainWaggett]

Derek Martin is 7 years older than Laila Morse who played his mother-in-law in Eastenders. Does that count?

[GRAEME]

Derek Martin is 7 years older than Laila Morse who played his mother-in-law in Eastenders. Does that count?

Since mothers-in-law are not blood relatives... It depends on the age of the daughter in this case.

Plenty of real life examples of this sort! Ask Bill Wyman - he not only had a younger by years mum-in-law but she was engaged to his son who was 12 years older than his stepmother!