Marky B

Regarding the death of the great Estelle Getty,when she played Bea Arthur's mother in The Golden Girls,there was in fact only 14 months difference between the two actresses.
Bruce Forsyth played Julie Andrew's father in Star,even though he was only eight years older.
Lionel Jeffries played Dick Van Dyke's dad in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,even though DVD was older than LJ.
Despite being born the same year,Jessie Royce Landis played Cary Grant's mother in North By North West.
Una Stubbs is eleven years younger than her tv father Warren Mitchell in Till Death Us Do Part,who himself was a toy boy by nineteen years to Dandy Nicholls.

Does anyone else know of any improbable age differences of characters relating to the actors who play them?
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Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

Wicked Lady

Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate is an obvious one.

Lord Brett

In Family Business (1989) Sean Connery plays Dustin Hoffman's father despite being only seven years older than his screen son.

faginsgirl

Clive Dunn as Jones the butcher! I think he was 47 so a lot older than pike obviously but not as he was portrayed as being.

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catflap

Hard to go past "The Boys in Brown" when it comes to British titles.

CaptainWaggett

That's not quite as ridiculous as it might seem (and not quite in the Guinea Pig league). Apparently young men of 23 could be and were sentenced to Borstal rather than prison (I think John Blythe's character mentions having a wife and kids) and the maximum sentence was three years so there really were 26 year old Borstal boys.

GRAEME

It is possible to father a child at eleven - as I know to my cost.

All men leak.

Harleybloke

Jack Warner as George Dixon in the latter days.....................I doubt he nabbed many villians.

.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!

Marky B

In the acclaimed BBC series I Claudius,George Baker (Tiberius) is three years older than his screen mother,Sian Phillips (Livia).
In Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade,Sean Connery is olny twelve years older than Harrison.
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Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

GRAEME

It is even more possible to father a child at 12.

All men leak.

CaptainWaggett

Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer as a middle-aged Romeo and Juliet

Mark O

Lorne Green as Ava Gardner's Father in 'Earthquake', just a seven year gap.......I've not seen it yet, but dosen't Angelina Jolie play Colin Farrell's Mother in 'Alexander', can't be much age difference there!

Mark

GRAEME

One year to be exact!

There was actually a twenty year age gap between Alexander and his mum.

All men leak.

TimR

Alec Guinness and John Mills were both too old for their roles in Great Expectations, but were convincing nevertheless.

Alec Guinness was too old for the flashback sequences in Doctor Zhivago. His scenes as the narrator work well at the beginning and the end, but a brief scene where he is supposed to be a young man joining up at the beginnig of the Great War is startlinsly unconvincing.

This does seem to happen often: Guinness was miscast in some way in several of David Lean's films. His appearance as a Hindu () in A Passage to Indiawas a weird, totally unconvincing - and tasteless - anomaly in an otherwise excellent film. It was like a Peter Sellers or John Cleese routine. I literally couldn't believe my eyes. His Arab in Lawrence of Arabia was slightly better: at least it wasn't laughable.

Roger Livesey was too old for the role in I Know Where I'm Going. He is specifically referred to as a man in his 20s, which was obviously not the case. If there had been no reference, it wouldn't have mattered - odd.

Edith Evans is much too old for the role of Aunt Betsy in the terrible television production of David Copperfield. That show really was unbelievably terrible. It features almost every major actor and actress in Britain, but it reduces a geat novel to a flashback and series of vignettes.

Very, very disappointing.

She is one of my favorite characters in all of literature. Evans would have been a fine choice when she was in her 60s, but she was in her 80s and seemed frail. The one thing Aunt Betsy is NOT is frail. It was sad.

Hereafter, in a better world than this,
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you

batman

Randolph Scott as the eager young cavalry officer in Seventh Cavalry ... he was in his mid-fifties!

All the old blokes who played Custer, who died aged just 36.

I wish I had claws.