People who were surprisingly good-looking in their youth

[Stumpy Pepys]

Joseph Stalin


Franklin Roosevelt


David Gilmour


Phil Collins

[Guy Profumo]

Peter Cook

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Sam Allardyce used to look like harry styles, if harry styles were a traditional manly alpha male, four inches taller. and three stone heavier.

[Guy Profumo]

Tom Selleck, surely?

[Flynnie]

That's Franklin Roosevelt Jr.

[treibeis]

Larry Lloyd

[Various Artist]

I knew Stalin would crop up here. Didn't necessarily expect him to be the very first candidate, but hey, the dude was a right looker when he was young, wasn't he? Bastard. In more than one sense.

I don't think I'd class David Gilmour as "surprisingly" good-looking, given that he was very high-profile in Pink Floyd in his youth when he was indeed beautiful. Still striking now, if hardly conventionally handsome.

Phil Collins, on the other hand – yeah, that is surprising.

[Kevin S]

[caja-dglh]

Not sure why Stalin is surprising. Being pretty attractive is rather helpful if you are looking to build a cult of personality.

[Stumpy Pepys]

I don't think I'd class David Gilmour as "surprisingly" good-looking, given that he was very high-profile in Pink Floyd in his youth when he was indeed beautiful. Still striking now, if hardly conventionally handsome.

I say that as someone who grew up in the 80s; David Gilmour was always the chubby balding one who looked like a market gardener.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Tom Selleck, surely?

For a man of 72, he still looks damn good.

[Guy Profumo]

Sorry. I meant Big Sam used to look like Tom Selleck

But yeah, he still seems to scrub up well.

[Satchmo Distel]

Orson Welles, Joan Sims, Helen Mirren, Peggy Ashcroft

[Gerontophile]

I don't think Helen Mirren being hot in her youth is much of a surprise.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Agreed on Joan Sims. There was a reason I watched all those Carry Ons.

[sw2borshch]

I can remember Wyatt once saying he was, but I've not seen him in his dotage, so it may not be a surprise.

[MsD]

June Brown aka Dot Cotton, although she's still a looker for her late 80s or 90 or whatever she is.

[treibeis]

G-Man knows more about this than I do, as he was around at the time, but I believe the young Helmut Schmidt was quite a hunk.

[ursus arctos]

[Guy Profumo]

Wasn't Hermann Göring reputed to be "dashing" in his youth?

[Eggchaser]

Leslie Nelson was always pretty well preserved, but was smoking as a young man.

[NHH]

I could be wrong, but I recall once seeing a picture of Ann Widdecombe in the early 70s and being shocked, rather than surprised.

[Lang Spoon]

I fear you might be right. And I'm shocked that Helen Mirren as well was referenced. Someone needs to watch O Lucky Man! Especially since it's the most perfect 70s Britain film ever. Malcolm McDowell was never better.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Ricky Gervais:





Judy Dench:

[Lang Spoon]

That Gervais pic is hard to process. Once he had cheekbones.