Paul Newman was 73 in Message in a Bottle when he played the character 'Dodge Blake'.
That was over 25 years ago in 1999.
In 2008 he died aged 83, starring in 105 films in his career, 29 of those after Message in a Bottle was first released. If he were alive today he would be 99.
In Message in a Bottle, I think Paul Newman looks: