John Hurt was 39 in The Elephant Man when he played the character 'John Merrick'.
That was over 44 years ago in 1980.
In 2017 he died aged 77, starring in 192 films in his career, 166 of those after The Elephant Man was first released. If he were alive today he would be 84.
In The Elephant Man, I think John Hurt looks: