Sam Shepard was 38 in The Right Stuff when he played the character 'Chuck Yeager'.
That was over 41 years ago in 1983.
In 2017 he died aged 73, starring in 74 films in his career, 67 of those after The Right Stuff was first released. If he were alive today he would be 80.
In The Right Stuff, I think Sam Shepard looks: