In 1967, William Shatner played 34-year old Captain James T. Kirk in the Star Trek episode "The Deadly Years." A strange affliction struck members of a landing party, causing them to age rapidly. Within hours, they became elderly, infirm and partially senile.
At the time, Shatner was 36 years old. Now he's 81. Did the makeup artists accurately predict what he'd look like?
Slate has a slideshow comparing the way several actors were aged with both makeup and time, including Crispin Glover and Tom Wilson of Back to the Future and Orson Welles of Citizen Kane.
Link | Images: CBS/Greg Hernandez
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Damn. In your post Shatner aged two years in the space of two paragraphs. That's pretty impressive in itself.
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No, that's right. Shatner was 36, but his character was 34.
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In the Star Trek pic, he looks like Norm MacDonald - http://i.imgur.com/6trA1.png
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The only thing the make-up artists could not take into account is cosmetic surgery. I wouldn't be surprised if the Shat had some work done himself.
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They got the toupee totally wrong.
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