What celebrities looked like as teens

There's no mistaking him for anyone else.

"Please purse your lips more prissily... there we go..."

I'm a big John Lithgow fan.

You know who...as a fresh-faced teen ingenue.

John Lithgow, exercising the well-known 'Smell a Fart' face taught at the famous Joey Tribbiani School of Acting...

Marlene, Greta,Kate and Joan

Here ya go

Mel Gibson age 19

R7 - wow

1) JLC looks like a man in drag.

2) Did Jason Bateman get a nose job?

3) HBC - no fucking way. Did she get plastic surgery too? She looks horrible and nothing like her. Nose job and other stuff?

The majority of those people in that link were already stars and well known in their teens - not exactly earth shattering.

Young Mel. Yum.

Vivien Leigh

Ava Gardner

Elizabeth Taylor looks almost middle aged.

Keira Knightley

Winona Ryder was giving off baby dyke vibes as a teen

Kate Hudson

I’ve never liked his music much but Elvis was a really hot guy…until the fatness

Keira looks like ReviewBrah.

Stephanie Nicks

Pamela Anderson was pretty but that was some awful hair

The Pat Benetar was popular in the early 80s.

Belinda Carlisle

they looked like blue SQUARES

Kate Hudson is incredibly fortunate that Goldie paid foe a nose job.

Clint Eastwood

Audrey Hepburn

That list at R7 is so lazy. Yes, there are a few stars like Jack Black that became famous as adults, but it feels like so many of them are just regurgitating pictures of people who were once child stars.

It's not interesting to see a picture of a young Drew Barrymore. She has been famous since age seven!

I guess it shouldn't be surprising how many actors had nose jobs (Keira Knightly, Natalie Portman, Kate Hudson...)

R7s link is the greatest thing ever!

So much to notice in every pic

(Jason Bateman's 14 year-old photo looks like a youthful 35 year old cosplaying)

Madonna and Paula Ciccone

R7 loved those pics! Austin Butler is adorable with blonde hair, and Ron Howard is actually cute.

General Jim Mattis as a teen looked like an old Eminem. He loves the comparison!

And had those ears pinned, R24.

Elvis looks like he had really bad skin.

He does r33 but his features are so great

[quote] 1) JLC looks like a man in drag.

Poor JLC. DL never cuts her a break.

R15 Winona looks like Boy George.

I didn’t know that John Lithgow invented resting bitch face,

No wonder he got into Harvard,

Grace Kelly's senior yearbook photo

Tammy!

Gene Tierney

Bette Davis went to my school but moved away before graduation. I bought a 1928 Newton High yearbook on eBay

My partner was at Scarsdale High with Liza. She was only there from 1961-62 but he bought yearbooks for every year he was there, even as an underclassman. Here she in in the 1962 yearbook being Anne Frank with the drama club. (No he didn't get her to sign it, because who knew?

Linda Lavin

The always-repulsive Bonnie Franklin

La Bomer

Gabrielle Carteris

I think Ron Howard looks ugly as hell. I'm surprised he was able to work as an actor.

The Howdy Doody effect

R47 - to be fair, there wasn't a single looker on the Andy Griffith Show or Happy Days. Most of them were unfortunate looking, to be kind.

In comparison, he looked above average. Those were two ugly casts.

The photo of Ron Howard in the above link isn't a good one. But I always found Ron Howard to be attractive. This one is more indicative of how he looked around age 19-20. Like most men, the early thinning of hair starting by age 30 did impact his looks though.

MISS Helen Lawson

Demi Moore was so gorgeous when she debuted on GH. Has been ever since. There’s just something about an actor who makes that kind of impact right out of the gate.

[quote] I think Ron Howard looks ugly as hell. I'm surprised he was able to work as an actor.

He's a nepo baby, just like me.

[quote] Demi Moore was so gorgeous when she debuted on GH.

Demi is gorgeous now, but I never thought she was attractive on General Hospital. I remember her having a slight mustache.

Ron Howard never outgrew his gawky adolescent stage.

MTG.

R7 Zendaya definitely had her nose done.

R7 Wow. Elvis had really bad acne as a teen.

Madonna was the most beautiful teenager ever...

Future power couple Grace Jones & Dolph Lundgren.

Sixteen-year-old Hugh Jackman.

Twink McConaughey

Dorothy Faye Dunaway

Ruth Buzzi

Ann B. Davis

Glenn Close

Twink McConaughey looks GAY GAY GAY. Clint Eastwood was a handsome teen. Ethan Hawke - cutie pie.

Just how big are you, R5, as long as you brought it up?

Meryl

Jessica

I once saw a picture of Ava Gardner as a teen. WOW. She was absolutely beautiful.

Sissy

R43 Linda Lavin looks just like a young Madonna in that picture.

R71 See R12.

Twink McConaughey looks like Nancy Reagan.

Two in this photo:

Marlon Brando (top row, second from left)

Wally Cox (middle row, third from left)

I didn't know wally and Marlon went way back. were they teen lovers?

Stevie at R19!

Definitely pre-music.....and before she kicked that girl in the cunt bone.

Is Wally Cox the one alleged to have had a giant willy?

Lots of uggos

If you ain't posting is as a picture that can be seen here I ain't a-clickin' to go somewheres else

R71 Did you see it in this thread, by any chance?

R81 Bye!

Bette Davis as a lifeguard at Ogunquit Beach, in Ogunquit, Maine. At the time, during the school year, she was a student at Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, MA (coed prep school that still exists).

Deanna Durbin

Virginia Weidler (The Women, The Philadelphia Story, Babes on Broadway)

Michael Schoeffling

Michael St. Gerard (Elvis, Hairspray)

Chrissy Metz

r7 He was a child/teen actor so we already now how he looked.

R85 Wrong thread?

Olivia. Absolutely stunning her whole life.

Early head shot of Montgomery Clift around age 15 when he was appearing in the Broadway production of "Jubilee."

David Dastmalchian

Colin Firth.

Fourteen-year old Archibald Leach from Bristol, England who would later become Cary Grant.

Teen beauty, Vivian Vance

Gram Parsons

Carol Channing

Carroll O'Connor

Jean Stapleton

Sally Struthers

Rob Reiner

Peter Strauss

Kelsey Grammer.

Paul Lynde's senior photo.

btw - He was very active in choir, glee, many of the school plays, and organizing prom.

Eighteen-year-old Diane Sawyer looks about 40.

OMG .. look how HOT James Garner is in his high school varsity basketball photo.

Johnny Carson.

He looks like he's got some kind of esotropia.

It's funny how to younger people, any woman with an old fashioned hair style that isn't long or parted in the middle seems to look middle-aged to them.

R105 Goddamn, James Garner was a hot piece.

James Garner was next-level hotness. Damn.

James Garner was tall, handsome, and charming, which is probably why short, average, and surly Steve McQueen was an asshole to him.

R105 I'd definitely be checking out James Garner in the locker room.

Julia Roberts

I imagine Garner was wearing a classic BIKE® jockstrap under those basketball shorts, part of the required kit of the day.

High school cheerleader, Ann-Margret Olsson:

Earl Holliman

To get out of his situation at home, Earl enlisted in the Navy at age 15, lying about his age. He was stationed in Los Angeles. The Navy discovered his true age and discharged him a year later. After turning 18 and finishing high school, he re-enlisted and served from 1948-1950.

R113 ah, to think about that jockstrap hugging his musky balls.

Another teenager who enlisted in the Navy not long after graduating high school was Roy Fitzgerald, future Rock Hudson.

All the gay boys joined the Navy.

Don Knotts

william shatner

Leonard Nimoy

Kate Mulgrew

Dame Julie Andrews at age 14 on the BBC Radio show, "Educating Archie."

Robert Beltran

R116 I picture James Garner to have a massive dark bush.

R125 yessssss......I'd want to sniff it for hours

Jason Issacs.

John Waters at 18.

R110, what all did McQueen do to Garner?

Barbara Eden as a high school senior in San Francisco.

Mariah Carey

R130 looks to homely to be Barbara Eden.

Christine Baranski was beautiful in HS.

Raquel Welch

Do you suppose Lithgow spoke in that fruity accent when he was a teen?

R133, what plastic did she get?

I never noticed John Lithgow was lantern-jawed, but that’s all I saw when I looked at Jay Leno.

Brando at 16.

Leonard Bernstein, Boston Latin School, 1935

(Bottom row, second from left)

Catherine Zeta-Jones at 15.

R133 She should've kept her original nose.

R140 That was just a few years ago!

DL fave, Joyce Dewitt

Suzanne Somers

John Ritter

Zsa Zsa Gabor , second runner-up Miss Hungary 1933 (aprox.15 years young)

Dody Goodman

James Gandolfini

R139 something uncanny about that photos. As if the head photos have been glued onto the wrong scaled bodies.

LOL r140! 😂

Jon Hamm

another Jon Hamm

Reba

Hugh Jackman

R114 It seems like a large number of actors came out of New Trier High School -- Rock Hudson, Charlton Heston, Bruce Dern, Ralph Bellamy, Christine Ebersole, James Eckhouse, Virginia Madsen, Hugh O'Brien, Lili Taylor, Rainn Wilson.

Jean Stapleton looked 55

Joe Biden

Tyrone Power

r155 You weren't kidding. I guess since it is a suburb of Chicago it makes sense.

Gandolfini was hot!

Shemar Moore

Isabel Sanford

David Caruso

Ted Danson and a really weird cartoon

Andrew Cuomo

Lee Marvin

Uma Thurman.

David Muir

Quentin Tarantino

Judi Dench

DL fave, Patti Lupone

Barry Manilow

Tina Turner

PeeWee Manilow

Ed Asner

George Takei

R175 That picture was on the wall of Lou Grant's office on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Young McConaughey gives off Patrick Schwarzenegger White Lotus vibes.

R105 The dude to Garner's right was pretty hot, too.

SJP

Seventeen-year-old Joan Collins already vamping it up.

R179 But the geek to Garner's left probably had the biggest cock. I mean, look at those ears.

Garner was no Zero, despite what his jersey says. I'm in lust.

Ted Danson was hot AF in HS.

Lloyd Bridges was kinda geeky looking, but he was certainly versatile in the activities he was involved in.

R185 "Boys' League."

Hmmm...sounds interesting.

Gregory Peck

R186 Sounds like another name for the After-School Circle Jerk Club in the Multi-Purpose Room.

Robin Williams

In 2016 Anderson Cooper said of this photo:

{quote] "This is a picture taken when I was 17," Cooper says. "I had graduated high school early and this was the day I was leaving to ride in a truck across sub-Saharan Africa for six months. My father [writer Wyatt Cooper] had passed away [in 1978] and my brother was in college, and I realize now that I was leaving my mom on her own. But she never even suggested I reconsider. I actually have this Polaroid on the bulletin board at work."

Paul Newman

Joanne Woodward

Tom Selleck

Jaclyn Smith

Angelina Jolie

Fifteen-year old Doris Kappelhoff (Doris Day) with her older brother, Paul, age 18

That's some pompadour(?) Paul has! Was he using Doris' curling iron?

[quote] [R179] But the geek to Garner's left probably had the biggest cock. I mean, look at those ears.

He looks like Josh Hartnett

R191 Damn, Paul Newman was so cute.

So many nose jobs.

Jon Hamm was the ultimate high school douche bag.

R152 I wonder if Jon posed like that when showing off his big dick in the locker room.

Elizabeth Taylor at 16.

Judge Judy

Elizabeth Taylor always looked 15 years older than her real age.

Paul Newman does look Jewish at R109.

Vin Diesel

R187, Peck was gorgeous.

Huey Lewis

Lee Majors

Lindsay Wagner

So many nose jobs...

Annie Lennox

James Dean

Anna Nicole Smith

Pope Leo XIV

Karen Carpenter

Monica Lewinsky

Young Humphrey Bogart

Pope Leo XIV seems to be afloat in a sea of lesbians at r215.

19 year old Spencer Tracy (with his mother and brother)

Joan Crawford

Joan looked kinda plain

Desi Arnaz

Lauren "Flavah" Bacall

Jonathan Bailey

James Dean, Fairmount, Indiana

This has a bunch of school pictures of news anchors and pundits

This has a bunch of actors

R227 Tucker Carlson was definitely picked on in school. I can see why he's such an asshole today.

Fuck, I would have drained Brian Williams until his head caved in.

Oscar Isaac

Pedro Pascal

Timothee Chalamet

Richard Gere

Kevin Costner

Richard Gere, Elvis, Tom Selleck and Jon Hamm - all encouraging examples of hot men who had to grow into their looks.

James Garner and Ted Danson, OTOH, had it from their teens.

Pedro was a cutie

Desi looks like a bad boy. My type.

I guess Brando was always hot.

I really can't believe how unpromising so many of these actors looked in their teens. Some of it is the earlier hairstyles, but still.........

Top row. middle in the photo is Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde, now known as Sir Dirk Bogarde.

He was sent to live with an aunt and uncle in Glasgow where he attended the Allan Glen's School between 1934 and 1937.

Missing his parents and friends, It's said he had a miserable time of it and "used to dog-off, and spend his afternoons in Renfield Street's Paramount Cinema."

Sixteen-year-old Daniel Day Lewis playing "Feste" in his school's production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night."

Pierce Brosnan

R243 That's C. Thomas Howell.

Young Brosnan with his dog Chip.

He appeared to be very charismatic even then, R241.

Many of his classmates look more like "mini-men" than kids. Could be just the clothes and styling of the time, of course, but some of those faces are not childlike, compared to some of today's fetus-looking teens.

How can Paul McCartney’s kids be so fugly?

R241 If that's Dirk Bogarde, he changed a lot as an adult.

Gene Tierney

Ryan Phillippe

Chris Pine

Lovely young Caitlyn

Warren Beatty

Shirley Maclaine

Fred MacMurray

Errol Flynn

James Cagney

Bill Murray as a high school freshman

Bruce Springsteen

Steven Bauer 1973

Steven Bauer 1974

Eva Marie Saint

Don Johnson

Leo D.

DL legend Jan Hooks at 17

R244 Someone should inform Ranker. They have that photo at R243 as part of their photo essay on Pierce.

Young Lady

R267, wow, he had gayface even then

Sophia Loren

The Brolins

Barbra & James

Did Brolin have a chin implant?

R261, anymore early Bauer pictures?

Fred MacMurray was gorgeous ! Who knew ??? Bruce sure glowed up ,thats not a flattering pic !