<p> Hey, it was the 70&#39;s, so maybe it wasn&#39;t that unusual, but all of the men in Alien were surprisingly old, at least compared to what I would speculate would be the case now: at the end of the year of it&#39;s release (1979), they were, in order:</p> <ul> <li>John Hurt - 39</li> <li>Yaphet Kotto - 40</li> <li>Tom Skerrit - 46</li> <li>Ian Holm - 48</li> <li>Harry Dean Stanton - 53</li> </ul> <p>There&#39;s only two guys on that list who were younger then than I am now. Harry Dean Stanton is just shy of 90 these days.</p>