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10 FILMS FEATURING SENIORS IN ACTION
THE GREY FOX (1982)
Richard Farnsworth (62 at the time) plays a former stagecoach robber who decides to switch to those new-fangled trains.
SPACE COWBOYS (2000)
Clint Eastwood (70), Tommy Lee Jones (54), Donald Sutherland (65) and James Garner (72) are former test pilots sent to space to repair a failing satellite.
RED (2010)
Retired, Extremely Dangerous assassins are played by Bruce Willis (55), Helen Mirren (65) and Morgan Freeman (73) in this getting-the-band-back-together caper.
ESCAPE PLAN (2013)
THE EXPENDABLES 3 (2014)
The men-on-a-mission cast keeps getting larger and the stars aren't getting any younger. This one includes Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson and ... Kelsey Grammer? (Average age: 65)
GOING IN STYLE (2017)
Michael Caine, Alan Arkin and Morgan Freeman (average 83) knock off the bank that stole their retirement savings. A remake of the 1979 film with George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg (average 74).
THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN (2018) Robert Redford (82) plays a genteel escaped con who falls for Sissy Specek between bank heists.
TERMINATOR: DARK FATE (2019)
We knew Schwarzenegger (73) would be back, but what a fun surprise to see Linda Hamilton (63) return as Sarah Connor, tough as ever.
THE MARKSMAN (2021)
This is just the latest in the Liam-Neeson-revenge-fantasy-thriller genre, with the star now 68. But it's hard to top 2011's The Grey, where he goes toe-to-claw with a pack of wolves.
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 8 (2023)
Tom Cruise will be 61 when this latest chapter in the franchise, currently filming, opens in (we dearly hope) theatres.