Famous people who have always been old

Let's face it: Some of us Dullards aren't getting any younger. Yet there are many famous people who have been old for as long as we've been alive.

Here are some of those people. To qualify for the list, each person has to be 1) alive 2) noteworthy 3) commonly perceived as "old" for the past 30-odd years.

• Bea Arthur, actress
  
• Ed Asner, actor
  
• Ernest Borgnine, actor
  
• Helen Gurley Brown, writer
• Robert Byrd, senator
• Dick Cavett, writer and TV personality
  
• Walter Cronkite, TV anchor
  
• Richard Dawson, game show host
  
• Phyllis Diller, comedian
  
• Hugh Downs, TV anchor
  
• Betty Ford, former First Lady
  
• Billy Graham, evangelist
• Jack Klugman, actor
  
• Jack LaLanne, fitness freak
  
• Christopher Lee, actor
  
• Karl Malden, actor
  
• George McGovern, politician
• Roger Moore, actor
  
• Harry Morgan, actor
  
• John McCain, politician
  
• Ed McMahon, TV sidekick
  
• Andy Rooney, commentator
  
• Mickey Rooney, actor
  
• Daniel Schorr, journalist
  
• Margaret Thatcher, former leader of Great Britain
  
• Helen Thomas, journalist
  
• Abe Vigoda, actor
  
• Barbara Walters, TV anchor
  
• Betty White, actress
  
• John Wooden, basketball coach
  
• Bill Wyman, bass player