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When you realize you are now older than the "old folks" you watched on TV growing up.Redd Foxx was just 48 years old when he played the cantankerous junk dealer Fred G. Sanford on Sanford and Son. Carroll O'Connor was also 48 when he first played Archie Bunker on All in the Family. Wilford Brimley was only 50 when he played the gruff grandfather figure on Our House, despite looking decades older. Norman Fell was 53 when he played the grouchy landlord Stanley Roper on Three's Company.On the women's side, Polly Holliday was just 39 when she played the wisecracking waitress Flo on Alice. Ann B. Davis was 43 when she played housekeeper Alice Nelson on The Brady Bunch. Jean Stapleton was 44 when she began playing Edith Bunker on All in the Family. And Rue McClanahan was 51 when she joined The Golden Girls as the man-crazy Blanche Devereaux.#ClassicTV #TVHistory #AllInTheFamily #GoldenGirls #SanfordAndSon #TheBradyBunch