Al Pacino, Robert De Niro & More Celeb Dads Who Had Kids Later in Life

Al Pacino Shares What He Has Learned From His 4 Children (Exclusive)

The Father Saga continues.

Robert De Niro's revelation that he welcomed his seventh child at 79 in 2023 was only trumped by the arrival of then-83-year-old Al Pacino's fourth child a month later.

"He's a few years older than me, God bless him," De Niro, now 82, said on TODAY in June 2023, reacting to the news that his The Godfather Part II costar's girlfriend Noor Alfallah was eight months pregnant. "Very happy for him."

Pacino, now 86, called the then-upcoming blessed event "very special," telling paparazzi who caught up with the actor during a walk around his L.A. neighborhood, "It always has been. I've got many kids. But this is really special coming at this time."

Now that is some guy talk.

While it's no longer breaking news when a woman has a child in her 40s (unless she's famous, but in that case she's making headlines no matter what age she is)—but there is, at some point, an end to the physical possibility.

Not so much for men, though, and a number of famous ones have served as prominent reminders that fathering children knows far fewer bounds than giving birth to them.

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"It feels great," De Niro told AARP in an interview published Jan. 25, 2024, of having then-9-month-old daughter Gia with girlfriend Tiffany Chen in his life. "Everything that I'm consumed with or worried about just goes away when I look at her. It's wondrous."

As for Pacino, he told the BBC in October 2024 that he hoped to "be around" for then-16-month-old Roman.

“I hope I stay healthy," he added, "and he knows who his dad is, of course.”

A number of stars we all know and love didn't become dads until they were in their fifties, the George Clooneys and Hugh Grants of the world. Pretty average these days, really. In fact, it's a not-infrequent refrain to hear them say they wouldn't have been ready any earlier.

And then there are the ones who started even later—or who didn't limit themselves to any one decade, having more kids when they were in their sixties, seventies and beyond, the more the merrier.

Scroll on to see the celebrity fathers who welcomed babies into their golden years:

(Originally published June 17, 2023, at 7 a.m. PT)