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Movie · 1986

Papa Was a Preacher

Released 19 September 1986 More from 1986 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

Edwin Porter, a Methodist minister, is sent to a little church in the small town of Sterling, Texas, to try to save it from financial insolvency. The move is sudden and is complicated by the fact that Porter’s wife and eight children are all very comfortable in the large, successful church they have been serving in Dallas.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Imogene Coca
as Missy B
77
Robert Pine
as Papa
45
Georgia Engel
as Pearl
38
Bobby Fite
as Eric Lee
17
Rodger Boyce
as Granger
Unknown
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
60years between the oldest and youngest billed
77Imogene Coca — oldest on the call sheet
17Bobby Fite — youngest billed
44average age of the credited cast
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