Movie · 1976
The Eagle Has Landed
Released 24 December 1976 More from 1976 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
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How old were they?
Anthony Quayle
as Admiral Canaris
Ferdy Mayne
as Radl's Doctor (uncredited)
Patrick Allen
as Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Joachim Hansen
as SS-Obergruppenführer
Siegfried Rauch
as Sgt. Brandt
Jean Marsh
as Joanna Grey
Sven-Bertil Taube
as Captain von Neustadt
Donald Sutherland
as Liam Devlin
Tim Barlow
as George Wilde (Publican)
Maurice Roëves
as Major Corcoran
Roy Marsden
as Sturmbannführer Toberg, SS (uncredited)
Denis Lill
as Churchill's aide
Judy Geeson
as Pamela
Kent Williams
as Mallory (uncredited)
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The numbers
38years between the oldest and youngest billed
63Anthony Quayle — oldest on the call sheet
25Kent Williams — youngest billed
42average age of the credited cast