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Movie · 1959

Judgment at Nuremberg

Released 16 April 1959 More from 1959 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

Judgment at Nuremberg is an American television play broadcast live on April 16, 1959, as part of the CBS television series, Playhouse 90. It was a courtroom drama written by Abby Mann and directed by George Roy Hill that depicts the trial of four German judicial officials as part of the Nuremberg trials. Claude Rains starred as the presiding judge with Maximilian Schell as the defense attorney, Melvyn Douglas as the prosecutor, and Paul Lukas as the former German Minister of Justice.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Torben Meyer
as Werner Lammpe
74
Celia Lovsky
as Elsa Lindnow
62
Ludwig Donath
as Dr. Wickert
59
Stephen Chase
as Man in Corridor
57
Alex Gerry
as Judge Norris
54
Mary Adams
as Mrs. Haywood
48
Maximilian Schell
as Otto Rolfe
28
Martin Milner
as Capt. Byers
27
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
47years between the oldest and youngest billed
74Torben Meyer — oldest on the call sheet
27Martin Milner — youngest billed
51average age of the credited cast
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