The Legend of Sleepy Hollow poster

Movie · 1980

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Released 31 October 1980 More from 1980 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

A TV adaptation of Washington Irving's classic ghost story. Humor is the drawing card in this version, with Jeff Goldblum a nerdish Ichabod Crane, Dick Butkus an appropriately nasty Brom Bones, and Meg Foster as spirited Katrina van Tassel. Angered that Katrina has grown fond of schoolmaster Crane, Brom Bones determines to scare off the interloper by filling his head with spooky tales of a Headless Horseman. Crane pooh-poohs the legends, until one fateful ride home in the dark of night.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Paul Sand
as Frederic Dutcher
45
Dick Butkus
as Brom Bones
37
Meg Foster
as Katrina Van Tassel
32
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
13years between the oldest and youngest billed
45Paul Sand — oldest on the call sheet
32Meg Foster — youngest billed
38average age of the credited cast
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