The 300 Spartans poster

Movie · 1962

The 300 Spartans

Released 1 August 1962 More from 1962 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

The 300 Spartans is an account of the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, in which the Greek Spartan King Leonidis, played by Richard Egan, led a remarkably small number of Greek Sparta to victory over an invading Persian army led by evil King Xerxes that was thought to number over 25,000. This spectacular conflict gave the Grecians enough time to organize a force to ultimately repel the Persians, and thus change the course of Western civilization.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Sandro Giglio
as Xenathon
62
Ralph Richardson
as Themistocles of Athens
59
Laurence Naismith
as First Delegate
53
Richard Egan
as King Leonidas
41
Robert Brown
as Pentheus
41
John Crawford
as Agathon the Spartan Spy
41
Barry Coe
as Phylon
27
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
35years between the oldest and youngest billed
62Sandro Giglio — oldest on the call sheet
27Barry Coe — youngest billed
46average age of the credited cast
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