Movie · 1983
Doctor Detroit
“He's making the world safe for insanity.”
Released 6 May 1983 89 min Comedy More from 1983 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.
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How old were they?
Parley Baer
as Judge
Kate Murtagh
as Mom
Andrew Duggan
as Harmon Rousehorn
Nan Martin
as Margaret Skridlow
George Furth
as Arthur Skridlow
Oliver Clark
as Shaky Alcoholic Lawyer
Howard Hesseman
as Smooth Walker
Peter Elbling
as Guptor
Steven Williams
as Junior Sweet
Dan Aykroyd
as Clifford Skridlow / Doctor Detroit
Lydia Lei
as Jasmine Wu
Lynn Whitfield
as Thelma Cleland
Glenne Headly
as Miss Debbylike
T.K. Carter
as Diavolo Washington
Donna Dixon
as Monica McNeil
Fran Drescher
as Karen Blittstein
John A. Maloney
as Commodore
Pershing P. Anderson
as Stretch
William Munchow
as Professor Artel
Ed Meekin
as Professor Durant
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The numbers
43years between the oldest and youngest billed
68Parley Baer — oldest on the call sheet
25Fran Drescher — youngest billed
41average age of the credited cast