The Toy poster

Movie · 1982

The Toy

Released 10 December 1982 More from 1982 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers many indignities as Eric's "toy", but gradually teaches the lonely boy what it is like to have and to be a friend.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Wilfrid Hyde-White
as Barkley
79
Jackie Gleason
as Ulysses Simpson 'U.S.' Bates
66
Virginia Capers
as Ruby Simpson
57
Ned Beatty
as Sydney Morehouse
45
Steve Kahan
as State Trooper
43
Don Hood
as O'Brien
42
Scott Schwartz
as Eric Bates
14
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
65years between the oldest and youngest billed
79Wilfrid Hyde-White — oldest on the call sheet
14Scott Schwartz — youngest billed
49average age of the credited cast
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