The Man in the Santa Claus Suit poster

Movie · 1979

The Man in the Santa Claus Suit

Released 23 December 1979 More from 1979 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

The mysterious owner of a costume shop rents a Santa Claus suit to three very different men: a math teacher trying to get the nerve to propose, a homeless restaurateur trying to hide from the mob, and a harried political speech writer visiting with his estranged wife and son. Their lives are inexorably changed by their experience of playing Santa Claus.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Fred Astaire
as Santa Claus
80
Harold Gould
as Dickie Dayton
56
John Byner
as Stan Summerville
41
Brooke Bundy
as Linda Travis
36
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
44years between the oldest and youngest billed
80Fred Astaire — oldest on the call sheet
36Brooke Bundy — youngest billed
53average age of the credited cast
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