Dummy poster

Movie · 1979

Dummy

Released 27 May 1979 More from 1979 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

The real-life account of an illiterate, deaf-and-mute, black youth who was accused of murdering a prostitute, and the relationship that developed between him and his court-appointed attorney, who also was deaf, and the events leading up to his precedent-setting trial.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Paul Butler
as Sgt. Alonzo Hobbs
37
Steven Williams
as Julius Lang
30
Holly Robinson Peete
as Genettia Lang
14
Ian Patrick Williams
as Court Clerk
Unknown
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
23years between the oldest and youngest billed
37Paul Butler — oldest on the call sheet
14Holly Robinson Peete — youngest billed
27average age of the credited cast
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