The Children of An Lac poster

Movie · 1980

The Children of An Lac

Released 8 October 1980 More from 1980 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

Based on the true story of film actress Ina Balin and her efforts with American Red Cross volunteer Betty Tisdale, as well as a compassionate Vietnamese woman running a Saigon orphanage, to rescue as many children as possible and fly them out of the country before South Vietnam's fall in the spring of 1975 through the An Lac baby-lift.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Shirley Jones
as Betty Tisdale
46
Ben Piazza
as Dr. Wayne R. McKinney
46
Ina Balin
as Ina Balin
42
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
4years between the oldest and youngest billed
46Shirley Jones — oldest on the call sheet
42Ina Balin — youngest billed
45average age of the credited cast
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