Movie · 2001
The Lost World
Released 25 December 2001 150 min Adventure / Fantasy / Science Fiction / TV Movie More from 2001 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle's character, but his slightly stereotyped companions are nicely filled out by a solid cast. James Fox is Challenger's more timid but still covertly adventurous rival, Tom Ward is the moustachioed big game hunter who faces an Allosaurus with an elephant gun, and Matthew Rhys plays the tagalong reporter hoping to impress his faithless fiancée.
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How old were they?
Robert Hardy
as Prof. Illingworth
Peter Falk
as Theo Kerr
James Fox
as Prof. Summerlee
Bob Hoskins
as Prof. Challenger
Tessa Peake-Jones
as Mrs. Hilda Summerlee
Tom Goodman-Hill
as Arthur Hare
Tom Ward
as Lord Roxton
Dominic Rowan
as Reporter 2
Dominic Rowan
as Reporter 2
Matthew Rhys
as Edward Malone
Joanna Page
as Gladys
Elaine Cassidy
as Agnes Cluny
Bianca Roe
as Selena
Nathaniel Lees
as Indian chief
Brian Abbott
as Reporter 1
Jane Howie
as Ape 3
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The numbers
55years between the oldest and youngest billed
76Robert Hardy — oldest on the call sheet
21Elaine Cassidy — youngest billed
42average age of the credited cast