Grass Roots poster

Movie · 1992

Grass Roots

Released 24 February 1992 More from 1992 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

This sequel to the 1983 miniseries, "Chiefs," continues the saga of the Lee family with Will Lee, an ambitious Georgia lawyer running for the U.S. Senate at the same time he is forced by a local judge to defend a young man in a murder trial. On top of this, he becomes the target of an assassin hired by a white-supremacist organization.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Katherine Helmond
as Emma Carr
62
Herb Edelman
as Manny Pearl
58
Adrian Roberts
as Marty
49
Julian Holloway
as Elton Hunter
47
Corbin Bernsen
as Will Lee
37
Tom Nowicki
as Tommy Newman
36
Mel Harris
as Kate Rule
35
David Dwyer
as Deputy Bart
Unknown
Karen Beyer
as Amy
Unknown
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
27years between the oldest and youngest billed
62Katherine Helmond — oldest on the call sheet
35Mel Harris — youngest billed
46average age of the credited cast
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