Five Weeks in a Balloon poster

Movie · 1962

Five Weeks in a Balloon

Released 22 August 1962 More from 1962 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Cedric Hardwicke
as Fergusson
69
Henry Daniell
as Sheik Ageiba
68
Richard Haydn
as Sir Henry Vining
57
Roy Jenson
as Guard (uncredited)
35
Vic Tayback
as European Agent (uncredited)
32
Barbara Eden
as Susan Gale
30
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
39years between the oldest and youngest billed
69Cedric Hardwicke — oldest on the call sheet
30Barbara Eden — youngest billed
49average age of the credited cast
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