The Secret Garden poster

Movie · 1987

The Secret Garden

Released 30 November 1987 More from 1987 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The lord is a strange old man-- frail and deformed, immensely kind but so melancholy. She wishes to discover what has caused him so much sorrow and to bring joy back to the household. It all must have something to do with the screams and wails which echo through the house at night and no one wants to talk about.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Michael Hordern
as Ben Weatherstaff
76
Philip Locke
as Pitcher
59
Pat Heywood
as Mrs. Sowerby
56
Derek Jacobi
as Archibald Craven
49
Tony Selby
as Sgt. Barney
49
Lucy Gutteridge
as Mrs. Lennox
31
Barret Oliver
as Dickon Sowerby
14
Cassie Stuart
as Martha Sowerby
Unknown
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
62years between the oldest and youngest billed
76Michael Hordern — oldest on the call sheet
14Barret Oliver — youngest billed
48average age of the credited cast
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