Androcles and the Lion poster

Movie · 1952

Androcles and the Lion

Released 1 December 1952 More from 1952 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascal’s final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. He’s ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Maurice Evans
as Caesar
51
Reginald Gardiner
as Lentulus
49
Robert Newton
as Ferrovius
47
John Hoyt
as Cato
47
Victor Mature
as Captain
39
Noel Willman
as Spintho
34
Alan Young
as Androcles
33
Jean Simmons
as Lavinina
23
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
28years between the oldest and youngest billed
51Maurice Evans — oldest on the call sheet
23Jean Simmons — youngest billed
40average age of the credited cast
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