The River Niger poster

Movie · 1976

The River Niger

Released 14 April 1976 More from 1976 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Cicely Tyson
as Mattie Williams
51
Zakes Mokae
41
Louis Gossett Jr.
as Dr. Dudley Stanton
39
Tony Burton
as Black Policeman
39
Roger E. Mosley
as Big Moe Hayes
37
Charles Weldon
as Skeeter
35
Teddy Wilson
as Chips
32
Ralph Wilcox
as Al
Unknown
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
19years between the oldest and youngest billed
51Cicely Tyson — oldest on the call sheet
32Teddy Wilson — youngest billed
39average age of the credited cast
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