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Movie · 1997

Harpur and Iles: Protection

Released 1 January 1997 More from 1997 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

Underworld boss Bernie 'Tenderness' Mellick is certainly paying a heavy price for maiming Ivor Wright in a firebombing. For Wright's men have now kidnapped his eleven-year-old son Graham. Senior Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his brilliant, amoral superior ACC Desmond Iles must rescue the boy from the kidnappers before Tenderness takes his revenge in this adaptation of Bill James' novel Protection.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Hywel Bennett
as ACC Desmond Iles
52
Brian Hibbard
as Ancient Dave
50
Jim Carter
as Tenderness Mellick
48
Peter-Hugo Daly
as Milton Bain
41
Ian Puleston-Davies
as Rick the Intelligent
38
James Coombes
as Jack Lamb
Unknown
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
14years between the oldest and youngest billed
52Hywel Bennett — oldest on the call sheet
38Ian Puleston-Davies — youngest billed
46average age of the credited cast
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