Born to Be Wild poster

Movie · 1995

Born to Be Wild

Released 31 March 1995 More from 1995 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage of a gorilla named Katie which she is teaching to communicate through the use of sign language. When the owner of the gorilla takes her back to become a flea market freak Rick takes it upon himself to break Katie out and take her on an adventurous journey to get her out of the country.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Peter Boyle
as Gus Charnley
59
Janet Carroll
as Judge Billings
54
John Pleshette
as Donald Carr
52
Gregory Itzin
as Walter Mallinson
46
Obba Babatundé
as Interpreter
43
John C. McGinley
as Max Carr
35
Leif Tilden
as Katie The Gorilla
31
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
28years between the oldest and youngest billed
59Peter Boyle — oldest on the call sheet
31Leif Tilden — youngest billed
46average age of the credited cast
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