Movie · 2006
The History Boys
“History. It's just one bloody thing after another.”
Released 2 October 2006 109 min Drama More from 2006 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.
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How old were they?
Frances de la Tour
as Mrs. Lintott
Clive Merrison
as Headmaster
Penelope Wilton
as Mrs. Bibby
Richard Griffiths
as Hector
Adrian Scarborough
as Wilkes
Dominic Cooper
as Dakin
James Corden
as Timms
Jamie Parker
as Scripps
Stephen Campbell Moore
as Irwin
Samuel Barnett
as Posner
Andrew Knott
as Lockwood
Georgia Taylor
as Fiona
Russell Tovey
as Rudge
Samuel Anderson
as Crowther
Sacha Dhawan
as Akhtar
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The numbers
40years between the oldest and youngest billed
62Frances de la Tour — oldest on the call sheet
22Sacha Dhawan — youngest billed
36average age of the credited cast