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Movie · 1996

Breaking the Code

Released 17 September 1996 More from 1996 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Richard Johnson
as Dilwyn 'Dilly' Knox
69
Harold Pinter
as John Smith
65
Prunella Scales
as Sara Turing
64
Derek Jacobi
as Alan Turing
57
Blake Ritson
as Christopher Morcom
18
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
51years between the oldest and youngest billed
69Richard Johnson — oldest on the call sheet
18Blake Ritson — youngest billed
55average age of the credited cast
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