Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker poster

Movie · 1979

Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker

Released 21 September 1979 More from 1979 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

A rebellious 17-year-old girl ignores parental advice and joins her friends as a beach-bound regular on the local hitchhiking circuit, being picked up, ultimately, by a homicidal maniac.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Jack Rader
as Sean Burke
58
Dick Van Patten
as Herb Thurston
50
Katherine Helmond
as Elaine Thurston
50
Pat Corley
49
Noelle North
30
Charlene Tilton
as Julie Thurston
20
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
38years between the oldest and youngest billed
58Jack Rader — oldest on the call sheet
20Charlene Tilton — youngest billed
43average age of the credited cast
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