Movie · 1983
The Right Stuff
“How the future began.”
Released 20 October 1983 193 min Drama / History / Adventure More from 1983 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings momentous challenges.
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How old were they?
Kim Stanley
as Pancho Barnes
Donald Moffat
as Lyndon B. Johnson
Scott Glenn
as Alan Shepard
Lance Henriksen
as Wally Schirra
Levon Helm
as Jack Ridley / Narrator
Jim Haynie
as Air Force Major
Fred Ward
as Gus Grissom
David Clennon
as Liaison Man
Sam Shepard
as Chuck Yeager
Mary Jo Deschanel
as Annie Glenn
Charles Frank
as Scott Carpenter
Barbara Hershey
as Glennis Yeager
Veronica Cartwright
as Betty Grissom
Pamela Reed
as Trudy Cooper
Scott Paulin
as Deke Slayton
Kathy Baker
as Louise Shepard
O-Lan Jones
as Girl at Pancho's
Ed Harris
as John Glenn
Dennis Quaid
as Gordon Cooper
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The numbers
29years between the oldest and youngest billed
58Kim Stanley — oldest on the call sheet
29Dennis Quaid — youngest billed
39average age of the credited cast