Movie

The Hindenburg

Released: December 25, 1975 (1975)

Runtime: 125 minutes

Genres: History, Thriller, Drama

Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.

Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)

Burgess Meredith as Emilio Pajetta
Age at release: 68
Gig Young as Edward Douglas
Age at release: 62
Charles Durning as Captain Pruss
Age at release: 52
Robert Clary as Joe Spah
Age at release: 49
George C. Scott as Col. Franz Ritter
Age at release: 48
Richard Dysart as Lehman
Age at release: 46
Anne Bancroft as Ursula
Age at release: 44
Roy Thinnes as Martin Vogel
Age at release: 37
René Auberjonois as Major Napier
Age at release: 35
William Atherton as Boerth
Age at release: 28

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Stephen Elliott as Captain Fellows
Age at release: 57
Simon Scott as Luftwaffe General
Age at release: 55
William Sylvester as Luftwaffe Colonel
Age at release: 53
Jan Merlin as Speck
Age at release: 50
Curt Lowens as Elevator Man Felber
Age at release: 50
Scott Walker as Gestapo Major
Age at release: 49
Val Bisoglio as Lt. Lombardi
Age at release: 49
Sandy Ward as Detective Grunberger
Age at release: 49
Joe Turkel as Detective Moore
Age at release: 48
Peter Donat as Reed Channing
Age at release: 47
Joe Di Reda as Schulz
Age at release: 47
Katherine Helmond as Mrs. Mildred Breslau
Age at release: 46
Ted Gehring as Knorr
Age at release: 46
Alan Oppenheimer as Albert Breslau
Age at release: 45
Betsy Jones-Moreland as Stewardess Imhoff
Age at release: 45
Joanna Moore as Mrs. Channing
Age at release: 41
Lisa Pera as Freda Halle
Age at release: 35
Kip Niven as Lt. Truscott
Age at release: 30
Jean Rasey as Valerie Breslau
Age at release: 21
Joyce Davis as Eleanore Ritter
Age at release: Unknown