Movie

Murder by Death

Released: June 23, 1976 (1976)

Runtime: 94 minutes

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.

Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)

Estelle Winwood as Nurse Withers
Age at release: 93
Elsa Lanchester as Jessica Marbles
Age at release: 73
David Niven as Dick Charleston
Age at release: 66
Alec Guinness as Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
Age at release: 62
Nancy Walker as Kitchen Maid Yetta
Age at release: 54
Peter Sellers as Sidney Wang
Age at release: 50
Peter Falk as Sam Diamond
Age at release: 48
James Coco as Milo Perrier
Age at release: 46
Eileen Brennan as Tess Skeffington
Age at release: 43
Maggie Smith as Dora Charleston
Age at release: 41

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Fay Wray as Door Bell (archive sound) (uncredited)
Age at release: 68
James Cromwell as Marcel Cassette
Age at release: 36
Richard Narita as Willie Wang
Age at release: 24