Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties. Watch not for dramatic scenes but for the glimpse of historical figures shown both cinematic and athletic- in this tribute to the merging of sports and Hollywood.
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Liev Schreiber as Self - Narrator (voice) |
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John G. Avildsen as Self (archive footage) |
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Lauren Bacall as Self (archive footage) |
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Humphrey Bogart as Self (archive footage) |
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Charlie Chaplin as Self (archive footage) |
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Robert Chartoff as Self (archive footage) |
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Jackie Cooper as Self (archive footage) |
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Billy Crystal as Self (archive footage) |
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Tony Danza as Self (archive footage) |
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Ruby Dee as Self (archive footage) |
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Jack Dempsey as Self (archive footage) |
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Walt Disney as Self (archive footage) |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self (archive footage) |
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Peter Gent as Self (archive footage) |
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Whoopi Goldberg as Self (archive footage) |
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Herb Goldman as Self (archive footage) |
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Harold 'Red' Grange as Self (archive footage) |
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Gene Hackman as Self (archive footage) |
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Jean Harlow as Self (archive footage) |
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Ed Herlihy as Self (archive footage) |
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James Earl Jones as Self (archive footage) |
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Danny Kaye as Self (archive footage) |
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Barry Levinson as Self (archive footage) |
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Jerry Lewis as Self (archive footage) |
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Jeffrey Lyons as Self (archive footage) |
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Pat Morita as Self (archive footage) |
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Bobby Murcer as Self (archive footage) |
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Richard Nixon as Self (archive footage) |
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Jimmy Piersall as Self (archive footage) |
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Sam Rayburn as Self (archive footage) |
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Ronald Reagan as Self (archive footage) |
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Knute Rockne as Self (archive footage) |
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Babe Ruth as Self (archive footage) |
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Steve Sabol as Self (archive footage) |
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Gale Sayers as Self (archive footage) |
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Budd Schulberg as Self (archive footage) |
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Tom Selleck as Self (archive footage) |
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Norma Shearer as Self (archive footage) |
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Ron Shelton as Self (archive footage) |
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Joel Siegel as Self (archive footage) |
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J. Parnell Thomas as Self (archive footage) |
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Gene Tunney as Self (archive footage) |
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Irwin Winkler as Self (archive footage) |
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Robert Wuhl as Self (archive footage) |
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Marv Albert as Self (archive footage) |
| Writing | Leslie D. Farrell | Writer |
| Writing | Frank Deford | Writer |
| Editing | David Salamone | Editor |
| Production | Ross Greenburg | Executive Producer |
| Production | Jonathan Crystal | Associate Producer |
| Production | Leslie D. Farrell | Producer |
