Sports on the Silver Screen

Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)

We'll have you cheering again.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 1997-03-16
  • User Rating: 10/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 25min
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Summary

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)

  • Marv Albert

    as Self (archive footage)

  • John G. Avildsen

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Lauren Bacall

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Humphrey Bogart

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Charlie Chaplin

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Robert Chartoff

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Jackie Cooper

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Billy Crystal

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Tony Danza

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Ruby Dee

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Jack Dempsey

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Walt Disney

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Peter Gent

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Whoopi Goldberg

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Herb Goldman

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Harold 'Red' Grange

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Gene Hackman

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Jean Harlow

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Ed Herlihy

    as Self (archive footage)

  • James Earl Jones

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Danny Kaye

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Barry Levinson

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Jerry Lewis

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Jeffrey Lyons

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Pat Morita

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Bobby Murcer

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Richard Nixon

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Jimmy Piersall

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Sam Rayburn

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Ronald Reagan

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Knute Rockne

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Babe Ruth

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Steve Sabol

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Gale Sayers

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Budd Schulberg

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Tom Selleck

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Norma Shearer

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Ron Shelton

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Joel Siegel

    as Self (archive footage)

  • J. Parnell Thomas

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Gene Tunney

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Irwin Winkler

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Robert Wuhl

    as Self (archive footage)
Writing Leslie D. Farrell Writer
Writing Frank Deford Writer
Production Leslie D. Farrell Producer
Production Ross Greenburg Executive Producer
Production Jonathan Crystal Associate Producer
Editing David Salamone Editor

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