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Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)
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Overview
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.
Length 85 minutes
Actors
Gene Hackman | Walt Disney | Whoopi Goldberg | Jerry Lewis | Ed Herlihy | Ron Shelton | Robert Wuhl | Humphrey Bogart | Lauren Bacall | Billy Crystal | Barry Levinson | Budd Schulberg | Irwin Winkler | Charlie Chaplin | Tom Selleck | James Earl Jones | Ruby Dee | John G. Avildsen | Robert Chartoff | Tony Danza | Ronald Reagan | Liev Schreiber | Pat Morita | Richard Nixon | Jackie Cooper | Danny Kaye | Jean Harlow | Norma Shearer | Babe Ruth | Peter Gent | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Steve Sabol | J. Parnell Thomas | Jack Dempsey | Gale Sayers | Marv Albert | Joel Siegel | Jimmy Piersall | Knute Rockne | Jeffrey Lyons | Harold 'Red' Grange | Herb Goldman | Bobby Murcer | Sam Rayburn | Gene Tunney