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Sports on the Silver Screen

Sports on the Silver Screen

(1997)

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.

Featured Crew

  1. Producer : Leslie D. Farrell
  2. Writer : Leslie D. Farrell,Frank Deford
  3. Editor : David Salamone
  4. Cast : Liev Schreiber,Marv Albert,John G. Avildsen,Lauren Bacall,Humphrey Bogart,Charlie Chaplin,Robert Chartoff,Jackie Cooper,Billy Crystal,Tony Danza,Ruby Dee,Jack Dempsey,Walt Disney,Dwight D. Eisenhower,Peter Gent,Whoopi Goldberg,Herb Goldman,Harold 'Red' Grange,Gene Hackman,Jean Harlow,Ed Herlihy,James Earl Jones,Danny Kaye,Barry Levinson,Jerry Lewis,Jeffrey Lyons,Pat Morita,Bobby Murcer,Richard Nixon,Jimmy Piersall,Sam Rayburn,Ronald Reagan,Knute Rockne,Babe Ruth,Steve Sabol,Gale Sayers,Budd Schulberg,Tom Selleck,Norma Shearer,Ron Shelton,Joel Siegel,J. Parnell Thomas,Gene Tunney,Irwin Winkler,Robert Wuhl

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Original TitleSports on the Silver Screen

Status Released

Release Information

  • 1997-03-16

Original Language

Runtime 01h 25m

Genres

  • Documentary

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