Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)
1h 25m
Running Time
March 16, 1997Release Date
Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)
1h 25m
Running Time
March 16, 1997Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.

Liev Schreiber
Self - Narrator (voice)

Marv Albert
Self (archive footage)

John G. Avildsen
Self (archive footage)

Marv Albert
Self

Lauren Bacall
Self (archive footage)

Humphrey Bogart
Self (archive footage)

Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)

Robert Chartoff
Self (archive footage)

Jackie Cooper
Self (archive footage)

Billy Crystal
Self (archive footage)

Tony Danza
Self (archive footage)

Ruby Dee
Self (archive footage)

Jack Dempsey
Self (archive footage)

Walt Disney
Self (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)

Peter Gent
Self (archive footage)

Whoopi Goldberg
Self (archive footage)

Herb Goldman
Self (archive footage)

Harold 'Red' Grange
Self (archive footage)

Gene Hackman
Self (archive footage)

Brian Keane
Composer

Jean Harlow
Self (archive footage)

Ed Herlihy
Self (archive footage)

James Earl Jones
Self (archive footage)

Danny Kaye
Self (archive footage)

Barry Levinson
Self (archive footage)

Jerry Lewis
Self (archive footage)

Jeffrey Lyons
Self (archive footage)

Pat Morita
Self (archive footage)

Bobby Murcer
Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)

Jimmy Piersall
Self (archive footage)

Sam Rayburn
Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)

Knute Rockne
Self (archive footage)

Babe Ruth
Self (archive footage)

Steve Sabol
Self (archive footage)

Gale Sayers
Self (archive footage)

Budd Schulberg
Self (archive footage)

Tom Selleck
Self (archive footage)

Norma Shearer
Self (archive footage)

Ron Shelton
Self (archive footage)

Joel Siegel
Self (archive footage)

J. Parnell Thomas
Self (archive footage)

Gene Tunney
Self (archive footage)

Irwin Winkler
Self (archive footage)

Robert Wuhl
Self (archive footage)

Leslie D. Farrell
Writer / Producer

Frank Deford
Writer

Ross Greenburg
Executive Producer

Jonathan Crystal
Associate Producer

David Salamone
Editor
Details.
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