Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1981)
1h 38m
Running Time
May 31, 1981Release Date
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1981)
1h 38m
Running Time
May 31, 1981Release Date
Plot.
The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball, to his emergence at age 43 in the major leagues with the Cleveland Indians the year after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier.
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Cast & Crew.
Louis Gossett Jr.
Leroy 'Satchel' Paige
Beverly Todd
Lahoma Brown
Cleavon Little
Rabbit
Ernie Barnes
Josh Gibson
Clifton Davis
Cool Papa Bell
Hal Williams
Carl Roberts
Richard A. Colla
Director
Taylor Lacher
Announcer
Leroy 'Satchel' Paige
Writer
Leroy 'Satchel' Paige
Writer
John Beradino
Jake Wells
Ronald Rubin
Writer
Jim Davis
Mr. Wilkenson
Jimmy Hawkins
Producer
Stanley Rubin
Producer
Ossie Davis
Chuffy Russell
Tonea Stewart
Mama Paige
Jack Elliott
Composer
J.R. Horne
Mr. Andrews
Donnie Walker
Sugar Boy Porter
Don Blakely
Bartender
Candy Ann Brown
Ramona
Gloria Gifford
Darlene
Leopoldo Mandeville
Chester
Earle Willoughby
Dizzy Dean
Colia LaFayett
Mrs. Parker
Milton Stafford
Young Satchel
James Unger
Wilson Paige
Lawrence Johnson
Judge
Bobby Angelle
Outfielder
Bubba Phillips
Coach Hardy
Jim B. Smith
White Batter
Details.
Wiki.
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige is a 1981 American made-for-television biographical film directed by Richard A. Colla and based on Leroy's autobiography, Don't Look Back : Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball. It stars Louis Gossett Jr. and Beverly Todd.