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
Marv Albert
Self
Marv Albert
Self
John G. Avildsen
Self - Academy Award Ceremony
Lauren Bacall
Self
Leslie D. Farrell
Writer
Robert Chartoff
Self (archive footage)
Frank Deford
Writer
Jackie Cooper
Self (archive footage)
Brian Keane
Composer
Billy Crystal
Self (archive footage)
Humphrey Bogart
Self
Tony Danza
Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin
Self
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)
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)
