Sports on the Silver Screen
Sports on the Silver Screen
Release: 1997-03-16
·Runtime: 85m
·★ 10.0
Documentary
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.
Cast
Ed Herlihy
as Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
as Self (archive footage)
Babe Ruth
as Self (archive footage)
Walt Disney
as Self (archive footage)
James Earl Jones
as Self (archive footage)
Danny Kaye
as Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
as Self (archive footage)
Irwin Winkler
as Self (archive footage)
Liev Schreiber
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Marv Albert
as Self (archive footage)
Jack Dempsey
as Self (archive footage)
Lauren Bacall
as Self (archive footage)
Tony Danza
as Self (archive footage)
Ruby Dee
as Self (archive footage)
Jean Harlow
as Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin
as Self (archive footage)
Jackie Cooper
as Self (archive footage)
Gene Hackman
as Self (archive footage)
Jerry Lewis
as Self (archive footage)
Pat Morita
as Self (archive footage)
Knute Rockne
as Self (archive footage)
Gene Tunney
as Self (archive footage)
Ron Shelton
as Self (archive footage)
Robert Wuhl
as Self (archive footage)
Barry Levinson
as Self (archive footage)
John G. Avildsen
as Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
as Self (archive footage)
Whoopi Goldberg
as Self (archive footage)
Harold 'Red' Grange
as Self (archive footage)
Budd Schulberg
as Self (archive footage)
Tom Selleck
as Self (archive footage)
Norma Shearer
as Self (archive footage)
Humphrey Bogart
as Self (archive footage)
Robert Chartoff
as Self (archive footage)
Billy Crystal
as Self (archive footage)
