Sports on the Silver Screen

1h 25m

Documentary

10

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

Liev Schreiber

Self - Narrator (voice)

John G. Avildsen

Self (archive footage)

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)

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)

Marv Albert

Self (archive footage)

Crew

Leslie D. Farrell

Writer, Producer

Frank Deford

Writer

David Salamone

Editor

Ross Greenburg

Executive Producer

Jonathan Crystal

Associate Producer