About Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson
Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson is a 1993 film made by acclaimed American documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Though Tyson was in jail serving a sentence for rape, Kopple used existing interviews with the boxer, as well as her own extensive interviews with those closest to Tyson, to explore the man's history. The film traces Tyson's story from his troubled and tumultuous upbringing, through his rapid ascendancy in the ranks of the boxing world and his subsequent struggle with the trappings of fame. Fallen Champ earned Barbara Kopple a Directors Guild of America award as Best Documentary Director of 1993.
Full Cast of Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson
Mike Tyson
plays Self (archive footage)
Cus D'Amato
plays Self (archive footage)
Don King
plays Self (archive footage)
Robin Givens
plays Self (archive footage)
Curtis Ratliff
plays Self - Friend
Tracy Trey Travis
plays Self - Friend
Louis Farrakhan
plays Self (archive footage)
Joyce Carol Oates
plays Self
Evander Holyfield
plays Self (archive footage)
Larry Holmes
plays Self (archive footage)
James Douglas
plays Self (archive footage)
Michael Spinks
plays Self (archive footage)
Michael Marley
plays Self
Tony Tubbs
plays Self (archive footage)
Trevor Berbick
plays Self (archive footage)
Crew of Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson
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