Cast of
Sports on the Silver Screen

About Sports on the Silver Screen

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.

Full Cast of Sports on the Silver Screen

Liev Schreiber
plays Self - Narrator (voice)

Liev Schreiber as Self - Narrator (voice)

Isaac Liev Schreiber (born October 4, 1967) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and narrator. He ...

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Marv Albert
plays Self (archive footage)

Marv Albert as Self (archive footage)

Marv Albert is a retired American sportscaster, having been the voice of NBC Sports for 2 decades, and known for maki...

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John G. Avildsen
plays Self (archive footage)

Lauren Bacall
plays Self (archive footage)

Lauren Bacall as Self (archive footage)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014) ...

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Humphrey Bogart
plays Self (archive footage)

Charlie Chaplin
plays Self (archive footage)

Robert Chartoff
plays Self (archive footage)

Jackie Cooper
plays Self (archive footage)

Billy Crystal
plays Self (archive footage)

Billy Crystal as Self (archive footage)

William Edward "Billy" Crystal (born March 14, 1948) is an American actor, writer, producer, comedian and film direct...

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Tony Danza
plays Self (archive footage)

Tony Danza as Self (archive footage)

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Tony Danza (born Anthony Salvatore Iadanza; April 21, 1950) is an Italian-...

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Ruby Dee
plays Self (archive footage)

Jack Dempsey
plays Self (archive footage)

Walt Disney
plays Self (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower
plays Self (archive footage)

Peter Gent
plays Self (archive footage)

Whoopi Goldberg
plays Self (archive footage)

Whoopi Goldberg as Self (archive footage)

An American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, and talk show host. Goldberg made her film debu...

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Herb Goldman
plays Self (archive footage)

Harold 'Red' Grange
plays Self (archive footage)

Gene Hackman
plays Self (archive footage)

Jean Harlow
plays Self (archive footage)

Ed Herlihy
plays Self (archive footage)

James Earl Jones
plays Self (archive footage)

James Earl Jones as Self (archive footage)

James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is a multi-award-winning American actor of theater and film, well known for ...

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Danny Kaye
plays Self (archive footage)

Barry Levinson
plays Self (archive footage)

Jerry Lewis
plays Self (archive footage)

Jerry Lewis as Self (archive footage)

Jerry Lewis (March 16, 1926 - August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer, film director ...

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Jeffrey Lyons
plays Self (archive footage)

Pat Morita
plays Self (archive footage)

Pat Morita as Self (archive footage)

Noriyuki 'Pat' Morita (June 28, 1932 - November 24, 2005) was an American actor of Japanese descent who was well-know...

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Bobby Murcer
plays Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon
plays Self (archive footage)

Jimmy Piersall
plays Self (archive footage)

Sam Rayburn
plays Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan
plays Self (archive footage)

Knute Rockne
plays Self (archive footage)

Babe Ruth
plays Self (archive footage)

Steve Sabol
plays Self (archive footage)

Gale Sayers
plays Self (archive footage)

Budd Schulberg
plays Self (archive footage)

Tom Selleck
plays Self (archive footage)

Tom Selleck as Self (archive footage)

Thomas William "Tom" Selleck (born January 29, 1945) is an American actor and film producer, best known for his starr...

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Norma Shearer
plays Self (archive footage)

Ron Shelton
plays Self (archive footage)

Ron Shelton as Self (archive footage)

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ron Shelton (September 15, 1945 in Whittier, California) is a U.S. film direc...

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Joel Siegel
plays Self (archive footage)

J. Parnell Thomas
plays Self (archive footage)

Gene Tunney
plays Self (archive footage)

Irwin Winkler
plays Self (archive footage)

Irwin Winkler as Self (archive footage)

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Irwin Winkler (born May 25, 1931) is an American film producer and directo...

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Robert Wuhl
plays Self (archive footage)

Robert Wuhl as Self (archive footage)

Robert Wuhl (born October 9, 1951) is an American actor, comedian and writer. He is best known as the creator and sta...

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Crew of Sports on the Silver Screen

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