Best athlete cameos in film
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mjcevr — 15 years ago(January 30, 2011 06:55 PM)
The Incredible Hulk(2008)- Lou Ferigno
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mjcevr — 15 years ago(January 30, 2011 08:12 PM)
The Incredible Hulk(2008)- Lou Ferigno
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ZevII — 12 years ago(July 08, 2013 11:16 AM)
Babe Ruth and the other Yankees helped add a feel of authenticty to Pride of the Yankees.
I thought Rocky had a smart touch with Joe Frazer's cameo of greeting the boxers just before the fight.
They couldn't act, but Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Yogi Berra had a humorous cameo in That Touch of Mink with Doris Day and Cary Grant.
This isn't technically a cameo (he wasn't playing himself), but Max Baer, a heavyweight champ that killed a man in the ring, plays a heavyweight champ that wants "credit" for killing another boxer in The Harder They Fall. Baer made several movies and was a pretty good actor.
Babe Zaharias, Alice Marble, and other real-life athletes were in Pat & Mike. They didn't act much, but it was entertaining to see Katharine Hepburn competing aganst them.
This wasn't a cameo, but it was great casting: knuckleballer Tom Candiotti as knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm in 61*.
Jockey Gary Stevens did a great job of portraying jockey George Woolf in Seabiscuit. -
quincee33 — 10 years ago(October 23, 2015 04:36 AM)
Boston Bruins Hall of Famer Cam Neely played Sea Bass in Dumb & Dumber. Lawrence Taylor was briefly in The Water Boy. Lance Armstrong was in You, Me & Dupree. Joe Klecko was in Smokey & The Bandit 2. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was a pilot in the comedy Airplane plus Bruce Lee's Game of Death. Rams Fred Dryer was on a private eye show called Hunter.Alex Karras was the dad on Webster.