The Jesse Owens Story
The Jesse Owens Story
1984
Drama
TV Movie
2h 54m
Spanning over forty years, this powerful docudrama traces Jesse's life- from his days as a sharecropper's son, through his incredible record-breaking college years, his marriage to his high school sweetheart, his monumental victories in the 1936 Olympics, and his thirty-year struggle to survive in a prejudiced country that he loved so deeply. (runningmovies.com)
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Directed by:
Richard Irving
7 total credits
Credits include: Ransom for a Dead Man, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Jesse Owens Story, Repossessed and Istanbul Express
Writer:
Harold Gast 4 total credits
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Starring:
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Directed by:
Richard Irving 7 total credits
Credits include: Ransom for a Dead Man, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Jesse Owens Story, Repossessed and Istanbul Express
Writer:
Harold Gast 4 total credits
Credits include: A Woman Called Golda, From Here to Eternity, Ironclads and The Jesse Owens Story
Starring:
Debbi Morgan 22 total credits
Credits include: Coach Carter, The Hurricane, Love and Basketball, Eve's Bayou and Mandingo
45 total credits
Credits include: Full Metal Jacket, Gothika, Sudden Death, 12 Angry Men and The Falcon and the Snowman
98 total credits
Credits include: No Country for Old Men, WarGames, Stir Crazy, Ghost Dad and Critters 2: The Main Course
101 total credits
George Harris Kennedy, Jr. (born February 18, 1925) is an American actor who has appeared in over 200 film and television productions. He is perhaps most familiar as the convict Dragline in Cool Hand Luke (for which he won an Academy Award), airline troubleshooter Joe Patroni in the Airport series of disaster movies from the 1970s and as Captain Ed Hocken in the Naked Gun series of comedy films...(Wikipedia)
25 total credits
Credits include: All That Jazz, Roots, Idlewild, Once Upon a Forest and Funny Lady
47 total credits
Credits include: The Back-up Plan, Yours, Mine and Ours, Happy Days, Murder, She Wrote and Love with the Proper Stranger
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Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, Jr. professionally known as LeVar Burton, is a German-born African American actor, director, producer and author who first came to prominence portraying Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC television miniseries Roots, based on the novel by Alex Haley. He is also well known for his portrayal of Geordi La Forge on the syndicated science fiction series Star Trek: The Next Generation and as the host of the PBS children's program Reading Rainbow...(Wikipedia)
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