List of athletes in movies

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Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Baseball players 2 Basketball players 3 Boxers 4 Football players 5 Ice hockey players 6 Martial artists 7 Soccer players 8 Swimmers 9 Wrestlers 10 Other athletes

Baseball players

• Barry Bonds (Rookie of the Year[?], Moment of Truth: Broken Pledges)
• Bobby Bonilla[?] (Rookie of the Year)
• Don Drysdale[?] (Flashing Spikes, Gypsy Angels, The Last Time I Saw Archie)
• Reggie Jackson (The Naked Gun, Richie Rich[?])
• Babe Ruth (Babe Comes Home[?], Heading Home[?], Pride of the Yankees[?])

Basketball players

• Larry Bird (Blue Chips[?], Celtic Pride, Space Jam)
• Bob Cousy[?] (Blue Chips)
• Michael Finley[?] (Like Mike)
• Rick Fox[?] (Blue Chips[?], The Collectors, Eddie[?], He Got Game[?], Holes[?], Resurrection, A Simple Wish)
• Anfernee Hardaway[?] (Blue Chips)
• Kareem Abdul Jabbar (Airplane!)
• Michael Jordan (Space Jam[?])
• Allen Iverson[?] (Like Mike, One Love)
• Jason Kidd[?] (Like Mike)
• Gheorghe Muresan[?] (My Giant[?])
• Dirk Nowitski[?] (Like Mike)
• Shaquille O' Neal (Blue Chips[?], Kazaam, Freddy Got Fingered[?], One Love[?], Steel[?], The Wash, Good Burger)

Boxers

• Muhammad Ali (The Greatest (as himself),Freedom Road, The Rumble in the Jungle)
• Mark Breland[?] (The Boys Behind the Desk, He Got Game[?], Hell's Kitchen, La Bomba, The Lords of Discipline[?], Summer of Sam[?])
• Vito Antuofermo (The Godfather 3[?], Goodfellas, Loser, The Mouse, New York Cop)
• Alexis Arguello (Cat Chaser, Fists of Steel[?])
• Cantinflas
• Primo Carnera (Casanova's Big Night[?], Hercules and the Queen of Sheba, A Kid for Two Farthings, Mighty Joe Young[?], Prince Valiant)
• Marvin Hagler (Cyberflic, Indio[?])
• Bob Hope
• Vladimir Klitschko[?] (Ocean's Eleven)
• Jake LaMotta (Blue Vengeance, Confessions of a Psycho Cat, Ex-Americans, House in Naples, The Hustler, Firepower, Raging Bull (as himself), Hangmen, Maniac Cop, Mob War, Rebellion in Cuba, Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name?)
• Lennox Lewis (Ocean's Eleven, Shottas)
• Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini (Aces: Iron Eagle III, Amazing Stories: Book Three, Backstreet Dreams, Body and Soul, Bullet, Deadly Bet, The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission, The Girl Gets Moe, The Mouse, Mutants in Paradise, Oceans of Fire, Opposite Corners, The Search for One-eye Jimmy, Timebomb, Turn of Faith, Wishful Thinking)
• Carlos Monzón[?] (Amigos para la aventura, Il Conto è chiuso, Los Hijos de López, Un Loco en acción, Las Locuras del profesor, El Macho, La Mary, Soñar, soñar)
• Tommy Morrison (Rocky V)
• Ken Norton (Delta Pi, Dirty Work, Drum, Frog and Wombat, Kiss and Be Killed, Mandingo, Oceans of Fire, Top of the Heap)
• Ossie Ocasio
• Ruben Olivares (Las Glorias del gran Púas, Llanto, risas y nocaut, Ni Chana, ni Juana, Nosotros los feos, Nosotros los pelados, La Pulquería, La Pulquería ataca de nuevo, Se sufre pero se goza, El Secuestro de los cien millones)
• Jorge Páez[?] (Dirty Money, Pelo suelto[?], Zapatos viejos)
• Carlos Palomino (Criminal Hearts, Dance of the Dwarfs, Death Match, Detonator, Die Watching, Fists of Steel[?], Geronimo: An American Legend, If... Dog... Rabbit, It's Alive III: Island of the Alive, Legal Tender, My Samurai, Nasty Hero, One Clean Move, Price of Glory, Rampage, Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!, Strangers Kiss[?], Timebomb)
• Salvador Sanchez (The Last Fight[?]) (Note on Salvador Sanchez: There is another Salvador Sanchez[?], one who is a very famous actor in Mexico and was not the boxer.)
• Michael Spinks (Speed Zone!, Cannonball Run 2[?])
• Gene Tunney (Fighting Marine)

Football players

• Bret Favre[?] (There's Something About Mary[?])
• Dan Marino (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective[?])
• Joe Namath[?] (Avalanche Express, C.C. and Company, Chattanooga Choo Choo, Going Under, Green Visionary, The Last Rebel, Norwood)
• OJ Simpson (Back to the Beach, Capricorn One, The Cassandra Crossing[?], CIA Code Name: Alexa, Firepower, Hambone and Hillie, Killer Force, The Klansman, The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, No Place to Hide, Roots, The Towering Inferno, Why))
• Bubba Smith[?] (the Police Academy[?] series)
• Carl Weathers[?] (Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Predator, Action Jackson[?])

Ice hockey players

• Cam Neely[?] (Dumb and Dumber[?], Me, Myself, and Irene[?], What's the Worst That Could Happen?)
• Brendan Shanahan[?] (Forrest Gump, Me, Myself, and Irene[?])
• Wayne Gretzky in D2: The Mighty Ducks[?]

Martial artists

• Bruce Lee
• Chuck Norris
• Jet Li
• Jackie Chan
• Sammo Hung
• Don Wilson[?]
• Donnie Yen[?]

Soccer players

• Eric Cantona (Le Bonheur est dans le Pré, Elizabeth, Les Enfants du marais, La Grande vie!, Mookie, L’Outremangeur)
• Vinnie Jones[?] (The Big Bounce, Blast!, The Filthy War, Gone in Sixty Seconds[?], Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Mean Machine, Night at the Golden Eagle, Poolhall Prophets, Rebel Yell, Red Light Runners, [Snatch]], Swordfish[?], Tooth)
• Pelé Victory[?]

Swimmers

• Buster Crabbe (Tarzan, Flash Gordon)
• Johnny Weissmuller (12 Tarzan movies)

Wrestlers

• Primo Carnera
• Hulk Hogan[?] (No Holds Barred[?], Rocky III, Mr. Nanny[?], and many others)
• Andre the Giant (The Princess Bride)
• Roddy Piper[?]
• Razor Ramon[?]
• The Rock (The Mummy Returns[?], The Scorpion King[?])

Other athletes

• Michael Johnson[?] (The Master of Disguise[?])