List of athletes in film

This is a partial list of athletes who have participated in movies and, when possible, the movies they have been a part of.

American football players

*Brian Bosworth ("Stone Cold", "One Tough Bastard", "Spill", "Blackout" (also known as "A. K. A." or "Midnight Heat"), "Back in Business", "Three Kings", "The Operative", "Phase IV", "Mach 2", "The Longest Yard")
*Jim Brown ("The Dirty Dozen", "Ice Station Zebra", "The Running Man", "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka", "Original Gangstas", "Mars Attacks!", "He Got Game", "Any Given Sunday", many others)
*Brett Favre ("There's Something About Mary")
*Alex Karras ("Blazing Saddles", "Porky's", "Paper Lion", "Victor/Victoria")
*Dan Marino ("", "Little Nicky", "Bad Boys II")
*John Matuszak ("Caveman")
*Joe Namath ("Avalanche Express", "C.C. and Company", "Chattanooga Choo Choo", "Going Under", "Green Visionary", "The Last Rebel", "Norwood")
*Ray Nitschke ("The Longest Yard")
*O.J. Simpson ("Back to the Beach", "Capricorn One", "The Cassandra Crossing", "", "Firepower", "Hambone and Hillie", "Killer Force", "The Klansman", "The Naked Gun" trilogy, "No Place to Hide", "Roots", "The Towering Inferno", "Why")
*Bubba Smith (the "Police Academy" series)
*Lawrence Taylor ("The Waterboy", "Any Given Sunday", "In Hell")
*Carl Weathers ("Rocky", "Rocky II", "Rocky III", "Rocky IV", "Predator", "Action Jackson")
*Deion Sanders ("Celtic Pride")

Baseball players

*Barry Bonds ("Rookie of the Year", "")
*Bobby Bonilla ("Rookie of the Year")
*Don Drysdale ("Flashing Spikes", "Gypsy Angels", "The Last Time I Saw Archie")
*Reggie Jackson ("", "Richie Rich", "BASEketball")
*Babe Ruth ("Babe Comes Home", "Heading Home", "Pride of the Yankees")
*Roger Clemens ("Kingpin")
*Hank Aaron ("Summer Catch")
*Deion Sanders ("Celtic Pride")
*Adam Quinton Howard ("Future All-Star"}

Basketball players

*Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ("Airplane!", "Game of Death")
*Charles Barkley ("Space Jam")
*Larry Bird ("Blue Chips", "Celtic Pride", "Space Jam")
*Shawn Bradley ("Space Jam")
*Muggsy Bogues ("Space Jam")
*Kobe Bryant ("1 Love")
*Bob Cousy ("Blue Chips", "Celtic Pride")
*Vlade Divac ("Eddie", "Space Jam", "Juwanna Mann")
*Patrick Ewing ("Space Jam")
*Michael Finley ("Like Mike")
*Rick Fox ("Blue Chips", "The Collectors", "Eddie", "He Got Game", "Holes", "Resurrection", "A Simple Wish")
*Steve Francis ("Like Mike")
*Anfernee Hardaway ("Blue Chips")
*Larry Hughes ("1 Love")
*Allen Iverson ("Like Mike", "1 Love")
*Larry Johnson ("Space Jam")
*Michael Jordan ("Space Jam")
*Jason Kidd ("Like Mike")
*Tracy McGrady ("Like Mike")
*Darius Miles ("The Perfect Score")
*Alonzo Mourning ("Like Mike")
*Gheorghe Mureşan ("My Giant")
*Steve Nash ("Like Mike")
*Dirk Nowitzki ("Like Mike")
*Shaquille O'Neal ("Blue Chips", "Kazaam", "Freddy Got Fingered", "1 Love", "Steel", "The Wash", "Good Burger", "Scary Movie 4")
*Gary Payton ("Like Mike")
*Jason Richardson ("Like Mike")
*David Robinson ("Like Mike")
*Dennis Rodman ("Eddie", "Double Team", "Simon Sez")
*Jerry Stackhouse ("1 Love")
*Rasheed Wallace ("Like Mike")
*Bill Walton ("Celtic Pride")
*Chris Webber ("Like Mike")8Adam Quinton Howard ("Strait Monster")

Boxers

*Muhammad Ali ("The Greatest" (as himself), "Freedom Road", "The Rumble in the Jungle", When We Were Kings (as himself))
*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 Part 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")
*George Foreman ("When We Were Kings" (as himself))
*Marvin Hagler ("Cyberflic", "Indio")
*Bob Hope
*Wladimir 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 (', ', "Backstreet Dreams", "Body and Soul", "Bullet", "Deadly Bet", "", "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", ', "If... Dog... Rabbit", ', "Legal Tender", "My Samurai", "Nasty Hero", "One Clean Move", "Price of Glory", "Rampage", "Silent Night", "", "Strangers Kiss", "Timebomb")
*Salvador Sanchez ("The Last Fight")
*Michael Spinks ("Speed Zone!", "Cannonball Run 2")
*Gene Tunney ("Fighting Marine")

=Football 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, X-Men 3, Tooth)
*Pelé (Escape to Victory)

Ice hockey players

*Phil Esposito – "Mystery, Alaska" (as himself)
*Paul Kariya ""
*Wayne Gretzky ""
*Marty McSorley ("Bad Boys", "Forget Paris", "Con Air", "Do Me a Favor")
*Mike Modano ("The Mighty Ducks")
*Cam Neely ("Dumb and Dumber", "Me, Myself and Irene", "What's the Worst That Could Happen?")
*Brendan Shanahan ("Forrest Gump", "Me, Myself and Irene")
*Basil McRae ("The Mighty Ducks")

Martial artists

*Bruce Lee
*Chuck Norris
*Jet Li
*Jackie Chan
*Sammo Hung
*Don Wilson
*Donnie Yen

Rugby Union players

*Gareth Edwards ("Old Scores")
*Phil Bennett ("Old Scores")
*Barry John ("Old Scores")
*Waka Nathan ("Old Scores")
*Alex Wyllie ("Old Scores")

wimmers

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

Wrestlers

*Sting ("Ready to Rumble")
*Primo Carnera
*Diamond Dallas Page ("Ready to Rumble")
*Bill Goldberg ("Ready to Rumble") ("The Longest Yard")
*Hulk Hogan ("No Holds Barred", "Rocky III", "Mr. Nanny", and many others)
*André the Giant ("The Princess Bride")
*Roddy Piper ("They Live")
*Scott Hall
*Kevin Nash ("Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze") ("The Punisher", "Grandma's Boy") ("The Longest Yard")
*Triple H ("Blade: Trinity")
*The Rock ("The Mummy Returns", "The Scorpion King", "The Rundown", "Walking Tall' (2004 remake), "Doom")
*Stone Cold Steve Austin ("The Longest Yard", "The Condemned")
*"Macho Man" Randy Savage ("Ready to Rumble", "Spider-Man" (film))
*Booker T ("Ready to Rumbl"e)
*Rey Mysterio, Jr. ("Ready to Rumble")
*Kane ("See No Evil")

Other athletes

*Michael Johnson ("The Master of Disguise")

ee also

*List of sportsmen
*List of movies
*List of films based on sports books