Greatest Boxer Actors...

I know Kid McCoy was in several films. Do any clips of him acting survive?

 

Anyway the P4P greatest boxer and actor is clearly Saint Primo Carnera

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Gary Stretch who fought Chris Eubank and retired 29-1 has been in numerous films

 

Carlos Palomino - Geronimo, White Shadow

Archie Moore - great fight scene between he and Charles Bronson atop a train in Breakheart Pass

Wilhelm Von Homburg - Die Hard, also saw some clips of him recently in a German movie where he had some good lines. He was actually pretty good.

 

Freddie Mills showed he could do drama in Emergency Call and comedy in a couple of Carry On films.

He looked very natural acting onscreen.

 

Brings back such fond memories of my youth, many thanks buddy.

 

Von Homburg was also Vigo the Carpathian in Ghostbusters and Charles Macum Diggs in Diggstown. He had a striking appearance. He was also a horrible human being by all accounts (there’s a story detailing this if you google it).

I was watching a Law & Order rerun (had one of those marathons on while working at home as background ‘noise’) and I look up and say ‘That’s Saoul Mamby!!!’ Looked it up and it was.

Jack Palance, previously mentioned, is up there. I’d say Mickey Roark but at least a few of his pro fights were clearly fixed, although he did apparently have something of an amateur background fighting out of the 5th Street Gym in Miami, I think. (Or so he claimed, haha.)

But to me there’s only one true winner here and it’s Randall “Tex” Cobb, who had some very memorable supporting actor roles (‘Raising Arizona’ being the best IMO) and made a bit of a living on the big and small screen while also being a true heavyweight contender and fighting for the world title.

 

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Quite possibly the greatest acting from a boxer. Rocky Lockridge's cry is legendary.

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Similarly, Irish boxer John Duddy, like Gary a bit of a looker, is going great guns in his acting career. Last I saw he was in theatre in the States.

Some guys just have the lot, don't they?

 

I think I saw Mamby in a TV movie called “The Stand”. It was a tense movie. I think he played a street tough

 

All these posts and nobody has mentioned Tex Cobb?

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The guy had a 20 year acting career during and after boxing.

He was awesome in Raising Arizona

 

He was absolutely dreadful.

He definitely didn't miss his vocation in life!

 

Tony Burton.

 

Max Baer Sr was in 1956's The Harder They Fall, starring Humphrey Bogard and Rod Steiger. Muhammad Ali was in Requiem For A Heavyweight in 1962, starring Anthony Quinn and Mickey Rooney. Also Ali was in The Greatest 1977. Buddy Baer was in an episode of Gunsmoke, he fought and lost to Marshall Matt Dillon. Sonny Liston was in the motion picture Head, starring The Monkees in 1968.