The Champion and the Vampire

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  1. edward morbius

    edward morbius Boxing Addict Full Member

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    no.
     
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  2. CANNONBALL

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    Frank Moran starred in "The Return of the Ape Man" with Bela Lugosi in 1944
     
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  3. edward morbius

    edward morbius Boxing Addict Full Member

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    This is true, but he was never champion.
     
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  4. Chaney

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    They weren't in a film together, but Muhammed Ali was a big fan of old horror movies. (I suppose they were current when he watched them!)

    When he met Christopher Lee, he wanted Lee to give him the 'Dracula stare'. Lee said "There's no way I'm giving the Heavyweight Champion of the world a menacing look!"

    But Ali insisted, and the two tall men faced off. Ali feigned terror, then burst out laughing.

    Ali went on to do Lee a huge favour by mentioning him in a post fight interview (was it the Wepner bout?) while Lee was promoting his latest movie.

    Lee was watching the bout in the Playboy mansion with various celebrities. George Foreman was present and he asked Lee "How the hell did you do that?"
     
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  5. edward morbius

    edward morbius Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Oh, right. I will give another clue.

    The vampire movie is generally considered a classic film.



    (I am using classic in the sense of a great, not just old, film)
     
    edward morbius, Sep 19, 2011
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  6. hhascup

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    I didn't know this was a trivia question until a few minutes ago. I'm not sure if this is what your looking for but Max Schmeling played in the same film as Max Shreck (& Otto Wernicke) called the "Knock-Out."

    An oft-told legend is that Schreck's otherworldly performance as Nosferatu was due to the fact that he was in reality a vampire. Actor Willem Dafoe portrayed Max Shreck as such, playing the vampire Count Orlok in Shadow of the Vampire (2000).
     
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  7. El Bujia

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    Who did Pitt play in The Fighter?
     
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  8. young griffo

    young griffo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    This must be it as I scoured the IMDB site looking for movies featuring Max Schmeling,Jack Sharkey and Joe Louis that featured Bela Lugosi (looks like I was barking up the wrong tree on the vampire actor though) and came up with nothing.

    I've never heard of Schreck before but he sounds interesting, I'll wiki him a bit later.:good
     
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  9. edward morbius

    edward morbius Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yes. That is correct. And congratulations.

    Max Shreck was Count Orlock the Vampire in the classic film NOSFERATU (1922).

    We know poor old Max was not a vampire, but a rather ordinary character actor. His big role was almost unseen during his lifetime as Bram Stoker's widow sued to have the film destroyed as the director, the great F W Murnau, filmed a story very similar to the copyrighted Dracula story, but with some significant differences. Mrs Stoker, however, won her case. All this kept the film out of circulation until the sixties, when it suddenly became internationally famous.

    Shreck's career, however, petered out and he was reduced to small roles, as in Knockout, (1935), which starred Schmeling and his wifie, Anny.

    I wonder how Schreck would react if he knew that his name is now well remembered by film buffs and horror movie fans. He died in relative obscurity in 1936. Besides the vampire legend, there was a belief for many years that there had been no actor named Max Schreck, but that the role had been played by Conrad Veidt or Alfred Abel using the alias of Max Schreck.

    Congrats again Mr Hascup, as I think this was a fairly tough one.
     
    edward morbius, Sep 20, 2011
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  10. hhascup

    hhascup Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yea, it was a fairly tough one!

    I got into this one a little late but I know there approx. 2 dozen Heavyweight Champions that were in movies, and Max was one of the most famous fighters of the 20th century. I also knew Max Schreck was a famous actor from Germany who played a Vampire, so with a little research I just put 2 and 2 together and came up with the answer.

    Good one!
     
    hhascup, Sep 20, 2011
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