List of athletes in movies

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

• 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)
• Bob Cousy (Blue Chips, Celtic Pride)
• Vlade Divac (Space Jam)
• 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)
• Allen Iverson (Like Mike, One 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 Muresan (My Giant)
• Steve Nash (Like Mike)
• Dirk Nowitzki (Like Mike)
• Shaquille O'Neal (Blue Chips, Kazaam, Freddy Got Fingered, One Love, Steel, The Wash, Good Burger)
• Gary Payton (Like Mike)
• Jason Richardson (Like Mike)
• David Robinson (Like Mike)
• Rasheed Wallace (Like Mike)
• Bill Walton (Celtic Pride)
• Chris Webber (Like Mike)

Boxers

• Muhammad Ali (The Greatest (as himself),Freedom Road, The Rumble in the Jungle, When We Were Kings)
• 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)
• George Foreman (When We Were Kings)
• 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

• 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)
• Dan Marino (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective)
• 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)
• 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 trilogy, No Place to Hide, Roots, The Towering Inferno, Why)
• Bubba Smith (the Police Academy series)
• Lawrence Taylor (The Waterboy, Any Given Sunday)
• Carl Weathers (Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Predator, Action Jackson)

Ice hockey players

• Wayne Gretzky in
• Mike Modano in 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)

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)
• André the Giant (The Princess Bride)
• Roddy Piper (They Live)
• Scott Hall
• Kevin Nash (The Punisher; to be released in 2004)
• Paul Levesque (Triple H) (Blade: Trinity; to be released in 2004)
• The Rock (The Mummy Returns, The Scorpion King, The Rundown)

Other athletes

• Michael Johnson (The Master of Disguise)

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