Jack Dempsey
Also Known As: William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey, William Harrison Dempsey
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey (June 24, 1895 – May 31, 1983), nicknamed "Kid Blackie" and "The Manassa Mauler", was an American professional boxer who competed from 1914 to 1927, and reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1919 to 1926. A cultural icon of the 1920s, Dempsey's aggressive fighting style and exceptional punching power made him one of the most popular boxers in history. Many of his fights set financial and attendance records, including the first million-dollar gate. Dempsey is ranked as tenth on The Ring magazine's list of all-time heavyweights and seventh among its Top 100 Greatest Punchers, while in 1950 the Associated Press voted him as the greatest fighter of the past 50 years. He is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, and was inducted into The Ring's Boxing Hall of Fame in 1951.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Manassa, Colorado, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 24, 1895
Age: 129 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 31, 1983
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Mr. Broadway
Overview: Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-12
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Sweet Surrender
Overview: Anti-war propaganda musical set on an ocean liner.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-01
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Off Limits
Overview: Wally Hogan has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley, a fighter who has just won the lightweight championship. However, life suddenly takes a not-so-happy turn when Bullet gets drafted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-30
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A Dozen Socks
Overview: A poor sap tries to impress his girl by fighting the great boxing champion Jack Dempsey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-12
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Overview: Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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The Battle of the Century
Overview: The released version of the championship boxing match between Jack Dempsey vs Georges Carpentier from July 2, 1921.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-02
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Will He Conquer Dempsey?
Overview: A profile of boxer Luis Firpo, who challenged Jack Dempsey for the Heavyweight Championship of the World.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-23
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Damn Citizen
Overview: Louisiana's governor asks war hero Francis C. Grevemberg (Keith Andes) to lead the state police against corruption.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-01
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Sports on the Silver Screen
Overview: HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties. Watch not for dramatic scenes but for the glimpse of historical figures shown both cinematic and athletic- in this tribute to the merging of sports and Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-16
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Ways to Strength and Beauty
Overview: The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training and shows in stylized documentary scenes aspects of physical hygiene, gymnastics, sports and dancing as well as scenes in which supposed sportsmen of antiquity pose naked.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-03-16
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The Prizefighter and the Lady
Overview: An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-10
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Requiem for a Heavyweight
Overview: Mountain Rivera is a veteran heavyweight and near-champion who suddenly finds himself washed up in the only trade he knows—prizefighting. Yet, threatened by gangsters for welshing on a gambling debt, Mountain’s opportunistic manager, Maish Rennick, schemes to get the ex-boxer into a phony wrestling match to make some quick money. Although he and his loyal trainer, Army, oppose the degrading proposition, the disillusioned Mountain begins to wonder if he has any options left.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-16
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Stars Over Broadway
Overview: An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-23
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Babe Ruth: The Man, the Myth, the Legend
Overview: Mel Allen hosts this look at Babe Ruth's life and career, focusing primarily on Ruth's years with the New York Yankees.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-25
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The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
Overview: Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey stars in this 15 chapter action serial, of which portions of reels 1, 2, and 4 survive. In the serial he plays the star fullback of his college's football team who gets drawn into an adventure when he stops to rescue a young woman from some thugs on a country road. It includes a gag featuring an exploding football. The rest of the cast includes Lon Chaney, Edgar Kennedy, Bull Montana, Josie Sedgwick and Herschel Mayall.
Genres: Action Adventure Mystery Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-30
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The Golden Twenties
Overview: Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-08
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Fight of the Century
Overview: Legendary boxing match between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali in Madison Square Garden on March 8, 1971.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-08
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Kings of The Ring - History of Heavyweight Boxing 1919-1990
Overview: The BBC produced “Kings of The Ring – History of Heavyweight Boxing 1919-1990” celebrates boxing’s marquee division. Comprehensive and nonjudgmental, it begins with Jess Willard’s victory over Jack Johnson in Cuba and runs through the Mike Tyson era.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Big City
Overview: Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-03
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Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Overview: The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and 1919.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Tender Hearted Tiger: Max Baer
Overview: A documentary film about the life and career of one-time Heavyweight boxing champion of the world Max Baer.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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The Birth of a Champion
Overview: In this “GI Movie Weekly” from Fistic Film (likely from 1939), viewers are treated to the historic fight on 4 July 1919 in Toledo, OH, where young boxer Jack Dempsey faced off against the World Heavyweight Champion Jess Willard. The film opens with a few highlights from 1919, including a young Prince of Wales observing the surrender of the German Fleet, Theodore Roosevelt speaking to an audience shortly before his death, and Babe Ruth posing in his New York Yankees jersey.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-26
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All's Swell on the Ocean
Overview: Homesick for America, Jack and his pals get aboard a ship U. S.-bound disguised as entertainers. As entertainers they're flops, but evoke considerable mirth among the passengers by their efforts. Jack arouses the jealousy of a Frenchman, who is keen on a young French girl, and is challenged to a fight. The Frenchman fights a la Savatte (the French method, including kicking, bucking, etc.) and is getting the better of Jack, until the latter dons a pair of hobnailed brogans. He consents to remove these if his adversary will put boxing gloves on his feet. The Frenchman gets seasick and is counted out as he leans over the rail, where he is soon joined by Jack.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-18
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