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The Jesse Owens Story (1984)
Directed by Richard Irving
“Based on the inspiring true story”
Drama, History, TV Movie · 2h 54m
The Jesse Owens Story is a biographical film about the black athlete Jesse Owens. Dorian Harewood plays the Olympic gold-winning athlete. The drama won a 1985 Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for two more.
Cast
Dorian Harewood
Jesse Owens
D
Dan Ammerman
Coach Robertson
Tom Bosley
Jimmy Hoffa
Georg Stanford Brown
Lew Gilbert
LeVar Burton
Professor Preston
Ronny Cox
Coach Larry Snyder
Norman Fell
Marty Forkins
George Kennedy
Charles 'Charley' Riley
Vic Tayback
Abe Saperstein
Barry Corbin
Judge
Chris Douridas
Jerome
Lynn Hamilton
Mamma Solomon
Crew
- Director
- Richard Irving
- Writer
- Harold Gast
- Director of Photography
- Charles Correll
- Original Music Composer
- Michel Legrand
- Editor
- Richard Bracken, Robert F. Shugrue
- Producer
- Harold Gast
Details
- Release date
- 1984-07-09
- Runtime
- 2h 54m
- Genres
- Drama, History, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Harve Bennett Productions, Paramount Television