24-06-1895
Birthday
Cancer
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William Harrison Dempsey
Also known as (male)
Manassa, Colorado, USA
Place of Birth
24-06-1895
Birthday
Cancer
Zodiac Sign
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Genres
23
Total Films
William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey, William Harrison Dempsey
Also Known As (male)
Manassa, Colorado, USA
Place of Birth
actor
23 Works
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Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and 1919.Year:
1998
Sports on the Silver Screen
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.Year:
1997
Kings of The Ring - History of Heavyweight Boxing 1919-1990
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.Year:
1995
Babe Ruth: The Man, the Myth, the Legend
Mel Allen hosts this look at Babe Ruth's life and career, focusing primarily on Ruth's years with the New York Yankees.Year:
1990
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
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.Year:
1983
Fight of the Century
Legendary boxing match between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali in Madison Square Garden on March 8, 1971.Year:
1971
Tender Hearted Tiger: Max Baer
A documentary film about the life and career of one-time Heavyweight boxing champion of the world Max Baer.Year:
1964
Requiem for a Heavyweight
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.Year:
1962
Damn Citizen
Louisiana's governor asks war hero Francis C. Grevemberg (Keith Andes) to lead the state police against corruption.Year:
1958
Off Limits
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.Year:
1952
The Golden Twenties
Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.Year:
1950
The Birth of a Champion
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.Year:
1939
Big City
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.Year:
1937
Sweet Surrender
Anti-war propaganda musical set on an ocean liner.Year:
1935
Stars Over Broadway
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.Year:
1935
The Prizefighter and the Lady
An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.Year:
1933
Mr. Broadway
Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.Year:
1933
A Dozen Socks
A poor sap tries to impress his girl by fighting the great boxing champion Jack Dempsey.Year:
1927
Ways to Strength and Beauty
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.Year:
1925
All's Swell on the Ocean
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.Year:
1924
Will He Conquer Dempsey?
A profile of boxer Luis Firpo, who challenged Jack Dempsey for the Heavyweight Championship of the World.Year:
1923
The Battle of the Century
The released version of the championship boxing match between Jack Dempsey vs Georges Carpentier from July 2, 1921.Year:
1921
The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
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.Year:
1920
