Howard Cosell

AKA:
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1918-03-25

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

Biography

Crew Roles

Run To Daylight
Producer
The Polo Grounds: Requiem for an Arena
Producer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {48}

Himself - Announcer

1973-02-14 5.3

The World's Greatest Athlete

Stuck with a feeble sports department, college coach Sam Archer (John Amos) faces the ax unless he can reverse the school's athletic fortunes. An African vacation with his assistant (Tim Conway) answe ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

Self (archive footage)

2021-01-01 0

Ron Lyle

Ron Lyle A look back at Ron Lyle, a convicted murderer who upon his release from prison, was able to rebuild his life and become one of the top heavyweight contenders in the 1970s. Lyle would fight Mu ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1989-01-29 0

Monday Night Madness

For two decades, Monday Night Football has brought color, candor, controversy and non-stop action to 20 million homes every week. Monday Night Madness captures all of it in a thrilling 48 minutes feat ...
Genre :

The Storyteller

1972-02-28 0

Fol-de-Rol

A filmed version of Sid and Marty Krofft's 1968 live puppet show, set at a medieval fair. The special was a pilot for a weekly series. ...
Genre :Family, TV Movie

Host

1976-04-24 0

Wide World of Sports 15th Anniversary Special

ABC's Wide World of Sports host Jim McKay sets out to travel to the various locations. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Documentary

Host

1979-12-29 0

Wide World of Sports: 1970's A Decade in Review

ABC's Wide World of Sports hosts Jim McKay and Howard Cossell take a look back on the decade in this wrap-up of the top sports stories of the 1970s. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Documentary

Commentator

1973-09-20 4

Bobby Riggs vs. Billie Jean King: Tennis Battle of the Sexes

In the national limelight Bobby Riggs taunted all female tennis players, prompting Billie Jean King to accept a lucrative financial offer to play Riggs in a nationally televised match that the promote ...
Genre :TV Movie, Documentary

Ernie / Narrator

1986-01-20 0

Casey at the Bat

Down-on-his-luck baseball player Casey Frank (Elliott Gould) follows his dreams to become the biggest star in the game. ...
Genre :Family

Himself (archive footage)

2009-10-27 6.5

Muhammad and Larry

In October of 1980 Muhammad Ali was preparing to fight for an unprecedented fourth heavyweight title against his friend and former sparring partner Larry Holmes. To say that the great Ali was in the t ...
Genre :Documentary

Self (archive footage)

2011-10-25 6.119

The Real Rocky

Chuck Wepner is a liquor salesman from Bayonne, N.J., who drives a Cadillac with “Champ” vanity plates. A former New Jersey State Heavyweight Boxing Champion, he took abuse from Sonny Liston, got his ...
Genre :Documentary

Self - Host

1974-10-13 6.7

Frank Sinatra: The Main Event

Charged with the electricity of a heavyweight prizefight, " The Main Event " was filmed live at Madison Square Garden, a venue usually reserved for sporting events and rock 'n' roll concerts. Sinatrra ...
Genre :Music, Documentary, TV Movie

Self

1990-05-21 4

Night of 100 Stars III

A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, TV Movie, Documentary

1982-11-26 0

Larry Holmes vs. Randall 'Tex' Cobb

Larry Holmes defends his WBC heavyweight crown for the 13th time from challenger Randall 'Tex' Cobb on November 26th, 1982 at Houston's Astrodome. Larry's record at the time of the fight was 40 wins t ...
Genre :

Self

1981-06-12 0

Larry Holmes vs. Leon Spinks

Larry Holmes defends his WBC heavyweight crown for the 10th time from challenger Leon Spinks on June 12th, 1981 at Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, Michigan. Larry's record at the time of the fight was 37 wi ...
Genre :Documentary

1981-11-06 0

Larry Holmes vs. Renaldo Snipes

Larry Holmes defends his WBC heavyweight crown for the 11th time from challenger Renaldo Snipes on November 6th, 1981 at Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Larry's record at the time of the fight ...
Genre :

Howard Cosell

1980-12-07 5

Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier

Based on Bleier's 1975 autobiography of the same name, it tells the story of how, after becoming a running back for the Steelers in 1968, he was then drafted by the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, TV Movie

Self

1996-10-25 7.556

When We Were Kings

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himsel ...
Genre :Documentary, TV Movie, History, Music

Himself

1971-04-28 6.687

Bananas

When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion. ...
Genre :Comedy

Self-(Audience Member)

1971-03-08 0

Fight of the Century

Legendary boxing match between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali in Madison Square Garden on March 8, 1971. ...
Genre :Documentary, TV Movie

Self

1989-01-01 0

The Billy Martin Celebrity Roast

The famed baseball player and manager gets the gagged filled joke treatment. ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

1974-12-28 4.8

O.J. Simpson: Juice on the Loose

An independently produced sports documentary on the career of O.J. Simpson, (#32) the upcoming running back for the Buffalo Bills football team. ...
Genre :Documentary, TV Movie

Himself

1973-02-27 0

The Connection

An out-of-work newspaperman in need of money becomes the go-between for a jewel thief and an insurance company that wants to settle. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, TV Movie

Self - Roastee (archive footage)

1998-01-01 5

The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

Video series spotlighting memorable moments and roasts hosted by Dean Martin. "Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts" were periodic specials aired in the 1970s and 1980s, which roasted (or honored) such stars ...
Genre :Comedy

Himself

1988-03-22 4.5

Johnny Be Good

It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or s ...
Genre :Comedy

Howard Cosell

1976-11-12 6.2

Two-Minute Warning

A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly and the SWAT commander, learn of the plot an ...
Genre :Action, Thriller

Self

1982-03-08 6.7

Night of 100 Stars

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers pa ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, TV Movie, Documentary

Self (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)

2022-07-15 6

McEnroe

Legendary "bad boy of tennis" John McEnroe finally tells his side of his storied career and famously hot-tempered performances on the court in this engrossing documentary revisiting the record-setting ...
Genre :Documentary

Howard Cosell

1973-01-02 0

The 500 Pound Jerk

An advertising man's dream of turning a huge hillbilly into an Olympic weightlifting champion is set back when the hillbilly falls for a Russian gymnast. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, TV Movie

Self

1994-07-15 0

Monday Night Football: 25th Anniversary

In September 1970, ABC Sports started a revolution that became an American Institution. Now, 25 seasons later, the beginning of every autumn work week is much easier to handle. The 25th Anniversary of ...
Genre :Documentary

1999-11-01 0

Howard Cosell: Telling It Like It Is

The famous sportscaster is recalled by his colleagues. ...
Genre :

1971-08-01 6.5

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour is an American variety show starring American pop-singer Cher and her husband, Sonny Bono. The show ran on CBS in the United States, when it premiered in August 1971. The ...
Genre :Comedy

Howard Cosell

1970-09-24 7.8

The Odd Couple

Felix and Oscar are two divorced men. Felix is neat and tidy while Oscar is sloppy and casual. They share a Manhattan apartment, and their different lifestyles inevitably lead to conflicts. ...
Genre :Comedy

1976-11-13 6

Battle of the Network Stars

Battle of the Network Stars was a series of competitions where television stars from ABC, CBS, and NBC would compete in various sporting events. A total of nineteen of these competitions were held, al ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

1968-01-22 6.6

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

An American sketch comedy television program hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin. ...
Genre :Comedy

1965-09-16 7.3

The Dean Martin Show

The Dean Martin Show, also known as The Dean Martin Variety Show, is a TV variety-comedy series that ran from 1965 to 1974 for 264 episodes. It was broadcast by NBC and hosted by entertainer Dean Mart ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

1970-09-17 4.6

The Flip Wilson Show

The Flip Wilson Show is an hour long variety show that aired in the U.S. on NBC from September 17, 1970 to June 27, 1974. The show starred American comedian Flip Wilson; the program was one of the fir ...
Genre :Comedy

Self - Host

1975-10-11 6.955

Saturday Night Live

A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying ...
Genre :Comedy, News

Self

1973-09-14 5.4

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts is a NBC television special show hosted by entertainer Dean Martin from 1974 to 1984. For a series of 54 specials and shows, Martin would periodically "roast" a celebr ...
Genre :Comedy

1975-09-20 1

Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell

Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell is an American television comedy-variety program that ran on ABC from September 1975 to January 1976, hosted by Howard Cosell and executive-produced by Roone Arl ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

1992-08-31 5

Vicki!

Singer-actress Vicki Lawrence hosted this talk and entertainment show. ...
Genre :Talk

Self

1962-10-01 7.466

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carso ...
Genre :Talk

Self

1961-12-11 5.4

The Mike Douglas Show

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went in ...
Genre :Comedy, Talk

Ernie

1985-09-25 5.4

Tall Tales & Legends

An anthology series that showcases various mythical characters and incidents throughout history. ...
Genre :Family, Kids, Comedy, Drama

Self (archive footage)

2019-05-14 7.3

What's My Name | Muhammad Ali

Explore Ali’s challenges, confrontations, comebacks and triumphs through recordings of his own voice. The two-part documentary paints an intimate portrait of a man who was a beacon of hope for oppress ...
Genre :Documentary

Self - Guest

1968-06-06 6.8

The Dick Cavett Show

The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks. ...
Genre :Talk

Self - Host

1970-09-21 0

Monday Night Football

Howard Cosell hosted the first instalment of Monday Night Football. ...
Genre :

1970-09-21 0

Monday Night Football

Howard Cosell hosted the first instalment of Monday Night Football. ...
Genre :

Howard Cosell

1970-09-25 6.817

The Partridge Family

The Partridge Family is an American television sitcom series about a widowed mother and her five children who embark on a music career. ...
Genre :Comedy, Family