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Howard Cosell

Actor
Born March 25, 1918Died April 23, 1995 (77 years)
Howard William Cosell was an American sports journalist and author, who was prominent and influential on radio, television and print media from the early 1960s into the mid 1980s. He was also an actor who played minor roles in several TV programs and movies. Cosell was widely known for his blustery, confident personality. Cosell said of himself, "Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. There's no question that I'm all of those things." In its obituary for Cosell, The New York Times described Cosell's effect on American sports coverage: "He entered sports broadcasting in the mid-1950s, when the predominant style was unabashed adulation, [and] offered a brassy counterpoint that was first ridiculed, then copied until it became the dominant note of sports broadcasting."

Filmography

2025
2022
McEnroe · as Self (voice) (archive Footage) (uncredited)
2021
All Madden · as Self
2021
Ron Lyle · as Self (archive Footage)
2021
Citizen Ashe · as Self
2021
2021
2021
2019
2019
What's My Name: Muhammad Ali (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage)
2018
2018
1968 · as Self
2017
2017
Foreman · as Self
2016
2014
I Am Ali · as Self
2013
2011
The Real Rocky · as Self (archive Footage)
2011
Renée · as Self
2010
Lombardi · as Self
2009
Muhammad and Larry · as Himself (archive Footage)
2009
Facing Ali · as Self
2008
2008
2006
2006
2004
Hit Celebrity TV Commercials · as Self - For Fruit Of The Loom Underwear
2000
Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible · as Self - Audience Member
1999
1999
1999
Summer of Sam · as Self - 1977 World Series Announcer
1998
The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts · as Self - Roastee (archive Footage)
1996
1996
1995
1993
1992
Vicki! (TV Series) · as Self
1992
1990
1990
ESPN Outside the Lines Primetime (TV Series) · as Self
1988
1988
Johnny Be Good · as Himself
1984
1984
1984
1984
Broadway Danny Rose · as Howard Cosell
1983
1983
Battle of the Network Stars XIV · as Self - Co-Host
1982
1982
1982
Late Night With David Letterman (TV Series) · as Self
1981
1981
1981
1980
1980
1979
1979
1979
1978
1978
1977
1977
1977
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV Series) · as Howard Cosell
1976
Battle of the Network Stars · as Self - Host
1976
Two-Minute Warning · as Howard Cosell
1976
1976
1975
Saturday Night Live (TV Series) · as Self - Host
1974
1974
1974
1974
Dinah! (TV Series) · as Self
1974
1973
Sleeper · as Self - On Wide World Of Sports
1973
1973
The World's Greatest Athlete · as Himself - Announcer
1973
The 500 Pound Jerk · as Howard Cosell
1972
1972
The ABC Comedy Hour (TV Series) · as Self
1971
Bananas · as Himself
1971
Fight of the Century · as Self-(audience Member)
1970
1970
The Partridge Family (TV Series) · as Howard Cosell
1970
The Odd Couple (TV Series) · as Howard Cosell
1970
NFL Monday Night Football (TV Series) · as Self - Color Commentator
1970
The Flip Wilson Show (TV Series) · as Self
1970
Dinah's Place (TV Series) · as Self
1968
What's My Line? (1968) (TV Series) · as Self - Mystery Guest
1968
The Dick Cavett Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
1967
The Phil Donahue Show (TV Series) · as Self
1967
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV Series) · as Self
1962
1962
The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) · as Self
1961
The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) · as Self
1952
Today (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
1950
The Bob Hope Show (TV Series) · as Self

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