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"I've decided to take up coaching as my life work," Knute Rockne says. Coach he does, revolutionizing football with his strategies, winning close to 90 percent of his games, and helping establish the University of Notre Dame's Fighting Irish as a gridiron powerhouse. But victories alone do not mean success to Rockne. He wants to shape his players into responsible and honorable men. This famed sports biopic combines a passion for the game (and footage of actual Notre Dame contests) with two superb performances: Pat O'Brien in the title role and Ronald Reagan as George Gipp, the gifted but doomed halfback whose deathbed plea is "win just one for the Gipper." The line remains one of cinema's most memorable. And for the rest of his life, Reagan would often be called the Gipper.
Original Release
10/05/1940
US Release
10/05/1940
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Pat O'Brien | Knute Rockne |
Gale Page | Bonnie Skiles Rockne |
Ronald Reagan | George Gipp |
Donald Crisp | Father John Callahan, C.S.C / Father John Callahan C.S.C. |
Albert Bassermann | Father Julius Nieuwland |
John Litel | Committee Chairman |
Henry O'Neill | Doctor / Doctor Treating Knute |
Owen Davis Jr. | Gus Dorais / Charles 'Gus' Dorais |
John Qualen | Lars Knutson Rockne |
Dorothy Tree | Martha Rockne |
Directors
Lloyd Bacon, William K. Howard
Writers
Robert Buckner, Mrs. Knute Rockne
Cast
Name | Character |
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Pat O'Brien | Knute Rockne |
Gale Page | Bonnie Skiles Rockne |
Ronald Reagan | George Gipp |
Donald Crisp | Father John Callahan, C.S.C / Father John Callahan C.S.C. |
Albert Bassermann | Father Julius Nieuwland |
John Litel | Committee Chairman |
Henry O'Neill | Doctor / Doctor Treating Knute |
Owen Davis Jr. | Gus Dorais / Charles 'Gus' Dorais |
John Qualen | Lars Knutson Rockne |
Dorothy Tree | Martha Rockne |
Johnny Sheffield | Knute Rockne - Age 7 / Knute - Age 7 |
Moreau Choir of Notre Dame | Moreau Choir |
Nick Lukats | Harry Stuhldreher - The Four Horsemen / Harry Stuhldreher - One of The Four Horsemen |
Kane Richmond | Elmer Laydon - One of The Four Horsemn / Elmer Layden - The Four Horsemen |
William Marshall | Don Miller - One of The Four Horsemen / Don Miller - The Four Horsemen |
William Byrne | James Crowley - One of The Four Horsemen / Jim Crowley - The Four Horsemen |
Howard Jones | USC Coach Howard Jones / Howard Jones - USC Coach |
Glenn 'Pop' Warner | Coach 'Pop' Warner / Glenn 'Pop' Warner - Stanford Coach |
Amos Alonzo Stagg | Alonzo Stagg - University of Chicago Coach / Coach Alonzo Stagg |
William 'Bill' Spaulding | Bill Spaulding / Bill Spaulding - UCLA Coach |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Hal B. Wallis | Executive Producer |
Robert Fellows | Producer |