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Joseph "Dandy" Don Meredith was an American football quarterback, sports commentator and actor. He spent all nine seasons of his professional playing career (1960–1968) with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He was named to the Pro Bowl in each of his last three years as a player. He subsequently became a color analyst for NFL telecasts from 1970–1984. As an original member of the Monday Night Football broadcast team on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), he famously played the role of Howard Cosell's comic foil. Meredith was also an actor who appeared in a dozen films and in seven major television shows, some of which had him as the main starring actor. He is probably familiar to television audiences as Bert Jameson, a recurring role he had in Police Story.
Birth Name
Joseph Don Meredith
Born
Sunday, 10 April 1938
Died
Sunday, 05 December 2010
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Seventies | Self - ABC Sports | 2015 |
A Football Life | Self | 2011 |
Lombardi | Self | 2010 |
30 for 30 | Self | 2009 |
NFL Top 10 | Self | 2007 |
Hit Celebrity TV Commercials | Self - for Vitalis Hair Spray | 2004 |
Three Days of Rain | John Horton | 2002 |
King of the Hill | Self | 1997 |
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone | Clay - the Bartender / Clay the Bartender | 1994 |
Evening Shade | Billy Clyde Crawford | 1990 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Seventies | Self - ABC Sports | 2015 |
A Football Life | Self | 2011 |
Lombardi | Self | 2010 |
30 for 30 | Self | 2009 |
NFL Top 10 | Self | 2007 |
Hit Celebrity TV Commercials | Self - for Vitalis Hair Spray | 2004 |
Three Days of Rain | John Horton | 2002 |
King of the Hill | Self | 1997 |
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone | Clay - the Bartender / Clay the Bartender | 1994 |
Evening Shade | Billy Clyde Crawford | 1990 |
Monday Night Madness: The Very Best of Monday Night Football (20th Anniversary) | Self | 1989 |
Midnight Caller | Foster Castleman | 1988 |
Police Story: The Freeway Killings | Detective Foley | 1987 |
Terror Among Us | Sgt. Tom Stockwell | 1981 |
The Night the City Screamed | Captain Donald Wiacek | 1980 |
Undercover with the KKK | Gary Thomas 'Tom' Rowe Jr. / Gary Thomas 'Tom' Rowe, Jr. | 1979 |
Supertrain | Rick Prince | 1979 |
The Jim Nabors Show | Self | 1978 |
Happy Birthday, Las Vegas | Self - Host | 1977 |
Mayday at 40, 000 Feet! | Mike Fuller | 1976 |
The Quest | Shanklin | 1976 |
Liar's Club | Self | 1976 |
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free | Banjo Hackett | 1976 |
The Sonny and Cher Show | Various Characters / Self | 1976 |
Lola! | Self | 1975 |
Sky Heist | Sergeant Doug Trumbell | 1975 |
Dinah! | Self | 1974 |
Terror on the 40th Floor | Kelly Freeman | 1974 |
Police Woman | 'Turk' Allison | 1974 |
Bicentennial Minutes | Self - Narrator | 1974 |
Police Story | Bert Jameson / Detective Bert Jameson / Ed Hagen / John Kowalski / Officer Bert Jameson / Sgt. Ed Hagen | 1973 |
The ABC Comedy Hour | Self | 1972 |
NFL Monday Night Football | Self - Color Commentator / Self - Play-by-Play Announcer | 1970 |
McCloud | Linus Morton | 1970 |
The Dean Martin Show | Self | 1965 |
The NFL on NBC | Self - Color Commentator | 1965 |
The Match Game | Self - Team Captain | 1962 |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Himself - Guest / Himself | 1962 |
The Mike Douglas Show | Himself - Sportscaster / Himself - Co-Host | 1961 |
The NFL on CBS | Self - Dallas Cowboys Quarterback | 1956 |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1971 | Emmy | Outstanding Achievement in Sports Programming | Won |