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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."
Birth Name
Howard William Cohen
Born
Monday, 25 March 1918
Died
Sunday, 23 April 1995
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers | Self - Host, ABC Sports | 2022 |
McEnroe | Self | 2022 |
Ron Lyle | Self | 2021 |
Muhammad Ali | Self | 2021 |
Tex Cobb | Self | 2021 |
Jerry Quarry: Boxing's Hard Luck Warrior | Self | 2021 |
A Year in Music | Self | 2019 |
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes | Self | 2018 |
1968: The Year That Changed America | Self - ABC Sports | 2018 |
Battle of the Sexes | Self | 2017 |
Actor Filmography
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Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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Run to Daylight | 1964 |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1974 | Emmy | Outstanding Achievement in Sports Programming | Nominated |