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Knute Rockne, All American
Knute Rockne, All American is a 1940 American biographical film that tells the story of Knute Rockne, Notre Dame's legendary football coach. It stars Pat O'Brien as Rockne and Ronald Reagan as player George Gipp, as well as Gale Page, Donald Crisp, Albert Bassermann, Owen Davis Jr., Nick Lukats, Kane Richmond, William Marshall and William Byrne. The film also includes cameos by football coaches "Pop" Warner, Amos Alonzo Stagg, William H. Spaulding and Howard Jones, playing themselves. It also has a cameo by Olympic star Jim Thorpe.
Plot
Lars Knutson Rockne, a carriage builder, moves his family from Norway in 1892, settling in Chicago. His son, Knute, saves up his money and enrolls in college at the Notre Dame campus in South Bend, Indiana, where he plays football.
Cast
- Albert Bassermann
- Amos Alonzo Stagg
- Brian Keith
- Charles C. Wilson
- Charles Trowbridge
- Creighton Hale
- David Bruce
- Donald Crisp
- Donald Curtis
- Dorothy Tree
- Eddy Chandler
- Edgar Dearing
- Egon Brecher
- Erville Alderson
- Frank Coghlan, Jr.
- Frank Mayo
- Gale Page
- George Irving
- George Reeves
- Harry Hayden
- Henry O'Neill
- James Flavin
- John Gallaudet
- John Litel
- John Qualen
- John Ridgely
- Johnny Sheffield
- Kane Richmond
- Pat Flaherty
- Pat O'Brien
- Patricia Hayes
- Paul Panzer
- Pierre Watkin
- Ronald Reagan
- Wade Boteler
- William Hopper
- William Marshall
More details
| author | Robert Buckner |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Indiana |
| director | Lloyd Bacon William K. Howard |
| editor | Ralph Dawson |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | chicago fight fighting irish forward pass four horsemen game head coach jesse harper julius nieuwland kill notre dame notre dame fighting irish plane crash the four horsemen university of notre dame west point |
| musicBy | Leo F. Forbstein |
| producer | Hal B. Wallis |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |
| theme | biographical biographical drama sports |