John Madden
Birthday: Born in 1936-04-10 in Austin, Minnesota, USA
Deathday: 2021-12-28
John Earl Madden (April 10, 1936 – December 28, 2021) was an American football coach and sportscaster. He won Super Bowl XI as head coach of the Oakland Raiders, and after retiring from coaching became a well-known color commentator for NFL telecasts. In 2006, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in recognition of his coaching career. He is also widely known for the long-running Madden NFL video game series he has endorsed and fronted since 1988. Madden worked as a color analyst for all four major networks: CBS (1979–1993), Fox (1994–2001), ABC (2002–2005), and NBC (2006–2008). Madden retired from broadcasting after the 2008 NFL season. He also wrote several books and served as a commercial pitchman for various products and retailers. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Madden, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
Arliss
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A behind-the-scenes look at the glitzy, big-money world of professional sports following the eternally optimistic and endlessly resourceful L.A. sports agent Arliss Michaels whose Achilles' heel is his inability to say “no” to clients and employees....
Football Night in America
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The studio pregame show preceding NBC's broadcasts of Sunday night and Wild Card Saturday National Football League games....
Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League
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Full Color Football celebrates the 50th season of the maverick American Football League, from its tumultuous beginnings to its unlikely merger with the rival NFL....
Saturday Night Live
Character: Self - Host
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest....
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions
Character: Self
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions is an annual documentary series created by NFL Films (broadcast on the NFL Network and CBS). Each of its 55 (and counting) installments profile the National Football League's annual Super Bowl champion through highlights, interviews with players and coaches, and a celebrity narrator. A spin-off debuted on September 18, 2008, titled America's Game: The Missing Rings which chronicled five of the best teams to never win the Super Bowl....
Joe Montana: Cool Under Pressure
Character: Self (archive footage)
Montana's first hand account of his career from the earliest days to national champion at Notre Dame and becoming a four-time Super Bowl winner and a Pro Football Hall of Famer....
High Score
Character: Self (archive footage)
This docuseries traces the history of classic video games, featuring insights from the innovators who brought these worlds and characters to life....
It's in the Game: Madden NFL
Character: Self (archive footage)
It's one of the biggest video games of all time, a groundbreaking brand that became a worldwide phenomenon, spanning generations—but it almost never happened… Now, 36 years after the first game's release, EA SPORTS gives viewers unprecedented access to the makers of game that changed the game, and our culture too....
Movie Credits
All Madden
Character: Self
Centered largely on the 30 years after his Hall of Fame coaching career, this FOX Sports documentary explores football icon John Madden’s extraordinary impact on America’s most popular sport, the indelible mark he made on broadcast television and how he revolutionized the video game industry....
Straight Outta L.A.
Character: Self
In 1982, the Raiders and owner Al Davis captivated black and Latino fans with swagger and charisma that matched the rapidly changing city....
Little Giants
Character: self
When Danny O'Shea's daughter is cut from the Peewee football team just for being a girl, he decides to form his own team, composed of other ragtag players who were also cut. Can his team really learn enough to beat the elite team, coached by his brother, a former pro player?...
P.K. and the Kid
Character: John Madden
P.K. runs away from home because her step-father keeps on harassing her sexually and her mother is ignoring the problem. She hides in the loading space of Kid Kane's pickup, who's on the way to the world championships in arm-wrestling. When he discovers her, he wants to send her home at first, but after he knows the story he takes her with him - and gets himself into big trouble: her step-father is behind them furiously, trying to kidnap her and take revenge for the stress he got from her mother...
The Replacements
Character: Himself
Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty dusts off his secret dossier of ex-players who never got a chance (or screwed up the one they were given) and knits together a bad-dream team of guys who just may give the Sentinels their title shot....
NFL Greatest Games: Dallas Cowboys 1992 NFC Championship Game
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In what would be the first NFC Championship against each other in the 90s, the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers faced off for the chance to go to Super Bowl XXVII. The featured two future Hall of Fame quarterbacks, Troy Aikman and Steve Young. Young threw for 313 yards but Aikman led the Cowboys to a 30-20 victory by throwing for 322 yards and 2 touchdown passes....
NFL Super Bowl Collection - Oakland Raiders
Character: Himself
Relive the most celebrated moments from the Silver and Black's three Super Bowl conquests, from their thunderous trouncing of the NFC Champion Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl XI to their underdog triumph over the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XVIII. Three unforgettable Sundays and immortal on-field heroics....