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The Champ

BBC One
on BBC One London

Starring Jon Voight Faye Dunaway Ricky Schroder

Franco Zeffirelli's deeply moving film features an ex-boxer on the skids through gambling and drink who is nonetheless idolised by his son. T.J. But the champ's ex-wife, now remarried and living in style, makes a strong bid to reclaim her child when she sees him at the racetrack for the first time in seven years. An emotional tug of love develops, in this update of the 1931 classic.
Screenplay by WALTER NEWMAN Produced by DYSON LOVELL
Directed by FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI
(First showing on British television)
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Contributors

Screenplay:
Walter Newman
Produced By:
Dyson Lovell
Directed By:
Franco Zeffirelli
Billy:
Jon Voight
Annie:
Faye Dunaway
T J:
Ricky Schroder
Jackie:
Jack Warden
Mike:
Arthur Hill
Riley:
Strother Martin
Dolly Kenyon:
Joan Blondell
Josie:
Mary Jo Catlett
Georgie:
Elisha Cook
Charlie:
Stefan Gierasch
Whitey:
Allan Miller
Source: Radio Times

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