JTB Dick Butkus - 22 Classic Movies (Comedy/Drama/Sport/Crime/Mystery/Horror)
by johntbakken | created - 24 Apr 2018 | updated - 24 Apr 2018 | PublicRichard Marvin Butkus was born December 9, 1942 and is a former American football player, sports commentator, and actor. He played professional football as a linebacker for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL) from 1965 to 1973. Through nine NFL seasons he was invited to eight Pro Bowls, named a first-team All-Pro six times, and was twice recognized by his peers as the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year. Renowned as a fierce tackler and for the relentless effort with which he played, Butkus is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most intimidating linebackers in pro football history.
Since his career as a player, Butkus has become a celebrity endorser, broadcaster, and actor. He has appeared in films such as The Longest Yard (1974), Cry, Onion! (1975), Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976), Gus (1976), Superdome (1978), Cracking Up (1983), Johnny Dangerously (1984), Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986), The Stepford Children (1987), Spontaneous Combustion (1990), Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Necessary Roughness (1991) and Any Given Sunday (1999). Butkus has also made cameo appearances in episodes of several television shows and was a regular character on TV shows such as Blue Thunder, My Two Dads, Vega$ and Hang Time. He portrayed himself in both the critically acclaimed TV movie Brian's Song (1971) and the 2002 comedy Teddy Bears' Picnic.
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1. Brian's Song (1971 TV Movie)
G | 73 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: James Caan, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Warden, Bernie Casey
Votes: 8,852
2. A Matter of Wife... and Death (1975 TV Movie)
73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A private investigator is confronted by the police and the mob about the killing of a former private-eye associate.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Rod Taylor, Marc Alaimo, Abraham Alvarez, Anne Archer
Votes: 92
3. Cry, Onion (1975)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Western
Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted by the local oil baron.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Franco Nero, Sterling Hayden, Martin Balsam, Emma Cohen
Votes: 761
4. Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
Competition between privately owned Los Angeles, California ambulance companies is played for humor.
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel, Allen Garfield
Votes: 3,367 | Gross: $20.00M
5. Gus (1976)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Family, Sport
The inept 'California Atoms,' floundering in the cellar of the National Football League, welcome the team's newest member - a mule capable of place kicking a football 100 yards with deadly accuracy.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Edward Asner, Don Knotts, Gary Grimes, Tim Conway
Votes: 2,165
6. Superdome (1978 TV Movie)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
During Superbowl, there's lots of drama, when one of the players has to juggle the game and his marriage while the team's star quarterback is being courted by a management firm. Also, a killer is running around.
Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: David Janssen, Edie Adams, Clifton Davis, Peter Haskell
Votes: 403
7. Deadly Games (1982)
R | 95 min | Horror, Mystery
A woman falls to her death after getting attacked by a black-clad assailant. Her sister arrives in town and starts dating a police detective, who's friends with a strange movie theater curator, as other women fall prey to the killer.
Director: Scott Mansfield | Stars: Alexandra Morgan, Jo Ann Harris, Sam Groom, Saul Sindell
Votes: 717
8. Cass Malloy (1982 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy
Cass Malloy, a pretty wife and mother who, after the untimely death of her husband, Big Jim Malloy, replaces him as Sheriff of Burr County, Indiana.
Director: J.D. Lobue | Stars: Caroline McWilliams, Dianne Kay, Murphy Dunne, Amanda Wyss
9. Cracking Up (1983)
PG | 89 min | Comedy
Suicidal nerd seeks help from psychiatrist, runs into various nutty characters.
Director: Jerry Lewis | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Milton Berle, Sammy Davis Jr., Herb Edelman
Votes: 1,035
10. Johnny Dangerously (1984)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Crime
Set in the 1930s, an honest, good-hearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's sky-rocketing medical bills.
Director: Amy Heckerling | Stars: Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner, Maureen Stapleton
Votes: 16,403
11. Rodney Dangerfield: Exposed (1985 TV Special)
Not Rated | 60 min | Comedy
Rodney Dangerfield's third ABC special.
Director: Walter C. Miller | Stars: Rodney Dangerfield, Harvey Korman, Morgan Fairchild, Dick Butkus
Votes: 54
12. Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986)
R | 90 min | Comedy
Russell Proco has been expelled from several schools for lewd, crude and nude conduct. Busterburger University is his last chance for an education and pleasing his disappointed parents.
Director: Mike Marvin | Stars: Leigh McCloskey, Dick Butkus, Randi Brooks, Chuck McCann
Votes: 1,981
13. Time Out for Dad (1987 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama, Family
Retired football player suddenly finds himself a stay-at-home dad, when his wife decides to return to the workforce.
Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Dick Butkus, Sandy Faison, Harriet Nelson, Tricia Leigh Fisher
Votes: 16
14. The Stepford Children (1987 TV Movie)
96 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Steven and Laura Harding (along with their kids David and Mary) have moved to the quiet community of Stepford, Connecticut. Steven joins the men's club, which is still assimilating their ... See full summary »
Director: Alan J. Levi | Stars: Barbara Eden, Don Murray, Tammy Lauren, Pat Corley
Votes: 426
15. Crash Course (1988 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 95 min | Comedy
A comedy about a group of teens taking driver's ed over the summer.
Director: Oz Scott | Stars: Jackée Harry, Brian Bloom, Harvey Korman, Alyssa Milano
Votes: 509
16. Spontaneous Combustion (1989)
R | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Brad Dourif, Cynthia Bain, Jon Cypher, William Prince
Votes: 2,994
17. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
The Gremlins are back, and this time, they've taken control of a New York City media mogul's high-tech skyscraper.
Directors: Joe Dante, Chuck Jones | Stars: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Howie Mandel, Tony Randall
Votes: 112,742 | Gross: $41.48M
18. Necessary Roughness (1991)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Sport
Due to NCAA sanctions, the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos must form a football team from their actual student body, with no scholarships to help, to play their football schedule.
Director: Stan Dragoti | Stars: Scott Bakula, Hector Elizondo, Robert Loggia, Harley Jane Kozak
Votes: 13,100 | Gross: $26.26M
19. The Last Boy Scout (1991)
R | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A private detective's protected female witness is murdered, prompting him and the victim's boyfriend to investigate the crime that leads to a corrupt politician and a crooked football team owner.
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Chelsea Field, Noble Willingham
Votes: 111,963 | Gross: $59.51M
20. Let's Kill All the Lawyers (1992)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
A young law intern realizes that his elementary view of lawyers is hopelessly idealistic and his world is shattered by its brutal reality. His wishes for legal reform are brought about through his wild, vivid, and often sexy imagination.
Director: Ron Senkowski | Stars: Sonya A. Avakian, Rick Frederick, James Vezina, Michelle DeVuono
Votes: 25
21. Any Given Sunday (1999)
R | 162 min | Drama, Sport
A behind-the-scenes look at the life-and-death struggles of modern-day gladiators and those who lead them.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Al Pacino, Dennis Quaid, Cameron Diaz, James Woods
Votes: 125,840 | Gross: $75.53M
22. Teddy Bears' Picnic (2001)
R | 80 min | Comedy
Teddy Bears Picnic covers an annual encampment of prominent male leaders at the Zambezi Glen, a thinly-veiled reference to the Bohemian Grove.
Director: Harry Shearer | Stars: Delaune Michel, Morgan Fairchild, Dick Butkus, Burt Bulos
Votes: 462
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