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Footballing Thespians

Stig
Stig Posts: 29,022
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I was watching The Theory of Everything the other day and noticed that Frank Leboeuf pops up as a Swiss doctor. It got me wondering how many other footballers have lit up the silver screen - or even trod the boards. I guess Vinnie Jones and Eric Cantona would be the highest profile ones, at least in recent years. Whilst half the Ipswich team got in on the act in 1981. Are there any others?
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    Our very own Allan Simonsen. He was "shot" in every respect in a film called The Marksman.
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    Bollox - I thought the title was Footballing Lesbians.
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    inb4 someone says Fernando Forestieri
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    Iain Dowie - Alien 3 and The Bride of Frankenstein
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    Leuth said:

    inb4 someone says Fernando Forestieri

    Wasn't he in Das Boot......"dive, dive, dive!!!!!"

  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    Anyway, Stan Collymore in Basic Instinct 2 comes to mind. NOT THAT I HAVE SEEN IT - I have a reputation to preserve amongst you slavering hounds
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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,318
    MrLargo said:

    Iain Dowie - Alien 3 and The Bride of Frankenstein

    He was in the Goonies wasnt he?

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  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,193
    Pele has done a couple. Hotshot was another he was in.

    Ian Wright was in a really bad movie called Son of the black gun or something equally silly.

    Vinnie Jones got Robert Duvall into football while shooting Gone in 60, and soon after Duvall made a movie with Ally McCoist called Shot at Glory.

    The real question is, which footballers have been in good films? Cantona in Looking For Eric is up there. Jones in Gone in 60, Snatch and Lock Stock.
  • Charlton_Stu
    Charlton_Stu Posts: 3,866
    David Beckham featured in one the Goal films, and if i remember correctly Greame Souness was in Boys from the black stuff.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,740
    JiMMy 85 said:

    Pele has done a couple. Hotshot was another he was in

    I assume 'Hotshot' wasn't a porno given his well publicised floppy nana issues?
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    Gary Lineker and Alan Hansen were in Bend it Like Beckham
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    MrLargo Posts: 7,989
    Didn't those "Goal" films from a few years back have a load of cameo appearance by all the big names - Ronaldo, Zidane, Beckham, etc?
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    Bradley Walsh played for Brentford although I don't know whether he made the first team.
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    Sol Campbell was a doorman at one of the fights in Snatch.
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    Ian Rush was in Scully
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    Actually, I believe that Steve McLaren might be in Theory of Everything as well. Only a bit part though, sitting in the audience at a speech.
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    Nick Pope played the role of a professional goalkeeper although I never found him very convincing.
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    Beckham was in Bend it like Beckham - cameo only.

    I remember Graeme Souness meeting Yosser Hughes in Boys from the Black Stuff.
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    Bryan Robson - Jossy's Giants (Sid Waddell's classic)
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    Ashley Young ......Match of the Day.

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  • cashncarry
    cashncarry Posts: 980
    Leuth said:

    Anyway, Stan Collymore in Basic Instinct 2 comes to mind. NOT THAT I HAVE SEEN IT - I have a reputation to preserve amongst you slavering hounds

    Saw him in UK milfs dogging, was a good film but plot wasn't up to much
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    Leuth said:

    Anyway, Stan Collymore in Basic Instinct 2 comes to mind. NOT THAT I HAVE SEEN IT - I have a reputation to preserve amongst you slavering hounds

    I've heard this as well, apparently he dies in the first scene.

    That said, no idea if this is true. It's one of those random facts you hear down the pub (or in my case The Football Ramble), but no one can ever verify because no one is certain that Basic Instinct 2 even exists.
  • Daddy_Pig
    Daddy_Pig Posts: 496
    SDAddick said:

    Leuth said:

    Anyway, Stan Collymore in Basic Instinct 2 comes to mind. NOT THAT I HAVE SEEN IT - I have a reputation to preserve amongst you slavering hounds

    I've heard this as well, apparently he dies in the first scene.

    That said, no idea if this is true. It's one of those random facts you hear down the pub (or in my case The Football Ramble), but no one can ever verify because no one is certain that Basic Instinct 2 even exists.
    The rumours are true... Supposedly
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