Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson
Barbara Kopple1993-02-12
8
93 min
Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson is a 1993 film made by acclaimed American documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Though Tyson was in jail serving a sentence for rape, Kopple used existing interviews with the boxer, as well as her own extensive interviews with those closest to Tyson, to explore the man's history. The film traces Tyson's story from his troubled and tumultuous upbringing, through his rapid ascendancy in the ranks of the boxing world and his subsequent struggle with the trappings of fame. Fallen Champ earned Barbara Kopple a Directors Guild of America award as Best Documentary Director of 1993.
Cast
| Name | Character | Team | |
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Mike Tyson | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Cus D'Amato | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Don King | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Robin Givens | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Curtis Ratliff | Self - Friend | Unowned |
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Tracy Trey Travis | Self - Friend | Unowned |
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Louis Farrakhan | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Joyce Carol Oates | Self | Unowned |
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Evander Holyfield | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Larry Holmes | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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James Douglas | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Michael Spinks | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Michael Marley | Self | Unowned |
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Ruth Givens | Self | Unowned |
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Tony Tubbs | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Trevor Berbick | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Jerry Izenberg | Unowned |