Lynn Swann

Acting
1952-03-07
Alcoa, Tennessee, USA

Biography

Lynn Curtis Swann (born March 7, 1952) is an American former football player, broadcaster, politician, and athletic director, best known for his association with the University of Southern California and the Pittsburgh Steelers. He served on the President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition from 2002 to 2005. In 2006, he was the Republican nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania.

Known For & Full Filmography14 Titles

#1Saturday Night Live

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Self (uncredited)

6.9 / 10
ComedyNews

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.

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#2The Colbert Report

Drama Series - 2005, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
NewsComedy

The Colbert Report is an American satirical late night television program. It stars political humorist Stephen Colbert, a former correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The Colbert Report is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show that comments on politics and the media in a similar way. The show focuses on a fictional anchorman character named Stephen Colbert, played by his real-life namesake. The character, described by Colbert as a "well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot", is a caricature of televised political pundits.

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#3The Drew Carey Show

Drama Series - 1995, 16 episodes as Lynn Swann

6.5 / 10
Comedy

Drew is an assistant director of personnel in a Cleveland department store and he has been stuck there for ten years. Other than fighting with co-worker Mimi, his hobbies include drinking beer and not being able to get dates. To make a few extra bucks he has a micro-brewery going in his garage with his buddies.

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#4Family Matters

Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes as Greg Johnston

6.7 / 10
ComedyFamily

A long-running dramedy centering on the Winslow family, a middle-class African American family living in Chicago, and their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. A spin-off of Perfect Strangers.

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#5America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions

Drama Series - 2006, 16 episodes as Self

8.0 / 10
Documentary

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.

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#6Monday Night Football

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes as Wide Receiver

8.8 / 10

Howard Cosell hosted the first instalment of Monday Night Football.

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#7The Paper Chase

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.6 / 10
Drama

Critically lauded drama about the life and pressures of a group of students at a prestigious Eastern law school, with a strict and domineering contract-law professor named Charles Kingsfield, who alternately inspires and terrifies the students.

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#8The Last Boy Scout

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m as Himself

6.8 / 10
ActionThriller

Somewhere in Los Angeles, the city of broken dreams, a stripper is murdered. Now, the private detective she had hired and her ex-footballer boyfriend are going to find her murderer... if they don't kill each other first. But the more they dig, the deeper they become enmeshed in a web of extortion, blackmail and corrupt politics hidden beneath the surface of professional football.

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#9The Waterboy

Movie - 1998, 2h 15m as Lynn Swann

6.1 / 10
Comedy

Bobby Boucher is a water boy for a struggling college football team. The coach discovers Boucher's hidden rage makes him a tackling machine whose bone-crushing power might vault his team into the playoffs.

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#10Undeniable with Dan Patrick

Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes as Self

7.7 / 10
Talk

A one‐on‐one interview show that gives legendary athletes and coaches the opportunity to share their ascent to the pinnacle of success through their personal life stories and philosophies.

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#11Charlie Grace

Drama Series - 1995, 16 episodes as Lynn Swann

8.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

Charlie Grace is a Los Angeles private eye with a daughter named Jenny, works along with other cops, including his partner, Crawford, to solve different multiple mystery cases.

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#12Night of 100 Stars II

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m as Self

6.8 / 10
ComedyMusicTV Movie

This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.

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#13Night of 100 Stars

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Self

5.8 / 10
ComedyMusicTV Movie

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.

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#14TVTV: Video Revolutionaries

Movie - 2018, 2h 15m as Self

8.0 / 10
Documentary

A documentary about Top Value Television (TVTV), a band of merry video makers who, from 1972 to 1977, took the then brand-new portable video camera and went out to document the world.

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