Director: Alfred E. Green

Writers: Lawrence Taylor; Arthur Mann

Music Score: Herschel Burke Gilbert

Producer: Mort Briskin

Keywords: Sports Drama, Biography, Baseball

Biopic of Jackie Robinson, overcoming prejudice to become the first black admitted to modern Major League Baseball. While undeniably one of the greatest baseball players of all time, acting is not among Robinson's strong suits; low budget production filmed while he was still an active player. Ruby Dee puts in a wonderful performance as his devoted wife; forty years later Dee would play his mother in The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990).

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Louise Beavers	Actor	8-Mar-1902	26-Oct-1962	She Done Him Wrong
Ruby Dee	Actor	27-Oct-1924	12-Jun-2014	The Jackie Robinson Story
Bernie Hamilton	Actor	12-Jun-1928	30-Dec-2008	Capt. Dobey on Starsky and Hutch
Jackie Robinson	Baseball	31-Jan-1919	24-Oct-1972	First negro in the major leagues
Minor Watson	Actor	22-Dec-1889	28-Jul-1965	Guadalcanal Diary

CAST

Starring
Jackie Robinson	...   Himself
with
Ruby Dee	...   Rae Robinson
Minor Watson	...   Branch Rickey
Louise Beavers	...   Jackie's Mother
Richard Lane	...   Hopper
Harry Shannon	...   Charlie
Ben Lessy	...   Shorty
Bill Spaulding	...   Himself
Billy Wayne	...   Clyde Sukeforth
Joel Fluellen	...   Mack Robinson
Bernie Hamilton	...   Ernie
Kenny Washington	...   Tigers Manager
Pat Flaherty	...   Karpen
Larry McGrath	...   Umpire
Emmett Smith	...   Catcher
Howard Louis MacNeely	...   Jackie, as a Boy
George Dockstader	...   Bill

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