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Slap Shot is a 1977 American sports comedy film directed by George Roy Hill, written by Nancy Dowd, and starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean. It depicts a minor league ice hockey team that resorts to violent play to gain popularity in a factory town in decline.
Melinda Ruth Dillon (October 13, 1939 – January 9, 2023) was an American actress. She received a 1963 Tony Award nomination for her Broadway debut in the original production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Absence of Malice (1981).
The Hanson Brothers are a fictional trio of siblings who played for the fictional minor league ice hockey team the Charlestown Chiefs in the 1977 movie Slap Shot and its two sequels. [1] The characters – Dave , Steve , and Jeff Hanson – were based on real-life siblings Jack , Steve , and Jeff Carlson, who played for the 1974-75 Johnstown ...
In this photo from December 2010, Worcester native Paul D'Amato, right, who played Tim "Dr. Hook" McCracken in the 1977 movie classic "Slap Shot," poses with the Worcester Sharks' Mike Moore after ...
Paul D’Amato, best known for playing Tim “Dr. Hook” McCracken in hockey comedy “Slap Shot,” died after a four-year battle with progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare brain disease, on ...
Paul D'Amato (October 2, 1949 – February 19, 2024) was an American actor best known for his appearance as the lead antagonist in the hockey film Slap Shot.Apart from films, he also acted in various television series and stage productions, often cast as a thug or henchman.
Paul D’Amato, best known for playing Tim “Dr. Hook” McCracken in hockey comedy “Slap Shot” and who helped inspire the look of the comic book Wolverine, has died at 76.
After a relationship with Robert Duvall, [18] Crouse married playwright David Mamet in 1977. The two had met during the production on Slap Shot. [19] John Lahr writes in his book Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles that when Mamet married Crouse in 1977, he "married into show business aristocracy". Lahr also writes that Mamet received his first ...