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Brian's Song is a 1971 ABC Movie of the Week that recounts the life of Brian Piccolo (), a Chicago Bears football player stricken with terminal cancer, focusing on his friendship with teammate Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams).
Piccolo was the subject of the 1971 TV movie Brian's Song, with a remake TV movie of the same name filmed in 2001. He was portrayed in the original film by James Caan and by Sean Maher in the 2001 remake. [1]
Brian's Song (1971) – biographical sport drama film that recounts the life of Brian Piccolo , a Chicago Bears football player stricken with terminal cancer, focusing on his friendship with teammate Gale Sayers [43]
“Team Mates and friends till the end,” tweeted Billy Dee Williams, who co-starred with Caan in the 1971 TV-movie classic Brian’s Song. “RIP Jimmy.” Williams included what […]
William Blinn, the man who penned the screenplays for “Brian’s Song,” “Roots” and Prince’s “Purple Rain,” died Saturday. Blinn died of natural causes at an assisted living facility ...
Brian's Song is the 2001 American remake of the 1971 television film Brian's Song, telling the story of Brian Piccolo , a white running back who meets, clashes with and befriends fellow Chicago Bears running back Gale Sayers (Mekhi Phifer). The movie was adapted from Sayers' own words in his 1970 autobiography, I Am Third.
ABC earned four Emmys, a Peabody Award and citations from the NAACP and American Cancer Society for an airing of Brian's Song in 1972. The 1971–72 season of the series finished as the fifth highest rated series of the year.
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