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Title: Billy Dee Williams and Gale Sayers
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1971
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1889-1989; Photograph included in the Exhibit: The Industry in Our Backyard: Television Production in Los Angeles 1940s-1980s.
Billy Dee Williams (left) and Chicago Bears running back Gale Sayers during the making of "Brian's Song." The highly-acclaimed TV movie documented the relationship between Sayers (played by Williams) and teammate Brian Piccolo (James Caan) as Sayers watched Piccolo succumb to cancer. "Brian's Song" remains one of the great tear-jerker sports films, on par with "Bang the Drum Slowly" and "Pride of the Yankees." Photo dated: October 12, 1971.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00048826
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 6520.
CARL0000052907
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17337
Subject: Williams, Billy Dee,--1937-
Sayers, Gale,--1943-
Chicago Bears (Football team)
Motion picture actors and actresses
Football players
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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