The World's Greatest Athlete
Walt
Disney Productions
1973
color
89 min.
Directed by Robert Scheerer
Produced by Bill Walsh
Written by Dee Caruso and Gerald Gardner
Cinematography by Frank V. Phillips
Music by Marvin Hamlisch
Film editing by Cotton Warburton
Art direction by John Mansbridge and Walter Tyler
Costumes by Chuck Keehne and Emily Sundby
Makeup by Robert J. Schiffer
Set decoration by Hal G. Gausman
Special effects by Art Cruickshank, Danny Lee, and Eustace Lycett
Philip
Ahn makes a cameo appearance as an elderly Chinese man at the end of
this Disney comedy. In this scene, he points out to John Amos (Coach
Sam Archer), on the right, and his assistant, Tim Conway (Milo Jackson),
the youth who could be their next candidate for world's greatest athlete.
Cast
| Tim Conway | Milo Jackson | |
| John Amos | Coach Sam Archer | |
| Jan-Michael Vincent | Nanu | |
| Roscoe Lee Browne | Gazenga | |
| Dayle Haddon | Jane Douglas | |
| Billy De Wolfe | Dean Maxwell | |
| Nancy Walker | Mrs. Petersen | |
| Danny Goldman | Leopold Maxwell | |
| Don Pedro Colley | Morumba | |
| Vito Scotti | Sports fan | |
| Liam Dunn | Dr. Winslow | |
| Ivor Francis | Dean Bellamy | |
| Leon Askin | Dr. Gottlieb | |
| Howard Cosell | Announcer | |
| Frank Gifford | Announcer | |
| Jim McKay | Announcer | |
| Bud Palmer | Announcer | |
| Joe Kapp | Buzzer Kozak | |
| Bill Toomey | TV spotter | |
| Philip Ahn | Chinese man | |
| Clarence Muse | Gazenga's assistant | |
| Leigh Christian | ||
| Virginia Capers | ||
| John Lupton | ||
| Sarah Selby | ||
| Russ Conway | ||
| Al Checco | ||
| Dick Wilson | ||
| Dorothy Shay | ||
| Jack Griffin | ||
| David Manzy |