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"Requiem for a Heavyweight" is a teleplay written by Rod Serling and produced for the live television show Playhouse 90 on 11 October 1956. Six years later, it was adapted into the 1962 feature film of the same name starring Anthony Quinn , Jackie Gleason , Mickey Rooney , and Julie Harris .
Playhouse 90 received many Emmy Award nominations, and it later ranked #33 on the TV Guide 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 1997, the acclaimed Requiem for a Heavyweight was ranked #30 on the TV Guide 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. [1] In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked Playhouse 90 #65 on their list of the 101 Best Written TV ...
Requiem for a Heavyweight is a 1962 American film directed by Ralph Nelson based on the television play of the same name with Anthony Quinn in the role originated by Jack Palance and Jackie Gleason and Mickey Rooney in the parts portrayed on television by Keenan Wynn and his father Ed Wynn. Social worker Grace Miller was portrayed by Julie Harris.
Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) as Ma Greeny's Thug; The Naked City (1959, TV Series) as Hartog (episode "Fire Island") The Edge of Night (1959–60, TV Series) as "Big" Frank Dubeck; Car 54, Where Are You? (1962, TV Series) as Construction Foreman / Smasher (uncredited) Route 66 (1960–1963, TV Series) as Deputy Sam Harris / Al Jenkins
The New York Times critic Jack Gould called the show "one of the high points in the TV medium's evolution" and said, "[f]or sheer power of narrative, forcefulness of characterization and brilliant climax, Mr. Serling's work is a creative triumph."
"Requiem for a Heavyweight," originally made for television and later a film, hit themes of age and brain damage. In "The Harder They Fall," Humphrey Bogart's final picture, a boxer doesn't ...
He appeared in an episode of The Tab Hunter Show in 1961. His other roles on TV shows include roles in six episodes of Wagon Train (including S8 E26 as Samuel in "The Jarbo Pierce Story" 1965) and three episodes of Gunsmoke. He played political boss Frank Templeton in the final episode of McHale's Navy (1962–1966) "Wally for Congress."
Best original teleplay - Requiem for a Heavyweight, Playhouse 90; Best performance by an actor - Jack Palance, Requiem for a Heavyweight; Best performance by an actress - Gracie Fields, The Old Lady Shows Her Medals; Best performance by a supporting actor - Ed Wynn, Requiem for a Heavyweight