Today's actor had only one major screen credit, receiving fifth billing in football star Jim Brown's action film, Black Gunn. He plays a character named Sam Green. Colorful film title, colorful character name. The actor's name was a colorful one too. Recognize him (on the left)?
It's former Oakland A's star Vida Blue! Coming off of his breakout MVP season in 1971, Blue also appeared in a couple of episodes of Laugh In that year, but did not act beyond that. Here are his earliest and last Topps cards.
still scratching that 17 year itch
4 hours ago
Cool, didn't know he tried acting out!
ReplyDeleteInteresting piece of Vida Blue trivia.
ReplyDeleteGreat research. I also had no idea about Vida Blue doing any acting.
ReplyDeleteI've only seen this once, a LONG time ago, long before I knew who Vida was, so this was new to me as well.
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