Former USC and National Football League star Tim Rossovich, who built a post-athletic acting career in various roles, has died after a long illness, according to USC News. He was 72 and passed Thursday in Sacramento.
Rossovich was an All-American and co-captain of the USC national championship team in 1967, remembered for star O.J. Simpson at running back. He became one of five USC players drafted in the first round in 1968, going to the Philadelphia Eagles as the 14th pick of the first round.
The lean defensive end made the Pro Bowl in 1969 during a career that saw him play for the Philadelphia Eagles, San Diego Chargers, and Houston Oilers. He later played for the Philadelphia Bell in the short-lived World Football League.
After rooming with actor Tom Selleck in college and given his USC connections, it seemed inevitable that Rossovich would become an actor. He started as stunt double in the Burt Reynolds film Hooper,...
Rossovich was an All-American and co-captain of the USC national championship team in 1967, remembered for star O.J. Simpson at running back. He became one of five USC players drafted in the first round in 1968, going to the Philadelphia Eagles as the 14th pick of the first round.
The lean defensive end made the Pro Bowl in 1969 during a career that saw him play for the Philadelphia Eagles, San Diego Chargers, and Houston Oilers. He later played for the Philadelphia Bell in the short-lived World Football League.
After rooming with actor Tom Selleck in college and given his USC connections, it seemed inevitable that Rossovich would become an actor. He started as stunt double in the Burt Reynolds film Hooper,...
- 12/8/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Tim Rossovich, the colorful defensive end and linebacker who starred at Southern Cal and with the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles before becoming an actor, has died. He was 72.
Rossovich died Thursday in Sacramento, California, following a long illness, USC announced.
Rossovich roomed with Tom Selleck in college, and he appeared on three episodes of Selleck's CBS series Magnum, P.I. from 1986-88.
Six-foot-4 and 245 pounds in his prime, Rossovich got started in Hollywood by doing stunts on the 1978 Burt Reynolds film Hooper. He played a bodyguard on the first and second seasons of ABC's Soap in 1978 ...
Rossovich died Thursday in Sacramento, California, following a long illness, USC announced.
Rossovich roomed with Tom Selleck in college, and he appeared on three episodes of Selleck's CBS series Magnum, P.I. from 1986-88.
Six-foot-4 and 245 pounds in his prime, Rossovich got started in Hollywood by doing stunts on the 1978 Burt Reynolds film Hooper. He played a bodyguard on the first and second seasons of ABC's Soap in 1978 ...
- 12/8/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Tim Rossovich, the colorful defensive end and linebacker who starred at Southern Cal and with the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles before becoming an actor, has died. He was 72.
Rossovich died Thursday in Sacramento, California, following a long illness, USC announced.
Rossovich roomed with Tom Selleck in college, and he appeared on three episodes of Selleck's CBS series Magnum, P.I. from 1986-88.
Six-foot-4 and 245 pounds in his prime, Rossovich got started in Hollywood by doing stunts on the 1978 Burt Reynolds film Hooper. He played a bodyguard on the first and second seasons of ABC's Soap in 1978 ...
Rossovich died Thursday in Sacramento, California, following a long illness, USC announced.
Rossovich roomed with Tom Selleck in college, and he appeared on three episodes of Selleck's CBS series Magnum, P.I. from 1986-88.
Six-foot-4 and 245 pounds in his prime, Rossovich got started in Hollywood by doing stunts on the 1978 Burt Reynolds film Hooper. He played a bodyguard on the first and second seasons of ABC's Soap in 1978 ...
- 12/8/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s always fun to peruse the impressive career of writer-director Michael Crichton, whose brilliant, commercially savvy ideas so often hit the mark. He even invented a plausibly credible dinosaur movie. This 1981 thriller may be his least coherent show, with too many screwy ideas and a supporting cast that needed better direction. Yet it has the winning combination of Albert Finney and Susan Dey, and some very original thriller elements.
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Warner Archive Collection
1981 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 93 min. / Street Date September 18, 2018 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Albert Finney, Susan Dey, James Coburn, Leigh Taylor-Young, Dorian Harewood, Tim Rossovich, Darryl Hickman, Kathryn Witt, Terri Welles.
Cinematography: Paul Lohmann
Film Editor: Carl Kress
Production Designer Dean Edward Mitzner
Original Music: Barry DeVorzon
Produced by Howard Jeffrey
Written and Directed by Michael Crichton
Best-selling writer Michael Crichton got into directing early, and by the time of Coma and The Great Train Robbery...
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Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1981 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 93 min. / Street Date September 18, 2018 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Albert Finney, Susan Dey, James Coburn, Leigh Taylor-Young, Dorian Harewood, Tim Rossovich, Darryl Hickman, Kathryn Witt, Terri Welles.
Cinematography: Paul Lohmann
Film Editor: Carl Kress
Production Designer Dean Edward Mitzner
Original Music: Barry DeVorzon
Produced by Howard Jeffrey
Written and Directed by Michael Crichton
Best-selling writer Michael Crichton got into directing early, and by the time of Coma and The Great Train Robbery...
- 9/29/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
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