Body and Soul (1981 film)
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Body and Soul is a 1981 film, written by and starring Leon Isaac Kennedy, and co-starring his then-wife Jayne Kennedy
Jayne Kennedy
Jayne Kennedy is an NAACP Image Award-winning American actress, model and sportscaster.-Miss Ohio USA:...

. Directed by George Bowers
George Bowers (filmmaker)
George Bowers is an American film director, editor and producer.Bowers was born in the Bronx, New York. As an editor, he has an extensive list of credits dating from 1968 to his latest film in 2008. As a director, he directed films such as Private Resort with Johnny Depp and My Tutor with Crispin...

, it is a remake of the 1947 film
Body and Soul (1947 film)
Body and Soul is a 1947 film noir which tells the story of a boxer who becomes involved with crooked promoters. It stars John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere and William Conrad....

, a story of corruption, violence and temptation between a boxer and a knockout.

Cast

  • Leon Isaac Kennedy - Leon Johnson
  • Jayne Kennedy
    Jayne Kennedy
    Jayne Kennedy is an NAACP Image Award-winning American actress, model and sportscaster.-Miss Ohio USA:...

     - Julie Winters
  • Perry Lang
    Perry Lang
    Perry Lang is an American director, writer and actor.He has directed episodes of television series such as Arli$$, ER, Millennium, Dawson's Creek, NYPD Blue, Nash Bridges, Fantasy Island, Weeds, Gilmore Girls, Army Wives, The Twilight Zone, Alias, Las Vegas, Jack & Bobby and...

     - Charles Golphin
  • Nikki Swasey - Kelly Johnson
  • Michael V. Gazzo
    Michael V. Gazzo
    Michael Vincenzo Gazzo was an American Broadway playwright who later in life became a film and television actor....

     - Frankie
  • Kim Hamilton - Mrs. Johnson
  • Muhammad Ali
    Muhammad Ali
    Muhammad Ali is an American former professional boxer, philanthropist and social activist...

     - Himself
  • Peter Lawford
    Peter Lawford
    Peter Sydney Ernest Aylen , better known as Peter Lawford, was an English-American actor.He was a member of the "Rat Pack", and brother-in-law to US President John F. Kennedy, perhaps more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting...

     - Big Man
  • Gilbert Lewis
    Gilbert Lewis
    Gilbert Lewis is an American actor who is best known for playing The King of Cartoons in the first season of the 1986 children's show, Pee-wee's Playhouse. Lewis played the King of Cartoons in thirteen episodes before being replaced by actor, William Marshall...

     - Tony
  • J.B. Williamson - St. Louis Assassin
  • Mel Welles
    Mel Welles
    Mel Welles was an American film actor. His best-remembered role may be that of hapless flower shop owner Gravis Mushnik in the 1960 low-budget Roger Corman dark comedy, The Little Shop of Horrors....

     - Joe Gillardi
  • Danny Wells
    Danny Wells
    Danny Wells is a Canadian movie and television actor and voice actor. He is perhaps best known for his occasional role as Charlie the bartender on The Jeffersons as well as playing the role of the video game character Luigi, brother of Nintendo's mascot Mario, in the live-action segments of The...

     - Sports Announcer #1
  • Johnny Brown
    Johnny Brown
    Johnny Brown is an American actor and singer. Brown is a nightclub and stage performer as well as a comic actor, and a regular cast member of the television series Laugh-in. Brown is mostly remembered for his chubby physique, wide ingratiating smile, mobile facial expressions, and easy pleasant...

     - Sports Announcer #2
  • Rosanne Katon
    Rosanne Katon
    Rosanne Katon is an American model, actress, comedian and activist. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1978 issue...

     - Melody
  • Eddie Mustafa Muhammad
    Eddie Mustafa Muhammad
    Eddie Mustafa Muhammad is a retired American boxer.- Amateur career :Boxing under his birth name, Eddie Gregory, Muhammad won two New York Golden Gloves Championships. Gregory won both the 1971 and the 1972 New York Golden Gloves 147 lb Open Championships...

     - Himself
  • Jimmy Lennon
    Jimmy Lennon
    Jimmy Lennon Sr. was one of the top announcers of the boxing and wrestling world.-Announcing career:Known as "The Voice of the Olympic" Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, as well as "The Irishman With the Spanish Accent." For over 40 years, Lennon's unique professional ring eloquence and...

    - Himself
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