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RECENT CREDITS
The Greek Americans (TV)  Dec. 8, 1998
Buffalo '66 (FILM)  Jun. 26, 1998
The Tom Show (TV)  Sep. 7, 1997
Arli$$ (TV)  Sep. 11, 1996
Tracey Takes On... (TV)  Jan. 24, 1996

BIOGRAPHY
Charismatic ex-football star Alex Karras made a nice transition to acting, playing roles that emphasized not only his physical size (ironically, he was undersized at his position), but also the size of his heart. His....
Charismatic ex-football star Alex Karras made a nice transition to acting, playing roles that emphasized not only his physical size (ironically, he was undersized at his position), but also the size of his heart. His appearance as himself in "Paper Lion" (1968), based on the George Plimpton book, hinted at his potential, but he really burst into moviegoers' awareness as Mongo, the idiot henchman of Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman), who knocks out a horse with one punch when he arrives to destroy the town in "Blazing Saddles" (1974), Mel Brooks' brilliant send-up of the Western. Karras turned in a delightfully hammy performance as the Hooded Fang, a former wrestler who hates kids because they think he is, ugh, cute and presides over a children's prison, in the engaging fantasy "Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang" (1979) and then struck gold again in Blake Edwards' "Victor/Victoria" (1982) as Jim Garner's sensitive, closeted bodyguard Squash.

Karras made his TV-movie debut in the period Western "Hardcase" (ABC, 1972) and portrayed gentle hillbilly weight lifter Hughie Rae Feather in "The 500-Pond Jerk" (CBS, 1973) before hooking up with future wife Susan Clark in the CBS movie "Babe" (1975), playing George Zaharis to her Babe Didrickson. Together they would form Georgian Bay Productions in 1978 and executive produce the CBS movies "Jimmy B & Andre" (1980), "Word of Honor" (1981) and "Maid in America" (1982), Karras starring in two and making an unbilled cameo in the other. He achieved his highest TV profile opposite Clark (and moppet Emanuel Lewis) in "Webster" (ABC, 1983-87), but since that series' demise he has limited his appearances to the occasional TV-movie ("Fudge-A-Mania" ABC, 1995) and guest spots on series like "Civil Wars" (ABC), "The Ben Stiller Show" (Fox), "Tracey Takes On ..." (HBO) and "The Tom Show" (The WB).




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