Coach of the Year (film)

Coach of the Year is a 1980 American TV film about a paraplegic coach, starring Robert Conrad, Erin Gray, Red West and Daphne Reid.[2]

Coach of the Year
Directed byDon Medford
StarringRobert Conrad
Erin Gray
Music byPete Carpenter
Mike Post
Country of originUSA
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducerJohn Ashley
CinematographyPaul Vombrack
Distributormedia home entertainment Shane company
Budget$1 million[1]
Release
Original release1980 (1980)

The film was very popular.[3]

Plot

Jim Brandon (Robert Conrad), a former player for the Chicago Bears, is a returning veteran who has been paralyzed in the Vietnam War. Upon his return to his home town, he tries to get a job as a football coach, but does not get it. He comes up with the idea of becoming the football coach at the Illinois State Training School for Boys in St. Charles after a visit there. Coach Brandon tries to become accepted by the young delinquents at the prison, while coaching them to succeed on the football field.

Cast

Production

It was produced by John Ashley a former actor who was an old friend of Conrad's.[4]

References

  1. Lamont, John (1990). "The John Ashley Filmography". Trash Compactor (Volume 2 No. 5 ed.). p. 27.
  2. Alvin H. Marill. Sports on Television. Praeger, 2009. ISBN 0313351058.
  3. Lamont, John (199). "The John Ashley Interview Part 2". Trash Compactor (Volume 2 No. 6 ed.).
  4. Vagg, Stephen (December 2019). "A Hell of a Life: The Nine Lives of John Ashley". Diabolique Magazine.


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