James Cleveland “Jesse” Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.
Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump, and was recognized in his lifetime as “perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history”. He set three world records and tied another, all in less than an hour at the 1935 Big Ten track meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan—a feat that has never been equaled and has been called “the greatest 45 minutes ever in sport”.
He achieved international fame at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, by winning four gold medals: 100 meters, long jump, 200 meters and 4 × 100-meter relay. He was the most successful athlete at the Games and, as a black American man, was credited with “single-handedly crushing Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy”, though Owens commented that he was “snubbed” by the U.S. president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, as he was not invited to the White House to shake Roosevelt’s hand.
The Jesse Owens Award is USA Track and Field’s highest accolade for the year’s best track and field athlete. Owens was ranked by ESPN as the sixth greatest North American athlete of the 20th century and the highest-ranked in his sport. In 1999, he was on the six-man short-list for the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Century. …
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Jesse Owens Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jesse Owens |
| Also Know | James Cleveland Owens |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Oakville, Alabama, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1913-09-12 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 66 |
| Deathday | 1980-03-31 |
Jesse Owens Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Jesse Owens Returns to Berlin | Host / Narrator | 1966-01-01 | The rise of National Socialism in Germany and Hitler’s anti-semitic policies and advocation of the superiority of the Aryan race resulted in several… |
| The Grand Olympics | Himself | 1961-05-26 | Events and athletes that characterized the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. From the absolute protagonist Wilma Rudolph, called the black gazelle, to Liv… |
| Stubblejumper | Doug Wilson | 2009-03-29 | In the fall of 1975, while attending the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, Doug Wilson placed an ad in the students’ newspaper, seeking to start a… |
| Olympic Cavalcade | Himself | 1948-12-03 | Documentary footage recaptures the excitement of the 1948 London Olympics, the first games since 1936…. |
| Jesse Owens | Self (archive footage) | 2012-01-02 | Jesse Owens details Jesse’s early career; describes Adolf Hitler s outsized ambitions for the 1936 Olympics; explores the movement in Western democrac… |
| Easy to Get | Self (archive footage) | 1947-07-10 | U.S. Army training film about avoiding venereal disease, intended primarily for Black servicemen…. |
| The Negro Soldier | Himself | 1944-04-10 | Documentary focusing on the contributions to the American war effort of African-American soldiers…. |
| The Century Is Fifty | Self (archive footage) | 1950-03-16 | As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of severa… |
| Genocide | Self (archive footage) | 1982-03-14 | The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust co… |
| Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations | Self (uncredited) | 1938-04-20 | The First part of Olympia, a documentary about the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin by German Director Leni Riefenstahl. The film played in theaters in 19… |
| Fists of Freedom: The Story of the ’68 Summer Games | Self (archive footage) | 1999-08-12 | Fists of Freedom examines one of the 20th century’s most memorable moments — the dramatic “Black Power†demonstration of American sprinters To… |
| Ace of Aces | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1982-10-27 | In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler’s Germany by the little boy Simon Rose… |
| Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 | Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression…. |
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