Muhammad Ali – The Humble Actor

Muhammad Ali is definitely the best and the most flamboyant boxer in this world and a good political leader who stood up for peace in many ways. People know Muhammad Ali as a generous man who has contributed a lot to the needy people through his charity works. He has contributed a huge amount out of his earnings to the charity works, and this has made him more popular all around the world. Muhammad Ali stood apart from others in his athletic career and he did have the passion to turn into an actor. His passion towards film came out by working in many documentaries during his past days in the boxing ring. Muhammad Ali was featured in the Oscar award-winning documentary named as ‘When We Were Kings’. This was released in the year 1996. 

Ali acted in many feature films and he has a decent filmography that can portray his acting skills in the film industry. His acting career started with "Requiem for a Heavyweight" that was released in the year 1962. This movie was one of the most memorable and the most appreciated sports drams during those days and the main lead role was carried by Muhammad Ali. Until 1971, Ali came up with many documentaries that had his boxing career as the main theme in it. Ali's feature film acting started in the year 1972 with the movie named "Black Rodeo". The movie boasted about Muhammad Ali in many ways and it was one critically acclaimed movie in those days. Ali the Fighter, The Greatest, and Freedom Road are some of the notable movies that highlighted the boxing talents of Muhammad Ali to people all around the world. Muhammad Ali was featured as himself in all his movies and people did love him appear as himself on the screen. The movie named as Fidel, that released in the year 2002, was the most controversial movies in which Muhammad Ali has acted in. 

All the movies he has acted in focused on the portions of his life. Some were made in a fictionalized form while others in a documentary style. His facial expressions, physical style and speech pattern was very impressive and all these movies will always remind us as to how great this boxer and actor was.