Alex Karras, a fierce and relentless All-Pro lineman for the Detroit Lions whose irrepressible character placed him frequently at odds with football's authorities but led to a second career as an actor on television and in the movies, died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 77. ...
To those under 50, Karras may be best known as an actor. He made his film debut in 1968, playing himself in 'Paper Lion,' an adaptation of George Plimpton's book about his experience as an amateur playing quarterback for the Lions, which starred Alan Alda as Plimpton. ...
... Perhaps most memorably, he played Mongo, a hulking subliterate outlaw who delivers a knockout punch to a horse, in the Mel Brooks western spoof 'Blazing Saddles.'
In 1975 he played George Zaharias, the husband of the champion track star and golfer Babe Didrickson Zaharias, in the television movie 'Babe.' The title role was played by Susan Clark, who became his wife, and from 1983 to 1989, they starred together in the gentle sitcom 'Webster,' about a retired football player who takes in a black boy (Emmanuel Lewis), the orphaned young son of a former teammate. ...
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