Mongo Papadapolis
September 9th, 2009 | Published in Players Who Became Actors
Talk of senior Hall of Fame candidates made me think of Alex Karras, who went from an almost-Hall-of-Fame football career to a successful acting career. According to The Internet Movie Database, he was even nominated for a Golden Apple Award. (No, I hadn’t heard of it, either.) Karras’s IMDB page has a long list of the films and TV shows in which he appeared. He is best known for playing George Papadapolis on TV’s Webster, and for playing Mongo in the movie Blazing Saddles.
Pictured here is Karras’s rookie card, a 1959 Topps. Below is a clip of Mongo.
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