By Movie #6 – Airplane!
Year – 1980
When is an actor playing themselves not an actor playing themselves? Well, first off I don’t know that we can technically call Kareem Abdul-Jabbar an “actor”. But he’s in a movie so it counts.
Here he plays Roger Murdock…or does he?
When a young boy (who may or may not like gladiator films) mistakes the co-pilot for the basketball legend Murdock denies being him. But when the child goes on to complain about Jabbar’s dedication on the court things take an ugly turn.