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person_profile-Mike Downey

Mike Downey Age: 73

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Mike Downey

Date of Birth:

Aug 09, 1951

Country of birth:

Illinois

Biography of

Mike Downey

    ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Mike Downey (born August 9, 1951 in Chicago Heights, Illinois) is an American newspaper columnist.

    From 2003 to 2008, Downey wrote the "In the Wake of the News" column for the Chicago Tribune originated by Ring Lardner in 1913. He has also been a columnist in news, entertainment and sports for the Los Angeles Times, Detroit Free Press, Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News.

    Downey began a career in journalism at age 15 for a newspaper chain in the south suburbs of Chicago and graduated at 16 from Bloom Township High School in Chicago Heights, Illinois. He has been a police reporter, entertainment writer, editor, critic and columnist, and has covered national political conventions, murder trials and twelve Olympic Games. Among his assignments have been an America's Cup yacht race in Australia, tennis at Wimbledon, British Open golf in Scotland, the Tour de France bicycle race, Stanley Cup hockey finals in Montreal and World Cup soccer in Italy, as well as Pan-American Games competitions in Argentina and Cuba.

    He also has been a columnist for The Sporting News and Sport Magazine and for 15 years wrote a humor column for Inside Sports magazine known as "The Good Doctor." He was a featured sports correspondent for KABC radio in Los Angeles and for WJR radio in Detroit and has often been a panelist on ESPN television's weekly talk show, "The Sports Reporters."

    In statewide voting by peers, Downey has been selected National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association sportswriter of the year elevent times, in Illinois (twice), Michigan (twice) and California (seven times).

    He was honored for his news column by the Los Angeles Press Club in 1998 and won the 1994 Eclipse Award, thoroughbred racing's highest honor. Downey's writing has appeared in a variety of national magazines including GQ, Parade, Entertainment Weekly and TV Guide.

    He was included as a character in the Elmore Leonard novel "Be Cool."

    Downey resides in Rancho Mirage, California. He is married to singer Gail Martin, daughter of the legendary entertainer Dean Martin.

    Description above from the Wikipedia article Mike Downey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography of

Mike Downey

Found 39 Movies in total

Girls on Wire

Co-producer

... 2025

Real

Producer

... 2025

... 2025

... 2024

La Suprema

Executive Producer

... 2024

Flynn

Producer

... 2024

... 2023

Green Border

Executive Producer

... 2023

Hotel Pula

Co-producer

... 2023

... 2022

Servants

Co-producer

... 2020

Charlatan

Co-producer

... 2020

Jumpman

Producer

... 2018

... 2017

The Constitution

Co-producer

... 2016

... 2016

... 2014

... 2014

... 2014

... 2014

The Arbiter

Executive Producer

... 2013

The Zigzag Kid

Co-producer

... 2012

Roadie

Producer

... 2012

The Parade

Producer

... 2011

... 2011

Our Own Oslo

Co-producer

... 2011

... 2009

... 2009

... 2008

Quest for a Heart

Co-executive Producer

... 2007

... 2006

12 and Holding

Executive Producer

... 2006

... 2006

Guy X

Producer

... 2005

... 2004

... 2003

Deathwatch

Martin Plummer ( Actor )

Producer

... 2002

Falcons

Producer

... 2002