Editing Mark Spitz (section)

==Film and television career==
After Spitz retired from competitive swimming at age 22, he was managed by the [[William Morris Agency]], which tried to get him into [[show business]] while he was still a household name due to his athletic success.<ref name=fmddud>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AaxVAAAAIBAJ&pg=6642%2C1769789 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |agency=Associated Press |last=Grimsley |first=Will |title=Mark Spitz: Olympic hero to a $5 million dud |date=June 7, 1976 |page=3C}}</ref>

A poster featuring Spitz wearing his swimsuit and gold medals that led [[ESPN]] to retroactively label him "the hottest [[pin-up]] since [[Betty Grable]]".<ref name=ESPN>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/sportscentury/features/00016480.html |title=Spitz lived up to enormous expectations | last=Roberts | first= M. B. | work=ESPN |access-date=January 30, 2011}}</ref>

In Spitz's TV debut, he appeared as himself in a skit as a dentist on a [[Bob Hope]] special that aired October 5, 1972.  In 1973–74, Spitz appeared on TV's ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'' and ''[[The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour]]''. On the TV drama ''[[Emergency!]]'', he portrayed Pete Barlow, whose wife (played by Spitz's wife, Suzy) is accidentally shot by a handgun in an overfull drawer. He also appeared briefly on ''[[The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast]]'' of California Governor [[Ronald Reagan]] in September 1973.

Spitz went to work for [[ABC Sports]] in 1976 and worked on many sports presentations, including coverage of the [[1976 Summer Olympics]] in Montreal and the [[1984 Summer Olympics]] in Los Angeles.<ref name="panasonic.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.panasonic.com/olympics2004/sptiz_bio.html |title=Mark Spitz's biography |publisher=Panasonic.com |year=2004 |access-date=January 30, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123025214/http://www.panasonic.com/olympics2004/sptiz_bio.html |archive-date=November 23, 2010 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> In 1985 he appeared as a TV announcer in ''[[Challenge of a Lifetime]]''. He continued as a broadcaster for some time, but within a few years, he was hardly seen as a public figure<ref name=ESPN/> except perhaps as a commentator for swimming events like the [[2004 Summer Olympics]]. Instead Spitz focused on his [[real estate]] company in [[Beverly Hills]] and hobbies such as sailing.<ref name=ESPN/>

===Narration===
Spitz narrated ''[[Freedom's Fury]]'', a 2006 Hungarian documentary about the [[Water polo at the 1956 Summer Olympics|Olympic water polo]] team's [[Blood in the Water match]] against the Soviet Union during the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]] which was repressed by the Soviet Union—considered among the most famous water polo matches.<ref name="Boardman">{{cite book|last=Boardman|first=Margaret Carroll|editor=Nelson, Murry R.|title=American Sports: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2013|page=1216|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tfTXAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1216|isbn=9780313397530}}</ref> The film was executive produced by [[Quentin Tarantino]] and [[Lucy Liu]],<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Edwards|first=Russell|title=Freedom's Fury|magazine=Variety|date=April 10, 2007|url=https://variety.com/2007/film/reviews/freedom-s-fury-1200560208/|access-date=November 14, 2018}}</ref> and made its debut at the [[Tribeca Film Festival]].<ref name="Boardman"/>

===Commercials===
He appeared in an advertisement for the California Milk Advisory Board. One of his print advertisements featured the caption "I always drink it--is something I like to do. I want to be loved by the mothers."<ref name="people.com"/>

In 1974, he was in a number of Schick razors commercials.<ref name="people.com">{{cite web |last=Bruns |first=Bill |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20064247,00.html |title=The Shark Gets Soft – Couples, Olympics, Mark Spitz, Suzy Spitz |work=People |date=July 8, 1974 |access-date=January 30, 2011 |archive-date=February 1, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110201215847/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20064247,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1998 he appeared with [[Evel Knievel]] in a TV commercial for [[PlayStation]].

In 1982, bestselling author Clive Cussler, mentioned Mark Spitz in the novel "Pacific Vortex!", the origin-story of Dirk Pitt.

In 2004, he appeared in a TV commercial for Sprint PCS.<ref>{{IMDb name|id=0819156|section=otherworks|name=Mark Spitz}}</ref> Then in November 2007, Spitz made a [[cameo appearance]] on [[Amanda Beard]]'s first television commercial (for GoDaddy) featuring her own seven Olympic medals (won between 1996 and 2004). The ad was entitled "Shock".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/110707_Go_Daddy_to_Air_New_TV_Commercial.cfm |title=Go Daddy to Air New TV Commercial, WHIR Web Hosting Industry News |publisher=Thewhir.com |access-date=January 30, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080808121305/http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/110707_Go_Daddy_to_Air_New_TV_Commercial.cfm |archive-date=August 8, 2008 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Also, in 2007 he appeared in the infomercial for the "Orbitrek Elite" fitness workout.<ref name="imdb.com">{{IMDb name|id=0819156|section=bio|name=Mark Spitz}}</ref>

In 2012, Spitz appeared in a commercial for Ageless Male, a testosterone supplement.<ref name="people.com"/>

In a 2019 commercial, Spitz pitched a personal EKG device by KardiaMobile.<ref>{{cite web | access-date = May 19, 2021 | url = https://www.ispot.tv/ad/oW5u/kardiamobile-mark-spitz-on-kardiamobile-featuring-mark-spitz | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191030165212/https://www.ispot.tv/ad/oW5u/kardiamobile-mark-spitz-on-kardiamobile-featuring-mark-spitz | archive-date= October 30, 2019 | title = KardiaMobile TV Commercial, 'Facing New Challenges' Featuring Mark Spitz }}</ref>

In 2022, Spitz endorsed the [[health supplement]] Relief Factor.<ref>{{cite web | access-date = August 2, 2022 | url = https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ACnih4cii38 | title = Relief Factor Commercial (Mark Spitz) (2022) | website=[[YouTube]] }}</ref>