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=== Film and TV === [[Ken Loach]]'s 1969 television film ''The Golden Vision'' combined improvised drama with documentary footage to tell the story of a group of Everton fans for whom the main purpose of life—following the team—is interrupted by such inconveniences as work and weddings. Everton forward [[Alex Young (footballer, born 1937)|Alex Young]], whose nickname was also the title of the film, appeared as himself.<ref name="Golden Vision">{{cite web |last=Kelner |first=Martin |date=2 March 2009 |title=Loach and Boorman prove that footballers were once real people |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2009/mar/02/screen-break-kelner-football-golden-vision |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926163138/http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2009/mar/02/screen-break-kelner-football-golden-vision |archive-date=26 September 2013 |access-date=30 August 2011 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> [[Paul Greengrass]]'s 1997 television film ''[[The Fix (1997 film)|The Fix]]'' dramatised the true story of a match-fixing scandal in which the club's newest player [[Tony Kay]] (played by [[Jason Isaacs]]) is implicated in having helped to throw a match between his previous club [[Sheffield Wednesday F.C.|Sheffield Wednesday]] and [[Ipswich Town F.C.|Ipswich Town]]. The majority of the story is set during Everton's 1962–63 League Championship winning season, with manager [[Harry Catterick]] played by [[Colin Welland]].<ref>{{cite web |date=31 July 1999 |title=The Fix (TV Movie 1997) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126303/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209215101/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126303/ |archive-date=9 February 2017 |access-date=1 July 2018 |work=IMDb}}</ref> In the 2015 ''[[Rocky (franchise)|Rocky]]'' film ''[[Creed (film)|Creed]]'', Goodison Park serves as the venue of the climactic fight scene. Footage of the stadium and crowd during a home game against [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]] was used for the scene. Liverpool-born boxing champion [[Tony Bellew]], a lifelong Everton fan,<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 December 2017 |title=Liverpool v Everton: Tony Bellew on 'a day of torment and stress' |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42249192 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181024232100/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42249192 |archive-date=24 October 2018 |access-date=23 July 2018 |work=BBC Sport}}</ref> plays Creed's opponent and wore the Everton badge on his training gear and shorts.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Prentice |first=David |date=15 September 2015 |title=Everton club crest gets Hollywood treatment in new Rocky movie |url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/everton-club-crest-gets-hollywood-10057827 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723152655/https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/everton-club-crest-gets-hollywood-10057827 |archive-date=23 July 2018 |access-date=23 July 2018 |work=liverpoolecho}}</ref>
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